Health and mental healthcare and juvenile justice

Joshua Dankoff filed this request with the Department of Corrections of Montana.

It is a clone of this request.

Submitted May 26, 2023
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From: Joshua Dankoff

Subject: Montana Freedom of Information Act Request: Health and mental healthcare and juvenile justice

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To Whom It May Concern,

This is a request for records under your state public records law. I am requesting copies of public records regarding health and behavioural health service delivery in youth correctional facilities in your jurisdiction, to inform a comparative research project regarding health and mental health care delivery in juvenile detention facilities across the US. Specifically, I request information regarding the following:
1. Name and contact details for those responsible for health and behavioural health services provisions at all locations where juveniles are incarcerated within your jurisdiction.
2. Regulations, policies and procedures that govern the operation of health and behavioral health provision for juveniles incarcerated within your jurisdiction. This includes health intake, room confinement, medication management, access to specialist and dental services, discharge planning services, and other health and behavioral health related policies.
3. Contracts from January 1, 2021 to the time the request is filled between your agency and any healthcare provider including both physical health and behavioral health.
4. Records concerning your jurisdiction’s most recent application to Centre for Medicaid Services (CMS) for an 1115 Medicaid waiver (if applicable), and any response, with specifically focus on how and whether such a waiver applies to provision of Medicaid funded services for detained juveniles.
5. Records relating to financing for health and behavioural health care delivery in your jurisdiction.

I request the records be provided electronically. If there are any fees for searching or copying these records, please inform me. However, I would also like to request a waiver of all fees in that the disclosure of the requested information is in the public interest and will contribute significantly to the public’s understanding of the administration of juvenile justice. This information is not being sought for commercial purposes.

If access to the records I am requesting will take longer than allowed by statute, please contact me with information about when I might expect copies of the requested records.

If you deny any or all of this request, please cite each specific exemption you feel justifies the refusal to release the information and notify me of the appeal procedures available to me under the law.

Thank you for considering my request.

Sincerely,

Tess Kelly
Fellow, Harvard FXB Centre for Health and Human Rights

Joshua Dankoff
Director of Strategic Initiatives
Citizens for Juvenile Justice
617.338.1050

From: Department of Corrections

Subject: FW: Scanned Document COR HLN CEN

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Good afternoon Ms. Kelly and Mr. Dankoff, My name is Steffani Turner, I am the Mental Health Services Manager for the Montana DOC. I have received your information request and we are working on it now.
1. I am responsible for the mental health provision of services for the DOC. My email is Steffani.turner@mt.gov, number is 406-444-1547.
My partner, Todd Boese is responsible for the medical side. His email is todd.boese@mt.gov, number is 406-444-4761.
2. Regulations, policies and procedures:
- DOC policies can be found at: https://cor.mt.gov/DataStatsContractsPoliciesProcedures/DOCPolicies
Health Services in particular are found in Chapter 4: Section 5
- Applicable procedures are attached.
3.DOC contracts specific to health care of youth can be found at: https://cor.mt.gov/DataStatsContractsPoliciesProcedures/contracts
Specifically:
Medical Services-Pine Hills Correctional Facility, COR-SVCS-2022-0423-CSD
Optometry Services, PHCF COR-SVCS-2022-0466-HSB
Montana Dental Services-Dental Services MWP/Pine Hills, COR-SVCS-2020-0343-CSD
Frontier Psychiatry, PLLC COR-SVCS-2023-0476-HSBhttps://cor.mt.gov/DataStatsContractsPoliciesProcedures/DataDocumentsandLinks/Contracts/Telepsychiatry-Services-COR-SVCS-2023-0476-HSB.pdf
Contract with 5-C's- facility that houses juvenile females - https://cor.mt.gov/DataStatsContractsPoliciesProcedures/DataDocumentsandLinks/Contracts/5-C-Juvenile-Detention-17-003-YSD-Org-thru-Amd-5.pdf
4. 1115 Waiver - currently Montana's DPHHS is working on the 1115 waiver. Rebecca de Camara is the contact for this: rdecamara@mt.gov 5. In regards to records relating to financing for health and behavioral health care delivery, could you please clarify exactly what you are looking for in regards to this?

Sincerely,
Steff Turner

STEFFANI TURNER, LCSW
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES MANAGER
Health Services Bureau| steffani.turner@mt.gov
Office: 406-444-1547 | Cell: 406.465.1105
5 S. Last Chance Gulch  |  PO Box 201301 |  Helena, MT 59620

         COR.MT.GOV

From: Department of Corrections

Subject: None

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Hello! Steff Turner sent some information over, if you have any follow up questions please reply to the communications department or myself at alexandria.klapmeier@mt.gov. If you clarify the money question on No. 5, I will follow up with our finance folks.

Thank you,

Alex

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