Presenters: Christopher Roby, PhDc, President/CEO Mississippi Health Alliance, LLC; Grants and Program Director, G.A. Carmichael Family Health Center, Inc. 

 Geraldine Bates, LCSW, Director of Social Services, G.A. Carmichael Family Health Center, Inc. 

This training is designed to show how the integration of health care is a coordinated system that combines medical and behavioral services to address the whole person, not just aspects of their conditions by:
•    Building skills to plan, implement and evaluate the integration of behavioral health into primary care
•    Building skills to identify the appropriate model that fits each health centers practice
Objectives:
•    Define what integrated health care is
•    Identify why one should integrate behavioral health and primary care
•    Identify integrated models of behavioral health in primary care settings
•    Identify the cost benefits for consumers in using an integrated care model that includes behavioral health as key component
•    Anticipate ways to apply the primary behavioral health model to your practice or clinic
•    Recognize strategies to garner staff buy in to ensure selected integrated model is successful
•    Create environments whereby providers and consumer understand their roles in the integrated model   
•    Develop a work flow that will help to sustain the integrated model within the agency or clinic
•    Practice forms of communication which will help consumers actively seek primary care that utilizes integrated care models. 
•     Effectively develop evaluation tools to evaluate programs on ongoing bases