- Contracts with eight Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) to hire Integrated Behavioral Health Care Coordinators (IBHCCs) to work as part of their Behavioral Health team, assisting complex clients with getting access to primary care services and specialty mental health services. The IBHCCs assist primary care providers and behavioral health clinicians with patients needing help to access referrals to specialty services, tracking and data collection, and monitoring referrals to health and social services.
- Provide Primary Care Psychiatric Consultation Services to eight FQHCs, SUD Programs, and one HIV Specialty Health Center. Consultants assist Primary Care Providers, Behavioral Health Clinicians, and Substance Use Disorders Counselors with Behavioral Health assessments, diagnosis, and prescribing of psychotropic medications.
- Provide continuous funding to train safety net primary care providers to prescribe psychotropic medications, diagnose behavioral health conditions, and manage patients with chronic pain conditions.
- Support Co-Occurring Recovery and Treatment Services for Specialty Mental Health consumers with substance use problems enrolled at three County-operated Adult Mental Health Centers by providing a contract licensed Substance Abuse Counselor to provide consultation to mental health staff, family members, and recovery support activities as needed
Workforce Development Programs
We oversee the bringing of psychiatric residents, fellows and other trainee prescribers into ACBHD programs.