Southcentral Foundation (SCF), an Alaska Native customer-owned health care system, first integrated behavioral health (BH) services into primary care 22 years ago. Since then, SCF has expanded its integrated behavioral services greatly, with demand increasing as customer-owners became more comfortable with requesting BH care. This session covers what stakeholders and influences cultivated SCFs first integrated behavioral services, how SCF uses Behavioral Health Consultants (BHC) to support comprehensive and changing primary care over the lifespan, and how SCF has expanded BHC responsibilities to meet these needs. Also covered will be the challenges SCF faced in integrating services, how SCF navigated those challenges, and how integration has benefited both customer-owners and primary care clinics.
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Designing and scaling up integrated youth mental health care https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wps.20938
Integrated Behavioral Health Services and Psychosocial Symptoms in Children https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2839009
Integrated Behavioral Health Care https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-29171-5_33
Integrated behavioral health care as a means of addressing common behavioral health concerns within pediatric primary care https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1538544224001664