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SUMMARY:Candid Conversations with Marcy Melvin | Talking About DEI When We Can't Talk About DEI
DESCRIPTION:Members-Only \n\n\n\n\n\nCBHL Candid Conversations provide an informal platform for connecting and networking with other CBHL members\, fostering an environment where we can learn from one another’s experiences.  Led by a CBHL member or partner\, these sessions are designed to facilitate the exchange of valuable leadership insights\, skills\, and support.  Occurring at least once a month\, Candid Conversations are open to all CBHL members.    \n\n\n\nJoin us for a candid conversation with Marcy Melvin\, President-Elect of the CBHL Board of Directors and Senior Vice President of Clinical Policy and Deputy Director of The Hackett Center for Mental Health at Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute! \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarcy Melvin is a pivotal executive with over 25 years of experience in behavioral health policy\, training\, and clinical practice. As a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas her experience includes providing direct clinical and supervisory services to children\, youth\, parents\, and young adults in various clinical settings including residential\, in-home\, outpatient\, private practice\, primary\, secondary\, and post-secondary locations. Marcy is extremely passionate about advancing health equity and reducing disparities and disproportionality; this has been a culmination of her life’s work in various clinical\, organizational and systems settings.  \n\n\n\nMarcy has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Xavier University of Louisiana and a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from Fisk University.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\nThe purpose of CBHL Candid Conversations is to:  \n\n\n\n\nNetwork and Collaborate: Meet and engage with fellow CBHL colleagues in an informal\, small group environment that encourages collaboration and the building of meaningful connections \n\n\n\nLearn and Innovate: Acquire new skills and exchange fresh ideas with experienced leaders in a supportive and trusting environment\, fostering personal and professional growth \n\n\n\nShowcase Success: Highlight successful member programs or best and promising practices that demonstrate potential for scaling and broader application. 
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/candid-conversations-with-marcy-melvin-talking-about-dei-when-we-cant-talk-about-dei/
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SUMMARY:Workforce Solutions Jam | Leveraging AI to Streamline Administrative Tasks in Behavioral Health
DESCRIPTION:Workforce Solutions Jam | Leveraging AI to Streamline Administrative Tasks in Behavioral Health\n\n\n\nEnhancing Provider Efficiency and Care Delivery \n\n\n\nTuesday\, October 15\, 2024 | 10:00 am PT / 11:00 am MT / 12:00 pm CT / 1:00 pm ETEvent Length: One Hour \n\n\n\nJoin us on Tuesday\, October 15 for our next Workforce Solutions Jam! The Workforce Solutions Jam is a monthly webinar to build national momentum and encourage collaboration through the Center for Workforce Solutions. \n\n\n\nThe Workforce Solutions Jam will provide an opportunity to: \n\n\n\n\nLearn innovative new practices\n\n\n\nStay informed about ongoing efforts\n\n\n\nEngage with subject matter experts\n\n\n\nHear about new legislation and/or federal workforce efforts\n\n\n\nTake action!\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtificial Intelligence (AI) technology offers the potential to free up valuable time by reducing the administrative burden on clinicians and other staff through automation and/or streamlining of tasks like documentation\, billing\, patient management\, and scheduling.  By integrating AI into daily workflows\, the goal is for clinicians to focus more on patient care\, improving efficiency\, and to feel less burnout.  However\, it isn’t always easy. In this month’s Workforce Solutions Jam\, hear directly from providers who will share their firsthand experiences with implementing – or attempting to implement – AI technology to reduce administrative burdens in their clinics.  Join us for a candid conversation about the real-world impact\, practical challenges\, and successes of AI on provider efficiency\, patient care\, and clinician well-being.  \n\n\n\nKey highlights of this webinar include:  \n\n\n\n\nFinding the right AI tools and vendors to meet your organizational needs and goals \n\n\n\nUtilization of AI to improve client outcomes and documentation compliance \n\n\n\nUsing AI as a recruitment and retention tool \n\n\n\nIdentifying practical challenges and barriers to AI implementation \n\n\n\nConsiderations for whether AI is the right tool for you \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Information\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAshley Kjos\, PsyD\, L.P. is a Minnesota licensed psychologist (#LP5534) and the Chief Executive Officer of Woodland Centers\, a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) in west central Minnesota. Dr. Kjos earned her Master’s (2009) and PsyD (2011) in Clinical Psychology at Pacific University in Forest Grove\, Oregon. After being a staff psychologist at Woodland Centers from 2011 to 2014 then the Clinical Director from 2014 to 2016\, she became its CEO in 2016. As CEO\, Dr. Kjos is responsible for the overall coordination of the internal operations of Woodland Centers. The agency has a seven county catchment area and a robust continuum of outpatient\, rehabilitative\, and residential behavioral healthcare programs serving the entire age range.  \n\n\n\nDr. Kjos is very active in behavioral health services across the state through participation in various associations and serving on non-profit boards. She has served on the board of directors of West Central Industries (WCI)\, a vocational rehabilitation service provider based out of Willmar\, Minnesota from October 2019 to present including being the Vice Chair of this board from 2022 to 2023 and Chair from 2023 to present. She has served as a board member on the Minnesota Association of Resources for Recovery and Chemical Health (MARRCH) from November 2019 to present. Dr. Kjos has been actively involved in the Minnesota Association of Community Mental Health Programs (MACMHP) association since 2014 including advocacy for public policy changes\, training\, collaboration with providers and associations across the state\, and innovation of the mental health and substance use system of care in MN. She has served on the MACMHP board of directors from 2019 to present serving as the Treasurer from 2021-2022 and the board chair from 2022 through 2024. Dr. Kjos is committed to transformation of the healthcare system in the state of Minnesota.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Garima Singh\, MD is a Chief Medical Officer at Burrell Behavioral Health and its parent company\, Brightli. She is triple board certified in American Board of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry\, General Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine. She also serves as an adjunct faculty in the Department of Psychiatry\, University of Missouri and participates as an expert panel for ECHO Child and adolescent psychiatry. Prior to her current position at Burrell Behavioral Health\, she was the medical director at the Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment. Dr. Singh has been actively involved in teaching\, multiple committees and research projects related to mental illness and autism. In her current role she also focuses on novel methods of healthcare delivery including telehealth\, integrated and collaborative care models especially for rural and underserved areas. She has several publications and has presented in state\, national and international level. She specializes in child psychiatry and especially cares of those with special needs\, autism\, and developmental delays. She is passionate about bullying prevention and expansion of mental health services.  \n\n\n\nDr. Singh grew up in India\, earning her medical degree there before completing a fellowship in child psychiatry at Southern Illinois University (SIU) and her general psychiatry residency at the University of Missouri School of Medicine.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJim McEvoy is a Principal with Health Management Associates and is accomplished in architecting robust technology solutions for state agencies\, health plans and service providers. Jim understands the substantial role data will play in the future of healthcare delivery and works to inform clients around data-driven decisions. He is an experienced project manager and business strategist who has successfully led all phases of diverse Medicaid technology projects. With deep knowledge of CMS reporting\, waiver management and pharmacy data\, Jim aligns business goals to deliver groundbreaking healthcare IT solutions. \n\n\n\nAs a vendor for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services\, Jim managed projects to develop web-based enrollment tools\, federal reporting tools and data warehousing strategies for the department’s 1915(c) waivers\, health home projects\, autism state plan amendment\, and home and community-based services projects. He mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of data and a flexible technical solution set. He anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving business environments and the transfer of knowledge among different departmental units. Jim defined processes and tools best suited to each project and moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals. He created detailed project road maps\, plans\, schedules and work breakdown structures. \n\n\n\nJim has been the subject matter expert for Michigan’s pharmacy data warehousing strategy. He oversaw inbound data loads\, pharmacy encounter processing\, and extracts to health plans and Michigan’s fee-for-service pharmacy benefits manager. With significant experience in systems engineering\, Jim led the design\, development and rollout of approximately 40 extract\, transformation and load (ETL) processes and a dozen web applications for clients with the state of Michigan. \n\n\n\nJim had the privilege of serving as the project manager for the CareConnect360 web application. This tool is responsible for delivering Medicaid claims and encounters information to a diverse user audience\, including health plans\, community mental health agencies\, health home providers and foster care workers. It currently serves seven different business units inside of Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services. \n\n\n\nJim received his bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University. Jim lives in the Lansing area with his wife and three children. They can often be found camping or at an MSU football game. When not doing those things\, Jim is a rehabilitating runner and co-hosts MSU’s least topical sports podcast. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZach Boyd\, PhD is the Director of the Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy at the Utah Department of Commerce. Dr. Boyd is a faculty member at Brigham Young University’s (BYU) mathematics department\, where he teaches applied and computational mathematics. Dr. Boyd’s research lab focuses on artificial intelligence\, machine learning\, and mathematical modeling in social science applications\, such as psychology\, economics\, and social networks. Before working at BYU\, Dr. Boyd was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, an NDSEG Fellow at UCLA\, a research associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory\, and a Presidential Scholar at BYU.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBackground\n\n\n\nThe National Council for Mental Wellbeing launched the Center for Workforce Solutions in 2023 in partnership with The College for Behavioral Health Leadership and Health Management Associates. The partnership is leveraging Collective Impact to address the workforce crisis\, and using a cross-sector approach to address the long-standing challenges for expanding and solidifying the behavioral health workforce.
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/workforce-solutions-jam-october/
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