Behavioral Health

I am Faisal Islam, Evaluation Specialist at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences in Whitby, Canada. Recently, I conducted an evaluation of a mental health court in Ethiopia. First of its kind in Ethiopia, the mental health court was established in collaboration with a number of partners from Ethiopia and Canada. As you can …

BH TIG Week: A multisystem evaluation: Assessing a mental health court in Ethiopia by Faisal Islam Read More »

Hi! I’m Shannon Campbell, senior research/evaluation analyst for Multnomah County’s Mental Health and Addiction Services Division (MHASD). Beyond its responsibilities as the local mental health authority, MHASD also partners with Health Share of Oregon to co-manage Medicaid behavioral health benefits. Recognizing the links between physical and behavioral health, reducing emergency department (ED) visits, is an …

BH TIG Week: The method is the message: Lessons learned from analyzing substance use, mental health, and emergency department visits via claims data by Shannon Campbell Read More »

Greetings from Saumitra SenGupta and Gale Berkowitz.  Together we lead the External Quality Review of 56 California Medi-Cal managed specialty mental health plans (MHPs) through Behavioral Health Concepts. Each year we are required to review all 56 MHPs, produce a report for each, AND produce a statewide annual report. Our role is more to validate …

BH TIG Week: Balancing Complexity and Diversity in Reviewing Behavioral Health Systems by Saumitra SenGupta and Gale Berkowitz Read More »

Hello, my name is Evangeline Danseco and I work as a Performance Measurement Coach at the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health. I help community-based non-profit agencies develop a performance measurement framework for their organization. In my recent work with community-based agencies, I encourage them to think about including both SMART …

BH TIG Week: Developing SMART and WISE indicators by Evangeline Danseco Read More »

Hi, I’m Lisa Melchior, President of The Measurement Group LLC, a consulting firm focused on the evaluation of health and social services for at-risk and vulnerable populations. I’d like to share some lessons I’ve learned in close to 30 years of working with community-based behavioral health and other programs that have addressed issues in populations …

BH TIG Week: Lessons learned in evaluating cross-systems programs by Lisa Melchior Read More »

My name is Gisele Tchamba and I work for a faith-based organization where I lead in evaluation capacity building. I am also one of the ADAMH TIG leaders.  Today I want to share my experience with the implementation of a new treatment model for behavioral health providers in my county. The Recovery Oriented Systems of …

ADAMH Week: Gisele Tchamba on the Transtheoretical Model (TTM): An Evaluation Tool for Organizational Change within Behavioral Health Services Read More »