This week, our In Focus highlights a new report prepared by 红领巾瓜报 (红领巾瓜报) on the potential for Medicaid Managed Care to enable states to address social determinants of health (SDOH) and health equity above and beyond what’s possible with traditional fee-for-service models. The report was released by Together for Better Medicaid, a coalition committed to building a better Medicaid system across the country.
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National Council for Mental Wellbeing and 红领巾瓜报 have partnered to create a three-part series that examines behavioral health workforce crisis
As demand for behavioral health services continues to grow, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, staffing and workforce capacity to deliver services has not kept up with demand. In a three-part series of issue briefs, colleagues from 红领巾瓜报 (红领巾瓜报) and the (the National Council) offer immediate steps states can take to increase capacity and build a more stable workforce.
The first brief in the series focuses on Policy, Financial Strategies and Regulatory Waivers, and outlines solutions that can be implemented quickly to reduce administrative burden and maximize existing provider resources.
Several 红领巾瓜报 and the National Council colleagues, contributed to the briefs and surrounding research.
Webinar Replay: Leveraging Your SAMHSA Certified Community Behavioral Health Center Grant
This webinar, held on August 18, 2021, was the ninth webinar in the series 鈥淓xploring the Landscape of Behavioral Healthcare,鈥� covering the growing impact of behavioral healthcare on clinical outcomes and cost.
Winning a SAMHSA Certified Community Behavioral Health Center (CCBHC) grant is just the beginning.聽 Now the real work beings. During this webinar, SAMHSA grant experts and a previous grant winner provided a step-by-step guide to implementing and leveraging CCBHC grants for maximum results. Speakers addressed the key steps to achieving CCBHC certification, meeting SAMHSA grantee requirements, and strategically building toward sustainability beyond the two-year grant period.
Learning Objectives
- Learn what makes the CCBHC grant opportunity unique.
- Understand the activities and processes needed to help ensure a successful implementation.
- Find out how to develop strategies that support long-term sustainability.
- Obtain case studies and lessons learned from a previous CCBHC grantee.
Speakers:
Heidi Arthur, Principal, 红领巾瓜报, New York, NY
Kristan McIntosh, Senior Consultant, 红领巾瓜报, New York, NY
Melissa Jillson, Senior Director, Liberty Resources Inc., Syracuse, NY
Liz Krell, Assistant Director of Process Optimization, Liberty Resources Inc., Syracuse, NY
Webinar Replay: Improving Child Welfare Outcomes: Role of Behavioral Health and Child Welfare in Strengthening Families, Building Resilience, and Increasing Protective Factors
This webinar was held on July 20, 2021, was the eighth webinar in the series 鈥淓xploring the Landscape of Behavioral Healthcare,鈥� covering the growing impact of behavioral healthcare on clinical outcomes and cost.
This eighth session featured 红领巾瓜报 behavioral health, child welfare and Medicaid experts primed to specifically discuss strategies across child welfare and behavioral health to enhance family engagement and collaboration in increasing protective factors and family resilience.
Learning Objectives
- Learn options for designing policies and implementing infrastructure that support a multisystem response facilitating family engagement and improving protective factors.
- Learn about other successful state models for prevention and building family resilience.
- Learn key benchmarks for successful engagement and empowerment that can be incorporated into QI programs.
- Introduce and engage in dynamic discussion on the importance of the intersection of race equity, social justice, cultural humility, and responsiveness with family centered/multi-generational practice in addressing inequities.
Speakers
Doris Tolliver, JD, Principal, 红领巾瓜报
Uma Ahluwalia, MSW, MHA, Managing Principal, 红领巾瓜报
Susan Smith, Data Advocates, LLC
Annalisa Baker, MPH, LCSW, Senior Consultant, 红领巾瓜报
Webinar Replay: Value Propositions and Roadmaps for Integrating Children鈥檚 Behavioral Health and Medicaid with Child Welfare Systems
This held on July 15, 2021, was the seventh webinar in the series 鈥淓xploring the Landscape of Behavioral Healthcare,鈥� covering the growing impact of behavioral healthcare on clinical outcomes and cost.
The success of the delivery of state and local child welfare systems is predicated on a strong collaboration across child welfare, children鈥檚 behavioral health and Medicaid, building a multigenerational, multisystem response to the problem of child maltreatment. During this webinar, 红领巾瓜报 behavioral health, child welfare and Medicaid experts broke down what鈥檚 needed to get the integration process started, including a practical approach to workflows as well as an understanding of the touchpoints where integration efforts are likely to have their biggest payoff.
