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Mar 3, 2021
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently announced that it will no longer defend the prior administration’s implementation of the 2019 public charge rule, which penalized eligible Mainers for using benefits they are entitled to by law.
Feb 2, 2021
The Maine DHHS Office of Child and Family Services today announced spending priorities for the additional $30.5 million in federal funds the State of Maine has received to support children, families, and child care providers with affordable child care due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Feb 2, 2021
The Maine DHHS Office of Child and Family Services announced today that due to increased availability of BinaxNOW COVID-19 rapid antigen tests, distribution of the rapid test kits will be expanded to the 1,726 licensed child care providers that have the capacity to serve 41,792 children.
Feb 2, 2021
Maine has five MaineCare-funded Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) waiver programs that provide flexible supports to older adults and individuals with disabilities to assist them in their daily lives and prevent admissions to nursing homes, intermediate care facilities and other institutional settings. As in other states, these programs operate under special permission from the federal agency that oversees Medicaid, which is why they are called “waiver” programs.
Feb 2, 2021
Starting today, some health coverage options are available again under a new Special Enrollment Period for the COVID-19 public health emergency. Maine people who qualify can enroll in or change Marketplace health insurance plans from February 15, 2021 through May 15, 2021.
Provides an opportunity to discover the broad range of peer support. As well as qualify for participation in the Peer Support Specialists Certification.
Peer Support may be something offered in your agency, or your community, do you know what its all about? Would you like to know the possibilities?
Find out about options for people you care about.
Intentional Peer Support is a relationship focused, problem solving, and strengths based, trauma-informed approach. With administrative support from the Muskie School, OBH has oversight of training and certification in Intentional Peer Support for individuals identifying as having lived experience with mental health challenges employed to offer support to others with mental health difficulties.
With administrative support from the Muskie School, OBH has oversight of training, continuing education, and Certification for frontline mental health workers. There are three types of certification: Community (MHRT/C), Residential (MHRT/I), and Crisis Service Provider (MHRT/CSP).
OBH offers a variety of trainings, workshops, conferences, fidelity monitoring, technical assistance, and administers two -certification programs. Below is a non-exhaustive sample.
Currently, all licensed SUD treatment providers in Maine are required by state licensing regulation to report patient-level data for each treatment episode. Until August 31, 2021, this was done using the WITS system. Collection and reporting of this data is required in order for our state to receive federal funding support for SUD treatment services and programs.