Our Resources
For Many
If we want a brighter future for mental health and substance use, it will take all of us doing our part.
Below are some of our resources to help organizations of all types ensure mental healthcare and substance use treatment is part of their plan forward.
Clinicians & Health Systems
Half of all people who die from suicide saw their primary care doctors shortly before ending their lives. With a shortage of specialty mental health clinicians and the trust Americans have in their doctors, primary care physicians are America’s front line in our battle against mental illness. Our goal is to empower health systems and their primary care practices with the resources they need to be successful in combating mental health and substance use and reaching people early and effectively, when health needs – including those posing risks of suicide – can receive more effective and equitable care.
- Practicing and Billing Toolkit for Collaborative Care Model
American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) detailed billing toolkit - Learn More about the Collaborative Care Model and Get Trained
Free Online Collaborative Care Training Modules for psychiatric consultants, primary care clinicians and care managers - Cost Analysis
Learn about the break-even point and when you start to recoup costs
- Collaborative Care Model
Educational Resources from Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute - Comprehensive Collaborative Care Map & Inventory (Coming Soon!)
Where collaborative care is already starting (coming soon!) - Use of Collaborative Care in Special Populations
APA’s learning modules on using Collaborative Care in pediatrics, perinatal, geriatric, and substance use populations - FAQS for Primary Care Doctors on Collaborative Care
APA’s extensive Q&A for primary care doctors about this groundbreaking model - Training Curriculum on Behavioral Health Integration
Purchaser Business Group on Health’s extensive training curriculum
Employers, Unions and States
Take charge of mental health care for millions of Americans with the purchasing power in your hands. As the purchasers of healthcare for over half of the nation, employers influence the delivery of mental health services more than any other. When they join forces with other purchasers, like unions and governments, they make an even bigger impact. What it takes is a just a few small changes to how purchasers negotiate with insurance companies and third-party administrators. And we are here to help.
Employer Action Plan
Use our Employer Action Plan to hold your TPA Accountable
Waive “out-of-pocket” Collaborative Care expenses for employees
Eliminate billing limits on follow-up Collaborative Care visits for employees
Provide detailed assessment of compliance with parity laws
Pediatricians and Schools
Half of all mental health conditions develop by age 14 and then go undetected for 8-10 years after symptoms emerge. Pediatric Collaborative Care solves this problem through early detection and treatment of mental health conditions. As with every other illness, early detection and treatment improves outcomes by reversing the disease course early in its tracks, thus averting the crises and tragedies so often seen with untreated illness. It also frees up the behavioral health specialty care workforce—improving their efficiency by 300-400%. Join us in making pediatric Collaborative Care the new national standard.
- Comprehensive Collaborative Care Map & Inventory (Coming Soon!)
Where collaborative care is already starting - Consensus Approach to Pediatric CoCM (Coming Soon!)
Findings from a summit held by our partners at the Meadows Institute for 24 Collaborative Care academic practitioners currently implementing Collaborative Care in pediatric settings - Use of Collaborative Care in Special Populations
APA’s brief on using CoCM in special settings like pediatrics See:
- JED High School Program
The Jed Foundation partners with high schools and school districts to help strengthen approaches to support student mental health and prevent suicide
- Integration and the Pediatric Behavioral Health Workforce
Meadows Institute briefing on how pediatric Collaborative Care solves our pediatric workforce crisis See: - Improving Behavioral Health Care for Youth Through Collaborative Care Expansion
Meadows Institute and Commonwealth national scan of Medicaid programs
Insurers
With the help of insurers, equitable access is within reach. From better reimbursement to hassle-free administration, insurers are the key to transforming mental health care. And here’s an easy step to make it happen: invest in training and startup costs for Collaborative Care. Trailblazers like Blue Cross Blue Shield Michigan have already shown the impact this can have on health. Not to mention, healthier patients mean lower medical costs for everyone. Join us to make accessible care the new norm in mental health.
- Regional Stakeholder Coalitions
Join one of our multi-stakeholder regional coalitions of employers, insurers, state government and community groups - Quantitative Data Templates
Use our standardized measures on Network Adequacy, Telemedicine, Collaborative Care, and Parity that state insurance regulators have already adopted in MD, TX, WA - Sample Letters
Write letters to all four accrediting bodies urging adoption of Measurement-Based Care (MBC)
- Cost Implications
Learn about the financial benefits of Collaborative Care - Infographic on Disparities Between Mental and Physical Health
Mental Health Association of Maryland’s infographic on parity issues - Telebehavioral Health Survey
Purchaser Business Group on Health Patient Survey on Telebehavioral Health - Advanced Request for Information: Behavioral Health Integration
Purchaser Business Group on Health’s RFI (currently being piloted with four public and private payers in California).