Outreach and Branding Laurie T. Martin; Coreen Farris; Andrew M. Parker ...
The Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center Care Coordination Program,
08/2013
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Outreach to both referral organizations and to individuals who may benefit from the program is considered both an essential feature of the program and a critical factor in its sustainability. ...Nevertheless, our findings suggest that current outreach and referral strategies may not be reaching certain populations for whom DVBIC CCP services may be beneficial. In fact, outreach was almost uniformly mentioned by RCCs as the one area in which the program could be improved. This includes both direct outreach to potential clients to inform them of the CCP and outreach to DoD, VA, and community-based services to further expand and
Abbreviations Laurie T. Martin; Coreen Farris; Andrew M. Parker ...
The Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center Care Coordination Program,
08/2013
Book Chapter
Acknowledgements Laurie T. Martin; Coreen Farris; Andrew M. Parker ...
The Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center Care Coordination Program,
08/2013
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Program Eligibility and Population Served Laurie T. Martin; Coreen Farris; Andrew M. Parker ...
The Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center Care Coordination Program,
08/2013
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This chapter provides detail on the eligibility criteria for CCP services and the population served. It also describes the referral process and how individuals become engaged with the program. These ...criteria, target populations, and referral sources were developed at the height of the OEF/OIF, with an eye toward ensuring that those most likely to benefit from program services were identified and engaged. However, given the changing landscape of U.S. military involvement overseas and the impending drawdown of troops, the previously defined criteria and approaches to identifying eligible populations are beginning to introduce a variety of challenges that may threaten program
In August 2012, President Barack Obama signed an executive order to improve the behavioral health care of veterans, service members, and their families through several measures, including increasing ...capacity for health care at the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), promoting research for effective treatments, and promoting suicide-prevention efforts (DoD, VA, and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services DHHS, 2013; Office of the Press Secretary, The White House, 2012). In addition, this order called for collaboration between the VHA and DHHS to identify local community partners to improve access to care for veterans in the community. In August 2014, the President
In this section, we explore respondents’ reported capability of delivering evidence-based care for PTSD and MDD. We report on whether participating providers were trained and inclined to implement ...guideline-concordant care for PTSD and MDD, and whether these providers reported using such care in their usual practice. The success of efforts to outsource mental health care for service members and veterans to civilian providers will depend, in part, on whether providers in the community are able and willing to deliver the high-quality care outlined in the VA/DoD CPGs for MDD and PTSD.32Based on previous reviews of provider practices,33we expected
RESPONDENT CHARACTERISTICS Terri Tanielian; Coreen Farris; Caroline Epley ...
Ready to Serve,
11/2014
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We recruited a total of 522 mental health care professionals to participate in the survey (Table 3). Respondents included roughly equal groups (by design) of psychiatrists (n=128), psychologists ...(n=127), social workers (n=132), and licensed counselors (n=135). The majority of participants across professions were female (60 percent) with some variation by profession (the majority of psychiatrists—77 percent—were male).28Respondents generally worked full time. In addition, participants reported seeing the majority of their patients (77 percent on average) in outpatient settings in the most recent typical work week, and smaller percentages of patients (17 percent on average) were seen in
Improving mental health outcomes for veterans and their families requires bothaccess to careand receipt ofhigh-quality care.12The overall goal of this study was to understand the readiness of ...community-based providers to deliver high-quality mental health care to veterans and their families once they access such care. The IOM has definedhigh-quality careas care that has been demonstrated as effective (i.e., evidence-based), safe, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable.13Using this definition as a reference point for our study, we conceptualize the readiness of providers to deliver veteran-friendly, high-quality mental health care as having two main components (see
