The College for Behavioral Health Leadership

Stronger Together - Wellness Circles
2020-11-13 10:30 - 11:30, 2020-11-06 10:30 - 11:30, 2020-10-30 10:30 - 11:30, 2020-10-23 10:30 - 11:30, 2020-10-16 10:30 - 11:30, 2020-10-09 10:30 - 11:30, 2020-10-02 10:30 - 11:30, 2020-09-25 10:30 - 11:30 (America/Denver) and 13 more dates | Online Only, United States
If you work on the front lines in health care, you are invited to take a pause and join a virtual “Resilience Circle.” — register here or by clicking the link below.

Research shows mindfulness, gratitude, and connection strengthen our immune systems, improve sleep, and increase our overall resilience. However it’s hard to practice mindfulness and gratitude when one is busy battling COVID. This event is therefore being offered every Friday at 9:30am PT (12:30pm ET), in appreciation for everything those working in health care are doing to keep our communities healthy.

The Resilience Circle for health care is being offered at no cost through a partnership with Gratitude Blooming.

Leveraging the Peer Workforce During COVID-19 | Discussion with Panelists (Part 2)
2020-10-27 13:45 - 14:30
Offered in Partnership with Mental Health America (MHA)

This event is open to the public and free for all to attend.

Details coming soon!

Leveraging the Peer Workforce During COVID-19 | Webinar (Part 1)
2020-10-27 13:00 - 13:45
Offered in Partnership with Mental Health America (MHA)

This event is open to the public and free for all to attend.

Disasters and Behavioral Health in Today’s World: Implications for Leadership | Panel Discussion (Part 2)
2020-08-26 12:45 - 13:30
Offered in Partnership with the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL).

This event is open to the public, free for CBHL and IIMHL members, and $15 for non-members. CBHL members login to register. IIMHL members – contact kathy@iimhl.com for your free coupon code.

Part 2 of ‘Disasters and Behavioral Health in Today’s World: Implications for Leadership’ will be a facilitated, interactive discussion with panelists immediately following the webinar to further explore key themes, ask questions and to learn from one another. The topics will be flexible and tailored to the needs and requests of the attendees. Potential topics for further exploration include:

How do I handle a conflict between my personal opinion and my professional role?What does success or failure look like?What if I can’t protect our patients/clients/workers/families?What if I over/under/inappropriately respond?Will these issues define my role as a behavioral health leader going forward?

If you have not yet registered for the webinar (Part 1), you can do so by clicking here.

Our speakers (see part 1 for speaker biographies):

Dr. Joshua C. Morganstein, MD, Associate Professor and Assistant Chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Assistant Director at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS) in the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He is a Captain in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service.Brian W.Flynn, EdD is Associate Director of Health Systems in the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University. He is a former Rear Admiral/Assistant Surgeon General in the United States Public Health Service (USPHS).Tim DeWeese is the Behavioral Health Director for Johnson County Behavioral Health in Kansas.

Disasters and Behavioral Health in Today’s World: Implications for Leadership | Webinar (Part 1)
2020-08-26 12:00 - 12:45
Offered in Partnership with the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL).

This event is open to the public and free for all to attend.

Description: Behavioral health leaders are faced with a confluence of mental health disasters – the COVID-19 pandemic, other natural disasters like hurricanes, an economic crisis, civil and cultural turmoil – all producing a range of effects and challenging our values and ability to respond. Disaster mental health principles tell us that:

Everyone is impacted in some way, but the impact variesIt is not only about diagnosing disordersThere is a behavioral health role in all phases of the disaster (preparedness, response, and recovery), andLeadership matters.

Typically, in our healthcare profession, we focus on diagnosing and treating disorders, which make up a great deal of the morbidity and mortality in this and other disasters. However, before diagnosis occurs during a mental health disaster, the public will experience things like distress reactions and engagement in risky behaviors. These will show up in places like the emergency department or primary care setting, via law enforcement interactions, and at home or at work. All segments of society are impacted by the significant social and economic cost, creating a significant public behavioral health burden, and underscoring the important role of public behavioral health leadership.

Webinar Objectives

Understand the role of the public behavioral health system during COVID-19 as it relates to patient care, workplace, and partnerships.Understand the role of the public behavioral health authority during COVID-19 as it relates to leadership, advice and advocacy, reducing barriers to care, and communication.Review future emerging issues related to the ongoing nature of the pandemic.

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Immediately following this webinar is a panel discussion with our speakers (part 2). Click here for more information and to register.

Speaker Info

Dr. Joshua C. Morganstein, MD, is Associate Professor and Assistant Chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Assistant Director at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS) in the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and a Captain in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service. He is a Chair of the Committee on the Psychiatric Dimensions of Disaster and Distinguished Fellow at the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Morganstein received his medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He completed a combined residency in Psychiatry and Family Medicine in the National Capital Consortium in Washington, DC. Dr. Morganstein leads the Disaster Mental Health and Public Health education and consultation services at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress. In this capacity he has been an invited speaker and consultant for national organizations and federal interagency partners.

