Q&A
Partnerships with DOHMH and other agencies for health and mental health services
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Council Member Linda Lee inquires about DVS partnerships with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) and other agencies for health and mental health services. Dr. Lauren D'Mello explains the ongoing relationships and training initiatives.
- DVS has an ongoing relationship with DOHMH, sharing programs and information
- DVS provides military cultural competency training to various city agencies and mental health providers
- The agency aims to make all providers part of their network by training them in military cultural competency
Linda Lee
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Okay.
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Awesome.
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And Sorry, I'm just skipping around.
0:56:33
Can you actually so in terms of expanding the family resources, so I know that you offer different types of, let's just say, information on breast cancer screenings like you mentioned in other health resources.
0:56:46
So is that an intentional partnership with DOH MH if you could talk a little bit more about what that looks like?
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Not just with those types of services, but in general with mental health services with DOH MH?
Lauren D'Mello
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Yes.
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We have an ongoing relationship with DOH MH where they share our programs with us.
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And in turn, we share our programs that we have that we offer our veterans.
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We also provide trainings for their programs, how to access them, who they're available for, and we provide military cultural competency to their various programs.
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We have train multiple cities, agencies.
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We've trained trained the office of mental health from the state, mobile crisis, the acting private part you have a training tomorrow, virtual training for open seats for 500, 500 participants on Veterans Mental Health.
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If you attend this one free continuing education credit, So we have ongoing trainings.
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We feel like although we have the mental health organizations that specialize in Veterans Mental Health, oftentimes they aren't coming to us.
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The city stacked with so many mental health providers that if you have a child who's suffering from mental health, they're going to the school first.
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They're going to their primary care provider first, their pediatrician first.
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So we feel that it's more effective to train these pro providers on military cultural competency to make them all part of our network.
