The What and Why of Culturally Responsive Integrated Care

Session Description:

This 1-hour webinar outlines the structure and functions of Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) using examples from a culturally responsive and community centered clinic. The presentation will outline key IBH concepts and models, roles and functions of IBH health and behavioral health providers, and best practices in culturally responsive IBH for youth.

Presenter Bio:

Erica Gomes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker that has been working in the non-profit sector providing clinical social work services for the past 20 years. She started her career as a Domestic Violence Counselor and has worked primarily in medical settings providing services to a variety of populations including children, youth and families, pregnant and postpartum women and individuals living with HIV/AIDS. She has worked in a community health center in San Francisco, providing bilingual (English/Spanish) clinical services; developing and implementing their integrated behavioral health model. She also provided outpatient sliding-scale psychotherapy services, mental health evaluation for asylum cases, and has worked internationally providing social services in Central America. She is a MINT Certified Trainer, a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, and an Exam Writer for the Association of Social Work Board's Clinical Licensing Exam and has contributed to research related to culturally adapted best practices in group CBT interventions for unaccompanied minors. She is a Lead Integrated Behavioral Health Supervisor at La Clínica where she supervises a team of clinical social workers who provide integrated services at several medical and school-based clinics throughout Alameda, Solano, and Contra Costa counties. She previously served as a Practicum Consultant and Lecturer at UC Berkeley.
 

Learning Objectives: 

After completing this session, participants will be able to:

1: Name one benefit of integrating BH into primary care setting
2: Name 2-3 screening tools utilized in integrated settings
3: Name two culturally responsive therapeutic modalities/approaches utilized in integrated care settings

*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 3/1/24

*Continuing Education Information 
 

The Department of Counseling at San Francisco State University, an accredited post-secondary educational institution, maintains responsibility for the program and its content. Real-time attendance at this webinar 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 (BPC 4980.54, 4989.34, 4996.22, 4999.76). Please direct concerns about this course or its content to Tiffany O’Shaughnessy, PhD taosh@sfsu.edu
 
There is no cost to attend this webinar. Participants licensed in California by the BBS 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.

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.