Our Committees
The structure of the Collaborative has evolved over the past decade to best support the mental health system that serves our children and families. In addition to the large group collaborative meetings, there are three subcommittees that have been formed to focus on specific areas of change: Advocacy, Best Practices, and Continuum of Care.
AdvocacyThere has been an increased need to examine macro level policy that impacts children’s mental health. Some examples include Medicaid reimbursement rates and delivery of school-based mental health services. Alongside the larger CMHC group, this group will identify the important policy efforts needed to advocate for children’s mental health.
Facilitators: Jami Crespo Public Health of Madison & Dane County Candace Weidensee Oregon School District |
Best PracticesThe Best Practices committee will support the coordination of the existing systems and their interaction with CMHC members and their target populations. Best Practices will function as a clearing house and coordinating body of established practices currently used across many schools & agencies to help promote Social Emotional Learning for our students and their supports. Some of the interventions include CBITS, FACE Kids, Building Bridges, and Bounce Back. This committee will promote regular evaluation of these and other emerging programs to include representation of students, families, community partners, and school services personnel.
Facilitators: Nelsie Stern Journey Mental Health Center Tiffany Loken School District of Lodi |
Continuum of Care
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The Continuum of Care committee works to ensure collaboration across disciplines to support access to a full continuum of services/care for youth and families with mental health needs. It seeks to Increase community, educators and families understanding of the link between social emotional learning/mental health/trauma and academic achievement. The committee's current goal is to: (a) assist Collaborative to have common language/goals around advocacy, (b) develop a framework to understand our continuum of care to identify the gaps and get to the work of advocating real change, and (c) strengthen connections between systems to ultimately to build supports for families/consumers, and (d) create best practices across systems & enhance collaboration. Facilitators: Kristen Guetschow Madison Metropolitan School District Chris Mand Waunakee School District |
For more information or to join a committee contact
childrensmentalhealth.dane@gmail.com
childrensmentalhealth.dane@gmail.com
Steering Committee
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Our Steering Committee is comprised of three co-chairs, chairs of each sub-committee, and key community leaders. It meets every month to coordinate the activities of the collaborative and provide support and direction to the committees.
Kurt Eley
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Nelsie Stern
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Kristen Guetschow
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