Lisa Eisenberg

Overview

Lisa Eisenberg provides expertise in building partnerships to reduce inequities in health and educational outcomes for children and youth. With more than 10 years of experience in school-based health policy and implementation, Eisenberg’s work supports the sustainability of school-based health services and partnerships between education and health sectors to reduce health-related barriers to student learning. She supports a portfolio of projects that expand comprehensive systems of financing and sustainability to improve and expand school-based health services. 

Eisenberg currently manages several projects for state agencies and local educational agency (LEA) clients, including a 3-year project to improve LEA participation in and successful navigation of California’s School Medicaid program. Most recently, she collaborated with the California State Medicaid Agency to review data on program participation and enrollment, refined agency goals, and managed the development of a 5-year outreach and engagement workplan for the department to continue Medicaid program expansion for LEAs. Eisenberg has experience developing tools and resources and providing effective facilitation and training to advance cross-agency collaboration and improve school-based health services.  

Prior to joining WestEd, Eisenberg worked for 9 years with the California School-Based Health Alliance, most recently as the Director of Policy and External Affairs. She has led efforts to support policy development and funding of school-based health services across California schools. At CSHA, Eisenberg led several, multistaged policy and finance efforts with various state agencies and developed many tools to illustrate how schools and partners can leverage various funding streams to better address the whole child needs of students, including Public Funding for School-Based Mental Health Programs and the Student Mental Health Implementation Guide.  

Education

• MPP, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
• MSW, University of California, Berkeley
• BA in English and women’s studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Select Publications

Eisenberg, L., & Caparas, R. (2024, February 15). Strategies for expanding school-based health services through Medicaid. WestEd: Insights & Impact. https://www.wested.org/wested-bulletin/insights-impact/expanding-school-based-health-services-through-medicaid/

Justus, M., Krausen, K., Eisenberg, L., & Willis, J. (2023). “Put your money on the table”: Interagency coordination to address the crisis in student mental and behavioral health. WestEd. https://www.wested.org/resources/put-your-money-on-the-table-interagency-coordination-to-address-the-crisis-in-student-mental-and-behavioral-health/

California School-Based Health Alliance. (2022). Public funding for school-based mental health programs. https://www.schoolhealthcenters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Public-Funding-for-School-Mental-Health.pdf

California School-Based Health Alliance and Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission. (2020). Student mental health implementation guide. https://www.schoolhealthcenters.org/resources/student-impact/behavioral-health/implementation-guide/