Behavioral Health Resources
This module discusses the importance of employing culturally and linguistically effective strategies when r conducting screening and assessments.
Burnout is common in healthcare and has increased during the Covid 19 pandemic. This brief presentation defines burnout and it's consequences. Building resilience is a strategy to reduce and prevent burnout. The presentation defines resilience and provides tips in increase personal resilience and organizational resilience.
Adolescents are at the highest risk for experiencing health problems related to substance use. This resource provides an overview of screening adolescents for substance use disorders including assessments and tips.
This brief video provides an overview of fentanyl strip testing to identify the presence of fentanyl in unregulated drugs for people who use drugs (PWUD). It also includes a brief demo of how to use fentanyl test strip testing to detect the presence of fentanyl in their drug supply.
Testing for fentanyl test strips can identify the presence of fentanyl in unregulated drugs. They can be used to test injectable drugs, powders, and pills. Being aware if fentanyl is present allows people to implement appropriate harm reduction strategies to reduce the risk of an overdose.
Presented by Sari Frankel, DC Department of Behavioral Health.
Registries are important population health tools that allow organizations to collect, organize, aggregate, and utilize the information for a variety of purposes. Maintaining registries for certain disease states such as depression or diabetes provides easy access to results, identification of care gaps, and level of improvement and can lead to adjustments in care as needed. This Short Take video provides an introduction to registries and how to use them.
An online resource to provide broad access to resources to clarify best practices to support and improve the care for substance-exposed mothers and newborns. The toolkit includes resources to support screening, assessment, and level of care determination; treatment; transitions of care; and education.
The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) has implemented the California Medications for Addiction Treatment (MAT) Expansion Project to address the opioid epidemic throughout the state. This website serves as a separate yet complementary resource to the DHCS MAT Expansion Website and provides resources and information related to the four MAT Expansion Project initiatives operated by Health Management Associates.
The California MAT Expansion Project aims to increase access to MAT, reduce unmet treatment need, and reduce opioid overdose-related deaths through the provision of prevention, treatment, and recovery activities. The project focuses on individuals experiencing homelessness, youth, rural, and tribal populations with limited MAT access. The California MAT Expansion Project, composed of nearly 30 initiatives, is funded by grants from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
HMAedu.com is an educational resource specifically designed for training treatment teams about addiction, pain, and behavioral health. With over 25 hours of education through the lens of patient-centered care, users can explore topics of interest or follow the suggested curriculum path. Once a user signs in, the learning management system automatically loads modules that are pertinent to the user’s level of training. This automation allows for consistency in messaging to all providers without delivering information beyond the scope of practice. Each course starts with a TED Talks-style overview that is followed by patient-focused modules of 3-10 minutes each. Each module is traced for completion and can be reported back to the client and individual for tracking purposes.
This webinar focuses on effective strategies for engaging justice-involved populations and ways to support individuals transitioning to communities. The speakers shared case studies to illustrate the ways that providers have managed transitions of care and supported people. This session is approved by the American Academy of Family Physicians for up to 1 AMA Level 1 CME credit.
Healthcare systems are in the process of reforming themselves to better meet the needs of people with, or at risk of developing, chronic diseases and long-term conditions. One goal of these efforts is the coproduction of activated, informed, engaged, and motivated patients and citizens.
This brief webinar will review the basics of behavioral activation, distress tolerance skills, and problem-solving therapy to use in skills-based, time-limited treatment settings.
This brief video introduces the concept of brief interventions and review motivational interviewing and mindfulness. Presented by Dr. Lori Raney, Principal, Health Management Associates.
This brief video explains the process of enhanced referral to improve patient engagement and completion of the referral and improve provider relationships with referrals. Presented by Dr. Lori Raney, Principal, Health Management Associates.
This is a short reference guide to developing a structure to enhance the referral experience for providers and service recipients. It covers setting standards for partnership starting with your value proposition. It outlines the continuum of provider relationships from informal agreements through forming a business entity and finally provides initial guidance and further resources for establishing care compacts.
There is a need for an organizing model that assists practices and policy-makers to prioritize the steps of integration implementation and the need for both technical assistance and funding for key program elements. In order to advance evidence-based integration of general health care in BH settings, clinics have become intensely interested in the underlying steps they can take to implement and advance specific general health practices.
Based on a targeted literature review and input from diverse stakeholders, the framework presented in this report seeks to provide BH clinics and other organizing entities, such as New York State's (NYS) Behavioral Health Care Collaboratives (BHCC) and Behavioral Health Independent Practice
Associations (IPA), with practical guidance using a continuum-based road map approach on the intentional and incremental steps to achieve and advance key subdomains of integrated care for community BH clinics.
What is less clear has been how to accomplish that at scale, given the varying types of primary care practices and, in particular, the resource limitations of small and medium-size practices and the complexity of the models that are currently the evidence-based standards for integrating medical and behavioral care. This framework seeks to fill that gap by delineating a series of steps that providers can take to move toward the integration of behavioral health services into their primary care practices.
The toolkit contains a variety of information and resources including a step by step guide about:
education about tobacco use
skills for engaging people in tobacco cessation discussions
efficient methods for assessing readiness to quit
information and research on treatments
The research presented by these three groups seeks to prioritize desired treatment outcomes as defined by diverse people with lived experience. From this information, the researchers crafted recommendations that could help policymakers, providers and researchers develop, implement, reimburse and evaluate more engaging and perhaps effective substance use services.
The goal of the ICTA program is to improve care and Medicaid beneficiary outcomes within three practice transformation core competencies:
Delivering person-centered care across the care continuum
Using population health analytics to address complex medical, behavioral health, and social needs; and
Engaging leadership to support value-based care.
This document provides more detail, including sub-elements for each core competency.
People with substance use disorders are at particular risk for overdoses and developing one or more primary conditions or chronic diseases. During this webinar, presenters will discuss harm reduction as a public health approach that aims to reduce harms related to substance use. Presenters will discuss strategies, policies, programs, and practices that aim to minimize negative health, social and legal impacts associated with drug use, drug policies, and drug laws.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration provides guidance for substance use disorder treatment services during the COVID-19 pandemic. The document specifies when a medical emergency exists, 42 C.F.R Part 2 does not apply and any disclosure of medical information is temporarily exempt for purposes of medical treatment.
The frequently asked question document makes recommendations on how to care for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mental Health Rehabilitation Centers and Psychiatric Health facilities. The recommendations suggest how to provide Telehealth services, and how to provide medical care for positive COVID-19 patients.
This document is a resource for behavioral health facilities to better understand how to treat patients and refer patients for medical care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
During the webinar, the presenter will focus on ways to address health equity issues and key considerations for providing linguistically effective services. The presenter will discuss best practices and models to support patients in these challenging times.
Integrated Care DC is managed by the DC Department of Health Care Finance (DHCF) in partnership with the DC Department of Behavioral Health (DBH). This project is supported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). A total of $3,500,365, or 81 percent, of the project is financed with federal funds, and $810,022, or 19 percent, is funded by non-federal sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, or an endorsement by, HHS or the U.S. Government.