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How to Structure a 30 Minute Tele-Visit webinar

Posted on April 2020March 2025

Recording and resources from How to Structure a 30 Minute Tele-Visit webinar led by the UW AIMS Center on April 30, 2020.

See our BHT COVID-19 Resource Center for additional resources & updates.

Better Health Together has teamed up with the UW AIMS Center to bring you webinars focused on your wellbeing and how to adapt in our current work environment.

During the COVID-19 public health emergency, behavioral health providers have quickly had to adapt to using to use the phone and videoconferencing to engage patients. Join the University of Washington AIMS Center as they discuss skills to structure a 30 minute tele-visit during COVID-19.

RECORDING

SLIDES

Other resources

30-Minute Appointments Guide
30-Minute Appointments – Client Handout
AIMS Center, Telehealth Tips for Behavioral Health Providers: https://aims.uw.edu/resource-library/telehealth-tips-behavioral-health-providers
BHT Telehealth Resources page: https://www.betterhealthtogether.org/bold-solutions-content/telehealth-resources

Listening Sessions In Response to COVID-19

Posted on April 2020March 2025

Below is a running record of our listening sessions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Message from our Director of Equity & Engagement
Meeting notes & materials
Common themes

Message from Hadley Morrow, Director of Equity & Engagement – April 17, 2020

BHT is grateful to everyone who took time to attend one of our listening sessions and share with us how their new day-to-day is looking. Your time is helping inform BHT’s exploration of how we can best be of support in this time. If you did not get to attend a listening session, you are welcome to reach out to any BHT staff to request a check-in. We are posting these notes so that you can all see a record of what partners shared, and follow up with requests or opportunities to support one another. We’re all in this together! (While staying at home, far away from one another…)

Rural Leads Listening Session – Thursday, April 9

Spokane Collaborative Listening Session #1 – Thursday, April 9

Spokane Collaborative Listening Session #2 – Thursday, April 16

THEMES

Information and communication overload. Need a central place for trusted and current COVID-19 related updates

BHT support: BHT COVID-19 Resource Center. We are also reviewing our email communication strategies based on this feedback!

Staff moral. Many staff feeling overwhelmed and isolated, adjusting to working from home

BHT support: Staff Care & Support Series

Technology. Heavy lift to get technology and new workflows set up as organizations move to telehealth

BHT support: Telehealth Technical Assistance in partnership with the UW AIMS Center. We’re also sharing state and national resources through the BHT COVID-19 Resource Center.

Telehealth Tips & Tricks webinar

Posted on April 2020March 2025

Recording and resources from Telehealth Tips & Tricks for Behavioral Health Providers webinar led by the UW AIMS Center on April 23, 2020.

See our BHT COVID-19 Resource Center for additional resources & updates.

Better Health Together has teamed up with the UW AIMS Center to bring you webinars focused on your wellbeing and how to adapt in our current work environment.

During the COVID-19 public health emergency, behavioral health providers have quickly had to adapt to using to use the phone and videoconferencing to engage patients. Come join a facilitated conversation with the University of Washington AIMS Center as they discuss how to prepare before, during, and after a telehealth visit with a patient.

RECORDING

SLIDES

Other resources

AIMS Center, Telehealth Tips for Behavioral Health Providers: https://aims.uw.edu/resource-library/telehealth-tips-behavioral-health-providers
Behavioral Health Institute, Behavioral Health Training, Workforce and Policy Innovation Center: https://bhi-telehealthresource.uwmedicine.org/
Behavioral Health Institute Telehealth Webinar Series:
https://bhi-telehealthresource.uwmedicine.org/training-ta
Northwest Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network, Telemental Health Fundamentals: Preparing Your Office and Engaging Your Patients Webinar, April 29, 2020, 12-1:
https://attcnetwork.org/centers/northwest-attc/event/telemental-health-fundamentals-preparing-your-office-and-engaging-your
Washington State Health Care Authority Information for BH Providers:
https://www.hca.wa.gov/information-about-novel-coronavirus-covid-19
Notification of Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth Remote Communications During the COVID-19 Nationwide Public Health Emergency: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/emergency-preparedness/notification-enforcement-discretion-telehealth/index.html
Best Practices for Telehealth During COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Updated March 19, 2020:https://www.thenationalcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Telehealth_Best_Practices.pdf?daf=375ateTbd56
Telepsychiatry in the Era of COVID-19 from SMI Adviser: https://education.smiadviser.org/Users/ProductDetails.aspx?ActivityID=7257
AIMS Center: Telehealth and Clinical Training Resources During COVID-19: https://aims.uw.edu/telehealth-and-clinical-training-resources-during-covid-19

Distress Tolerance & Stress Management webinar

Posted on April 2020March 2025

Recording and resources from Distress Tolerance & Stress Management during COVID-19 webinar led by the UW AIMS Center on April 17, 2020.

See our BHT COVID-19 Resource Center for additional resources & updates.

Better Health Together has teamed up with the UW AIMS Center to bring you webinars focused on your wellbeing and how to adapt in our current work environment.

Behavioral Health providers have had their work lives, as well as their personal lives, disrupted by COVID-19. The people we serve are even more disrupted and will have more need of our services now and for the foreseeable future. Continuing to function well professionally and personally in this uncertain environment may require engaging tools and techniques that maybe we didn’t need before. We will discuss the use of some of these skills, and there will also be time for attendees to share their own discoveries and responses to the pandemic with one another.

RECORDING

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Other resources

BHT COVID Resource Center http://www.betterhealthtogether.org/covid19-resource-center
Health Care Provider Well-Being During Covid-19: University of Colorado https://www1.ucdenver.edu/docs/librariesprovider45/covid-19-support/health-care-provider-well-being.pdf
Sustaining the Well-Being of Healthcare Personnel During Coronavirus – Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress https://www.cstsonline.org/assets/media/documents/CSTS_FS_Sustaining_Well_Being_Healthcare_Personnel_during.pdf
Guide to Living with Worry and Anxiety Amidst Global Uncertainty: Psychology Tools https://www.psychologytools.com/articles/free-guide-to-living-with-worry-and-anxiety-amidst-global-uncertainty/
Managing Stress Associated with the COVID-19 Virus Outbreak: VA https://www.ptsd.va.gov/covid/COVID_managing_stress.asp
Working Remotely During COVID-19: American Psychiatric Assn. http://www.workplacementalhealth.org/Employer-Resources/Working-Remotely-During-COVID-19

BHT Makes $100K Contribution to COVID-19 Fund

Posted on April 2020March 2025

The Better Health Together Board of Directors approved the first allocation of dollars from our Community Resiliency Fund to go to the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund.

The COVID-19 Community Response and Recovery Funds will provide funding to organizations that have deep roots in community and strong experience serving the elderly, homeless, residents without health insurance and/or access to sick days, communities of color, people with limited English language proficiency, healthcare, hospitality and gig economy workers, and low-wage employees, among others.

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