CBHI
The Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative (CBHI) is a partnership between the Executive Office of Health and Human Services and MassHealth. Its mission is to strengthen and expand community-based services for children under the age of 21 with serious emotional disturbances.
Through CBHI, MassHealth requires primary care providers to offer standardized behavioral health screenings at well child visits, mental health clinicians to use a standardized behavioral health assessment tool, and provides new or enhanced home and community-based behavioral health services. CBHI also includes a larger interagency effort to develop an integrated system of state-funded behavioral health services for children, youth and their families.