BH Forum materials - April 2024
/Topics: Updates on current initiatives. Discuss training ideas and start planning for implementation.
Read MoreTopics: Updates on current initiatives. Discuss training ideas and start planning for implementation.
Read MoreBetter Health Together convenes a regional Behavioral Health Forum made up of organizations that provide behavioral health services and institutions that educate the behavioral health workforce. Using Integrated Managed Care dollars set aside by the BHT Board, this self-governing group designs and funds initiatives focused on the behavioral health workforce. This page highlights the way these dollars have supported the community-based workforce, clinicians, and behavioral health interns to strengthen behavioral health services in Eastern Washington.
Topics: Updates on current initiatives. Discuss training ideas and start planning for implementation.
Read MoreWe need your help to find the change-makers, the big thinkers, and the equity champions in our community who can help us improve the lives of everyone who calls Eastern Washington home.
Read MoreOpen Enrollment season is upon us! During Open Enrollment, individuals and families can check their insurance coverage options, compare health plans, and enroll in health insurance coverage for 2024. Our navigators can help you compare your health coverage options and enroll!
Read MoreTopics: Updates on current initiatives. Discuss training ideas and start planning for implementation.
Read MoreTo support the needs of Newport School District, BHT is looking for a consultant to design an implementation and sustainability plan for a telehealth service to be offered in Newport High School, and the alternative High School, Pend Oreille River School, by March 30, 2024. Learn more here.
Read MoreThe Better Health Together Behavioral Health Forum is releasing $150,000 to support behavioral health internship program in the region. This page includes full details and a link to apply.
Read MoreWe released funding to support provider organizations with SUD and master’s level behavioral health staff with supervision so that the staff can gain critical licensure and to build capacity for supervision in our region. Here’s how our first year went..
Read MoreTopics: Updates and continued design planning on small bucket initiatives.
Read MoreThe 2023 Smile Survey is making significant progress across the state. So far, thanks to the partnership of school districts, the survey has reached 55% of schools randomly selected for the sample. In Spokane County, the Smile Spokane Collaborative is seeking connections to selected schools to support participation in the Smile Survey.
Read MoreSpokane Collaborative meeting materials for June 2023.
Read MoreTopics: Updates and continued design planning on small bucket initiatives.
Read MoreIn 2021, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) allocated Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) dollars to cities to provide housing and utility assistance to citizens financially impacted by COVID. As we conclude this work and step back to view the larger picture, we can see how essential these supports are in times of crisis to impacted populations.
Read MoreThe Community Linkages RFP is live now, a $3.6 million funding opportunity. BHT is inviting proposals from organizations providing care coordination and services for social determinants of health. Learn how to apply here.
Read MoreTo further support our commitment to anti-racism work, BHT is releasing an additional $2,000,000 of our Community Resiliency Fund in a Request for Proposal process to address Racism as a Public Health crisis and prioritize awarding dollars to organizations led by and serving impacted populations.*
Read MoreSmile Spokane is a Local Impact Network (LIN) of organizations working together to transform oral health in the region. Smile Spokane serves as an organizing entity with strategies in place to improve oral health in Spokane.
Read MoreThe Washington Integrated Care Assessment (WA-ICA) was developed as a state-wide tool to measure integrated care. The new assessment tool will replace various other tools used by the state and MCOs. Resources within.
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