Technical Assistance Resources

The Protocol for Responding to and Assessing Patients’ Assets, Risks, and Experiences (PRAPARE) helps health centers use social determinants of health (SDoH) data to establish approaches to improve the quality of care and decrease cost. Developed by the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) in collaboration with other key…

This webinar will cover strategies to bolster healthcare workforce retention and prevent workforce burnout.

This 60-minute, virtual peer learning office hours event is geared toward behavioral health service providers and individuals within health centers tasked with documenting, billing, and coding integrated behavioral health services. This event included an interactive presentation of integrated behavioral health documentation and billing and coding…

Drs. Cooper and Marcovitz presented care models for referral and care coordination between psychiatry and primary care providers. After the brief presentation, participants engaged in an interactive discussion regarding integrating psychiatry into primary care treatment of patients with substance use disorder.

This webinar provided an overview of strategies to primary care providers to address polysubstance misuse in their patient population. Participants learned why it is important to address polysubstance misuse; the role of primary care in prevention and treatment services; strategies including screening, brief intervention, referral to treatment or…

This webinar provided an overview of findings from a document released by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation titled, “Building the Evidence Base for Social Determinants of Health Interventions,” which was released in September 2021. The webinar conveyed key findings from…

The BPHC-BH TA Team and members of Cherokee Health Systems worked together to offer a virtual 2-day training from the Cherokee Integrated Care Training Academy on the Cherokee Clinical Model of Integrated Care.

In this office hour, Dr. Turner and Joe Hyde, BHTA Project Director provided an overview and orientation for the treatment of adolescent depression and will orient participants to STEADY, a cognitive behavioral therapy model and manual for the treatment and the youth companion manual for this treatment. Following the presentation, participants…

Cherokee Health Systems staff provided a brief overview of clinical considerations for successful behavioral health integration. Following the presentation, participants had the opportunity to seek advice and feedback on integration challenges they are experiencing, learn more about specific aspects of integration they’re actively working on in…

The incidence of depression in adolescents has grown exponentially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Presenters Dr. Win Turner and Joe Hyde, BHTA Project Director, provided an overview of the prevalence of depression, strategies, and recommendations for identifying symptoms for targeted screenings and interventions among the youth and adolescent…