Email UpdatesFostering Resilience and Recovery: A Change Package
This Change Package provides information, action steps and tools to guide implementation of a trauma-informed primary care approach.
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Women and Alcohol: Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment
Discusses how screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment can be conducted by nurse practitioners in primary care; offers 1 CE credit
The Need for Electronic Health Records to Support Delivery of Behavioral Health Preventive Services
Describes the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) initiative to improve primary care management of unhealthy alcohol use (UAU), and highlights needed changes in electronic health record systems to improve screening and counseling for UAU as well as meet the National Academies' digital health recommendation for information technology that best serves patients and care teams
The Building Blocks of Behavioral Health Integration
This framework of care delivery expectations for integrating behavioral health (including unhealthy alcohol use and substance use) in primary care aligns expectations across payers, practices, and patients. The framework is intentionally flexible to account for variation in approach to integrating behavioral health.
Telehealth Has Played an Outsized Role Meeting Mental Health Needs During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This issue brief analyzes telehealth use during the COVID-19 pandemic and discusses how telehealth has improved access to mental health and substance use services.
ONDCP Announces Reports on Improving Telehealth Services for Substance Use Disorder
Discusses the current state of telehealth in the United States based on Federal and State policies, the benefits and challenges related to implementation of telehealth, and policy opportunities to improve these services in the future
Technology and Strategies for Overcoming Challenges in Virtual Practice Facilitation
Presents strategies for using virtual methods for practice facilitation and addressing common challenges, including hybrid participation, collaboration platforms, and assisting with technology
Strengthening Behavioral Healthcare to Meet the Needs of Our Nation
Describes how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is implementing strategies to ensure patients are receiving health care services to meet their behavioral health needs and how CMS is working to meet the goals of President Biden's "Strategy to Address our National Mental Health Crisis"
Practice Considerations: Use of the SBIRT Model Among Transgender & Nonbinary Populations
This resource provides guidance for using the screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) model to identify and treat substance use disorders with transgender and nonbinary populations and offers considerations for providers implementing this model.
Payment and Financing for Substance Use Screening and Brief Intervention for Adolescents and Adults in Health, School, and Community Settings
Reviews literature on payment options for screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment and their barriers and facilitators in various settings