Training the Future Child Health Care Workforce to Improve the Behavioral Health of Children, Youth, and Families Proceedings of a Workshop (2017) / Chapter Skim
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7 Collaborative Efforts
7 Collaborative Efforts
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(Whelan) The final panel of the workshop featured five presenters who have been directly involved in planning, spearheading, and implementing collaborative change efforts in financing and reimbursement, training, and innovative health care delivery models.
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TABLE 7-1 The Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Bureau's Workforce Development Programs Interdisciplinary/Graduate Training MCH Workforce Development • Centers of Excellence in MCH • Collaborative Office Rounds Education, Science, and Practice • Healthy Tomorrows Program • Healthy Weight Collaborative • Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics • MCH Navigator • Leadership Education in Adolescent • MCH Workforce Development Center Health • Reaching Practicing MCH Professionals • Leadership Education in in Underserved Areas Through Education Neurodevelopmental and Related and Training Programs Disabilities • MCH Catalyst Program • MCH Nutrition • Pediatric Pulmonary Centers • MCH Pipeline Program SOURCE: Ramos (2016)
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The Healthy Start program, which is an infant mortality reduction program targeting high-risk communities across the country, trains Healthy Start workers and community health workers in substance abuse, maternal depression, and trauma-informed care services. The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program, which provides services to pregnant women and parents with young children, uses nurses, social workers, and early childhood educators to prevent child abuse and neglect, encourage positive parenting, and promote child development.
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EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICES AS LEVERS FOR CHANGE Given research results demonstrating the effectiveness of evidencebased interventions, all behavioral health providers need to receive training in delivering such therapies in primary care, said Doug Tynan, with the American Psychological Association and professor of pediatrics at Thomas Jefferson University. In this way, he said, evidence-based practices can leverage efforts to expand the workforce for behavioral health services in primary care.
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FOUNDATION SUPPORT FOR IMPLEMENTING EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICES The Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut, a nonprofit subsidiary of the philanthropic Children's Fund of Connecticut, provides the infrastructure for the training of professional licensed behavioral health and pediatric providers, reported Barbara Ward-Zimmerman, an integrated care consultant and chair of the Connecticut Psychological Association's Health Care Reform Task Force. The institute's Educating Practices in the Community (EPIC)
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The Dissemination and Implementation Support Center helps train behavioral health providers to implement evidence-based treatments. It collaborates with state systems and agencies to translate research and state policies into practice, disseminates evidence-based behavioral health practices statewide via training, provides ongoing support to sustain practice change, and evaluates the public health impact of the change.
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Health Policy Center. Adolescents with behavioral health disorders are more likely to receive behavioral health services in school settings and in specialty behavioral health settings than in medical settings (Farmer et al., 2004)
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Behavioral health should be seen as a critical facet of comprehensive primary care and no different than other investments in high-quality comprehensive primary care, such as practice-based care management, measurement, and other data use competencies, technology, and practice transformation support, Miller concluded. FINANCING AND REIMBURSEMENT TO IMPROVE TRAINING As an example of how payment systems can affect both training and care, Ellen-Marie Whelan, chief population health officer at the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services and senior advisor at the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, spoke about delivery system reform and the federal funding of health care.
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plan payments to Reduction Program • Comprehensive ESRD clinicians and organizations • Medicare-Medicaid Financial Alignment Initiative Fee-for-Service Model SOURCE: Rajkumar et al.
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Under the Affordable Care Act, health homes can coordinate care for Medicaid beneficiaries with chronic conditions, and the majority of health homes target individuals with behavioral health disorders. Additional authorities that already exist include the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment Program; targeted care management; and managed care authorities.
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COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS 77 mental reforms. Better understanding of the benefits of behavioral health promotion and prevention also would help states decide what actions to take, she said.
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