All items of category 'Implementation'

The California Child and Adolescent Mental Health Access Portal (Cal-MAP) is a no-cost consultation program that supports primary care and school-based providers in delivering timely, high-quality mental health care to youth ages 0–25. Cal-MAP is part of the CalHOPE pediatric access initiative and is designed to expand access to behavioral health services, particularly in California’s rural and underserved communities. Through Cal-MAP, providers who screen for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress can be connected with child and adolescent psychiatrists, ...

The California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) initiative represents a bold reimagining of how health care is delivered to Medi-Cal members. Launched in 2022 by the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), CalAIM aims to improve health outcomes for Medi-Cal members by shifting from a traditional medical model to a more comprehensive approach that more adequately meets the needs of individuals, families, and communities. At its core, CalAIM recognizes that health is deeply influenced by the social and environmental ...

Community Health Workers (CHW) can be trusted partners to individuals and communities given their lived experiences, connections, and knowledge. In this webinar, we will discuss CalAIM’s CHW benefit, including participant eligibility, an overview of CHW services, and how the CHW benefit can support individuals and families experiencing the impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and/or toxic stress. Designed as a preventive service, the CHW benefit is available to support individuals with several risk factors and/or diagnoses, including behavioral health, chronic ...

Enhanced Care Management (ECM) is a holistic and intensive care management program established under California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM). ECM is available to children and youth with complex health needs, including those identified through an Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) screen as at high risk for toxic stress. ECM can provide Medi-Cal members with extra help in navigating the physical and behavioral health system and accessing social needs. All ECM services are available through a network of community-based providers contracted ...

Join us for an in-depth webinar exploring the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) initiative and its role in enhancing clinical responses for children and youth at risk of toxic stress physiology. This session will provide a foundational understanding of CalAIM’s key components, including Enhanced Care Management (ECM) and Community Supports, and how these initiatives create new opportunities for integrating trauma-informed care into clinical practice. Attendees will learn how CalAIM can be leveraged to improve care coordination, address social drivers ...

The "Connecting ACE Screening with CalAIM" series explores the critical intersection of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) screening and response efforts and the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) initiative. Designed for health care providers, behavioral health clinicians, and community-based organizations, this series highlights how CalAIM’s components, including Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports, can serve as vital resources for individuals impacted by ACEs and toxic stress. Participants will gain insights into evidence-based strategies for integrating ACE screening with whole-person care ...

This session in the "Implementation with Intention" series focuses on how community-based organizations (CBO) can employ evidence-informed stress-mitigation strategies to help clients heal from toxic stress. The webinar will explore practical strategies for integrating Stress Busters into local programs while honoring the lived experiences of people affected by Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Participants will learn how to adapt the strategies to their community's unique cultural and social contexts, overcome implementation challenges, and build capacity for sustainable use. Through real-world examples ...

This webinar, part of the Implementation with Intention series, will explore how Enhanced Care Management (ECM) can enhance comprehensive care coordination and link families to community and social service needs. Participants will review the new pediatric ECM Medi-Cal benefit and discuss opportunities to sustain this benefit to promote the health and well-being of Medi-Cal members with the most needs.

This webinar will introduce participants to how Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) screening is being used alongside other assessment measures as part of the intake process in a community mental health program that serves English- and Spanish-speaking patients. The presenters will discuss their culturally competent trauma-informed care model along with the rationale and techniques to overcome barriers to ACE assessment in this setting. They will also share strategies to help empower patients to live healthier lives by processing their experiences of ...

Understanding the breakdown of how FQHC billing happens for Behavioral Health services includes a special look at how reimbursement happens and is impacted based on type of billing service. In this video, the ways to maximize revenue even for same day visits is explored.

One of the greatest barriers many clinics face is the shortage of behavioral health staff, in particular those with early childhood experience. Here in this video, we take a look at how to analyze your present workforce, skillset, and patient load to find a schedule that could work for all. With dyadic services, it is also important to highlight the opportunities that are presented to capture adult caregivers and support their mental health needs within the well child visit, as ...

Taking a look at provider eligibility for dyadic care services, this video dives deep into what a dyadic behavioral health provider might look like in practice. Attention is brought to the HealthySteps program and their set of competencies for specialists as a useful guide, as well as highlighting the DC 0-5 diagnostic manual and its dimensions of caregiving scale.

Practice transformation is challenging and integrated behavioral health is no exception. There are potential benefits of integrated behavioral health, as explained in this video. Learn about a tool to help assess how your practice is doing.

This video offers a deep dive into each new dyadic service code, reading through what is listed in the NSMHS manual as far as what is required and what is covered, as well as discussing how to implement them.

