In 2024, over half of the federal Department of Health Plan Investigations' cases involved mental health parity complaints. The federal mental health parity laws protect patients by ensuring employer health plans provide equal access and coverage for treatment services for both mental health and addiction services and medical services. In other words, patients seeking behavioral […]

This presentation outlines our Illinois Department of Public Health–funded initiative to expand access to behavioral parent and caregiver services for Latino families who are not currently receiving services. We move beyond direct language translation and instead apply culturally responsive code-switching practices to ensure that training materials function meaningfully within diverse Latino cultural contexts across the […]