TY - JOUR
KW - and Integrated Care
KW - Community Health Workers
KW - Interdisciplinary issues
KW - Peer Support Services
KW - Quality of Care
KW - Service delivery systems
AU - A. S. Daniels
AU - S. Bergeson
AU - K. J. Myrick
A1 - 
AB - Current strategies for integrating general medical and behavioral health services focus primarily on improving the coordination of care and expanding team-based services. Absent from most discussion has been a focus on the workforces that provide the bulk of community-based outreach, engagement, activation, motivational support, and self-management: community health workers (CHWs) and peer support specialists (PSSs). CHWs have primarily been deployed in general medical care and PSSs in behavioral health care. Understanding the unique contributions that CHWs and PSS provide for health promotion and wellness and improved population health outcomes is an important challenge. This Open Forum reviews the key elements of peer status as a way to help illustrate the differences between these workforces and the best deployment strategies for each workforce. A framework is proposed that outlines key support roles provided by the CHW and PSS workforces.
BT - Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)
C5 - Education & Workforce
CY - United States
DO - 10.1176/appi.ps.201600378
JF - Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)
N2 - Current strategies for integrating general medical and behavioral health services focus primarily on improving the coordination of care and expanding team-based services. Absent from most discussion has been a focus on the workforces that provide the bulk of community-based outreach, engagement, activation, motivational support, and self-management: community health workers (CHWs) and peer support specialists (PSSs). CHWs have primarily been deployed in general medical care and PSSs in behavioral health care. Understanding the unique contributions that CHWs and PSS provide for health promotion and wellness and improved population health outcomes is an important challenge. This Open Forum reviews the key elements of peer status as a way to help illustrate the differences between these workforces and the best deployment strategies for each workforce. A framework is proposed that outlines key support roles provided by the CHW and PSS workforces.
PP - United States
PY - 2017
SN - 1557-9700; 1075-2730
T1 - Defining Peer Roles and Status Among Community Health Workers and Peer Support Specialists in Integrated Systems of Care
T2 - Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)
TI - Defining Peer Roles and Status Among Community Health Workers and Peer Support Specialists in Integrated Systems of Care
U1 - Education & Workforce
U2 - 28712350
U3 - 10.1176/appi.ps.201600378
VO - 1557-9700; 1075-2730
Y1 - 2017
ER -