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Autumn Boylan, M.P.H., previously served as the Deputy Director of Strategic Partnerships at California's Department of Health Care Services. In this capacity, Boylan led several high-profile statewide initiatives including but not limited to:

• Significantly contributed to the transformation of California’s Medicaid (Medi-Cal) program, known as California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM), serving nearly 15 million Medi-Cal members in California.
• Implemented the Justice-Involved Reentry Initiative, as part of the CalAIM Medi-Cal transformation, in 31 state prisons, 41 county jails and 19 youth correctional facilities; established connections between Medi-Cal managed care health plans, correctional facilities, community-based organizations (providing reentry transition services, Community Health Worker services, Enhanced Care Management and Community Support Services), county probation, county health, county public health/local health jurisdictions and behavioral health agencies to strengthen reentry coordination across agencies at the state and local level.
• Launched BrightLife Kids and Soluna, which served ~500k children, youth and families between January 2024 and January 2026. See the 2025 BrightLife Kids and Soluna Impact Report for more information.
• Created new reimbursement models for school-based behavioral health services for 2,400 local educational agencies (i.e., school-districts and public charter schools), as well as the California Community Colleges, the California State University and the University of California systems. Served as chief architect of the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative (CYBHI) Fee Schedule program. Awarded over a billion dollars in grants for schools, colleges/universities, community-based organizations, hospitals, FQHCs, and county health and behavioral health departments.
• Launched California's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Access Portal (Cal-MAP)Launched California’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Access Portal (Cal-MAP) to support pediatric primary care providers to address their patients’ behavioral health needs in primary care practice settings; supporting more than 5,600 pediatric primary care providers in California.
• Negotiated more than 30+ vendor and partner contracts to support implementation of the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative (CYBHI); end-to-end procurement, contract execution, and contract performance, including Key Performance Indicators and Service Level Agreements.