1. Zero to Three - 2018 Infant and Early Childhood
Mental Health Policy Convening:
Exploring State Strategies to Finance Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment
ECAC Member Meeting
March 22, 2018

2. NYS 5-Member Team
Kalin Scott, Director, Medicaid Redesign Team Project Management Offices, NYS DOH, OHIP (Required Medicaid Representative)
Sarah Fitzgibbons, LMHC, MT-BC, IMH-E®, (Mentor-Clinical), Clinical Director, The Society for the Protection and Care of Children (SPCC); Board Member, NYS AIMH (Required IECMH Clinician)
Donna Bradbury, MA, LMHC, Associate Commissioner, Division of Integrated Community Services for Children and Families, NYS OMH
Evelyn Blanck, Associate Executive Director, NY Center for Child Development (NYCCD), ECAC Member
Kate Breslin, MPH, MCRP, President & CEO Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy, ECAC Member

3. Additional NYS Experts and Contributors
George L. Askew, M.D., F.A.A.P. Deputy Commissioner Division of Family and Child Health NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, ECAC Member
Suzanne Brundage, MPH, United Hospital Fund, Children’s Health Initiative
Helen Egger, MD, Chair of the Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU Langone Medical Center and Director of the Child Study Center
Sheila Smith, PhD, National Center for Children in Poverty

4. National Convening: University of Minnesota, May 15th-16th
Develop and share strategies for financing robust system of IECMH: assessment, diagnosis, and treatment services
Develop and share strategies for communicating IECMH messages to Medicaid and other policy makers
Create and implement state action plans

5. Action Steps NYS team will develop and implement State action plan
Actively participate in monthly TA calls with ZTT TA specialist from June, 2018 to May, 2019
Create a report of the convening highlighting discussions, presentations, challenges and potential solutions
Disseminate brief report summarizing state teams accomplishments/progress

6. Timing
Opportunity
Commitment
Momentum

7. Questions?