Why C4BHI CONSULTATION?
The Center for Behavioral Health Integration (C4BHI) promotes effective integrated healthcare and the use of evidence-based practices through training, continuous quality improvement, and outcome evaluation. For the last 20 years, our team of psychologists and social workers have collaborated with communities, nonprofit agencies, universities, state, and federal entities to manage and help realize best outcomes for population health projects like SBIRT. Our experience spans the continuum of care for co-occurring mental health and substance use challenges as well as broader areas within healthcare and education. Learn more about C4BHI and how we can assist you in project management, training, or evaluation.
Our goal is to share our knowledge and expertise to help your organization reach its own potential. We recognize many professions are experiencing rapid and dynamic change. Our past and ongoing work at the federal and national level, serve to keep you abreast of such changes. We work with you to assess and implement strategies designed to keep pace with growth, especially in the preparation for adoption and implementation of new practices into your setting in a sustainable way.
Recent Highlights:
- Our team continues to assist nonprofit organizations to secure grants designed to increase services and supports for addressing substance use and mental health issues including $4 million in 2022.
- Working with the Friends Research Institute since 2021 to summarize and publish outcome findings concerning the use of a Smartphone-Based Contingency Management App for those who identify as having moderate or severe risk for substance use.
- Wiley is publishing a book entitled A Practitioner’s Guide to Cannabis that is co-authored and informed by C4BHI staff. The book outlines and helps to provide Cannabis Clinical Competencies.
- C4BHI staff are entering their 3rd year serving as expert training and coaching consultants for the New Jersey Department of Human Services Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services’ (DMHAS) Evidence-Based Practice Initiative (EBPI). This effort aims to train substance use treatment clinicians in the practices of Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavior Therapy using the Integrated Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adults with Substance Use and Co-occurring Mental Health Disorders: A Practitioner’s Guide.
- Conducted a behavioral health needs assessment for 6 counties in central Minnesota. Worked with a large group of core partners to set project scope, collect data from over 100 community organizations, and establish 6 key areas of need for the region to focus on to improve behavioral health services.