Mental Health Services
- Success Beyond Six - Overview
- Legislative Charge
- Meeting Agendas and Notes
- Study Group Membership
- Evidence Based Practices
- Data
- Vermont Today
- Final Report
SUCCESS BEYOND SIX
The Agency of Human Services and the Department of Education have established a Success Beyond Six Legislative Study Group to help respond to the legislative charge from the last session's appropriation bill. The work group is made up of 27 people from various mental health and education perspectives.
The charge from the legislature is to ensure that expenditures through the Success Beyond Six funding mechanism:
- utilize best practices
- yield positive outcomes, and
- are managed to a predictable rate of growth
A report on recommendations is due to the House committees on Education and on Human Services and the Senate committees on Education and on Health and Welfare by January 15, 2008.
The implications of this work are significant. In FY06, Success Beyond Six allowed Vermont's mental health designated agencies to serve over 4,000 students through contracts totalling $30 million with 1/3 general fund match from Local Education Agencies and 2/3 from mental health's fee for service Medicaid funds.
The Success Beyond Six Legislative Study Group has set an initial schedule of four meetings, in which it will work to establish program parameters around flexible services for an initiative that originally developed as a funding mechanism.
First Meeting
- Orientation to the Charge
- Review of basic data
- Overview of current practices in Vermont
- Review of best practices nationally
Second Meeting
- Discussion of desired future
- Priority target population
- Desired outcomes
- Best practices to achieve desired outcomes with priority population
Third Meeting
- Discussion on how to manage the growth. Are there additional and/or better funding mechanisms than Medicaid fee for service?
Fourth Meeting
- Formulation of recommended options for program
- Formulation of recommended process to build a consensus on the new program parameters
Legislative Charge
Meeting Notes & Agendas
Study Group Members
Evidence Based Practices
- Establishing a Comprehensive System
- Components of a School Health System
- Effective Practices for Students with Disabilities
- Association of Student Assistance Professionals of Vermont
- Positive Behavioral Supports
- Why States & Communities Should Implement PBS with MH
- PBS: What Is It and Why It Works
- Mental Health Services Integrated with Schools
- Families: A Critical Role in PBS
- Making Strides at the State Level
- Making Strides at the Local Level
- Checklist for State-Level Advocates
- Checklist for Local Advocates
- School-Based Mental Health: A Guide for Decision Makers
Data
- Number of Children Served
- Percentage of Vermont Students With Disabilities by Type
- Special Class Programs, Ratio of Students to Staff
- Resource Room - CT - SE Services
- Students with ED as Percentage of Students with Disabilities
- ED Students by Placement '04 - '06
- Success Beyond Six FTEs by DA
- Risk Factors for Youth in Student Assistance Programs
Vermont Today
HowardCenter
Washington Central Supervisory Union
Washington County Mental Health
State Laws
Vermont's Model
Final Report