Provider Alert! Health and Human Services (HHSC) Uniform Managed Care Manual Update to Chapter 15.3
Date: May 4, 2022
Attention: All Providers
Effective Date: March 18, 2022
Providers should monitor the Texas Children’s Health Plan (TCHP) Provider Portal regularly for alerts and updates associated with the COVID-19 event. TCHP reserves the right to update and/or change this information without prior notice due to the evolving nature of the COVID-19 event.
Call to action: Texas Children’s Health Plan (TCHP) would like to inform providers that effective March 18, 2022, administrative changes were made to Chapter 15.3 of Health and Human Services Commission’s (HHSC) Uniform Managed Care Manual.
How this impacts providers: The administrative changes that were made to chapter 15.3 – Mental Health Targeted Case Management and Mental Health Rehabilitative Services Training Requirements included modifying “Applicability of Chapter 15.3” to add the STAR Kids Program and an update to the training links.
The updated training links included in Chapter 15.3 are below.
Adult Mental Health Training
All providers delivering services to adults must complete the following SAMHSA training programs:
- Illness Management and Recovery (IMR)
- Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
- Individual Placement and Supports (IPS) Supported Employment (SE)
https://store.samhsa.gov/product/Supported-Employment-Evidence-Based-Practices-EBP-KIT/SMA08-4365
- Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH)
Children’s Mental Health
All providers delivering services to children must complete the following trainings:
- Social Skills and Aggression Replacement Techniques (START)
All staff must attest to have attended an in-person training or to have viewed the complete DVD series.
In-person training may be obtained through the following resources.
- Behavioral Institute for Children and Adolescents
Sheldon Braaten, Ph.D.
Behavioral Institute for Children and Adolescents
1711 County Road B West, Suite 110S, Roseville, Minnesota 55113
Phone: 651-484-5510
Email: info@behavioralinstitute.org
http://www.behavioralinstitute.org/S.T.A.R.T.php
- G&G Consultants
Barry Glick, Ph.D.
106 Acorn Dr. Scotia, New York 12302
Phone 518-229-7933
Email: artgang01@gmail.com
- Mark Amendola
Perseus House
1511 Peach Street, Erie, Pennsylvania 16501
Phone 814-480-5900, ext. 288;
E-Mail: mamendola@perseushouse.org
- EPIS Center
Pennsylvania State University
http://www.episcenter.psu.edu/ebp/ART
- Centralized Training Infrastructure
DVD training may be obtained through the following resources:
- https://www.researchpress.com/books/408/aggression-replacement-training-video
- http://www.amazon.com/Aggression-Replacement-Comprehensive-InterventionAggressive/dp/B00AFJKPWE
- Preparing Adolescents for Young Adulthood (PAYA):
The toolkit and PAYA Modules are listed below. All staff must attest to have read each of the modules.
- Youth In Transition (PAYA) Tool Kit:
https://www.dshs.wa.gov/sites/default/files/BHSIA/dbh/documents/Introduction.pdf
- Module 1: Money , Home and Food Management
- Module 2: Personal, Health, Social and Safety Skills
- Module 3: Education/Employment/Career Tools, Skills and Strategies
http://www.casey.org/media/CLS_ResourceGuides_subdocs_PAYAModule3.pdf
- Module 4: Housing, Transportation and Community Resources
- Module 5: Young Parents Guide
- Module 6: Household Management Activities
- Seeking Safety
All staff must attest to have attended an in-person training or to have viewed the complete DVD series.
Materials can be found:
- http://www.treatment-innovations.org/seeking-safety.html (navigate to “training” link for in-person training, or navigate to “training items” for the 4-DVD series).
- Centralized Training Infrastructure: centralizedtraining.com
- Nurturing Parenting Program – Tertiary Treatment Protocols:
All staff must attest to have attended an in-person training.
Training resources can be found here:
- Nurturing Parenting national website: http://nurturingparenting.com/ecommerce/category/1:3/
- Centralized Training Infrastructure: centralizedtraining.com
- Barkley’s Defiant Child/Defiant Teen
Training and materials can be found here:
- http://www.russellbarkley.org/index.html
- http://adhdlectures.com/
- http://www.guilford.com/books/Defiant-Children/Russell-Barkley/9781462509508
- Wraparound Planning Process
Additional information about wraparound training can be found by contacting the Texas Institute of Excellence in Mental Health at the University of Texas at Austin or navigating to this website: http://www.txsystemofcare.org/wraparound/
To schedule in-person training, please contact:
- Rebecca Marquez M.Ed., BSW
Wraparound Implementation Specialist
Texas Institute for Excellence in Mental Health
Center for Social Work Research
The University of Texas at Austin
Office: (512) 232 0613
Email: Rebecca.Marquez@austin.utexas.edu
Next steps for providers: Please click the link below to see the updates:
If you have any questions, please email Provider Network Management at: providerrelations@texaschildrens.org.
For access to all provider alerts, log into:
www.thecheckup.org or www.texaschildrenshealthplan.org/for-providers.
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