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Project

Evaluating Texas' Youth Empowerment Services (YES) program

Center:

TX-LoneStar, LEND

Fiscal Year:

2025

Contact Information:

Taiwo Babatope
[email protected]
713-486-2700

Project Description:

This project will evaluate the Youth Empowerment Services (YES) program in Texas, made available through a Medicaid waiver to provide intensive case management and a specialized service array for children and adolescents with serious mental, emotional, and behavioral difficulties in Texas. The project will conduct a comprehensive analysis using Medicaid data. There is a pressing need for an in-depth evaluation of program outcomes over an extended period, encompassing both pre- and post-enrollment in the YES program, including a comparison with those of similarly at-risk Medicaid-enrolled children who were not enrolled in the YES Waiver but would have been receiving benefits. Findings from the evaluation will help policymakers make decisions about the YES program and its ability to serve youth with serious mental illness in the state through a Medicaid waiver as well as identify gaps in mental health care for this target population.

Keyword(s):

Mental/Behavioral Health – General

Core Function(s):

Training Trainees, Performing Direct and/or Demonstration Services

Area of Emphasis

Education & Early Intervention, Health-Related Activities

Target Audience:

Students/Trainees (long or intermediate trainees), Community Trainees / Short term trainees, Professionals and Para-Professionals, Children/Adolescents with Disabilities/SHCN

Unserved or Under-served Populations:

None

Primary Target Audience Geographic Descriptor:

Mulit-County

Funding Source:

COVID-19 Related Data:

N/A

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