Systems and Sustainability ECHO
Program Description
The Systems and Sustainability ECHO will focus on large-scale, systems-level opportunities and challenges to implementing and sustaining substance use-related services, be those screening, referral, or treatment practices. Topical areas of focus will include financial models, leadership skills, implementation strategies, workforce development, equitable access to care, integrated care, continuums of care, and other related subjects. This ECHO will target healthcare and behavioral health leaders with the capacity to impact systems changes or influence those who do, as well as those with responsibility to sustain their own systems of care.
Who is this ECHO for?
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- Chief Medical Officers
- Chief Executive Officers
- Chief Operations Officers
- Directors of Behavioral Health
- Healthcare or Behavioral Health Managers
- All other Healthcare or Behavioral Healthcare Leaders or Executives
Learning Objectives
- Describe common barriers and facilitators to systems-level substance use disorder screening or treatment implementation efforts.
- Compare and contrast evidence-based strategies for addressing systems-level challenges in employing substance use-related interventions.
- Identify strategies for sustainability of evidence-based substance use disorders or risky substance use treatment services.
- Analyze sustainability or systems-level challenges through the discussion of real-world case scenarios within teleECHO clinics.
- Adopt implementation strategies presented in the Systems and Sustainability ECHO program and obtain ongoing feedback and recommendations on your approach from the ECHO learning community.
The UT Health San Antonio Science Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity with AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM.
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Systems and Sustainability ECHO
This Systems and Sustainability ECHO meets every fourth Thursday of the month.
Hub Team

Briseida “Bee” Courtois, MSW, LCDC, CMA
Be Well Texas, Director of Substance Use Disorder Services
Subject Matter Expertise: Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) implementation, staff management, Texas health and behavioral health systems, health equity, cultural intelligence

Darilynn Cardona-Beiler, MSSA, LCSW
Senior Vice President for Specialty Healthcare, Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
Subject Matter Expertise: Public policy, integrated care, co-occurring disorder treatment, community mental health, evidence-based practice implementation, finance

Cathy Hudgins, PhD, LPC, LMFT
Hudgins and Associates, Behavioral Health Integration Consultant
Subject Matter Expertise: Behavioral health workforce development and training, behavioral health management and leadership, organizational coaching in behavioral health services implementation

Lesley Manson, PsyD
Arizona State University, Associate Chair of Integrated Initiatives, Clinical Associate Professor
Subject Matter Expertise: Behavioral health services implementation, integrated care, auditing of healthcare programs

Mathew Roosa, LCSW
NIATx, Organizational Coach,
Co-Founder
Subject Matter Expertise: quality improvement, organizational, development, Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) implementation