A summary of the present family therapy code is shared in this video, along with an exploration into how it might be incorporated into a clinic focused on caring for dyads, even though it is separate from the dyadic service codes.

As we continue to understand this paradigm shift, moving from problem-focused to prevention-based, as well as from individual to team-based care, this video helps explain which provider types are eligible to bill for these dyadic services.

In order to begin an exploration into dyadic care services, it can be helpful to understand what key elements might be needed to work towards something sustainable. In this video, learn about the basics of dyadic care billing.

In this course, participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of the causes and manifestations of burnout among health care professionals. They will learn about evidence-based self-care and stress-mitigation strategies they can use to promote personal resilience, as well as strategies health care organizations can use to manage and prevent burnout.

This webinar will highlight recently published key findings from the California ACEs Learning and Quality Improvement Collaborative (CALQIC), which was a two-year, 48-clinic, seven-region collaborative that examined the challenges and facilitators to implementing, scaling, and sustaining ACE screening and response in frontline Medi-Cal clinics. Participants will hear from Dr. Edward Machtinger, who co-directed CALQIC (with Drs. Marguerita Lightfoot and Anda Kuo) and Dr. Nicole Eberhart, a Senior Behavioral Scientist at RAND Corporation, a CALQIC evaluation partner. The webinar will describe ...

This webinar will explore the fundamentals of billing and reimbursement for Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) screening. Tailored for health care professionals and administrators, participants will learn about the billing cycle of an ACE screen and clinical response and key steps to building a billing workflow. The presenters will share strategies that they have used successfully in clinical settings, with a focus on aligning financial practices with prevention, screening, and treatment for ACEs and toxic stress.

In this edition of the Implementation with Intention webinar series, participants will learn how to prepare and set up common electronic health record (EHR) systems for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) screening and response. Participants will learn various approaches to EHR builds, how to leverage data systems for referrals within ACEs networks of care, and see examples of actual ACEs builds in specific EHR platforms.

In this edition of the Implementation with Intention webinar series, we will focus on how to develop your clinic's data strategy when implementing an Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) screening and response initiative. Participants will learn about the ways in which clinics have developed their rationale and approach around their ACEs data systems, and understand the range of metrics they can use to track progress and improve their ACE screening implementation process.

The Implementation with Intention webinar series continues with a session dedicated to answering commonly asked questions about implementing ACE screening and response initiatives in clinical settings. Participants will also learn about the resources available to support California teams doing this work, including new trainings on the ACEs Aware Learning Center, technical assistance offerings, and a new implementation pilot program.

The ACE Screening Implementation How-To Guide was developed to facilitate the adoption of ACE screening and trauma-informed care into practice at the organizational level. This series includes: (1) an introductory overview of the How-To Guide, (2) guidance on what is needed clinically, operationally, administratively, and emotionally to begin screening, (3) guidance on key decisions that must be made in selecting your clinic’s approach to implementing ACE screening and treating toxic stress, and (4) resources to create a supportive work environment, ...

In this webinar, members of the Marin Community Clinics (MCC) team will share their experience with implementing ACE screening and response in a Federally Qualified Health Center in the Bay Area. MCC, a pioneer in California since starting this work in 2017, is featured as a case study in the ACEs Aware Implementation How-to Guide and highlighted in previous “Implementation with Intention” webinars. Participants will have the opportunity to hear directly from MCC team members about their ACE screening implementation ...

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.

This webinar will help participants understand how to develop a clinical response to ACE screening and toxic stress. Participants will learn how to gather information, conduct a clinical assessment, and develop a treatment and follow-up plan using evidence-based strategies and frameworks.

In this webinar, participants will learn to understand and advance the key decisions that need to be made in selecting their clinic’s approach to ACE screening and the clinical response. This webinar will focus on helping participants determine who they will screen and how, prepare their clinical response for treating toxic stress, and map out how they will integrate ACE screening into their workflow.

The foundational information shared in this webinar will help California providers and health care teams understand the Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) screening process at a high level and explore different approaches to implementation. Subsequent webinars in the series will focus on the specific details and logistics that clinics need to consider when implementing ACE screening and response. 

The foundational information shared in this webinar will help California providers and health care teams understand the Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) screening process at a high level and explore different approaches to implementation. Subsequent webinars in the series will focus on the specific details and logistics that clinics need to consider when implementing ACE screening and response.

The Implementation with Intention series was developed to facilitate the adoption of screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences, also known as ACEs, and trauma-informed care into practice at the organizational level. Each session provides practical step-by-step guidance, as well as resources and tools to help clinics move further along their ACE screening implementation journey.

This special webinar highlights the ACE Screening How-To Guide and implementation lessons from clinics across the state.