Dr. Morganstein provided mental health subject-matter expertise to the United Nations’ 2015 Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. He co-authored the first Curriculum Recommendations for Disaster Behavioral Health Professionals and was a co-author for a landmark Presidential report on the Impact of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States. Dr. Morganstein authored numerous articles, chapters, and technical reports on the mental health impact of various disaster events, including climate-related disasters, mass violence, terrorism, pandemics, and nuclear exposure. He is Assistant Editor for the second edition of the Textbook of Disaster Psychiatry. Dr. Morganstein has studied the effects of stress and trauma in organizational settings, including recent work with military drone intelligence community, personnel impacted by the 2013 mass shootings at the Washington Navy Yard, and is currently working with the United States National Guard to better understand risk and protective factors associated of COVID-19 deployments on the psychological health and operational readiness of service members.

Brian W.Flynn, EdD is Associate Director of Health Systems in the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University. A major focus of his work is consulting, writing, training, and speaking on the topics of preparation for, response to, and recovery from, the psychosocial aspects of large-scale emergencies and disasters. In addition, he provides CSTS leadership in the areas of behavioral health policy and systems development and integration. Prior to joining USU, he served as a Rear Admiral/Assistant Surgeon General in the United States Public Health Service (USPHS). He has directly operated, and supervised the operation of, the Federal Government’s domestic disaster mental health program (including terrorism), programs in suicide and youth violence prevention, child trauma, refugee mental health, women’s and minority mental health concerns, and rural mental health.

Dr. Flynn has served as an advisor to many federal departments and agencies, states, and national professional organizations. He is recognized internationally for his expertise in large-scale trauma and has served as an advisor to practitioners, academicians, and government officials in many nations. He received his BA from North Carolina Wesleyan College, his MA in Clinical Psychology from East Carolina University, and his EdD in Mental Health Administration from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Tim DeWeese is the Director of Johnson County Mental Health Center. The Mental Health Center is a department of Johnson County (KS) Government and employs more than 340 staff who provide behavioral health services to nearly 10,000 county residents annually. Tim possesses a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Missouri Southern State University and a Master of Social Work Administration degree from the University of Kansas. He is a Licensed Mental Health Professional in Kansas and has over 30 years of experience in community mental health, where he has worked in various capacities. He possesses extensive knowledge and experience in the public mental health delivery system, client-centered leadership, and program design/development. Tim also served more than 10 years as a commissioned officer in the Army Reserve and National Guard.

Asking for Help and Leveraging Shared Wisdom to Solve Problems
2020-08-11 13:00 - 14:00
What:

As leaders we are constantly faced with challenges, whether it is a workforce issue, fostering better relationships on our teams, or even knowing how and who to ask for help. Few of us have led through challenges of the magnitude we are faced with today – the COVID-19 pandemic, new attention to structural racism and the economic crisis, to name a few. So how do we continue to ensure our teams are receiving the support they need, when as leaders, we are also feeling burned out and anxious about what lays ahead?

One way to find support and solve difficult problems during this time is to leverage the experience and wisdom of our colleagues to help with discovering everyday solutions, revealing patterns, and refining prototypes. This coaching session will use a Liberating Structures method called Troika Consulting, where you can gain insight – and help others – on issues faced by unleashing shared wisdom to address them.

Who Should Attend?

Leaders at all levels, from all sectors, and from all levels of experience!

Objectives:

Get help with a current challenge you are facing from another colleagueGive help to other leaders facing a challenge Learn how the Troika Consulting facilitation technique can be used with your teams

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Facilitator Information

Lynda Frost, J.D, Ph.D., runs Lynfro Consulting, which is committed to helping foundations, nonprofits, and other agencies maximize their impact through clarifying mission-consistent goals, implementing effective programs, and optimizing internal operations. She is passionate about designing fair and effective processes to reach each client’s goals, and is recognized for facilitating effective in-person and virtual meetings that inspire participants and deliver results.

Jeffrey Ring, PhD, is an author, leadership coach, and consultant working with dysfunctional health care teams, and dedicates his work to enhanced wellness and vitality of medical school academic faculty, particularly those who work with underserved patients, communities and underrepresented students. He is also a bilingual Spanish-speaking health psychologist and Principal at Health Management Associates with a focus on fostering seamless integrated health care.

A Call to Action - Our Responsibility as Leaders to Address Structural Racism and Resulting Health Inequities | Panel Discussion (Part 2)
2020-07-29 10:45 - 11:30
This event is open to the public. It is free for CBHL members to attend, and $20 for non-members. Scroll down to RSVP.

