Genevieve Graaf, Ph.D.
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Assistant Professor, Social Work. After receiving an MSW and MS in Marriage and Family Studies from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Dr. Graaf practiced in community-based mental health settings serving families and children with complex behavioral health care needs in the Kansas City metro for several years. Building on this professional experience and practice knowledge of children's mental health funding mechanisms and service systems, she completed a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, focusing on the role of Medicaid in public mental health service access. genevieve.graaf@uta.edu
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State approaches to funding home and community-based mental health care for non-Medicaid youth: Alternatives to Medicaid waivers
(Springer, 2019-07)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Medicaid waivers for children increase the availability of public funding for HCBS by waiving or expanding the means tests ... -
The Impact of the Great Recession on County Human Service Organizations: A Cross Case Analysis
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: An exploratory qualitative study examined the experiences of eleven county human service agencies’ as they embarked upon the budget reduction process during the ... -
Change Communication in Public Sector Cutback Management
(Public Organization Review, 2018)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Budget cuts in public sector organizations create additional strain for employees, often contributing to uncertainty, rumors, and low morale. This study examines ... -
The “Undeserving Poor,” Racial Bias, and Medicaid Coverage of African Americans
(SAGE Publications, 2019)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion increased coverage especially for the “undeserving poor”—non-disabled, nonelderly adults, who disproportionately are ... -
Supporting Evidence-Informed Practice in Human Service Organizations: An Exploratory Study of Link Officers
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Human service organizations seeking to infuse research and other forms of evidence into their programs often need to expand their knowledge sharing systems in order ... -
The Role of Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Policies in Organizing and Financing Care for Children with Severe Emotional Disturbance
(Elsevier, 2017)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Medicaid finances considerable home and community-based children’s mental health treatment, and The Department of Health and Human Services offers a variety Medicaid ... -
Medicaid Waivers and Public Sector Mental Health Service Penetration Rates for Youth
(American Psychological Association, 2018)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Background: To assist families of youth with serious emotional disturbance in financing youth’s comprehensive care, some states have sought and received Medicaid ... -
Increased Mental Health Treatment Financing, Community-Based Organization’s Treatment Programs, and Latino-White Children’s Financing Disparities
(International Center of Mental Health Policy and Economics (ICMPE), 2017)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Background: Latino child populations are large and growing, and they present considerable unmet need for mental health treatment. Poverty, lack of health insurance, ... -
Increased Medicaid Financing and Equalization of African Americans’ and Whites’ Outpatient and Emergency Treatment Expenditures
(International Center of Mental Health Policy and Economics (ICMPE), 2016)Objective: We investigated whether a new funding opportunity to finance mental health treatment, provided to autonomous countylevel mental health systems without customary cost sharing requirements, equalized African ... -
Preparing Social Workers for Evidence-Informed Community-Based Practice: An Integrative Framework
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge): STM, Behavioural Science and Public Health Titles:, 2018-07-06)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Social workers have an ethical obligation to the consumers and communities they serve to draw on practice-relevant research evidence in planning and executing ... -
Examining the association between prescription opioid misuse and suicidal behaviors among adolescent high school students in the United States
(Elsevier, 2019)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Although some studies have examined the association between prescription opioid misuse and mental health outcomes, few studies have examined the effects of ...