There is a range of addiction severity to cigarettes, cigars, vapes and other nicotine delivery devices. Simply stated, some of us are more hooked than others which is why one stop smoking strategy doesn’t work for everyone. It’s not about quitting, it about learning replacement coping skills. This session defines the physical, behavioral, and emotional […]

In partnership with Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Women’s Mental Health, CBH is thrilled to announce an exciting training opportunity focused on providing evidence-based psychiatric treatment for women across the lifespan. This six-part series will provide treatment considerations and best practices for working with individuals during the perinatal period, menstruation, and the menopausal transition. […]

This training provides participants with an overview of motivational interviewing as a counseling framework for behavioral change. Participants will learn foundational principles and values of motivational interviewing, core person-centered counseling skills crucial to the framework, and practice recognizing and responding to language of change through role playin small groups.

This free event is open to all CBH providers who offer Acute Inpatient Psychiatric (AIP) Services and Outpatient (OP) Mental Health Services and are involved in care transitions. Attendees will have the opportunity to collaborate with CBH and peers to address barriers related to members’ care transitions, discuss best practices in transitions of care, and […]

Join us for the 2025 CBH Winter Pharmacy Forum. This event brings together managed care organizations (MCOs), CBH prescribers, and pharmacies to improve health outcomes for Philadelphia’s Medicaid population. Topics include increasing the appropriate use of behavioral health medication sand enhancing communication to minimize barriers. Please submit your questions and agenda suggestions to CBH.pharmacyinitiatives@phila.gov.

Explore how to use a family’s lived experiences to identify strengths and resources that can be integrated into treatment. Through video-recorded session material, participants will see examples of therapists using critical life events to bolster emotion regulation, caregiver leadership, and treatment planning.

When working with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), some traumas will include the loss of a loved one. In these cases, differentiating between PTSD and grief reactions to the loss has important treatment implications. In this workshop, Dr. Sandy Capaldi will discuss this differential diagnosis, reviewing the definitions of bereavement, mourning, and grief; discuss the dual […]

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based treatment that uses the four core skills of mindfulness, acceptance & distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness to treat out-of-control behaviors, including suicide and self-harm. There is a large overlap between problem substance use and suicide behaviors, for which DBT-SUD is a good option for intervention for […]

This workshop focuses on supporting clinicians in viewing the family as a critical partner in care when working with youth with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and intellectual delay (ID). Why? ASD and ID profoundly impact family life. Clinicians will learn about mastering critical skills, including how to build and maintain rewarding family […]

This virtual training is intended for individuals who have completed the Counseling for Change: Introduction to Motivational Interviewing (MI) training and/or have a foundation in the principles of MI. Participants will review the basic concepts of MI and build their MI skills through a combination of scenarios, role play, and small group discussion. For access to a […]

In this virtual training, participants will review ways in which structural racism and implicit racial bias contribute to disparate outcomes in birthing care. They will examine local and national birthing mortality and morbidity data and discuss contributing factors to birthing outcomes. Participants will walk away understanding the impact and function of implicit racial bias and […]

CBH annually reviews all resolved complaints and grievances and the Provider Satisfaction Survey (PSS) results. The purpose of this is to gauge CBH Quality Management’s performance per provider report, obtain provider feedback, and identify themes for levels of care across complaints and grievances. As has been done for the past several years, CBH will once […]