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BHT Trainings & Convenings re: Trueblood Settlement

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Over the next two weeks, BHT is offering trainings and facilitated conversations related to the Trueblood Settlement in an effort to increase awareness and access to services in our community. 

Registration is not required. Please add the meeting information to your calendar, including the relevant Zoom link.

Change Management for Trueblood Partners
June 18, 12:00-1:00 PM

This will be the first in a series of Change Management trainings all building upon each other, with a focus on cross-sector projects/partnerships and how to use Change Management with Quality Improvement initiatives. Join for one or all of the series! Information for future trainings will be sent in a separate email. 

Zoom login: 
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Meeting ID: 881 0544 6098
Password: 419062
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Community Education
June 19, 9:00-10:00 AM

BHT invites community members to join us for this convening that will cover an overview of the Trueblood Settlement and resources that are available. It’s our goal that community members will feel better informed and able to support neighbors, peers, and colleagues who may be involved in related services. 

Zoom login: 
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Meeting ID: 847 9458 8769
Password: 301876
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Spokane Centric Trueblood Convening
June 23, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM

This convening will allow the Health Care Authority, Behavioral Health Administrative Service Organization, and Frontier Behavioral Health to share an overview of their role in the delivery and services of the settlement. This will be an opportunity for multi-sector learning and discussion to further disseminate information and opportunities for collaboration here in our region.  

Zoom login: 
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Meeting ID: 898 2825 0563
Password: 284936
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BHI Sustaining Improved Access to Telehealth

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The Behavioral Health Institute (BHI) has released an Executive Summary & a Summary of Relaxed Regulations regarding improved access to telehealth during COVID. Both of these are living documents, and updated versions will be posted as they are received.

Executive Summary – Sustaining Improved Access to Behavioral Telehealth

Summary of Relaxed Regulations

”During the COVID crisis, numerous regulations and policies related to telehealth and telemedicine have been temporarily relaxed in order to allow access to important services at a time when accessing services in-person was not an option. Many of these relaxed regulations proved successful at not only ensuring continuity of critical services, but at actually expanding services to people who were not accessing them through traditional methods. Before these changes are rescinded to pre-emergency levels, we have an obligation to evaluate which regulations are critical to expanding healthcare to the underserved citizens of Washington. Our goal in this effort is to produce a set of recommendations that sustain increased access to healthcare and align with the goals of the Healthier Washington Initiative.”

BHT Behavioral Health Forum

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Notes and resources from BHT’s Behavioral Health COVID Forum.

Email sarah@betterhealthtogether.org to receive the calendar invite. Call-in information is also posted at the bottom of this page.

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

May 6, 2020

Meeting minutes
Zoom recording
Other follow-up & resources:

  • BH Agency Dashboard survey

  • BHI survey & resources

  • Partner Bright Spotting

    • BHT interest in knowing what you’d like to continue beyond COVID. We are looking for successes & bright spots to tell that story to policymakers, as well as anything that isn’t working well.

    • If you didn’t get a chance on the call, please tell us what is working well and what changes you would like to keep beyond the COVID response era – email sarah@betterhealthtogether.org

  • Dr. Darryl Tonemah community & provider sessions

    • Dr. Tonemah is an American Indian counseling psychologist of Kiowa, Comanche, and Tuscarora descent, and incredible speaker. There are multiple dates for each session.

    • Provider session “Lunch & Learn on Historical Trauma & Stress”, register here

    • Community sessions “Trauma Response & Managing Stress”, info here

    • Please share widely with staff & clients!!

April 29, 2020

Based on what we’ve heard from you, we’re moving the BH Forum call to every other week. We want to this space to be useful and also respectful of your time. That means no meeting on April 29. We will resume next week with a biweekly cadence. Updated calendar invitations have been sent.

