Behavioral Health Integration – Children and Youth Collaborative Learning Exchange

Launched October 2024, the Behavioral Health Integration – Children and Youth Collaborative Learning Exchange is a nine-month learning collaborative that brings together organizations experienced in integrating behavioral health services into primary care for children and youth. ​

Collaborative Objectives​

By July 2025, the collaborative aims to have improved behavioral health integration for children and youth served by leading provider organizations by:​

• Showcasing successful practices and highlighting solutions through a vibrant network of peer organizations​
• Sprouting adoption of new solutions addressing real-world challenges that improve the delivery of pediatric and adolescent integrated behavioral health care ​ ​
• Sharing best practices through a public toolkit that synthesizes collaborative participants’ recommendations, experience and contributions to the field

Participating Organizations

• Alliance Medical Center — rural Federally Qualifying Health Center (FQHC) in northern Sonoma County
• Altamed Health Services — FQHC in Los Angeles and Orange Counties
• Children’s Hospital of Orange County — health system providing inpatient and outpatient services across Southern California
• LifeLong Medical Care — FQHC with locations in Alameda and Contra Costa counties
• Providence Medical Group (Northern California) — network spanning Sonoma, Napa and Humboldt counties
• San Francisco Health Network — multi-site FQHC and part of San Francisco’s public health system
• Chinese Hospital — (learning participant) hospital system with locations in San Francisco and Daly City

Organizations participating in the collaborative will receive:

• Funding of up to $7,500 over the course of the collaborative to support the advancement of behavioral health integration
• Facilitated monthly peer meetings that promote sharing and learning from a dynamic network of peer health care organizations

Technical Assistance Partner

CQC is partnering with Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego for the Behavioral Health Integration – Children and Youth Collaborative Learning Exchange technical assistance program. Rady Children’s is the largest provider of comprehensive pediatric medical services in the San Diego region and a leader in integrated behavioral health. The hospital launched a primary care behavioral/mental health integration program in 2020 that provides evidence-based mental health care through embedding mental health clinicians in pediatric primary care practices for easy, same-day access.

Support

CQC’s Behavioral Health Integration Initiative is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Centene Corporation.