Strategic Plan
Mindworks connects the dots of the behavioral health system to improve access and outcomes by aligning people, policy, and practice. We are committed to delivering informed impact to ensure thriving outcomes for Georgia families.
Priority One
Equitable Access
Structural inequalities like lack of insurance coverage, income inequality, and an underrepresented workforce contribute to the persistent gaps in access to behavioral health services. In addition, early life adversity, such as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES), impacts access to behavioral health services utilization of preventative behavioral health care.
Goal:
Mindworks is committed to advancing behavioral health equity by elevating evidence-based policies that address these disparities, advancing access to services, and working to ensure that every individual can be healthy.
Priority Two
Sustainable Workforce
Georgia, like nearly every other state in the country, is facing a workforce shortage among those who serve children with behavioral health needs.
Goal
Mindworks will advance the development of resources, policies, and innovative solutions to recruit, develop, retain, and diversify Georgia’s behavioral health workforce.
Priority Three
Whole Person Health
Structural inequalities like lack of insurance coverage, income Whole-person health involves looking at the whole person— not just separate organs or body systems—and considering multiple factors that promote either health or disease and
nurturing the delicate equilibrium between mind and body through evidence-based conventional and complementary treatments and services
Goal
Mindworks is committed to endeavors that fundamentally restructure the way care is delivered to support better outcomes and experiences for children and young adults
who need access to quality behavioral health services.
Priority Four
Purposeful Funding
Robust and reliable funding for behavioral healthcare services
is essential for closing the treatment gap, addressing the
lack of access to care, and improving outcomes for children
and young adults with behavioral health care needs. Georgia requires a comprehensive, adequately financed system in which every child with a behavioral health disorder—regardless of their economic circumstances—has the opportunity to readily access evidence-based care.
Goal
Mindworks will target opportunities to diversify funding and generate new revenue, including leveraging Medicaid programs to innovate behavioral health coverage, delivery, and payment models to reach those with disproportionately high needs.
Priority Five
System Evaluation
Evaluation and evidence informed decision making are
central to developing effective system practices. Enhanced
Evaluation emphasizes the role of critical reflection, interpersonal competence, cultural responsiveness, and situational awareness in evaluation practice, including the need for ongoing evaluation capacity building to conduct high-quality evaluations.
Goal
Mindworks is committed to driving the importance of embedding evidence and evaluation to enhance Georgia’s System of Care services and supports.