Tag: Collaborative Care
Meadows Institute leads Pediatric Collaborative Care discussion at the American Psychiatric Association’s 2023 Mental Health Services Conference
The Collaborative Care Model is the integrated behavioral health model with the strongest evidence base to effectively address the needs of our beleaguered mental health care system, including for youth and children, Dr. Andrew Carlo…
Facing off Tsunami: Innovative Mental Health Care to the Rescue
President & CEO Andy Keller was a recent guest on The NeuroCentury Podcast, a series of conversations about the importance of the brain in the times we live in, in which he and host Paweł…
Meadows Institute leads integrated behavioral health care discussion at APA’s annual convention
The Institute’s Vice President of Health System Integration Andrew Carlo, MD moderated a discussion on the application and sustainability of pediatric integrated care models such as the Collaborative Care Model Aug. 5 at the American…
Behavioral Health Integration and Guidance Initiative
SUMMARY - The Meadows Institute partnered with Children’s Health, a top-rated children’s hospital in North Texas, to train pediatric health care providers to detect and treat mild-to-moderate behavioral health conditions such as anxiety, stress...
Pediatric and Adolescent Collaborative Care Roundtable
The nation is facing a critical youth and mental health crisis. Half of all mental health conditions manifest by age 14, and yet children and youth are waiting an average of eight to 10 years…
Using Digital Technology to Respond to the Youth Mental Health Crisis
This article was published by The Commonwealth Fund on July 26, 2023 and is authored by the Meadows Institute’s Kacie Kelly, Lindsey Engelman, and Solome Tibebu. Mental illness among young people in the United States…
88th Texas Legislature Regular Session Wrap Up
SUMMARY – The 88th Legislature delivered a record $11.68 billion for behavioral health, an increase of more than 30% from the previous session. Senator Joan Huffman, Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, called it...
Meadows Institute Takes to Capitol Hill in Support of Collaborative Care Expansion
More than 70 congressional health care staffers, federal agency officials, business innovators and leaders from mental health advocacy and professional associations crowded into a meeting room at the United States Capitol Visitor Center June 7…
Improving Behavioral Health Care for Youth Through Collaborative Care Expansion
The country is in the midst of an ongoing and worsening youth mental health crisis. Nearly half of all U.S. teenagers report that they struggle with persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness. Eleven percent of…
Pediatric Mental Health Initiative from Children’s Health & Meadows Institute Expands Access to Behavioral Health Services for 150,000 Families in Inaugural Year
Organizations share impressive results from first training program to address the pediatric mental health crisis and support pediatric providers DALLAS – A new pediatric mental health initiative launched by Children’s Health, one of the largest…
Collaborative Care Implementation Costs Across Health Care Systems
Collaborative Care (CoCM) is an evidence-based treatment model for behavioral health integration. Typically implemented in general medical or pediatric settings, CoCM leverages the services of a specially trained behavioral health care manager to collaboratively manage…
Expanding Collaborative Care in Medicaid Can Combat the Country’s Youth Mental Health Crisis
This article was published by The Commonwealth Fund on November 28, 2022 and is authored by the Meadows Institute’s Melissa Rowan and Kacie Kelly. Even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, America’s youth were…
Engage & Excel 2022
Highlights from Day 1 of
Engage & Excel 2022
This morning we kicked off Engage & Excel 2022 both virtually and in-person to an enthusiastic audience in Plano, TX. Below are highlights from our morning kickoff and a few of today’s Breakout Sessions—deep dives…
New bipartisan effort to expand mental health access nationwide
This article was originally published by Cox Media Group on March 30, 2022. WASHINGTON — During the pandemic, drug overdoses and suicide attempts have spiked, which has sparked a new bipartisan effort to improve mental health services…
Andy Keller, PhD, Testifies Before U.S. Senate Committee on Finance about Parity & Care Integration
On Wednesday, March 30, Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute President and CEO, Andy Keller, PhD, is presenting invited testimony to the United States Senate Committee on Finance to discuss ways of ensuring parity and integration…
House Select Committee on Youth Health & Safety
SUMMARY - During his invited testimony, President and CEO Andy Keller, PhD, discussed the dramatic increase in mental health needs and pediatric ER visits resulting from suicide attempts and answered questions from committee members.
Press Release: Eighteen Organizations Express Support for the Collaborate in an Orderly and Cohesive Manner (COCM) Act
Legislation to improve access to evidence-based mental health and substance use care introduced by Reps. Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX) and Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) Austin, TX —The Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute and 17 organizations have…
4th Annual Nantucket Children’s Mental Health Summit
The Hackett Center for Mental Health, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Association for Mental Health (MAMH), recently convened and hosted the 2021 Nantucket Children’s Mental Health Summit. This was the second year the…
87th Texas Legislature Regular Session Wrap Up
SUMMARY - Throughout what was a challenging and, at times, divisive legislative session, one area of full agreement among state leaders was that mental health continues to be paramount to Texas’ present and future.
Press Release: Meadows Institute Named Recipient of $10 Million Lone Star Prize
Today, the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute was named the recipient of the $10 million Lone Star Prize, awarded by Lyda Hill Philanthropies and Lever for Change, a Texas-based competition launched in early 2020. The…