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We at IBHP created this virtual library as a resource for those contemplating, planning, or operating treatment programs that integrate behavioral and medical services -- so clients don't have to go to one place for help with their body and another for their mind. We hope you'll find the rationales, evidence-based practices and tools you'll need to set up a successfully integrated program. We've also included a snapshot of policies and practices throughout the country to give you a feel for the national landscape. So pull up a chair and browse through our virtual shelves awhile.

IBHP, a strategic initiative of The California Endowment and a project of Tides Center, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating and elevating integrated behavioral healthcare throughout California.

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IBHP ANNOUNCES NEW ROUND OF GRANTS

Posted on 08/20/2008

 IBHP is pleased to announce that, as part of an initiative by Tides Foundation and The California Endowment, we've awarded 27 new grants to primary care clinics and clinic consortia throughout California.  These funds will be used to support the receiving organizations' efforts to embrace an integrated approach to behavioral and medical care and to expand and elevate promising practices in this area.

 Grant applicants were asked to propose a project to broaden or deepen their collaborative work.  Those chosen were selected on the basis of their project's potential to reach its objective, practicality, sustainability, evidence-backed substantiation, relative need, ability to produce quantifiable results, replication potential, innovation, and contribution to the project, population and geographic diversity of the initiative.

We selected projects that encompass varied facets of integrated care: among them, integration of substance abuse programs; development of behavioral registries and tracking systems; advancement of cross-systems collaboration; introduction of systematic behavioral screening and establishment of clear treatment pathways; enhanced intra-disciplinary case-conferencing; better coordination of patients with co-occurring behavioral and medical disorders; and improved patient outcomes in targeted areas.  To maximize cross-fertilization of ideas and approaches, we hope to cluster grantees with similar or intersecting objectives within our Learning Community.

THE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES IMPROVEMENT ACT

Posted on 08/29/2008

The Community Mental Health Services Improvement Act (HR 5176), introduced in the House of Representatives this past January, provides funding for the co-location of primary care services in community mental health settings. Its passage will allow mental health providers to recruit qualified primary care professionals to provide essential health services to patients with serious mental illness.  The bill also allows funding for to support other aspects of community mental health treatment, including workforce recruitment, training and retention.  To voice your support, contact your senators and Congress representatives.


GOVERNMENT REPORT ON OVERCOMING REIMBURSEMENT BARRIERS TO INTEGRATED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE

Posted on 07/29/2008

On July 23, 2008 SAMHSA (the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration) in conjunction with two other U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services agencies released a report focusing on how to overcome reimbursement barriers associated with the delivery of behavioral health services in primary care. The full report is available at http://download.ncadi.samhsa.gov/ken/pdf/SMA08-4324/SMA08-4324.pdf. Click "Read More" for SAMHSA's press release about the report.

 

 

HEALTHCARE FOR HOMELESS CONFERENCE

Posted on 09/24/2008

The 2009 Region IX Healthcare for the Homeless Conference will be held on February 2-3, 2009 at the Universal Sheraton Hotel in Los Angeles.  For more informaton, contact David Trevino at (213) 831- 0515 or region9@hhcla.org.


CALIFORNIA SCHOOL HEALTH CENTER ASSOCIATION'S "PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER" CONFERENCE

Posted on 11/10/2008

The theme of the California School Health Center Association's annual conference will be on integrated health care:  "Putting the Pieces Together: Policy, Practice and Resources for School Health and Mental Health".  The conference, to be held March 3-4, 2009 at the Sacramento Convention Center, will bring together school nurses, mental health providers, health center staff and other practioners to explore how to best provide school-based services.  For more information, go to:http://www.schoolhealthcenters.org/2009_Conf_Page2.asp.

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