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expanded access and continuity of care and assistance for families, and children enrolled in early childhood programs.

l. State/Territory agency responsible for Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. Describe the coordination and results of the coordination: The Lead Agency collaborates with the state agency responsible for Medicaid and the state's Children's Health Insurance Program. The Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Community Health sits on the Georgia Children's Cabinet along with the agency heads of all Georgia's child-serving agencies. The Georgia Children's Cabinet connects all departments and agencies serving children in the state to align state priorities and programs. The Georgia Children's Cabinet meets every two months to ensure ongoing communication and information sharing.

The agency responsible for Medicaid is the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS). The agency responsible for the state's Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is the Georgia Department of Public Health. CAPS distributes consumer education information to families that are approved for CAPS through Georgia Gateway, the system where family eligibility for CAPS is determined. This includes information regarding Medicaid and CHIP. m. State/Territory agency responsible for mental health services. Describe the coordination and results of the coordination: The Lead Agency collaborates with the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD), the state agency responsible for mental health. Lead Agency staff serve on the Interagency Director's Team that is charged with creating and implementing a System of Care plan for mental health services for children and youth from birth to 21. The current System of Care State Plan includes goals to support young children's mental and behavioral health from birth to age 4 for the first time. These goals include developing and implementing strategies around early prevention/intervention, expanding the capacity of the workforce, and exploring Medicaid billing pathways to better serve young children and their families in Georgia. The Commissioner of the Lead Agency also sits on the State Mental Health Coordinating Council. In addition, the Lead Agency convenes the Infant Early Childhood Mental Health Taskforce which includes representatives from all the state agencies responsible for children’s mental health. The taskforce is developing a statewide System of Care for young children’s mental health. Results from the taskforce include increasing access to mental health clinicians trained in early childhood trauma treatment models (i.e. Child Parent Psychotherapy) through blended funding sources. Service billing issues were also addressed by creating the Clinician Medicaid Billing Toolkit for Dyadic Treatment Models. Additionally, DBHDD has received one of the Lead Agency’s Expanding Parents’ Access to Nontraditional Delivery (EXPAND) grants, which support families who need child care during nontraditional working hours. n. Child care resource and referral agencies, child care consumer education organizations, and providers of early childhood education training and professional development. Describe the coordination and results of the coordination: The Lead Agency partners with child care resource and referral agencies in Georgia and closely supports and monitors their work. The Lead Agency does not have a network of child care resource and referral agencies as defined by the child care development fund. The Lead Agency also funds the