Fiscal Year 15-16 Department of Children and Families Behavioral Health Planning Tool

Description of Services

  1. Behavioral Health Network (BNet): The statewide network of Providers of Behavioral Health Services who serve non-Medicaid eligible children with mental or substance-related disorders who are determined eligible for the Title XXI part of the KidCare Program.[1] This network includes providers who are managed behavioral health organizations, private and state funded mental health and substance-related disorders providers, and Lead Agencies. The Behavioral Health Network is administered by the Department to provide a comprehensive behavioral health benefits package for children with serious mental or substance-related disorders.[2]
  1. Crisis Services: Are defined by s. 394.67(3), F.S., as:

Short-term evaluation, stabilization, and brief intervention services provided to a person who is experiencing an acute mental or emotional crisis, as defined in s. 394.67(17), F.S., or an acute substance abuse crisis, as defined in s. 394.67(18), F.S., to prevent further deterioration of the person’s mental health.

Crisis services are provided in settings such as a crisis stabilization unit, an inpatient unit, a short-term residential treatment program, a detoxification facility, or an addictions receiving facility; at the site of the crisis by a mobile crisis response team; or at a hospital on an outpatient basis.

  1. Detoxification: Detoxification services are sub-acute care provided on an inpatient, or outpatient basis to assist adults, children, and adolescents with substance abuse problems in their efforts to withdraw from the physiological and psychological effects of substance abuse.[3]
  1. Florida Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) Team: These non-residential care services are available twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week, and include community-based treatment, rehabilitation, and support services provided by a multidisciplinary team to persons with severe and persistent mental illness.3
  1. Forensics: Provide treatment and training services to those individuals who have been charged with a felony and have been found to be incompetent to proceed (ITP) or not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI) due to their mental illness and are committed to the Department under the provision of ch. 916, F.S. Services may also be provided to individuals who have been charged with a misdemeanor and are believed to be at risk of moving further into the criminal justice system due to their mental illness. The goal is to provide community-based treatment aimed at diverting individuals from the forensic system to the mental health treatment system in order to reduce commitments to the Department. This excludes services for individuals who are served in an inpatient hospital licensed under ch. 395, F.S., or state mental health treatment facility.
  1. Indigent Drug Program: The indigent psychiatric medication program purchases psychiatric medications for personsas defined in s. 394.492(5) or (6), F.S., or pursuant to s. 394.674(1), F.S., who do not reside in a state mental health treatment facility or an inpatient unit.[4]
  1. Outpatient: Outpatient services provide a therapeutic environment, which is designed to improve the functioning or prevent further deterioration of persons with mental health or substance abuse problems. These services are usually provided on a regularly scheduled basis by appointment, with arrangements made for non-scheduled visits during times of increased stress or crisis. Outpatient services may be provided to an individual or in a group setting.[5]
  1. Prevention: Prevention services are those involving strategies that preclude, forestall, or impede the development of substance abuse and mental health problems, and include increasing public awareness through information, education, and alternative-focused activities.[6]
  1. Projects: This grouping includes Specific Appropriations, grants, and base budget projects.
  1. Residential: There are different levels of residential services available, depending on the needs of the client. The services can range from less than 24 hours per day, seven days per week on premise supervision to nursing supervision provided by, at a minimum, licensed practical nurses, 24 hours a day, seven days per week.[7] This grouping also includes Room and Board with Supervision. This pays room and board costs for people living in Medicaid-funded residential programs. Medicaid pays for the clinical services, and the SAMH program pays for the portion of the service that is not Medicaid reimbursable.
  1. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): A Federal program that provides assistance to needy families so children may be cared for in their own homes or in the homes of relatives; to end the dependence of needy parents on government benefits by promoting job preparation, work, and marriage; to prevent and reduce the incidence of out-of-wedlock pregnancies and establish annual numerical goals for preventing and reducing the incidence of these pregnancies; and to encourage the formation and maintenance of two-parent families.[8]

In the context of SAMH, TANF is a funding stream that can reimburse outreach, screening, assessment, case management, and treatment services to those individuals who are experiencing employment and family instability due to substance abuse or mental illnesses.

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[1]KidCare is delivered pursuant to ss. 409.810-821, F.S.

[2] S. 409.8135, F.S.

[3] S. 397.311(18)(a)4., F.S.

[4]S. 394.676, F.S.,

[5] S. 394.67(15)(d), F.S., and s. 397.311(18)(a)8., F.S.

[6] S. 394.67(24)(a), F.S.

[7] S. 394.67(15); (22); and (24)(d), F.S.

[8]42 U.S.C. s. 601