Helping MassHealth children with behavioral, emotional, and mental health needs and their families with integrated behavioral health services and a comprehensive, community-based system of care.

These reports show data on how many MassHealth members who used one of these 6 CHBI services: Intensive Care Coordination, Family Support and Training, In-Home Therapy, In-Home Behavioral Services, Therapeutic Mentoring, and Youth Mobile Crisis Intervention.

Practice Guidelines support the alignment of MassHealth home- and community-based services with the values that are important to families, support positive outcomes, and reflect the best intentions and expectations of CBHI.

The Children's Behavioral Health Knowledge Center is a resource hub for caregivers, practitioners and more on various aspects of children's mental health.

Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative (CBHI) Services are behavioral health services that can be offered in the following settings; home, community and school-based programs for children under age 21 and their families. What services are offered through CBHI?

Our Child, Youth, and Family Services spring from the Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative (CBHI) which encompasses multiple service systems that include: Intensive Care Coordination, Family Support and Training, In-Home Therapy, Therapeutic Mentoring, Outpatient Therapy, and Psychiatry, and Mobile Crisis Intervention.

It contains practical information on home- and community-based behavioral health services to assess and treat mental health and substance abuse issues that are available to MassHealth-enrolled children and youths aged 20 and younger.

CBHI services are home-based services. The services can be provided separately or in combination.

MassHealth Children's Behavioral Health Initiative (CBHI) To find your local MCI/ESP, call the statewide toll-free number 1-877-382-1609 and enter your zip code or download the Emergency Services Program (ESP) directory from the Massachusetts …

May 17, 2017 · In response, the state created the Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative (CBHI), which is now responsible for screening and treating children age 2 thru 21 who a) qualify for MassHealth and b) require mental health services. In order to get these services, MassHealth must agree that they are medically necessary.