Technical Assistance Bank for Contracted Partners
/Here you will find the latest news regarding our Technical Assistance Bank for contracted partners. We hope you find value in the Technical Assistance Bank again this year!
Background
The University of Washington’s Advanced Integrated Mental Health Solutions (AIMS) Center develops, tests, and helps organizations implement collaborative care and bi-directional integration strategies. BHT has partnered with the AIMS Center to offer our network of contracted partners technical assistance related to implementation support, coaching, education, and workforce development throughout 2020. Learn more about the AIMS Center here.
Available Technical Assistance
For Primary Care Practices:
Basic or advanced topics around coding/billing for behavioral health in primary care
Deep dive into your practice’s financing and billing options/challenges utilizing the AIMS Center Financial Modeling Workbook
Hiring Behavioral Health Providers tips and tricks
Evidence-based behavioral health interventions for Behavioral Health Clinicians in primary care such as problem solving treatment and behavioral activation
How to set up a Behavioral Health Clinicians schedule in primary care that aligns with your program’s overall goals and vision
Fine tuning a behavioral health screening workflow and using continuous quality improvement to improve the workflow
For Behavioral Health Agencies:
A deeper dive into current state workflows for physical health screening and identifying opportunities for improvement
Helping with decision-making about the most impactful use of limited resources for integration in a given agency
Sitting in on team meetings to help build team's skills around discussing client cases and maximizing use of team meetings
Coaching on how to effectively build relationships with primary care partners
Helping a team determine what physical health measure to track and implement a population health management strategy
If you have a TA need that is not listed above, please reach out and we will do our best to connect you to the appropriate resource. If you have any questions, please reach out to Sarah at sarah@betterhealthtogether.org or Symetria at symetria@betterhealthtogether.org.
Making a Request
On the right side of the Learning Cohort webpage you will find a button to “Request Technical Assistance“
Click the button and complete the Technical Assistance Request Form
Once received, BHT will connect you with the AIMS Center
Together we accomplish health system transformation!
Testimonial
The AIMS Center has been very responsive and available to meet with us when needed. We have been meeting 1-2 times a month for several months. The feedback is that the discussions have been very helpful to understand a model for CHAS and inform our BH Associate program definition. We’ve had a couple major changes in BH staff lately, so things have slowed down a bit in using AIMS support. But their expertise in Collaborative Care is unparalleled and much appreciated. They have been flexible and allowed us to learn and consider approaches that are unique to our situation, staffing, and patient situations.
Mike Wiser, CHAS
January 2020