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SESSION: D4 |
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Thursday, June 18, 2015 |
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2:00pm-3:15pm |
| ABSTRACT CATEGORY |
Clinical Skills |
ABSTRACT TITLE |
Project ECHO Goes to School: Utilizing case based telehealth learning methodology to increase the competence and effectiveness of school based behavioral health and medical providers.
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ABSTRACT SUMMARY |
Using the methodology of Project ECHO® (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes), a national telehealth program tranforming medical practice, Community Health Center, Inc.’s Pediatric and Adolescent Behavioral Health Project ECHO® creates a virtual community to increase the competence and confidence of medical and behavioral health delivering school based behavioral health care through didactic trainings by an experienced multidisciplinary faculty and extensive case-based learning from the challenges faced daily by providers delivering the care in Connecticut’s schools.
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ABSTRACT DESCRIPTION |
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation noted that improving children’s behavioral health care is more than increasing the number of available providers. To meet the behavioral health needs of children and adolescents, especially those for whom disparities exist, health systems must address policy, system and practice reform issues.
Disparities in access to behavioral health care for children and adolescents persist, especially for black and Latino youth, and socioeconomically disadvantaged children, who are also at twice the risk for developing a behavioral health problem. Project ECHO will lessen these disparities and bring advice and input from a multi-disciplined faculty directly to the school based health providers who are involved in the day to day treatment of children and adolescents with the highest needs.
Project ECHO® (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is an innovative national telehealth program that is transforming the way primary care providers and specialists interact, collaborate, and care for patients. Project ECHO® connects primary care medical and behavioral health providers nationwide with a multidisciplinary specialty team via cloud-based videoconference, encouraging the adoption of best practices for the care of patients with complex conditions through case-based learning. TeleECHO clinics are conducted weekly or bi-weekly at Community Health Center, Inc. for various chronic conditions including pain, HIV, hepatitis C and Buprenorphine Maintenance Therapy, as well as to provide support for quality improvement coaches.
Community Health Center, Inc.’s Pediatric and Adolescent Behavioral Health Project ECHO will address disparities in behavioral health services for patients receiving care in school-based clinics at Community Health Center, Inc., a multi-site FQHC in Connecticut. Project ECHO® Pediatric and Adolescent Behavioral Health aims to create a community of practice among behavioral health and medical providers treating behavioral health issues in children receiving care at Community Health Center Inc.’s school-based health centers. By presenting cases to a multidisciplinary team of specialists and sharing with their colleagues, primary care medical and behavioral health providers (both those in full service school based health centers and those in stand alone behavioral health programs) gain knowledge, expertise, and confidence to manage these complex conditions on their own. Project ECHO Pediatric and Adolescent Behavioral Health aims to increase the competence of providers to treat behavioral health issues and to create a national model for other pediatric primary care medical and behavioral health providers. An expert multidisciplinary faculty including a child psychiatric prescriber, a child psychologist, a pediatrician, and school based medical and behavioral health providers will present brief didactic trainings (30 minutes or less) and lead discussion of
case material presented by school based provider participants in the every other week 120 minute web based clinic. Pre and post measures seek to address the changes in clinician competence and confidence. Outcome measures look at changes in the client/patient’s situation. This presentation will discuss CHCI’s model and preliminary results seen since we introduced Project ECHO Pediatric and Adolescent Behavioral Health in our school based health center network in January 2014.
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PRESENTER(S) |
NAME: Jane Hylan MPH, CHES ORGANIZATION: Community Health Center, Inc
NAME: Tim Kearney PhD ORGANIZATION: Community Health Center, Inc
NAME: Agi Erickson BA ORGANIZATION: Community Health Center, Inc.
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AUDIENCE |
ADMINISTRATORS: N |
PRIMARY HEALTH: Y |
MENTALHEALTH: N |
ORGANIZATIONAL: N |
PUBLIC HEALTH: N |
EDUCATION: N |
YOUTH: N |
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