Texas Insight’s Recent Reports House and Senate Items of Appropriation. The following reports contain appropriations comparisons for the HHSC, the DSHS, and the DFPS drawn from H.B. 1 and S.B. 1.…
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Health and Human Services Commission House/Senate Comparison, Items of Appropriation by Goal and Strategy, 86th Legislature.
S.B. 1507, 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, directed DSHS to reconvene the advisory panel established by H.B. 3793, 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013. The charge of the advisory panel is to…
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Meeting Summary. The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) of 2008 requires health insurers and group health plans to provide the same level of benefits for mental and/or substance…
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Meeting Summary. The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) of 2008 requires health insurers and group health plans to provide the same level of benefits for mental and/or substance…
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“When exposed to coercion, cruelty, violence, neglect, or rejection, a child may cope with indifference, defiance of rules and authority, or aggression as a self-protective counter-reaction. These defensive attempts to…
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“The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.” ― Nathaniel Branden
To expand on some of the recent issues raised in postings on gender disparities in poverty and the effects of violence, TI offers a new series on trauma-informed care (TIC) and its use and promise in Texas. Trauma is generally defined as a deeply distressing or disturbing event, causing a sense of intense fear, terror and helplessness. TIC programs are those that incorporate knowledge of the impact of trauma and traumatic stress into policies and programs of systems of care, such as the child welfare system, schools, criminal justice systems and the healthcare system. The graphic displays TIC impacts at a Washington State high school:
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“Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but lack of support after.” –S. Kelley Harrell Building on recent postings’ themes of the health and social impacts…
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Summary. The Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA) was established by the Veterans Health Care Expansion Act of 1973 (P.L. 93-82). CHAMPVA is primarily a…
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MEETING SUMMARY. The Mental Health Condition and Substance Use Disorder Parity Workgroup met in their second meeting which was largely organizational in nature. [This workgroup] was established by House Bill 10.…
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