The What and Why of Integrated Care

Description

This training focuses on the structure and functions of IBH, key IBH concepts and models, roles and functions of IBH health and behavioral health providers, and best practices in IBH for youth.
 

Learning Objectives

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

Presenter Bio

Field Consultant and Lecturer 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 has 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 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. In addition to her Field Consultant work at UC Berkeley, 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.

Webinar Format

The Zoom webinar will be live, recorded, closed captioned, and offered in English with a Spanish translation audio feed. Participants will be able to ask questions via Q&A function.

Disability Access

SF State Department of Counseling’s Equity and Justice – Focused Integrated Behavioral Health 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 Wednesday 12/1/21.

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 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.