Abstract
New children mental health services and the state's privatized Medicaid program are creating a potential burden for local counties to comply with growing state rules and polices, the Louisa County Board of Supervisors were told July 23 during a relatively light meeting, the Muscatine Journal reported July 24. While the law signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds this year established the first children's mental health program in Iowa, it failed to address a stable funding source. That has left the state's regional mental health system workers and the counties that provide much of the system's financial support, wondering about the long‐term impacts of the new law. Wulf said regional mental health workers had an opportunity to discuss possible ideas for implementing the children's mental health program during a recent training session. “We talked about some of the modifications we are going to have to make this fall,” she said, explaining Southeast Iowa Link (SEIL), the regional mental health program that includes Louisa County, had started the process. Part of that process will be to establish a separate advisory board that will help guide the SEIL governing board on children mental health services and incorporating those new services into the regional mental health plan. Wulf pointed to the July 1 startup date next year to begin offering the children mental health services.
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