Agenda Highlights
- Prioritizing mental health: Prioritizing mental health with the same urgency, resources, and emphasis on prevention as physical health
- Advocating for policy advancements in mental health and substance use disorder treatment services: Engaging federal and state policymakers to implement and sustain policies that accelerate care access and treatment approaches
- Investing in preventive mental health services: Shifting from a reactive to a preventive/proactive approach to mental health
- Addressing barriers to integrated, coordinated, and immediate access to critical care: Closing the gaps in implementing an integrated system of care through enhanced education and clinician training
- Building a resilient employee workforce: Accelerating leadership’s role and adopting innovative preemptive programs to destigmatize mental health challenges and enable timely access to mental health resources
- Bridging the gap in access to mental healthcare among rural and underserved populations: Ensuring comprehensive care for diverse populations including those residing in underserved communities
- Leveraging technological advances to optimize care diagnosis and support: Keeping pace and unlocking the potential of digital therapeutics, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technologies to advance mental health services and substance use disorder treatment
- Cultivating and inspiring the “NextGen” behavioral health workforce: Incorporating creative recruitment initiatives while leveraging federal and state resources to address workforce shortage and create a more diverse workforce to deliver behavioral health
- Delivering care with cultural empathy: Providing individualized and culturally – contexed care through an individual’s own experiences and circumstances
Why Attend
- (NEW THIS YEAR) A muti-stakeholder event: Part of thINc value, the Advancing Behavioral Health and Policy Summit is co-located with the Value-Based Care Summit resulting in an expanded audience, content, and networking opportunities to connect to peers and prospects. With the CAA and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA), there is an increased effort to incorporate mental health strategies into overall health services
- Immerse in policy initiatives that will shape the future of behavioral health: The Summit is organized in partnership with the Association for Behavioral Health and Wellness (ABHW), the national voice for payers working to advance policies that improve access and quality of care for mental health and substance use disorders. ABHW’s members include national and regional health plans who care for more than 200 million people. With this partnership, the Advancing Behavioral Health and Policy Summit provides an update and impact on current and recently passed policies and legislation
- Critical content: Featuring senior leaders from health plans, health systems, employers, and public policy agency officials who will address the timely, pivotal issues and policies in the rapidly-evolving field of behavioral health and substance use disorder care through case studies highlighting value-based programs, partnerships, and contracting strategies
- Robust agenda: A varied program structure and format that features multi-perspective panel discussions, deep dive workshops, and focused roundtable discussions that allow for meaningful participant engagement, knowledge-sharing, and extensive peer-to-peer networking opportunities
- Meaningful connections: Leveraging thINc’s (The Healthcare Innovation Company) expertise to curate interactive learning experiences and facilitate networking with leaders, peers, and solutions providers
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