Q&A
Coordination with mental health services and other outreach teams
1:32:04
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Council Member Linda Lee inquires about coordination between substance use services and mental health outreach teams. Dr. Daniel Schatz explains how Health + Hospitals integrates mental health and addiction services under one roof to facilitate coordination and comprehensive care.
- Discussion of coordination between substance use and mental health services due to high comorbidity
- Explanation of how Health + Hospitals integrates these services under the Office of Behavioral Health
- Mention of workforce training programs focused on behavioral health staff to enhance cross-disciplinary knowledge
Linda Lee
1:32:04
And then also, are you coordinating with a lot of the other for example because I know that with mental health and substance use, there's a lot of comorbidity there.
1:32:12
So are you also coordinating with the other outreach teams like the ICT, ACT, IMT, all the other ones that are out there be heard?
Dr. Daniel Schatz
1:32:23
I can take from, health and hospital standpoint.
1:32:25
We all fall under one roof in the office of behavioral health, so that makes it a lot easier.
1:32:29
So there's the mental health and there's the addiction services.
1:32:32
We talk frequently to each other.
1:32:33
We try to make sure that we we're seen as 1 and the same.
1:32:37
And especially in addiction services that crossover not just mental health, but, you know, medicine, the emergency department, adolescents, OB.
1:32:44
So we are frequently having to do interdepartmental work and efforts.
1:32:48
The workforce training program in particular is focused on behavioral health staff.
1:32:51
That's the 303,000 staff that we'll look to train.
1:32:54
So for our mental health colleagues in in in our office, we'll be providing them kind of the earlier, you know, bay you know, more than the basics of addiction services, but we're also providing the addiction team the mental health services.
1:33:06
We very much look for that, crossover co occurring disorders.