“Children and adolescents with complex behavioral health conditions often receive fragmented care through multiple service systems, resulting in poor outcomes and unnecessarily high costs.1, 2 Improved care coordination and increased access to home- and community-based services and peer supports offer substantial opportunities to improve health outcomes, increase resiliency among youth and their families/caregivers, and, ultimately, decrease spending for this population. Reduced costs result from: 1) decreased use of emergency room care; 2) decreased use of inappropriate out-of home placements; and 3) reduced duplication of effort across agencies and providers.”
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