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Prepare Your Team and Clinic Operations

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About


This webinar will help participants tie together the elements of getting a practice ready, forming a team, getting buy-in, determining who and how to screen, and developing the clinical response to ACEs and toxic stress through real-world examples. Participants will learn how to prepare their teams and operations and discuss promising practices and lessons for ACE screening implementation from clinics in the field engaged in this work.

Learning Objectives


  • Identify lessons learned from clinics engaged in ACE screening and response around preparing their practice, getting buy-in, forming a team, and determining their screening protocol.
  • Describe strategies to care for and prepare yourself and your team for ACE screening implementation.
  • Discuss operational challenges and solutions to prepare your team and clinic for ACE screening and response.

Professional Credit


  • This activity provides the following types of credit: AMA, AAPA, APA, ANCC, ASWB, ABIM-MOC, ABP-MOC.
  • 1.0 credits are available.
  • Activity document

Featuring


Chris Bradley, PhD

Chris Bradley is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist specializing in clinical work with families who have experienced trauma, and the implementation and training of trauma-informed care and ACE screening in primary care settings. Chris was a practice coach for the California ACEs Learning and Quality Improvement Collaborative (CALQIC), where she helped develop an evidence-based framework for ACE screening and response called Trauma Informed inquiry for Adversity, Distress, and Strengths, or TRIADS, led by Dr. Alicia Lieberman. This relational framework helps healthcare team members talk with patients in the context of a trusting healing relationship. She worked with Dr. Lieberman at the Child Trauma Research Program at San Francisco General Hospital/UCSF, and with Dr. Nadine Burke Harris at the Center for Youth Wellness.

Leena Singh, DrPH, MPH

Leena Singh, DrPH, MPH is a public health leader with expertise in program design and strategy, clinical technical assistance, research, evaluation, and training in the areas of adolescent sexual health and childhood adversity. She currently is a Lead Coach and Adviser for the Training & Implementation Department at UCAAN. Dr. Singh was previously a Coach & Consultant for the California ACEs Learning and Quality Improvement Collaborative (CALQIC), a statewide learning collaborative led by the UCSF Center to Advance Trauma-Informed Healthcare and the Center for Care Innovations. She received her Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from Columbia University and holds a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Tanya Marin-Lopez, BS

Tanya earned her B.S. in Public Health at Cal State University Northridge, with a minor in Lactation, and is currently pursuing her MPH at UCLA. Prior to joining UCAAN, Tanya supported ACE screening and response implementation across multiple Los Angeles County DHS clinics for the ACEs Aware-funded ACEs-LA Network of Care, a collaborative effort between LA County stakeholders, DHS, and the state to build community resilience. She was responsible for clinic data reporting and quality improvement, as well as coordinating ACEs-LA’s Lunch and Learn webinars. Tanya also has experience translating ACEs materials into Spanish and is a member of UCAAN’s Spanish Language and Cultural Competence committee.

Lisa Gantz, MD

Lisa Gantz, MD is a primary care physician and is board-certified in both Pediatrics and Internal Medicine and provides clinical care in pediatric and adult clinics at the High Desert Regional Health Center in Lancaster and at the pediatric clinic at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center in Sylmar. In addition to her clinical role, Dr. Gantz is the inaugural fellow for the UCLA Pritzker Center Child Health and Wellbeing Fellowship. Her fellowship is focused on improving trauma-informed care delivery in the AV, and she is working on a project called the Antelope Valley Engagement Network (aka the AVENUE). AVENUE will support initiatives utilizing the medical home as a foundation for improving community engagement and response to trauma in the Antelope Valley region.

Eric Fein, MD, MS, MPP

Eric Fein, MD, MS, MPP is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and the Director of Outpatient Pediatrics Quality Improvement at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He is interested in engaging front line staff and members of under-resourced communities in quality improvement work to improve mental and behavioral health care of children and families.