Resources

 

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Behavioral Health Integration Tool

This tool is intended to help health care providers have conversations among team members to assess where you are in behavioral health integration and to make changes in levels of integration. It works for a range of clinical settings, including primary care and community mental health.

Birth Control Methods Chart

Designed for providers to help clients consider their birth control options, this chart includes birth control methods clients can start and stop on their own and those that require provider involvement (prescription or procedure).

Choosing Depression Medication

The choice of depression medications in primary care is difficult as there are many options. This tool for use during a clinical visit, assists providers and their clients with shared decision making.

Family Initiated Treatment

The state Health Care Authority has information for communities and providers about behavioral health treatment options for adolescents.

HEAL Act Dashboards

The Healthy Environment for All (HEAL) Act was passed into state law to ensure that all communities, especially those that have experienced the greatest environmental and health burdens, benefit from environmental policies and investments. HEAL Act dashboards provide a transparent, accessible tool for tracking how state agencies are implementing the requirements of the HEAL Act.

Hypertension Action Plan

This four-page fact sheet provides guidance for creating a personal action plan for patients with high blood pressure.

Long COVID Toolkit

This toolkit is designed to help health care providers, local health jurisdictions and community-based organizations support their patients and clients with understanding Long COVID.

Measles Toolkit

This toolkit includes printable and digital materials in multiple languages for health care providers and public health professionals to download and share with their clients and communities.

Medicare Payments for Behavioral Health Integration

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services annually updates Medicare guidelines and payments for services provided by medical treating providers for patients participating in a Collaborative Care program or receiving other behavioral health integration services. This Quick Guide on the UW AIMS Center website summarizes the Medicare codes and guidelines. 

Mental Health in Rural Communities Toolkit

Get resources and information on developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining rural mental health programs.

Obstetric Provider Toolkit

The Moms Obstetric Provider Toolkit can assist frontline perinatal care providers in the prevention, identification, and treatment of depression, other mental health and/or substance use concerns in pregnant and postpartum women.

Opioid Medication and Pain Treatment Fact Sheet

Health care providers can share this research-based handout to help patients navigate pain due to injury, surgery, or major dental work. It explains what opioids are, their risks, and how they can be used.

Opioid Response Network

Providing education and training at a local level for evidence-based practices in the prevention, treatment and recovery of opioid use disorders, the State Targeted Response Technical Assistance Consortium (STR-TA), funded by SAMHSA, is a response from a large coalition of national professional organizations. The Opioid Response Network, ORN, provides local training and education free of charge for specific needs at a community level.

Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Recommendations

Developed by a Washington state cross-system workgroup sponsored by the Bree Collaborative, the report prioritizes low-barrier access to medications for opioid use disorder across a variety of settings.

Palliative Care Best Practices

The guidelines formalize and delineate available evidence-based processes and practices as well as consensus recommendations for safe and reliable quality palliative care for adults, children, and families in all care settings.

Palliative Care Patient Resources

Get Palliative Care is an online resource with comprehensive palliative care information for patients and families coping with serious, complex illness.

Palliative Care Provider Fact Sheets

Website offers a Fast Facts directory health professional educators involved in palliative care education can use to access concise, practical, peer-reviewed, and evidence-based summaries on key topics important to clinicians and trainees caring for patients facing life-limiting illnesses.

Pediatric Mental Health Care in the Emergency Department Toolkit

Guidance to support a Clinical Care Pathway for clinicians needing to respond to children seeking care for a mental health crisis.

Perinatal Support Washington

The Perinatal Support Washington website offers help navigating the mental health system. It includes information for parents and providers, including perinatal mental health resources.

Person-Centered Customer Service Handbook

Guidance for how to hold a workshop with staff in any clinical setting to elevate ways to strengthen the organization's commitment to person-centered customer service under a unified framework.

Preventing Pregnancy-Related Mental Health Deaths: Insights From 14 US Maternal Mortality Review Committees, 2008-17

A 2021 report in Health Affairs describing the characteristics of pregnancy-related deaths due to mental health conditions from 2008-2017. This report includes data from 14 state Maternal Mortality Review Committees: Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah. Nearly 1 in 9 pregnancy-related deaths were due to mental health conditions. Among pregnancy-related mental health deaths with a preventability determination made by the MMRCs, 100% were determined to be preventable.

Problem-Solving Counseling for Depression

Problem-Solving Treatment (PST) is a short-term form of psychotherapy developed for primary care and community settings. It is also known as structured problem solving and focuses on improving coping skills. This therapy has been proven effective for the conditions most commonly treated in primary care – depression and anxiety. PST helps patients: Identify problems Come up with realistic solutions And make an action plan to implement them.

