The BH2I Clinical/Administrative Resources are developed by the BH2I professional workgroup members and/or subject matter experts. They aim to support grantees and the various target audiences to strengthen their integrated system of care, engage patients in their own healthcare and teach them how to stay health and manage their health conditions, and provide consideration for culture, language and promote overall positive health outcomes through the BH2I.
Leadership Styles and Their Contribution to Integrated Care
Implementing effective integrated care (IC) can be difficult, time consuming, and often faced with challenges such as accessing electronic health records and staff resistance to change. Often it takes years to see measurable positive results.
Closing Care Gaps in Integrated Healthcare: Strategies for Improved Patient Outcomes
Care gaps refer to missed opportunities for preventive, follow-up, or treatment interventions related to a patient’s physical, behavioral, or social health needs. The IBH staff can use care gaps as clinical decision guides to determine what should happen during any given primary care visit to address the presenting problem, and to promote whole-person health across the lifespan.
New Initiatives to Bridging Primary Care and Behavioral Health: Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics
This article focuses on a recent initiative designed to implement the key tenets of integrated behavioral health care in community mental health centers.
Clinical/Administrative/Leadership Toolkit: Integrating Substance Use Treatment into Integrated Care Settings
In our Indigenous communities, many of our relatives struggle with substance use disorder (SUD), making it hard for them to participate fully in the community. Many factors contribute to SUD, including historical trauma and personal trauma.
BH2I-2 Cross-site Evaluation: Overview and Sample of Findings for Administrators and Leadership of Grantee Sites
To provide an overview for administrators and leadership members of the 14 grantee sites, the following brief article highlights 1) the required cross-site BH2I-2 evaluation activities for grantees; 2) the rationale for the cross-site evaluation; 3) the survey instruments utilized for the cross-site evaluation: and 4) preliminary findings from each of the survey instruments utilized for the cross-site evaluation.
Leveraging Storytelling and Qualitative Methods for Effective Program Evaluation
For millennia, storytelling has been a central practice in Native American and Indigenous societies, serving to convey knowledge, history, and traditions. Leaders often use storytelling to unify communities, create a shared vision, and forge a collective identity.
Use of Local Evaluation Findings in Integrated Care
Data and program evaluation findings are critical for leaders, yet sometimes in Native communities we use intuition and word-of-mouth reactions to programs instead of data to inform decision making. In other words, some integrated care (IC) programs don’t systematically collect any data. Others collect local evaluation data, but they initiate the local data collection process too late to gather sufficient data.
Assessment for Substance Abuse Treatment Readiness
When making the decision if an individual is a candidate for substance use disorder services it may be advantageous to understand an individual’s treatment readiness. One instrument that is commonly used to assess treatment readiness is the Stages of Change, Readiness, and Treatment Eagerness Scale (SOCRATES).
Taking Care of Self While Taking Care of Others
Ensuring one’s own well-being alongside supporting others is crucial for sustaining overall health and a provider’s effectiveness in delivering services.
ResourceLibrary
This section provides templates, forms, job descriptions, and other administrative documents for grant administration staff. These resources offer guidance on providing program management, staff recruitment, organizational management, and establishment of partnerships with program stakeholders.