by Kristal Jones | Apr 29, 2022 | Behavioral Health
In 2017 the Montana Board of Behavioral Health began certifying peer support specialists to use their personal experience with behavioral health disorders to work one on one with individuals currently diagnosed with behavioral health disorders. This position of...
by Kristal Jones | Jan 21, 2022 | Behavioral Health, State Opioid Response, Substance Use Disorders
Unmet behavioral health needs of pregnant and pospartum women impact the health and wellbeing of women and their families, and there are many organizations working across the state of Montana to draw on evidence-based approaches to addressing these needs. In December...
by Kristal Jones | Dec 11, 2021 | Behavioral Health
Integrated behavioral health (IBH) is a clinical approach to identify and start to address mental health and substance use needs in the primary care setting. IBH includes routine screening and the use of a team-based model of care that includes behavioral health care...
by Kristal Jones | Jul 6, 2021 | Behavioral Health
JG is working with the Addiction and Mental Disorders Division (AMDD) of the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS), as well as the Montana Health Care Foundation, to support crisis system redesign projects currently taking place in seven...
by Kristal Jones | Jan 9, 2021 | Behavioral Health, Substance Use Disorders
Brandn Green and Frances Kim of JG, in collaboration with David “Chipper” Dean of the National Cancer Institute, published a paper in the Journal of Adolescent Health. The paper used the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Treatment Episode Data...