Community Behavioral Health

Implementation Readiness Part II: Planning for EBP Implementation
2024-09-05 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Please join us for the second workshop of a four-part series on implementation readiness related to the implementation & sustainability of evidence-based practices (EBPs) in community mental health! In this workshop, we shift the focus from building an EBP foundation to actively planning and preparing for EBP training and implementation.
Key components of effectively planning for EBP implementation and training will be discussed, including means of assessing and navigating competing demands, creating an EBP-infused culture, and strategies for building & supporting capacity for EBP(s) amongst clinical staff. This training is geared towards clinicians, supervisors, and leadership eager to learn more about EBPs and the science behind successful & effective EBP implementation & sustainability within community mental health.

Navigating Cognitive Processing Disorder as Providers: Skills, Strategies, and Scripts
2024-09-13 08:30 - 10:30
This course will define Cognitive Processing Disorder (CPD) and its affiliated diagnoses and offer participants ways to identify its presence in clients/patients who do not have formal diagnoses.
From personal reflection and preparation of the provider to word choice and communication considerations, this training lays the groundwork for successful interventions for affected clients.
Participants will also be offered general “First Steps” re: how to share information, document, and engage with people living with this communication disability.
Please use the information below to attend the virtual session:
Meeting ID: 926 7171 3735
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Learning Objectives:
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

Recite the definition of Cognitive Processing disorder and identify at least 4 diagnoses with Cognitive Processing Impact
Relay how Cognitive Processing Disorder disrupts clinical efforts with patients and negatively impacts health outcomes.
Integrate at least 3 techniques for information sharing and support for clients with Cognitive Processing Disorders.

Speaker Info:
Laura Hinds is a Licensed Social Worker with over 20 years of experience as a Clinical Social Worker working with families impacted by HIV, as well as training, technical assistance and organizational development expertise. She is faculty in the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work and the founder and principal partner of Hindsight Consulting Group, which provides training, growth and organizational development to non- and for-profit organizations in areas of customized curriculum development, training, group facilitation, program evaluation and leadership mentoring and coaching.

Map Recovery With CT-R!
2024-09-17 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom
Map Recovery with CT-R!
Take your recovery game to the next level! Join us to learn how the CT-R (Cognitive Therapy) Recovery Map can enhance your team’s effectiveness by helping you plan actionable and targeted next steps for each individual in your care.
This is a free virtual training.

CBH 101 - Virtual Information Session
2024-10-09 12:00 - 13:30
Do you have specific questions about CBH? Add those to the question box on the registration page!
This session will:

Provide foundational knowledge and overview of CBH and its relationship to the PA HealthChoices (Medicaid) program
Increase understanding of the state and federal requirements and an overview of the steps in the process to become a CBH service provider
Increase awareness of how members can access CBH services and behavioral health resources
Provide tips on how to navigate CBH organizational operations

Target audience for this session is:

behavioral health care and other social service providers who are unfamiliar with CBH and may work with clients who may be eligible for Medicaid services
individuals who are interested in learning more about the structure of CBH and managed care in Philadelphia
members of the philanthropic sector who are unfamiliar with CBH and are interested in learning more about Medicaid, the structure of CBH and managed care in Philadelphia, and those work with clients who may be eligible for Medicaid services.

Please note registration will close on October 8, 2024.
Questions about this event? Please contact CBH Provider Training and Development at cbh.ptdtechnicalassistance@Phila.gov.

Getting Creative with Individuals who are Reluctant to Engage: A CT-R Approach
2024-10-15 13:00 - 14:00
Guided by Aaron Beck’s cognitive model, Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy (CT-R) is an evidence-based practice that provides concrete, actionable steps to promote recovery and resiliency for individuals experiencing extensive behavioral, social, and physical health challenges. CT-R is highly collaborative, person-centered, and strengths-based, and specifically tailored for those who have a history of feeling disconnected and distrustful of service providers.
In this free virtual training, we will discuss developing new strategies to get started and successfully connect with members who may not seem interested in meeting with you or your team. We will spend time thinking about why they might be hesitant to work with you and will brainstorm interventions to meet them where they are today, and, ultimately, to develop a powerful collaboration to overcome challenges that get in the way of their desires for the future.

