The Ins and Outs of FQHCs for Integrated Behavioral Health Providers

Session Description: This webinar is designed to provide an overview of California’s public healthcare system & the Medi-Cal Managed Care landscape for behavioral health. The speaker will also provide an introduction to Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and the values and challenges of an Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) model.

Presenters: Mia Cooper Kahn, MPH

Presenter Emails: mcooper@chcnetwork.org 
 
Presenter Bio:  Mia Cooper Kahn is the Senior Manager of Behavioral Health at Alameda Health Consortium (AHC). AHC is a regional consortium of 8 Federally Qualified Health Centers in Alameda County. Mia leads AHC’s BH team, which supports the integrated behavioral health programs at AHC’s member health centers by elevating the voices of integrated BH leaders and advocating for our community’s BH needs. Mia’s team supports health centers through BH capacity building, stakeholder relations, policy and advocacy.

Learning Objectives: After completing this session, participants will be able to:

• Describe the key structural and functional components of our public healthcare system, with a focus on Medi-Cal Managed Care
• Describe key elements of FQHCs and how they incorporate culturally responsive care
• List the key elements of an IBH model and the values and challenges of IBH 

Accessibility statement: SF State Department of Counseling’s Equity and Justice – Focused Counselor Training project welcomes persons with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations (including ASL interpretation) upon request. If you need reasonable accommodations for this event, please make your request by contacting Julie Chronister jchronis@sfsu.edu by Friday 3/7/2025.

Closed captioning and Spanish language translation will be available during the webinar. Habrá subtítulos e interpretación en español disponibles durante el seminario web.

Continuing Education Information 

Real-time attendance at this webinar has been approved for 1.0 hours of continuing education credit via our partnership with Counseling and Psychological Services at the University of California at Berkeley who is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. This  course  has  been  approved  for  1.0   hours of continuing education  credit for LMFT, LPCC and /or LCSW as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Counseling and Psychological Services, University of California at Berkeley maintains responsibility for the program and its content. Please direct concerns about this course or its content to Stephanie Takeuchi stephanie.takeuchi@berkeley.edu

There is no cost to attend this webinar. Participants desiring CEU credit for attending this webinar will be directed to sign in at the start of the webinar and will be required to provide an evaluation of the session directly following the webinar and verify their participation and attendance. CEU certificates will be emailed to participants who successfully complete both the sign in and evaluation process. If you have trouble with accessing the sign in or evaluation, you can contact Tiffany O’Shaughnessy taosh@sfsu.edu 
 
HRSA Disclaimer: This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $1,905,974 with zero percentage financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.