Building a sustainable behavioral health model is the foundation of elevating your health center’s level of integration.  Behavioral health can play a critical role in supporting the primary care environment by improving the efficiency and productivity of primary care providers, impacting health outcomes, and creating a supportive and collaborative work environment that reinvigorates the energy of your staff.  Expanding your health center’s model of integration increases capacity and competency to improve effectiveness in treating chronic health conditions such as chronic pain, substance use disorders, obesity, and diabetes. Our workshop will review financing models to build a sustainable behavioral health team, review the clinical pathways and workflows to effectively implement the model, and the training required to help support this exciting approach to healthcare. 

Learning Objectives 

1. Participants will learn about financing models to develop a sustainable behavioral health workforce.

2. Participants will understand the operational framework to implement a sustainable integrated model of care.

3. Participants will understand the training and resources required to sustain an integrated model of care.