Public sector leadership requires unique skills in order to effectively navigate the political and bureaucratic state landscapes. Skills necessary to this area of leadership development include increased business acumen; managing resources, change, and decision making as well as stakeholder engagement.

Growth is essential for supporting leadership development. But that leadership and personal growth often requires strategic investments of time and resources. Leadership growth also requires the effort to build resiliency and the commitment to open feedback and technical learning.

Greater transparency and accountability are ongoing goals for Medicaid programs, so special focus must be brought to eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse across all aspects of the program.

One key to managing the complexity and size of a Medicaid program is the development and implementation of sound data systems that support critical feedback loops for program budget as well as health care outcome tracking.

Medicaid’s complexity and expense makes managing financial and budgetary issues particularly critical to the program’s overall success.

Many of the people served by Medicaid have complex needs that intermingle multiple physical and behavioral health conditions with other complex challenges such as homelessness or current or previous incarceration.

Millions of pregnant women, children, and caregivers rely on Medicaid coverage, which provides access to services that ensure healthy child development and strong and stable families. Medicaid also plays a unique role in meeting the complex and unique health care needs of children in the foster care system.

Long term services and supports help keep individuals living in their homes and communities longer if they choose. These home-based health and daily living services create an alternative to institutionalized care for millions of people.