Promoting Chronic Disease Management: A guide for behavioral health care teams

In the new world of integrated care, behavioral health providers are becoming increasingly important in their clients’ chronic disease management strategies. While the symptoms and treatment of chronic diseases can vary, there are some common steps that behavioral health providers and care team members can take to assist clients in understanding, accepting, and managing their chronic disease.

Psychiatry Consultation Line

The Psychiatry Consultation Line, PCL, offers prescribers from primary care clinics, community hospitals, emergency departments, substance use treatment programs and municipal and county jails the opportunity to consult with a UW Psychiatrist about adult patients (18+) with mental health issues or regarding general questions related to mental health and psychiatric care. The service is explicitly to provide “curbside consultation,” but the UW psychiatrist provides a brief, written summary of the recommendations sent to the calling provider via encrypted email.

Public Health Performance Monitoring

This report presents the findings and recommendations from the Governor's Public Health Advisory Board (PDF) on public health system effectiveness.

Relationship Between Behavioral Health and Chronic Diseases

Behavioral health and physical health are profoundly interlinked. A person experiencing severe mental illness or a substance use disorder is at greater risk for developing chronic physical health conditions than the general population because of the illness itself as well as potential consequences related to treatment.1 Furthermore, high smoking rates in this population are a major contributing risk factor in the development of cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease and cancer.

Reproductive Health Access Project Abortion Resources

These resources mobilize, train, and support clinicians to help make sexual and reproductive health care related to abortion accessible to everyone.

SAMHSA Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit - 2018

The SAMHSA Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit - 2018 equips health care providers, communities, and local governments with material to develop practices and policies to help prevent opioid-related overdoses and deaths. It addresses issues for health care providers, first responders, treatment providers, and those recovering from opioid overdose.

Six Building Blocks

This website introduces the Six Building Blocks, provides tools and resources for improving care, and offers implementation guidance. The Six Building Blocks can help anyone who is interested in improving the care of patients using long-term opioid therapy.

Study: Perinatal Depression Treatment

Researchers examined care engagement factors across and within race/ethnicity to better understand previously observed racial/ethnic disparities in perinatal depression treatment.

Suicide Prevention

The Suicide Prevention Resource Center at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center has developed online courses that are free and self-paced for health, behavioral health, and mental health clinicians as well as students in clinical training programs.

Suicide Screening Questions Toolkit

Offered by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) tool is a set of four brief suicide screening questions that takes 20 seconds to administer. Questions are organized by the medical setting in which it will be used.

Survey Templates

This collection of surveys was created to serve as a resource for public health, health care, and other professionals looking to evaluate their implementation projects. There are surveys for school nurses, patients, public health staff, community health centers, and more.

Treatments for pregnant and parenting clients with opioid use disorder

This guide provides comprehensive, national guidance for management of pregnant and parenting clients with opioid use disorder and their infants. The clinical guide helps health care professionals and patients determine the most clinically appropriate action for a particular situation and informs individualized treatment decisions.

Using Collaborative Care for Opioid and Alcohol Use Disorders

Results from this randomized clinical trial report posted on the JAMA Network website says that collaborative care intervention increased both the proportion of primary care patients receiving evidence-based treatment for opioid and alcohol use disorders and the number achieving abstinence from opioids or alcohol use at 6 months.

UW Perinatal Psychiatry Consultation Line (Perinatal PCL)

Perinatal PCL is a free telephone consultation service for health care providers caring for patients with mental health and co-occurring substance use problems who are pregnant, postpartum, or planning pregnancy. Any health care provider in Washington State can call.

UW Perinatal Psychiatry Consultation Line for Providers (PPCL)

Previously known as PAL for Moms, PPCL is a free, state-funded program providing perinatal mental health consultation, recommendations, and referrals for Washington state providers caring for pregnant or postpartum patients. Any health care provider in Washington State can call.

Washington HealthCareCompare

The website and database were created by legislation passed in 2015 (RCW 43.371) to increase price transparency. The website allows consumers to search for the price of more than 100 procedures and treatments and quality of providers and hospitals.

Women, Gender, and Maternal Health Priorities for Medicaid Clients

An issue brief shares the results of a national survey and a focus group that was convened to ascertain the priority topics identified by key stakeholders in Medicaid: federal and state policymakers, Medicaid health plans, national and state leaders, and most importantly, individuals with lived experience.

Workplace Mental Health and Well-Being

This Framework for Workplace Mental Health and Well-Being shows how to make workplaces engines of well-being, while helping workers see that they matter, that their work matters, and that they have the workplace resources and support necessary to flourish.