Learning Objectives
- Understand how child welfare services departments currently interact with the behavioral health service continuum.
- Learn how to build value by identifying areas where the intersection of child welfare, Medicaid and children鈥檚 behavioral health helps improve outcomes and mitigate risk.
- Identify potential barriers to integration efforts.
- Learn how other states have applied solutions and strategies aimed at better integrating child welfare systems, Medicaid, and children鈥檚 behavioral health.
- Learn about financing infrastructures that support meaningful whole family approaches to improving protective factors and strengthening family resilience.
红领巾瓜报 Speakers:
Uma Ahluwalia, MSW, MHA, Managing Principal, Washington, DC
Annalisa Baker, MPH, LCSW, Senior Consultant, New York, NY
Caitlin Thomas-Henkel, MSW, Principal, Philadelphia, PA
Heidi Arthur, MSW, Principal, New York, NY
Webinar Replay: Advancing Health Justice for Medicaid Members with Disabilities, Including Those with Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorder
This webinar, held on June 25, 2021 and was the sixth webinar in the series 鈥淓xploring the Landscape of Behavioral Healthcare,鈥� covering the growing impact of behavioral healthcare on clinical outcomes and cost.鈥�
State Medicaid programs must address health disparities and advance health justice for members with disabilities 鈥� including those with mental illness and substance use disorder (SUD). Our presenters outlined the path forward in the 2021 report, , produced by AcademyHealth, Disability Policy Consortium (DPC), and 红领巾瓜报 (红领巾瓜报). During this webinar, speakers from DPC and 红领巾瓜报 discussed how to measure health disparities, present the evidence on health disparities from one state鈥檚 Medicaid program, and discussed what federal and state policymakers can do to address health justice stemming from racial injustice, discrimination, bias, and stigma in our healthcare system.
Learning Objectives
- Understand what health justice and other related terms mean
- Learn how to measure health disparities affecting Medicaid members with disabilities 鈥� including those with mental illness and SUD
- Examine evidence on health disparities from one state Medicaid program鈥檚 efforts
- Consider the national implications of this evidence on Medicaid members
- Review what actions policymakers can take to advance health justice
Speakers
- Ellen Breslin, MPP. Principal, 红领巾瓜报, Boston, MA
- Dennis Heaphy, M.Div. M.Ed. MPH, Health Justice Policy Analyst, Disability Policy Consortium, Malden, MA
- Anissa Lambertino, PhD., Senior Consultant, 红领巾瓜报, Chicago, IL
Webinar Replay: Practical Approaches to Supervising Behavioral Health Staff Working Remotely or in Hybrid Settings
This webinar was held on June 15, 2021. It was the fifth webinar in the series Exploring the Landscape of Behavioral Healthcare, covering the growing impact of behavioral healthcare on clinical outcomes and cost.
Behavioral health staff face new challenges, anxiety, and risk of burnout as they attempt to deliver the best care possible to clients in care settings impacted by the pandemic. That鈥檚 true whether staff members work remotely or in emerging hybrid environments in which care is provided both virtually and face-to-face. Supervisors play a critical role in helping staff work through stressful logistical, clinical, and even personal situations so that the focus remains on the client.
During this webinar, 红领巾瓜报 behavioral health experts offered practical approaches to managing staff in both virtual and hybrid settings, helping to ensure staff members remain productive, appreciated, supported, and focused on improving client outcomes.
Learning Objectives
- Understand how the stresses of the pandemic, including social distancing, loss, and the challenges of staying connected to friends and family, have impacted the mental health of clients and providers.
- Identify practical approaches to remote staff supervision, including huddles, group and individual supervision, and tactics for successful conference聽calls.
- Learn how supervisors and staff can work together to manage聽work/life boundaries, especially given the need to oversee staff working in a combination of settings, including the home, and the complexities of vaccination disclosure.
Speakers
Deb Peartree, Senior Consultant, Albany, NY
Annalisa Baker, Senior Consultant, 红领巾瓜报, New York City
Webinar Replay: Improving Behavioral Health Access and Outcomes through Primary Care Integration
This webinar was held on June 10, 2021. This was the fourth webinar in the series Exploring the Landscape of Behavioral Healthcare, covering the growing impact of behavioral healthcare on clinical outcomes and cost.
