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🎉 Excited to announce the successful completion of the Behavioral Health - Screening & Intervention course by Texas Health and Human Services! 🎓 As an EHS Professional, I'm now equipped to follow state requirements and best practices for psychosocial and behavioral health screening, diagnosis, and management in the primary care setting. Behavioral health is crucial for everyone, especially in the workforce. By understanding risk factors, diagnostic criteria, and integrating age-appropriate screening and prevention strategies, we can address behavioral and emotional disorders effectively. Key Takeaways: 🔍 Specify risk factors and diagnostic criteria for common behavioral and emotional disorders. 📋 Conduct age-appropriate mental health screening using approved tools. 🤝 Coordinate care for children and adolescents with behavioral health disorders. Let's prioritize behavioral health in our practice and promote well-being for all! #BehavioralHealth #MentalHealthAwareness #Healthcare #TexasHealthSteps #PrimaryCare #Screening #Intervention #Wellness #Prevention #HealthcareProfessionals #PublicHealth #ChildHealth #AdolescentHealth #WorkplaceWellness #HealthEducation #HealthPromotion #HealthEquity #ProfessionalDevelopment #ContinuingEducation #TexasHHSC

I’m proud to share that Spring Health has launched its Specialty Care solution to advance treatment for high-acuity behavioral health conditions. Spring Health’s Specialty Care solution addresses the fragmented mental health system with early detection and specialized treatment for 50+ complex conditions in one platform, including eating disorders, substance use disorders (SUD), anxiety and mood disorders, and trauma. 💚 By leveraging proactive outreach and early detection algorithms, Specialty Care can assess an individual’s relative risk of developing a severe behavioral health condition, and then guide to provide targeted clinical interventions at in-network prices as part of a comprehensive #mentalhealth plan. Specialty Care builds on three impactful years of Spring Health’s SUD program, which has achieved enrollment and engagement rates that are ten times better than typical benchmarks. Learn more in the press release here: https://lnkd.in/edM32dZi

When it comes to behavioral health, one approach does not fit all. At HIMSS24, we’re tackling the breadth of care options that directly impact patients and clinicians. 🧠 From our preconference Behavioral Health Forum to general education across the week, here are this year's key sessions: 🗓 Mindful Leadership: Steps to Achieving a Holistic Approach to What Truly Matters keynote 📈 Using Technology and Analytics to Advance the Quality of Care in Mental Health Services: One Organization’s Journey 🌐Surveying Today’s Behavioral Health Landscape: Identifying the Promises, the Possibilities, and the Perils* 💡Transforming the Healthcare Workplace with Empathy and Innovation 🫂A Culturally Sensitive Approach to Acute Mental Health and Addiction Care And that’s just the beginning! Our exhibit floor also highlights the innovative tech meeting demands for convenient care that treats the whole person. Join this community at #HIMSS24: https://bit.ly/49f2h1

Behavioral health is vital to overall physical health and wellbeing. Abt is playing a leading role in advancing equity in behavioral health for communities in partnership with Change Matrix. #BehavioralHealth #Equity #HealthEquity

Happy Mental Health Awareness Month! At Flume, we are encouraged to see how far society has come in recognizing the need for mental and behavioral health. That said, there’s still much to do in eliminating stigma and proliferating access. Many innovative startups are making significant strides from across the spectrum – from Amae Health transforming care for severe mental illness to Two Chairs providing digitally-enabled therapy to Headspace providing on-demand virtual behavioral health coaching and therapy. Options are abundant and we believe expanding access to high-quality mental health resources and care is essential to better health and wellness. 🌟 To the health payer ecosystem: don’t let technical or administrative barriers get in the way in expanding your mental and behavioral health options. #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #BehavioralHealth #Innovation #DigitalHealth #DataExchange #Interoperability #DataIntegrations

Navigating the maze of behavioral health services can feel overwhelming for families. Amidst the confusion and frustration, there’s a growing movement towards systemic change — a beacon of hope for those seeking compassionate and effective care for their loved ones. This guide aims to illuminate the path for families, sharing insights on how we can collectively advocate for a brighter future in behavioral health. #familypoweredchange #parenting #family

Supporting those with behavioral health needs starts with reducing barriers preventing people from accessing care. In many cases, effective organizations operate in a way that fosters collaboration between different experts, to create evidence-based outcomes that are proven to be effective. Caring for others many times means being honest with them and meeting them where they’re at. #BehavioralHealth #MentalHealth

Couldn’t join us for our recent conversation on behavioral health in San Francisco? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. Here’s the most important takeaways from PRC leaders and the statewide coalition of social rehab agencies: ✅ There’s more energy and political will around behavioral health in halls of power across California than ever before. Just last year, there were more than 300 bills introduced on behavioral health, shattering levels from previous legislative sessions. That enthusiasm for solutions is in and of itself, a good thing.  ✅ It’s important to keep conversations around public health and criminality separate. Unfortunately, we’re seeing these conversations conflated. People who use drugs aren’t universally experiencing homelessness. People without homes aren’t universally using drugs or living with mental illness. We should reject language that says otherwise. We need to prioritize getting people into treatment, because it’s proven to work.  ✅ Ensuring that everyone has the behavioral healthcare they deserve isn’t the responsibility of the government or one stakeholder. It will take all of us, government leaders, public and private health sector, nonprofits and philanthropy, and the community, working together to get more people housed and more people in treatment. Ready to be a part of the solution? Share this post and video with your community. Sign up for our newsletter in our bio to stay up to date on the latest developments in the PRC community.

Biden-Harris Administration Announces $46.8 Million in Behavioral Health Funding Opportunities to advance President Biden’s Unity Agenda as Part of May Mental Health Awareness Month | Today,[May 8, 2024) the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), announced $46.8 million in notices of funding opportunities to promote youth mental health, grow the behavioral health workforce, improve access to culturally competent behavioral care across the country, and strengthen peer recovery and recovery support. President Biden made tackling the mental health crisis and beating the opioid epidemic key pillars in his Unity Agenda for the nation. Today’s announcement will help communities transform how they address behavioral health. [US Dept of Human Health & Services and KFF] This critical funding supports the Biden-Harris Administration’s efforts to address the mental health and overdose crises, as well as furthers HHS’s Overdose Prevention Strategy. The grants additionally fuel each of SAMHSA’s strategic priorities for the agency: preventing substance use and overdose, enhancing access to suicide prevention and mental health services, promoting resilience and emotional health for children, youth, and families, integrating behavioral and physical health care, and strengthening the behavioral health workforce. More> https://lnkd.in/gVeTfhys #achieve #blackleadership #latinoleaders #mentalhealth #behavioralhealth #publichealth #socialchange #populationhealth #communityhealth #medicine #healthcare #dental

Bend Health’s latest research study published in JMIR Publications highlights the positive impact of Bend’s digital mental health care on disordered eating symptoms among adolescents. The study analyzed data from 392 youth ages six to 17 who participated in Bend’s virtual behavioral health coaching only for at least three months. This research comes at a crucial time as we’ve seen eating disorders among teen girls more than doubled during the pandemic (https://lnkd.in/gzDursiK), worsening an existing critical public health issue and adding an estimated annual economic burden of $70 billion for families and hospitals (https://lnkd.in/gkzGuA_G). I’m proud to be a part of the work Bend is doing to combat this crisis and foster happier, healthier kids as well as resilient families. Learn more in our latest press release here: https://lnkd.in/g7jVcsAw #researchstudy #disorderedeating #mentalhealthcoaching