MCAAP Committees
Children’s Mental Health Task Force
Children’s Mental Health Task Force (CMHTF) is a coalition of pediatricians, child psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, insurance representatives, policy advocates, various commissioners, legislators, employer groups, nurses, and groups from the education and correctional services community in an effort to improve children’s mental health in Massachusetts.
The Task Force has been successful in obtaining reimbursement for non-face-to-face care, increasing payments for child psychiatrists, helping to pass a Children’s Mental Health Bill and monitoring its implementation, facilitating funding for the Parent Advocacy League from HMO’s, and facilitating the creation of various local children’s mental health programs. The Child Psychiatry Access Project has been launched in six regional sites around the state and is enabling pediatricians to get training and consultations in psychopharmacology and managing patients with mental health problems. It has become a national model replicated in other states.
Please contact Cathleen Haggerty at chaggerty@mcaap.org for more information.
