Governance and Financing Subcommittee

The Governance and Financing Subcommittee will identify strategies to bring to the Stakeholders Planning Committee that ensure purchase of a range of individualized services and supports, including evidence-based practices for youth and their families in their communities. It will recommend ways to redirect expenditures toward increased capacity of community-based services and supports and decreased use of bed-based care.  The group might inform the following:

• State application for the upcoming Medicaid demonstration and/or other Medicaid waivers to expand home/community-based opportunities for children’s mental health;

• Redirecting expenditures to expand the capacity of local communities to offer the full range of community-based services necessary for a fully-functioning system of care;

• Opportunities to authorize and provide incentives for local, collaborative, cross-system management of the care of individual children with complex and challenging needs and their families in their communities; and

• Creating or altering funding mechanisms to reinforce collaborative, cross-system accountability at the state and local levels.

All Subcommittee meetings are open to the public. Anyone may submit items for consideration through the Subcommittee chairs and/or staff.  However, only Subcommittee members will be able to vote on final decisions or recommendations.

Meeting Agendas, Notes & Handouts  |  Resources
 

Subcommittee Members (By group or perspective represented)

Rich Huddleston*, Chair

Youth and Families

Shannon Marie Hawkins

Martha Lewis

 Joyce Soularie*

 Mary Woodville

Advocates/Community Collaborators

Kim Arnold*

Raymond Chambers*

Teri Hays*

Ann Patterson*

Providers

Wes Robbins*

Lee Simpson

Levi Thomas

Bonnie White*

State Agencies

Tony Boaz, Arkansas Department of Education

Pat Dahlgren*, DHS Division of Behavioral Health Services

Debbie Hopkins, DHS Division of Medical Services

Pat Page*, DHS Division of Children and Family Services

*Also serve on Stakeholders Planning Committee
 

For more information:
 

Dawn Zekis
 DHS Director of Policy and Planning  - DHS Lead Staff
 Dawn.Zekis@arkansas.gov, 501-683-0173