11. Training

Brief Description

1. Define and inventory the core functions (tasks) and competencies of an integrated care workforce.
2. Identify gaps in existing workforce and training.
3. Partner with stakeholders to translate this into diverse training programs and settings. Training programs will address all team roles including care management and interdisciplinary collaboration. They will focus on:
1. Existing workforce (retraining and continuing education), and
2. New workforce (existing professional training programs).

Opportunity (Why Now?)

1. Known gaps in existing workforce
2. Prepare for impact of health reform and medical home
3. Create a unified model of evidence-based integrated behavioral health care to guide workforce development
4. Help shape meaningful use of health information exchange in integrated care
5. Huge variation in care management and other behavioral health care roles
6. Emerging new roles for effective integrated care teams (e.g., care managers, certified peers)
7. Need to train behavioral health providers to practice as effective members of primary care-based PCMHs, ACOs, and health care teams

Benjamin Miller, PsyD
AHRQ Academy for Integrating Mental Health and Primary Care

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