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Oregon Advance Directive & Declaration for Mental Health Treatment
Attend this training provided by EOCCO!
Thinking about advanced healthcare wishes for yourself or a loved one?
EOCCO's Advance directive online Training teaches you how to talk with loved ones about your wishes and choose a person to make healthcare decisions for you if you can't.
The free online training will help you:
Share your wishes with your loved ones
Remove the burden of making difficult healthcare decisions from your loved ones
Guide them in honoring your wishes
You'll also learn about Oregon's Declaration for Mental Health Treatment, a tool for sharing your wishes at a time of crisis.
When?
February 11, 2025, 1:00-2:00 PM (PST)
April 08, 2025, 1:00-2:00 PM (PDT)
August 12, 2025, 1:00 - 2:00 PM (PDT)
Register here: www.gobhi.org/oabhi/training
GOBHI Older Adult Behavioral Health Initiative Events
Build your knowledge and skills to meet the behavioral health needs of older adults. Use the links below to register for one, some, or all sessions.
Loneliness and Isolation - The ethics of connection for older adults
April 22, 1-3pm
Research shows that 25% of older adults report feeling lonely. The Surgeon General is calling loneliness a Public Health Concern leading to chronic behavioral and physical health conditions.
We will explore connection as a social determinant of health and find ways to help others get connected.
Falls and Behavioral Health
March 11, 10-12pm The Body & Mind Connection with Nirmala Dhar, MSW, LCSW
Recognizing Anxiety in Older Adults
May 14, 1-3pm with Nirmala Dhar, MSW, LCSW
Question, Persuade, Refer
QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer — the 3 simple steps anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide.
People trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help.
Also covered information about preventing suicide among older adults populations.
QPR can be learned in our Gatekeeper course. Choose from the one of the following three sessions that best works with your schedule.
We will also provide a special 2 hours session which will include a focus on the Veteran population
Virtual Zoom Trainings
QPR 1 hour Sessions
March 6, 1-2pm
May 1, 1-2pm
Sept 4, 1-2pm
Special Veterans Addition
Nov 6, 1-3pm
Oregon Center on Behavioral Health & Justice Integration updates
OCBHJI helps jurisdictions across the state implement and improve efforts in engaging and treating individuals who, primarily due to symptoms of behavioral health conditions, neurocognitive conditions, and/or intellectual/developmental disabilities (I/DD), are at risk of becoming incarcerated or are currently in the system, while collaborating with agencies to support public safety.
Sequential Intercept Mapping (SIM)
This workshop is designed to tap into local expertise by bringing together key stakeholders to develop a “map” that illustrates how people with mental health conditions and substance use disorders come in contact with and flow through the local criminal justice system. This map identifies opportunities and resources for diverting people to treatment without compromising community safety and indicates gaps in services. The SIM workshop is based on the Sequential Intercept Model developed through SAMHSA’s GAINS Center at Policy Research Associates (PRA).
Behavioral Health Directed Payment Updates
The Oregon Health Authority has made some small modifications to the payment amounts for the behavioral health directed payments program.
Category 1-Medicaid Dominant providers will need to complete a new attestation form and will receive the greater of 110% of DMAP or a reasonable inflation factor from 2024 rates. No increase or change for non-Medicaid dominant providers.
Category 2- ICOD services will now be split by three service categories; SUD Residential, Mental Health Non-inpatient and SUD services. Previous years this was split by education levels, this no longer exists. Specific codes and modifiers apply.
SUD residential will receive 115% of DMAP as of 1/1/2025
Mental Health non-inpatient will receive 120% of DMAP as of 1/1/2025
SUD services will receive 110% of DMAP as of 1/1/2025
Category 3-Culturally and linguistically specific services have only one change and that is to add traditional health worker service codes to the increases related to non-rural and rural services. Custom modifier required to identify services.
Category 4- no changes
GOBHI will be following up with providers to collect attestation forms as well as contract amendments if necessary for updated rates.
Providers can find the updated information on the GOBHI website in our provider section or at the Oregon Health authority website at https://www.oregon.gov/OHA/HSD/OHP/Pages/BH-Rate-Increase.aspx
EOCCO Advance Directive Trainings
Thinking about advance healthcare wishes for yourself, a loved one or someone you are providing care for?
EOCCO's Advance Directive online training teaches you how to talk with loved one and/or a person you are providing care for about health care wishes and choosing a person to make healthcare decisions when the person in question is unable to.
When: Click on Date below to register
Oregon Alliance - Annual Summit
The Oregon Alliance - Oregon Child & Family Center for Excellence 2025 Annual Summit is almost here!
Care at the Core: Evolving Care Practices for People and Organizations
April 9 - 11, 2025
Salishan Coastal Lodge, 7760 US-101, Gleneden Beach, OR
2025 Lunch and Learn Training Opportunities
In an effort to improve access to GOBHI’s training for network providers and offer Continuing Education Units (CEU’s), we are excited to announce the 2024 Lunch and Learn Series. On the 3rd Thursday of each month from 12-1 PM PT we will be offering 1 hour of CEUs for a variety of topics, presented by GOBHI subject matter experts. We are hoping you will join us! We understand this time is usually lunch for folks, so feel free to join camera on or off and both get some nourishment, earn a CEU, and engage with peers around topics that we think are pertinent to the work you all are doing!
Program update - Foster Care
Foster homes for youth are greatly needed in Eastern Oregon!
The GOBHI Therapeutic Foster Care program provides full-time/part-time services and care to youth in foster homes with foster parents certified and trained by GOBHI. Youth are involved with the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS), Child Welfare Division.
Please visit our website to learn more about the program and how you can help by sharing information, promoting the importance of foster care, and referring individuals who are able to support this critical effort.
Help us build a network of caring homes to support youth across our state. For more information about referral incentives and how you can support foster home recruitment efforts, see this flier or contact a member of our Foster Care Team.
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