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?

• • 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

1. Describe common barriers and facilitators to systems-level substance use disorder screening or treatment implementation efforts.
2. Compare and contrast evidence-based strategies for addressing systems-level challenges in employing substance use-related interventions.
3. Identify strategies for sustainability of evidence-based substance use disorders or risky substance use treatment services.
4. Analyze sustainability or systems-level challenges through the discussion of real-world case scenarios within teleECHO clinics.
5. 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.

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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

Mathew Roosa, LCSW

NIATx, Organizational Coach,
Co-Founder

Subject Matter Expertise: quality improvement, organizational, development, Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) 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

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