BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
In the 2024 legislative session, AOCMHP successfully advocated for additional Aid & Assist community restoration and jail diversion funding to help CMHPs serve more people in their communities and to prevent incarceration as a treatment location whenever possible.
Cost Analysis TAB Bill One Pager
AOCMHP Community Restoration Flyer
INTELLECTUAL & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY
AOCMHP is advocating for the legislature to approve an additional 6 million dollars to fund the 2nd half of the biennium for the CMEs. This will draw down an additional 7.7 million dollars in federal funding.
– Forbids the Health Evidence Review Commission (HERC) from using quality of life to measure the weight to give to a service that may be covered by the state Medicaid program.
SB 1521 A4 Sprinkler system req in group/foster homes
– Delay req sprinkler system in group/foster homes
– Enhanced supports to employers of personal support workers’, support given to an individual in self-directing the individual’s services or in managing personal support workers who are providing in-home services and supports to the individual, using a person-centered approach.
– Repeals the statutes that allowed a person to be ordered by a court to stay in a facility against their will based on having IDD.
– Forbids a public body from denying services meant for persons with mental illness on the basis that a person also has an IDD.
HB 4088 Protect hospital employees from workplace assaults
– Expands the crime of assault in the third degree to include causing physical injury to a person working in a hospital while worker is performing official duties. Includes I/DD
ODHS
Rebalance
| CDDP Rebalance | GF FF | TF | FTE |
| CDDP Caseload HOP Funding | 4,771,169 6,183,931 1,936,218 – | 10,955,100 1,936,218 | 49.64 4.95 |
| Total | 6,707,387 6,183,931 | 12,891,318 | 54.58 |
100% FTE -Possible POP
| CDDP/Brokerage | GF FF | TF | FTE |
| Rebalance (if approved) Remaining to 100% | 4,771,169 6,183,931 33,195,069 37,602,847 | 10,955,100 70,797,916 | 49.64 309.52 |
| Total Funding to 100% | 37,966,238 43,786,778 | 81,753,016 | 359.16 |