Browsing by Author "Graaf, Genevieve"
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1915(c) Medicaid Waivers for Children With Severe Emotional Disturbance: Participant Characteristics, Enrollment, and Out-of-Home Service Use
Graaf, Genevieve; Whitfield, Emily; Snowden, Lonnie (SAGE, 2023-03-08)Several states have invested in 1915(c) Home and Community Based Service (HCBS) Medicaid policies to improve outcomes and reduce costs for children and youth with significant behavioral health needs, or Severe Emotional ... -
Change Communication in Public Sector Cutback Management
Graaf, Genevieve; Hengeveld-Bidmon, Evelyn; Carnochan, Sarah; Salamone, Marianna; Austin, Micheal (Public Organization Review, 2018)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Budget cuts in public sector organizations create additional strain for employees, often contributing to uncertainty, rumors, and low morale. This study examines ... -
Examining the association between prescription opioid misuse and suicidal behaviors among adolescent high school students in the United States
Baiden, Philip; Graaf, Genevieve; Zaami, Mariama; Acolatse, Charles; Adeku, Yvonne (Elsevier, 2019)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Although some studies have examined the association between prescription opioid misuse and mental health outcomes, few studies have examined the effects of ... -
Health Care Quality and Health Care Access Disparities Among Racial and Ethnic Populations with Comorbid Mental and Physical Health Conditions
Ryan, Amanda Lee (2023-12-13)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 02/01/2026** This study reports the individual and county-level factors associated with racial and ethnic disparities in the ED and inpatient utilization rates and discharge ... -
The Impact of the Great Recession on County Human Service Organizations: A Cross Case Analysis
Graaf, Genevieve; Hengeveld-Bidmon, Evelyn; Carnochan, Sarah; Radu, Peter; Austin, Michael (Taylor & Francis, 2016)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: An exploratory qualitative study examined the experiences of eleven county human service agencies’ as they embarked upon the budget reduction process during the ... -
Increased Medicaid Financing and Equalization of African Americans’ and Whites’ Outpatient and Emergency Treatment Expenditures
Snowden, Lonnie R.; Wallace, Neal; Cordell, Kate; Graaf, Genevieve (International Center of Mental Health Policy and Economics (ICMPE), 2016)Objective: We investigated whether a new funding opportunity to finance mental health treatment, provided to autonomous countylevel mental health systems without customary cost sharing requirements, equalized African ... -
Increased Mental Health Treatment Financing, Community-Based Organization’s Treatment Programs, and Latino-White Children’s Financing Disparities
Snowden, Lonnie R.; Wallace, Neal; Cordell, Kate; Graaf, Genevieve (International Center of Mental Health Policy and Economics (ICMPE), 2017)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Background: Latino child populations are large and growing, and they present considerable unmet need for mental health treatment. Poverty, lack of health insurance, ... -
Intervention Response to the Trauma-Exposed, Female Juvenile Offender: A Review of Effectiveness in Reducing Recidivism
Thomann, Ashley M. (2019-08-08)When analyzed by general factors of effectiveness (Lispsey, 2009) and concepts of gender-responsivity (Day, Zahn, & Tichavsky, 2015) that target the needs of female juvenile-justice involved youth, reviewed studies show ... -
Medicaid Waivers and Public Sector Mental Health Service Penetration Rates for Youth
Graaf, Genevieve; Snowden, Lonnie (American Psychological Association, 2018)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Background: To assist families of youth with serious emotional disturbance in financing youth’s comprehensive care, some states have sought and received Medicaid ... -
Piloting an Index of Segregation at the Census Tract Level: Associations with Place and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Life Expectancies
Kitchens, Katherine F; 0000-0001-7295-7838 (2022-08-11)This study considers residential segregation as a critical driver of racial/ethnic health disparities and introduces an index of segregation, the Representation Index, that measures segregation degree at the neighborhood ... -
Predictors Of School Functioning And Problem Behaviors In Siblings Of Children With Autism
Jones, Sarah Elizabeth; 0000-0003-0399-9334 (2020-08-27)When a child has a sibling with a disability, siblings must learn to adapt to additional challenges and demands and may often be overlooked by their parents, teachers, and service providers. While research has demonstrated ... -
Preparing Social Workers for Evidence-Informed Community-Based Practice: An Integrative Framework
Graaf, Genevieve; Ratliff, G. Allen (Taylor & Francis (Routledge): STM, Behavioural Science and Public Health Titles:, 2018-07-06)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Social workers have an ethical obligation to the consumers and communities they serve to draw on practice-relevant research evidence in planning and executing ... -
The Role of Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Policies in Organizing and Financing Care for Children with Severe Emotional Disturbance
Graaf, Genevieve; Snowden, Lonnie (Elsevier, 2017)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Medicaid finances considerable home and community-based children’s mental health treatment, and The Department of Health and Human Services offers a variety Medicaid ... -
State approaches to funding home and community-based mental health care for non-Medicaid youth: Alternatives to Medicaid waivers
Graaf, Genevieve; Snowden, Lonnie (Springer, 2019-07)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Medicaid waivers for children increase the availability of public funding for HCBS by waiving or expanding the means tests ... -
Supporting Evidence-Informed Practice in Human Service Organizations: An Exploratory Study of Link Officers
Graaf, Genevieve; McBeath, Bowen; Lwin, Kristin; Holmes, Dez; Austin, Michael (Taylor & Francis, 2016)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Human service organizations seeking to infuse research and other forms of evidence into their programs often need to expand their knowledge sharing systems in order ... -
The Impacts of TF-CBT for Child and Adolescent Survivors of Sexual Abuse: A Systematic Review
Leap, Melissa (2023-08-08)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 08/01/2025** The purpose of this systematic review is to expand on previous literature by examining the treatment impacts of TF-CBT on the specific population of child ... -
The “Undeserving Poor,” Racial Bias, and Medicaid Coverage of African Americans
Snowden, Lonnie; Graaf, Genevieve (SAGE Publications, 2019)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion increased coverage especially for the “undeserving poor”—non-disabled, nonelderly adults, who disproportionately are ...