​Healthcare policymakers, practitioners, researchers, and advocates from multiple organizations participated in a live Twitter chat, featuring SAMHSA's Paolo del Vecchio, on the important topic of integrated behavioral healthcare and medicine.

A recap of the Twitter chat is available on Wakelet. Chat participants shared over 100 resources. Tap into them here!  

Continue the conversation by following @UICHealthRRTC and using the hashtag #doIBHcare.

Twitter chat theme

-How do we integrate behavioral healthcare #doIBHcare for the public good?

Discussion topics 
-How programs and systems have successfully integrated healthcare 
-Translating evidence-based integration models into policy & practice 
-The importance of person-centered, self-directed efforts to integrate care

Recap & IBH resources
A recap of the Twitter chat is available on Wakelet. 

​Chat participants shared over 100 resources. Tap into them here!  

Participating organizations
  • National Academy for State Health Policy
  • The National Council for Behavioral Health
  • Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
  • Temple University Collaborative for Community Inclusion
  • No Health Without Mental Health
  • National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors
  • National Association for Rural Mental Health
Follow #doIBHcare  @UICHealthRRTC for additional news, resources, and perspectives on behavioral healthcare integration. 
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