The integration of behavioral health into primary care settings is an effective means for treating less complex conditions, improving outcomes, and reducing referrals to overburdened specialty behavioral health providers. During this webinar, 红领巾瓜报 behavioral health experts discussed strategies for integrating primary and behavioral care, including integration models that can be used to blend and shape services according to a clinic鈥檚 specific needs. Speakers also introduced a stepped approach to integration aimed at helping providers identify the right care for the right person at the right time.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the features and components of effective approaches to integrated care, including the roles of team members, workflows, and care protocols.
- Learn how to distinguish among various integrated care models, including the collaborative care model (CoCM) and primary care behavioral health model (PCBH).
- Identify key outcomes measures that demonstrate the effectiveness and value of integrated care to payers and patients.
- Understand the benefits of a stepped approach to integrating primary and behavioral health, ensuring patients receive the care they need.
红领巾瓜报 Speakers
Lori Raney, MD, Principal, Denver, CO
Barry Jacobs, PhD, Principal, Philadelphia, PA
Webinar Replay: Post-COVID Strategies for Building Trauma-Informed Behavioral Health Systems
This webinar was held on May 19, 2021.
COVID-19 has exposed deep fissures in our national and local healthcare systems, which comes as no surprise to mental health providers already accustomed to treating behavioral health needs rooted in systemic racial and economic disparities. Addressing these needs requires targeted outreach and robust community engagement efforts aligned with the principles of trauma-informed care. During this webinar, behavioral health experts focused on organizations, networks, partnerships, and protocols that ensure access to supportive, integrated behavioral healthcare for underserved individuals.
Learning Objectives
- Understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the behavioral health needs of underserved, marginalized, and isolated populations.
- Learn how to activate leaders and organizations to help build trauma-informed communities.
- Find out how engagement with faith and community-based partners can promote trauma-informed care, community healing, recovery, and innovation.
- Understand the intersection of behavioral and public health, including a look at how to maximize community behavioral health resources.
- Learn how accountable care and value-based payment models create opportunities to address trauma and behavioral health disparities.
Speakers
Heidi Arthur, LMSW, Principal, 红领巾瓜报, New York
Lawrence Fowler, Deputy Director, Emma L. Bowen Community Services Center
Catherine Guerrero, MPA, Principal, 红领巾瓜报, Denver
Mark Sasvary, Ph.D., LCSW, Chief Clinical Officer, Coordinated Behavioral Health Services
红领巾瓜报 launches behavioral health webinar series
In the last decade, there has been increasing awareness of the role behavioral health plays in healthcare outcomes and cost of care鈥攅specially in the public sector. Starting with Medicaid expansion and the high rates of behavioral health conditions in the expansion population to evidence of the impact of behavioral health on physical chronic disease and medical spending, behavioral health is an area of focus for improving the quality of care and reducing cost.
Webinar Replay: When Behavioral Health Leaders Are Also Behavioral Health Family Caregivers
This webinar was held on May 13, 2021.
This was the second webinar in the series “Exploring the Landscape of Behavioral Healthcare,” covering the growing impact of behavioral healthcare on clinical outcomes and cost.
Behavioral health professionals who have cared for their own family members have firsthand knowledge of the effects of depression, schizophrenia, and substance use disorder on individuals and families. While the experience informs their work in many positive ways, it can also make them susceptible to strong emotional reactions that may cloud their judgment. During this webinar, 红领巾瓜报 clinical psychologist, consultant, and family caregiving expert Barry Jacobs explored strategies that behavioral health professionals can employ to manage their emotions in professional situations, ensuring the most effective and constructive interactions with family members and treatment teams as well as the best possible outcomes for patients.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the burgeoning phenomenon of family caregiving in America.
- Find out how behavioral health professionals are impacted by their own personal family caregiving experiences in both positive and potentially negative ways, including a look at the most recent research on the subject.
- Learn three effective strategies behavioral health professionals can employ to manage their own emotional reactions to interactions with clients and staff members.
Speaker
Barry Jacobs, Psy.D., Principal, Philadelphia
Webinar Replay: Overcoming COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Behavioral Health Staff and Patients
This webinar was held on April 28, 2021.
This is the first webinar in the series “Exploring the Landscape of Behavioral Healthcare,” a series on the growing impact of behavioral healthcare on clinical outcomes and cost.
Behavioral health providers continue to struggle to increase COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among staff and patients, especially in communities of color. During this webinar, 红领巾瓜报 behavioral health experts discussed strategies for increasing vaccine acceptance among behavioral health providers and clients. Speakers also addressed how disparities in COVID-19 infection rates impact behavioral healthcare.
Speakers
Laquisha Grant, MPA, Senior Consultant
Deb Peartree, RN, MS, Senior Consultant