Optum Idaho Funds $420,000 Community Health Initiatives Grant in Partnership with Idaho Department of Health and Welfare
May 24 2016 - 12:41PM
Business Wire
- Grant will fund efforts that help
children with serious emotional disturbances (SED) throughout
Idaho
- RFPs accepted until Aug. 22 from
qualified local and national applicants
Optum Idaho will fund a community health initiative (CHI) grant
of $420,000 for statewide efforts that help children who struggle
with serious emotional disturbances (SED). In partnership with the
Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Optum Idaho released a
Request for Proposal to solicit grant applications from qualified
local or national applicants.
The goal of the Community Health Initiatives grant is to improve
behavioral health outcomes among Idaho child and adolescent
Medicaid beneficiaries with SED by helping clinicians adopt and
implement evidence-based psychosocial treatments. The grant will
help Idaho’s effort to transform its behavioral health care system
by investing in accountable, outcomes-driven and recovery-centered
programs and services.
According to Optum’s data, approximately 20,000 child and
adolescent members less than 18 years old were provided services
for at least one SED condition in 2015.
“The most effective behavioral health care is provided in the
communities where people who need it live and work, and supports
the principles of recovery and resiliency in every service and
patient interaction,” said Georganne Benjamin, executive director,
Optum Idaho. “This grant will fund a statewide effort to continue
the transformation of Idaho’s behavioral health care system by
investing in accountable, outcomes-driven and recovery-centered
programs and services.”
“By working with Optum to provide this grant, we will continue
to enhance the overall health system,” said Lisa Hettinger,
Administrator for the Division of Medicaid at the Department of
Health and Welfare. “Addressing issues surrounding children with
serious emotional disturbances will help us improve care for some
of our most vulnerable community members.”
Applicants must demonstrate that they can work effectively with
a sample of behavioral health care providers and identify
facilitators and barriers to care provider adoption and
implementation of the practice.
Applicants must submit their materials through an online process
with BidSync at www.bidsync.com Proposals are to be submitted no
later than 4 p.m. MDT Monday, Aug. 22, 2016. One applicant will be
selected by an independent committee composed of people across
Idaho directly involved with the behavioral health care system by
Monday, Sept. 26, 2016, and the award will be announced in October
2016.
All questions related to the RFP must be submitted through
BidSync and will be publicly posted and answered on bidsync.com.
The bid # is RFP 2016 0523.
About Optum - Optum Idaho manages the outpatient
behavioral health benefits for Idaho Behavioral Health Plan members
and the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. Optum is
responsible for ensuring that appropriate and adequate behavioral
health services that support the practices of recovery and
resiliency are available. More information is available at
www.optumidaho.com.
About IDHW – The Division of Medicaid is one of eight
divisions in the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. The
agency’s programs and services are designed to help people live
healthy, productive lives. They work to strengthen individuals,
families and communities. Learn more at
www.healthandwelfare.idaho.gov.
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OptumJann Marie Stockwell,
208-914-2289jann.stockwell@optum.comorDHWNiki Forbing-Orr,
208-334-0668forbingn@dhw.idaho.gov
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