Take Action: Urge Legislators to Support Children’s Behavioral Health
March 11, 2020
NYS Council members,
We need your help to urge elected leaders to fight to restore funding for Children and Family Treatment and Support Services, or CFTSS. CFTSS are new behavioral health services covered by NYS Medicaid that help children and youth with mental health and substance use needs. The goal of these services is to help find and treat children’s behavioral health problems early so that they can have the best health and development possible.
Unfortunately, rates for these critical services were cut at the beginning of the year, even though our State has reached less than 5% of the 200,000 children eligible.
We need your help to urge elected leaders to fight to restore these rates and make sure the promised number of children get CFTSS services.
Please take a few minutes to call your State Senator today (using technology courtesy of our colleagues at Citizens Committee for Children), and urge him/her to include funding for Children and Family Treatment and Support Services in the Senate One House Budget.