Mental Health Outpatient (MHOP) Learning Collaborative Quarterly In-Person Meeting!
2024-10-18 08:00 - 12:30
The Mental Health Outpatient (MHOP) Champions invites all mental health outpatient professionals to join the Mental Health Outpatient Collaborative Quarterly meeting.
The Mental Health Outpatient (MHOP) Champions invites all Philadelphia mental health outpatient professionals to join.
New provider services and/or underutilized provider services will be highlighted in provider spotlight presentations and resource tables will be available. There will be time for connection and networking amongst providers and colleagues.
Registration will close by 5:00 p.m. on Thursday October 10, 2024.
Any questions about this event? Please contact CBH Provider Training and Development at cbh.ptdtechnicalassistance@Phila.gov.

The Rationale: Addressing Tobacco Use in Behavioral Health Services
2024-10-24 10:00 - 11:30
This presentation thoroughly explores the bio-psycho-social aspects of tobacco use disorder specific to individuals with mental and substance use disorders. Data are reviewed to explain a high smoking prevalence, severity of tobacco use disorder, disproportionate health consequences, and the origin of common misconceptions that sustain smoking as a social norm in the recovery and treatment culture.
Registration Deadline: October 22, 2024

CBH Compliance Forum 2024
2024-11-07 09:00 - 16:00
The CBH Program Integrity Department will host the Annual CBH Compliance Forum both in-person at CBH and virtually via Zoom. Attendees will learn about CBH Program Integrity activities and tips for submitting clean claims. A special guest from the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General (OAG) will provide updates from their office. The forum will conclude with separate breakout sessions for discussion about artificial intelligence and IBHS ABA.
Please email CBH.ComplianceContact@phila.gov with any questions.

Implementation Readiness: Part III – Sustaining & Evaluating an Evidence-Based Practice
2024-11-07 10:00 - 12:00
Please join us for the third workshop of a four-part series on implementation readiness as it relates to the implementation and sustainability of evidence-based practices (EBPs) in community mental health!
In this workshop, we shift the focus from preparing for EBP training to sustaining and evaluating an EBP. Key components of effectively sustaining and evaluating EBP implementation will be discussed, including maintaining and supporting EBP use among clinical staff, evaluating and utilizing EBP outcomes, solidifying policies and procedures, and addressing obstacles to EBP sustainability.
This training is geared toward clinicians, supervisors, and leadership eager to learn more about EBPs and the science behind successful & effective EBP implementation & sustainability within community mental health.

Introduction to Family Planning for Substance Use Disorder Treatment Providers
2024-11-12 10:00 - 12:00
This training will prepare substance use disorder (SUD) treatment providers to refer clients to family planning services. Participants will learn foundational knowledge about family planning services, access, eligibility, and patient navigation as a care coordination model.

Tobacco Recovery: Learning to be Tobacco Free!
2024-11-14 10:00 - 11:30
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 aspects of tobacco use disorder and provides a framework for developing an individualized “tobacco recovery” plan.

Enhance Discharge and Transition Plans with CT-R
2024-11-19 13:00 - 14:00
Guided by Aaron Beck’s cognitive model, Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy (CT-R) is an evidence-based practice that provides concrete, actionable steps to promote recovery and resiliency for individuals experiencing extensive behavioral, social, and physical health challenges. CT-R is highly collaborative, person-centered, and strengths-based, and specifically tailored for those who have a history of feeling disconnected and distrustful of service providers.

Information Session on Complaints & Grievances
2024-12-04 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-12-13 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-12-16 10:00 - 11:00
Annually CBH conducts a Provider Satisfaction Survey (PSS) to gauge our performance and obtain provider feedback. The results of the provider satisfaction survey help CBH identify key opportunities for improving the experience of providers. Based on the feedback received from our providers we are going to be holding several information sessions on the complaint and grievance process. These sessions will review the complaint and grievance process as well as what is expected of the provider.

Readiness: Part IV – Community Mental Health Panel Discussion
2024-12-05 10:00 - 12:00
Join us for the final workshop in a four-part series on implementation readiness and sustainability of evidence-based practices (EBPs) in community mental health. This session focuses on the practical realities of implementing EBPs within the Philadelphia behavioral health network, and will feature a panel discussion with representatives from various programs who exemplify successful EBP implementation.

The Rationale: Addressing Tobacco Use in Behavioral Health Services
2024-12-12 10:00 - 11:30
This presentation thoroughly explores the bio-psycho-social aspects of tobacco use disorder specific to individuals with mental and substance use disorders (SUD). Data are reviewed to explain a high smoking prevalence, severity of tobacco use disorder, disproportionate health consequences, and the origin of common misconceptions that sustain smoking as asocial norm in the recovery and treatment culture.
Registration closes on December 10, 2024.

