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Contracted Systems Administrator (CSA)

• Serves as a source of referral under contract with the Division of Child Behavioral Health Services in New Jersey.
• Functions as the filter or gateway to authorize services and determine the level of care the child with behavioral and emotional challenges and their family's need.
• Assists the Department of Human Services (the Division of single entryway to obtain services) to organize services and funding into a single system where child welfare, mental health and juvenile justice work together.
• Assists the Department of Human Services to organize services and funding into a single system where child welfare, mental health and juvenile justice work together so there is one way to obtain services with one record.
• Provides 24 hour assistance to help families receive services.
• Establishes access to same quality of services across the state.
• Facilitates single way to pay providers regardless of whether a child is Medicaid eligible or not.
• Tracks eligibility to ensure more children gain access to public health insurance.
• Connects care across providers and levels for all children rather than just for children with the most severe disturbances.
• Provides a systematic way to ensure children and their families receive appropriate treatment for an appropriate length of time while remaining as close to home as possible.
• Keeps all child and family information in one record for all systems.
• Measures quality of care across child-serving systems.