Beyond Depression and Anxiety: Scaling CoCM for Serious Mental Illness and Opioid Use Disorder

Join us Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2-3 p.m. ET, for Beyond Depression and Anxiety: Scaling CoCM for Serious Mental Illness and Opioid Use Disorder. This session will highlight real-world applications of the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) to treat opioid use disorder (OUD), bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a primary care setting. Panelists will share insights from implementation efforts, including lessons learned from clinical trials and frontline practice.  

Learning Objectives:  

• Describe the rationale and clinical need for expanding behavioral health integration to address conditions beyond depression and anxiety 
• Identify key adaptations to workflows, staffing and measurement-informed care tools to effectively integrate behavioral health care for patients with OUD, bipolar disorder and PTSD in primary care settings.  
• Discuss implementation challenges and lessons learned from sites that have successfully expanded the scope of behavioral health integration.  

Panelists :  

• Dr. Anna Ratzliff, Codirector of the AIMS Center at the University of Washington  
• Dr. Jennifer Thomas, Medical Director of Integrated Behavioral Health, Morris Hospital  

The conversation series, hosted with our partners at Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, focuses on how integrated care solutions are shaping the future of behavioral health care.