This week’s resources

  • Provider Updates page – we’ve updated the Provider Updates section on the BHT COVID Resource Center. If you are looking for a quick reference on what changes and services other organizations have during this time, as well as how to contact for clients services, check out this page. If you have updates to share, please send to me. 

  • How to Conduct a 30-minute Tele-visit webinar – Thurs, April 30, 8:00-8:30am, register here. BHT is teaming up with the AIMS Center for this webinar focused on skills to structure a 30 minute tele-visit during COVID-19. 

  • BHI Survey – The HCA is partnering with the Behavioral Health Institute (BHI) to provide training resources around telehealth. They’ve asked us to share this survey to help them identify emergent needs and long term training needs post-COVID. Please take if you have a moment.


April 22, 2020
Meeting minutes
Zoom recording
Warmline feedback survey
Other resources:

April 15, 2020
No meeting
Updates & resources:

  • Capacity Ask – We want to understand who in our BH system has capacity and how we can connect others to you. If your organization has capacity, please let us know and the best way for partners to get in touch. Email sarah@betterhealthtogether.org

  • DBHR weekly call – notes, slides, registration, and other HCA resources can be found here

  • HCA Loaner Laptops – details & application to request laptops available here

    • Please note, if you completed the initial interest survey, this does not count as an application. I clarified with HCA today that they would not be specifically reaching out to folks who completed the survey. So please complete the application at the link above if you need tech for your staff.

  • BHT Staff Care & Support series – Thanks for your feedback on this last week! BHT is teaming up with the local experts and the UW AIMS Center to bring you webinars focused on wellbeing and how to adapt in the current work environment. These are optional and free to any interested staff.

    • Friday, April 17, 8-9 am – Distress Tolerance and Stress Management During COVID-19, register here

    • Thurs, April 23, 12-1 pm – Telehealth Tips & Tricks, register here

    • Thurs, April 30, 8-8:30 am – How to Structure a 30 Minute Tele-Visit, register here

    • More offerings to be announced soon!

April 8, 2020
Meeting minutes
Zoom recording
Other resources:

  • BHT COVID-19 Resource Center

  • Special Enrollment Period extended thru May 8 – details here

  • Spokane Collaborative Listening Session – April 9 (2-3pm) and April 16 (1-2pm)

  • National Council of Non-Profits “Federal COVID-19 Legislation” webinar recording, to help non-profits understand what various provisions of the new federal laws mean for nonprofits

  • Updated supervision policies & procedures for remote supervision should be sent to HCADBHRBHCOVID19@hca.wa.gov. You can send questions to that inbox, or ask on the weekly DBHR call Q&A.

  • Weekly virtual parent/caregiver support group offered by HCA – FLYER. Please feel free to share widely with clients & staff.

April 1, 2020
Meeting minutes
Zoom recording
Other resources:

  • BHT COVID-19 Resource Center

  • Funding

    • Small business loans – Council of Nonprofits (LINK)

    • HCA – For behavioral health treatment providers contracting with the MCOs, please email the HCAmcprograms@hca.wa.gov inbox IF you cannot cover necessary operation costs over next 2-4 weeks. Subject line should be URGENT FINANCIAL CONCERNS. Fact sheet here.

  • DBHR Telehealth Training – Friday, April 3 from 10:30-12:00, REGISTER HERE

  • Special Enrollment Period still open – details here

  • SRHD Incident Management Team (IMT) – see attached PDF with deta
    ils about being a taskforce member or contact dan.barth@uhsinc.com

  • DOH Electronic Consent Mgmt (ECM) Project is looking for SUD providers to help inform guidance on managing consent & sharing patient information. See attached slides for details, and email Marybeth.brown@doh.wa.gov if interested.

  • If you need or anticipate needing additional billing specialists, please let me know. Our dental community has indicated interest in helping.

  • Resources from the AIMS Center – see attached for recorded trainings & opportunities individual orgs.

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How to Structure a 30 Minute Tele-Visit webinar

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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

Telehealth Tips & Tricks webinar

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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