SAMHSA’s Center for Financing Reform and Innovation (CFRI) is releasing a report and hosting a webinar Community-Initiated Care in Behavioral Health: Exploring Funding Mechanisms for Substance Use Disorders.
Tuesday, April 21, 2-3 p.m. ET
Increasing behavioral health needs and persistent workforce shortages leave many communities without timely access to substance use disorders (SUD) services. Community-initiated care (CIC) offers a promising strategy to expand support by engaging trained community members and leveraging existing local resources to help mitigate the SUD service gaps.
Learn more about this report during SAMHSA’s webinar which examines existing CIC organizations to better understand the strategies and funding mechanisms used to sustain early intervention and prevention services for SUD in their communities.
Speakers include:
- Rachele C. Espiritu, Ph.D., Director, SAMHSA Office of Minority Health, Acting Director, Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) – Opening Remarks, Panel Moderator
- Shoma Ghose, Ph.D., Vice President, Westat – Welcome/Housekeeping
- Lauren Decker-Woodrow, Ph.D., Principal Research Associate, Westat – Report Overview
- Michele Gazda, Associate Director for Overdose Prevention, Global Health Advocacy Incubator – Panelist
- Robin Racine, Director, Tipton Prevention – Panelist
- Marc Dalton, M.D., M.P.H., Medical Director for Behavioral Health, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield – Panelist