Meet Barbara, a retired schoolteacher living in the Bitterroot Valley, and Sarah, a licensed clinical social worker specializing in integrated care, and see how the Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) Initiative is helping improve the lives of Montanans. "Barbara & Sarah" is an intimate, 7-minute documentary that follows a patient and a BHC from their lives to the exam room. This film is a vulnerable look at the importance of finding mental health resources through local primary care providers. This session will share one patient’s story, one organization’s journey, and one state’s efforts to achieve widespread implementation of IBH. Film screening followed by Q&A with BHC Sarah McNair, LCSW, and Liz Davies, LCSW, Montana Healthcare Foundation.
https://mthf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024-PC-BH-Issue-Brief.pdf
https://dphhs.mt.gov/assets/suicideprevention/SuicideinMontana092324.pdf
https://dphhs.mt.gov/ecfsd/primarycare/shortageareadesignations
https://dphhs.mt.gov/assets/publichealth/EMSTS/Data/Alcohol_1pager.pdf
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2022.00705