Behavioral Health and Opioids

Behavioral health encompasses substance use and mental health concerns—components of individual and population health.

Nearly 20% of Americans, more than 46 million adults, are affected by a behavioral health disorder annually.

As your quality improvement organization, we will collaborate with you to identify and impact behavioral health outcomes.

Goals

• Decrease opioid related overdose deaths by 7% nationally
• Increase access to behavioral health services
• Reduce opioid related harm, and utilization where appropriate
• Reduce ER utilization

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Peer-Learning Opportunites

• Implementation training on trauma-informed care, assessing for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and identify effective interventions
• Starting or expanding a multidisciplinary Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) program
• Increasing awareness of and treatment for behavioral health and substance use disorder in all care settings

Customized Technical Assistance

• Developing protocols for behavioral health screening and treatment referral
• Supporting optimization of your care for people with chronic pain and/or chronic health conditions
• Applying the principles and tools of quality improvement

Our clinical and quality improvement experts can share tools and resources on:

• Trauma-informed care across the community
• Screening tools for trauma, social determinants of health, depression, dementia, substance use disorders, and health equity
• Compassionate tapering, pain management, and MOUD
• Focused rapid-cycle improvement projects that support integration of behavioral health screening tools with improved patient health outcomes