Part 2 of ‘A Call to Action – Our Responsibility as Leaders to Address Structural Racism and Resulting Health Inequities’ will be a facilitated, interactive discussion with panelists immediately following the webinar to further explore key themes, ask questions and to learn from one another. The topics will be flexible and tailored to the needs and requests of the attendees. Potential topics for further exploration include:

How do I effectively partner with communities to identify and respond to inequities as a result of COVID-19?When I identify structural racism within my own organization or community, how do I address?What is my role as a leader to have difficult conversations about race?How do I show up as an authentic leader as a person of color or as a white person in order to elevate issues of racism?

If you have not yet registered for the webinar (Part 1), you can do so by clicking here.

Our Panelists (See Part 1 for speaker biographies):

Jei Africa, PsyD, MSCP, Director of Marin County Behavioral Health and Recovery ServicesDr. Larissa J. Estes, DrPH, Executive Director, ALL IN Alameda County

A Call to Action - Our Responsibility as Leaders to Address Structural Racism and Resulting Health Inequities | Webinar (Part 1)
2020-07-29 10:00 - 10:45
This event is open to the public and free for all to attend.

Description: COVID-19 does not affect everyone equally. Public health crises by their nature reveal existing inequities and make them worse. This is especially true among Black, Indigenous and People of Color who are disproportionately harmed by institutionalized policies and practices that knowingly and unknowingly perpetuate racism and discrimination – creating disparities and poverty. Generations of historically traumatic events have a profound impact on a community’s health, increasing vulnerability to behavioral and other complex health needs.

Now several months into the COVID-19 crisis, what does this look like on the ground from the eyes of our disenfranchised communities? How has this pandemic exposed and exacerbated existing inequities? As leaders, we must be prepared to have difficult conversations about structural racism and resulting inequities and be willing to develop collaborative strategies to address.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to identify and classify inequities experienced from the lens of the communities or populations they serve.Participants will understand the impacts of inequities on populations with behavioral and other complex health needs.Participants will be able to articulate concrete examples of ways in which as leaders, they can address inequities occurring at each level of the social ecological model.

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Immediately following this webinar is a panel discussion with our speakers (part 2). Click here for more information and to register.

Speaker Information

Jei Africa, PsyD, MSCP, Director of Marin County Behavioral Health and Recovery Services

Dr. Jei Africa is the Director of Behavioral Health and Recovery Services at the County of Marin. He is an innovative thought leader and clinician who is passionate about integrating effective culturally responsive practices into the core functioning of County health services. Dr. Africa has over two decades experience in the areas of behavioral health, trauma, health equity and diversity. He also maintains a consulting and private psychotherapy practice in the Bay area.

Dr. Larissa J. Estes, DrPH, Executive Director, ALL IN Alameda County

Dr. Larissa J. Estes is the Executive Director of ALL IN Alameda County. ALL IN was launched in 2014 by County Supervisor Wilma Chan to address issues of poverty in response to growing inequality. Dr. Estes has over 20 years of experience in allied health, healthcare, and public health with a focus on community and equity and is interested in integrating evidence-informed strategies into policy and practice across sectors that impact community health and wellbeing.

The Tsunami of Need is Coming: Integrated Care in the Era of Covid-19 | Discussion with Panelists (Part 2)
2020-06-25 13:45 - 14:30
Offered in partnership with Health Management Associates (HMA).

This event is open to the public. It is free for CBHL members to attend, and $20 for non-members. Scroll down to RSVP.

Part 2 of The Tsunami of Need is Coming: Integrated Care in the Era of Covid-19 will be a facilitated, interactive discussion with panelists immediately following the webinar to further explore key themes, ask questions and to learn from one another. The topics will be flexible and tailored to the needs and requests of the attendees. Potential topics for further exploration include:

The role of health equity in integrated care – as a leader, how can I correct systemic inequities and/or ensure I am not further perpetuating disparitiesThe role of health homes and bidirectional integrated careWhat to do if I am not engaged in integration already—what role can my organization play?

If you have not yet registered for the webinar (Part 1), you can do so by clicking here.

Our Panelists (See Part 1 for speaker biographies):

Gina Lasky, Ph.D., MAPL, Principal, Health Management AssociatesLori Raney, MD, Principal, Health Management Associates

The Tsunami of Need is Coming: Integrated Care in the Era of Covid-19 | Webinar (Part 1)
2020-06-25 13:00 - 13:45
Offered in partnership with Health Management Associates (HMA).

This event is open to the public and free for all to attend.

Description: Rates of depression, anxiety, trauma, substance use and grief are rising across large segments of the population—particularly for youth and black, indigenous and people of color. Primary care will be the first responders to this mental health crisis across the country. There has never been a more important time for the integration of behavioral health in primary care for early identification, treatment of mild to moderate conditions, and enhanced referral to specialty care. Integrated care has also shifted to telehealth and there are emerging lessons. Join us for a discussion on the importance of integrated care for supporting public health, behavioral health, and health equity during Covid-19.