Tobacco Recovery: Learning to be Tobacco Free!
2025-01-03 14:00 - 15:30
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 aspects of tobacco use disorder and provides a framework for developing an individualized “tobacco recovery” plan.
Registration closes on January 1, 2025.

Psychiatric Disorders in Women: Diagnostic and Treatment Considerations Across the Female Lifespan
2025-01-13
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. The six-part course begin January 13, 2025.

Counseling for Change: Introduction to Motivational Interviewing
2025-01-14 10:00 - 12:00
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.

CBH Provider Forum: Transition of Care
2025-01-14 13:00 - 16:30
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 learn about available tools in the network for enhancing care transitions.
Topics will include:

CBH’s Provider and Member Portal
Barriers to medication access
Connecting members to peer services
Transportation services (Modivcare)
HealthShare Exchange (HSX)
And more

Registration is required. For questions about the event or registration, contact Shanay Williams, Manager of Quality Improvement.

CBH Winter Pharmacy Forum
2025-02-27 15:00 - 17:00
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.

Really Being Strengths-Based: Every Family is their Best Resource for Change
2025-03-12 09:00 - 12:00
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.

Access Matters Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare Webinar Series
2025-03-17 08:00 - 2025-06-30 17:00
In partnership with AccessMatters, CBH is offering eight virtual learning opportunities. Topics include adolescent sexual development, inclusive language in care provision, trauma-informed care, anti-racism, and more. Participants may select up to two of the eight available courses.
Registration is required.

PTSD or Grief: Treatment Implications
2025-04-09 10:00 - 14:30
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 processes and types of grief; review the diagnostic criteria for PTSD and Prolonged Grief Disorder; and discuss evidence-based therapeutic techniques to treat both.
This virtual training is free to attend and is intended for mental health clinicians and those who have clinical experience with trauma, PTSD, and grief.
BHTEN is a co-sponsor of this workshop. CEUs are available.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Substance Use Disorders
2025-05-01 09:00 - 16:30
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 many individuals. Further, for individuals with certain comorbidities, DBT may be the treatment of choice. This training will familiarize you with some key concepts and help you distinguish differences between standard comprehensive DBT and DBT-SUD.
This free, virtual training is open to anyone in the CBH/DBHIDS network, but is especially relevant for providers and clinicians working with SUD populations. Having a basic understanding of DBT is preferred, but not required for attendance.
BHTEN is a co-sponsor of this workshop. CEUs are available.

Family Therapy for Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder & Intellectual Delay
2025-05-28 09:00 - 12:30
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 relationships, creating growth-enhancing family-based social activities for non-verbal or limited verbal youth, and parent-guided behavioral therapy techniques.
This introductory program will demonstrate, using video-recorded sessions, how clinicians use a family systems lens integrated with play and behavioral therapy to strengthen the joining process with caregivers. Underlying this process is the focus on enhancing executive parenting through guided in-session practice, especially caregiver-child co-regulation.
The target audience will be professionals working with families and youth diagnosed with ASD and IDD who would like to increase their ability to provide meaningful intervention. This may also include clinicians who work in outpatient, drug and alcohol programs, community-based services, and residential treatment facilities.
BHTEN is a co-sponsor of this workshop. CEUs are available.

Motivational Interviewing: Skills Building
2025-06-10 10:00 - 12:00
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 recording of Counseling for Change: Introduction to Motivational Interviewing, please email training@accessmatters.org.
At the end of this training, participants should be able to:

Describe at least two situations in which MI could support clients

Apply the four core skills of MI

Registration is required. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Racism and Implicit Racial Bias in Reproductive Health Care
2025-06-12 10:00 - 12:00
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 strategies to mitigate it.
At the end of this training, participants should be able to:

Summarize racial disparities in reproductive health care.
Explain the role of implicit racial bias in reproductive health care.
List at least two strategies for addressing disparities in reproductive care.

Registration is required. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Information Session on Complaints & Grievances (Session 1)
2025-06-18 11:00 - 12:00
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 again hold several information sessions on the complaint and grievance process and discuss identified themes. The sessions will review not only the complaint and grievance process but also the provider’s expectations of CBH and the expectations CBH has of the providers.
