When a Baldwin County mother learned her teenage son with autism had threatened to kill himself at school, she knew the clock was ticking to find him professional help.

“We called and called and called. Nobody could get him in,” said Adrienne Davis, a Daphne mother of four whose now 19-year-old son is enrolled in Medicaid. “(The Medicaid option) was six months out at one point. Private therapists were even farther behind because they didn’t want to touch you if you were on Medicaid.”