Key Themes: Expansion of access to behavioral health services, universal screening of behavioral health conditions, brief interventions, core elements of effective integrated care, expansion of psychiatry and emerging trends in virtual integrated care.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to describe the central role of integrated care in Covid-19Participants will be able to describe and share in lessons learned from virtual integrationParticipants will review the need, disparities and risks in a rising behavioral health crisisParticipants will identify the role of integrated care in management of coronavirus for vulnerable populations

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Speaker Info

Gina Lasky, Ph.D., MAPL, Principal, Health Management AssociatesDr. Lasky has decades of experience in public sector behavioral health. She works across the country on projects related to behavioral health system design, practice transformation, and integration of behavioral health for states, counties, managed care plans, and large providers. Her work focuses on development of effective stepped care approaches levering a continuum of services tailored to population need. This includes behavioral health quality improvement and innovation, such as enhancing measurement-based care, using human centered design thinking, bringing behavioral health services into the community, and partnership development and collective impact initiatives.Dr. Lasky has examined state policy and administrative barriers to integrated care and has published work on leadership and team development in integrated care with the Center for Integrated Health Solutions and the American Psychiatric Association. She is co-editor of Integrated Care: A Guide to Effective Implementation for the American Psychiatric Association. She works nationally with States, managed care and providers on effective implementation of integrated care.

Prior to coming to HMA, Dr. Lasky provided direct clinical care for numerous non-profit organizations, a public hospital, and a state psychiatric hospital where she specialized in serious mental illness and working with individuals who were aggressive towards themselves and others. Gina has had leadership responsibility for an acute treatment unit, a detox program, crisis services, outpatient mental health clinics, and substance use treatment programs in community behavioral health. She has been responsible for clinical program development, quality improvement, and directly supervised clinical managers and therapists.

Dr. Lasky earned her masters and doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Denver and a master’s degree in public leadership with a specialization in multi-sector management from George Washington University. She is the current Past President of the Board for The College for Behavioral Health Leadership.

Lori Raney, MD, Principal, Health Management AssociatesDr. Lori Raney is a board-certified psychiatrist and Principal with Health Management Associates in Denver, Colorado. She is considered a leading authority on the collaborative care model and the bidirectional integration of primary care and behavioral health. Her work focuses on service evaluation, gap analysis and design and training of multidisciplinary teams to implement evidence based practices to improve the identification and treatment of mental illness in the primary care setting and improve the health status of patients with serious mental illness behavioral health settings. She has worked with clients implementing 2703 Health Home State Plan Amendments for behavioral health populations, state innovation model (SIM) and transforming clinical practice initiatives (TCPI), and provided training for personnel implementing Primary and Behavioral Health Care Integration (PBHCI) grants. She is the editor of two books Integrated Care: Working at the Interface of Primary Care and Behavioral Health and Integrated Care: A Guide for Effective Implementation. In addition she has published numerous articles in peer reviewed journals on topics related to integration. She was selected to be a Master Trainer for the American Psychiatric Association’s Support and Alignment grant to train 3,500 psychiatrists in the collaborative care model. Her current work also includes evaluating hospitals and clinics in recognizing and developing strategies to deal with the impact of behavioral health across health care systems including the design and implementation of integrated care in their primary care practices.

Dr. Raney served for 15 years as the medical director of a community mental health center in rural Colorado, where she fostered the development of a full range of evidence-based services including the development of a telepsychiatry program, working in and deploying psychiatric providers in corrections settings, developing an inpatient psychiatric treatment unit, managing the psychiatric medical team in implementing prescribing best practices including metabolic monitoring, encouraging medication assisted treatment of substance use disorders, and establishing hospital-based psychiatric consultation. In her administrative capacity she has extensive experience in psychiatric medical leadership, innovative strategies for hiring and retaining the psychiatric workforce, established performance measures for good psychiatric care and implemented strategies to meet key performance indicators required by Medicaid. During her tenure, she led efforts to implement the collaborative care model of integrated care in diverse primary care locations including Federally Qualified Health Centers, a Rural Health Center, tribal clinics, and school-based health centers, and has served as a consultant psychiatrist at these locations. Dr. Raney participated in the design of a fully integrated healthcare facility that combined primary care and traditional behavioral health, which made it possible for her to rapidly address the physical health issues in patients with serious mental illness.

She has worked for over 15 years with tribal populations with the Indian Health Service in remote clinics in the Southwest and continues her clinical work with the Ute Mountain Ute tribe in Towaco, Colorado. She also worked both as a staff psychiatrist and as the Clinical Director for an ambulatory care center in rural Arizona on the Navajo Reservation.
