By July 2024, the Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas will conclude a nearly 5-year effort to transition all its 26 Licensed Community Mental Health Centers into Certified Community Behavioral Health Centers. To learn more about the Kansas Delta Center team’s efforts to bring the CCBHC model to life, we interviewed Michelle Ponce, Associate Director of AMHCK.
This New Mexico convening takeaway outlines a comprehensive framework for understanding the various domains used in social health integration by organizations addressing Social Determinants of Health (SDOH). The overview of the framework is followed by a list of resources for grantees to learn more about the different Health Care System Activities.
Three videos describe North Carolina's consumer engagement process and lessons learned from the participants. Part 1 focuses on the collaborative as a whole; part 2 discusses the process of engaging consumers and leveling the playing field; and part 3 discusses the importance of rethinking how organizations engage with consumers and build trust.
This brief describes four key lessons that i2i Center for Integrative Health and the North Carolina Community Health Center Association learned about consumer and family engagement through facilitating a collaborative process to develop recommendations for North Carolina Medicaid about how to design and implement the new care management program to equitably meet the needs of patients and families.
This review is an initial exploration of team development within effective integrated primary and behavioral healthcare teams. Six integrated teams in safety net primary care settings were interviewed on the development of the clinical team.
This resource provides practical tips for state primary care associations and behavioral health associations seeking to advance racially equitable health policy and practice.
To provide the best possible care to patients and thrive in new payment environments, community health centers (CHCs) and community behavioral health organizations (CBHOs)— two pillars of the safety net—are redesigning their workflows, infrastructure, and partnerships.
For our most recent Delta Center convening, the Center for Care Innovations compiled favorite methods for designing and conducting trainings and events. These methods are fundamental examples of our own human-centered design practice.
This brief from JSI and the Delta Center for a Thriving Safety Net illustrates five key insights related to program design and evaluation from the productive partnership between the Partnership HealthPlan of California and local community health centers to create a care coordination (CCM) program.
The Excellence in Mental Health and Addiction Act, one of the most significant developments in behavioral health funding in decades, was designed to increase Americans’ access to community mental health and substance use treatment services via the creation of Certified Community Behavioral Health Centers (CCBHCs) in 8 states, while improving Medicaid reimbursement for these services.