Community Engagement and Empowerment Team Newsletter

NCDHHS Announces Updated Launch for Behavioral  Health I/DD Tailored Plans

"The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Ser vices announced that Behavioral Health and Intellectual/ Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) Tailored Plans will launch Dec. 1, 2022, instead of July 1, 2022.

Individuals who need certain services to address a serious  mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, severe sub stance use disorder, intellectual or developmental disabil ity or traumatic brain injury, may be eligible to enroll in a

Behavioral Health I/DD Tailored Plan. The updated imple mentation schedule recognizes community concerns that  the COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to an increased  need for behavioral health and intellectual/

developmental disabilities services, which has placed add ed pressures at the state, Local Management Entity/ Managed Care Organization (LME/MCO) and provider lev els. The updated implementation schedule will help bal ance the need to ensure a successful Tailored Plan  launch with the imperative to provide current beneficiar ies in the system with high quality care."

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