Deborah Harburger

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Deborah Harburger is the Project Director for Maryland’s Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) Quality Demonstration Grant: Care Management Entities for Children with Serious Behavioral Health Needs, a multi-state collaborative with which seeks to inform others about implementation of the CME provider model and to demonstrate the approach’s impact on subsets of high-utilizing Medicaid and CHIP children and youth with serious and complex behavioral health challenges and their families.

Deborah has been with Innovations Institute at the University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Medicine since 2007.  Prior to serving in her current position, Deborah was the State Project Manager for Maryland’s 1915(c) Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities Medicaid Demonstration Waiver (RTC Waiver).   She recently co-authored a publication in the American Journal of Community Psychology (2010) entitled, “Intervening in the Lives of Youth with Complex Behavioral Health Challenges and Their Families: The Role of the Wraparound Process.”  She has previously held various policy positions at the Governor’s Office for Children and at the Department of Human Resources in Maryland, and served as a foster care worker during her Title IV-E Public Child Welfare Training Program.  

Deborah graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and received a master’s degree in social work with a concentration in management and community organization and specialization in families and children from the University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Social Work.