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  • Our Mission & Vision
  • Our Mission & Vision

    Mission
    CFHA supports healthcare professionals in integrating physical and behavioral health.

    Vision
    All healthcare teams provide patients and families an optimal and fully integrated experience in the pursuit of health and healing.

    Our members include:

    • Behavioral health professionals (MFT/LMFTs, Psychologists, Social workers)
    • Medical providers (MDs, DOs, Nurses, Medical Assistants, PAs, Psychiatrists)
    • Allied health professionals (Occupational therapists, Physical therapists, Dietitians, Nutritionists, Health administration, Pharmacists)
    • Workforce development (Academic training programs)
    • Organizational members (FQHC’s, Training programs, etc.)
    • Public and population health
    • Payors
    • And more!
  • Our Values
  • Our Values

    CFHA envisions seamless collaboration between psychosocial, biomedical, and all other healthcare providers and views patients and families as equal partners in the healthcare process.

    CFHA values…

    • all stakeholders 
    • supporting the development of Early Career Professionals
    • a culture of shared learning
    • diversity and equity
    • systems thinking
    • social justice
    • the scientific process to acquire and disseminate evidence
    • innovation
    • community
    • the Quadruple Aim
    • high-quality products to the field
  • Our Strategic Plan
  • Our Strategic Plan

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  • Our Three C’s
  • Our Three C’s

    Community

    CFHA provides a network for all healthcare guilds and stakeholders, who share best practices and innovations throughout the year, highlighted by our annual conference.

    Content

    CFHA produces content including sponsoring a peer-reviewed journal, online print and video material (integratedcarenews.com), and a very informative and entertaining podcast.

    Consultation

    CFHA provides technical assistance to clinics and health systems to implement best practices related to integrated care.

  • Collaborations
  • Collaborations

    Collaboration is in our DNA. Here are just a few examples of how CFHA has partnered with other organizations.

  • Our Partners
  • Our Partners

    CFHA is a national organization that promotes integrated care, but we know that state and regional organizations do so much of the grass-roots work in this area every day. As a result, we want to highlight those organizations and the work that they do.

    Arizona State University

    The Doctor of Behavioral Health Program in the College of Health Solutions at ASU is an international education and training program designed to develop future leaders in integrated primary behavioral health care. DBH graduates develop, deliver, and evaluate programs that effectively transform healthcare systems.

    Center of Excellence for Integrated Care

    The Center of Excellence for Integrated Care, a program of the Foundation for Health Leadership and Innovation, helps to integrate physical and behavioral healthcare by providing health care clinics and systems with direct training, technical assistance, and other partnerships. The Center of Excellence team uses systematic tools and processes to help health care systems and clinics determine their current status and needs, while also providing the nuts and bolts technical assistance needed from the exam room to the board room.

    Health Federation of Philadelphia

    Health Federation of Philadelphia works to improve access to and quality of health and human services for vulnerable populations. One important example of our impact is the provision of consultation, program development, training and advocacy that enables a strong and expanding network of integrated care practices across the Greater Philadelphia region.

    Center for Integrated Primary Care

    The mission of the Center for Integrated Primary Care (CIPC) is to develop, synthesize and disseminate skills for best practices in the integration of Primary Care and Behavioral Health services so as to become a national leader in workforce development and practice-based research.

    The CIPC is a part of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, a founding department of the University. The Center’s faculty are leaders in the integration of behavioral health and primary care. A central focus has been to teach the identification, assessment, and treatment of mental health and substance use disorders in primary care. Alumni of our programs number well over 3000 health care professionals across the globe.

    St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute

    St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute has an Integrated Care Consulting Team that provides training, consultation, and technical assistance for organizations integrating behavioral health into primary care settings.

    Denver Health Integrated Behavioral Health Academy

    Denver Health’s Integrated Behavioral Health Academy supports individual clinicians and medical practices in Colorado and beyond to help them achieve their behavioral health integration goals. We provide classroom training, practice coaching and consultation, and professional presentations.

    Cherokee Health Systems

    Cherokee Health Systems provides training to organizational leadership and clinical staff including medical and behavioral health providers on the model and execution of integrated care. Key topics include transformational change, team science, financial considerations, and operational strategies for maximizing not only access but also effective service delivery all with the quintuple aim in mind. These trainings are offered both in-house at CHS’ corporate office in Knoxville, TN, or off-site at the request of organizational leadership. These off-site trainings are tailored toward the organization’s needs and transformational goals.

    Cummings Graduate Institute for Behavioral Health Studies

    Cummings Graduate Institute of Behavioral Health Studies is a nonprofit, accredited, private institution offering online, post-graduate education in the field of integrated behavioral health, including the Doctor of Behavioral Health (DBH) degree exclusively focused in integrated care. The DBH program prepares integrated care professionals to best deliver whole-person healthcare to diverse communities and to improve access to quality healthcare for all.

    Mental Health America of Greater Houston

    Integrated health care – the coordination of physical and behavioral health care services – is a core component of MHA of Greater Houston’s work.  Although physical and mental health is linked, our health care system has traditionally addressed them separately.  Integrated health care aims to abolish this separation, an essential step in providing access to and normalizing behavioral health treatment. Through a collective impact approach, we advance sustainable integrated health care. Our work includes training and technical assistance, communities of practice, and implementation of collaborative efforts with primary and behavioral health providers, health systems, payors, and institutions of higher education, such as medical schools.

    The Interprofessional Primary Care Institute

    The Interprofessional Primary Care Institute (IPC Institute) is a collaborative learning community for healthcare learners & professionals. It promotes a diverse workforce and interprofessional teams focused on strengths and Strengthening Each Other™. The institute’s interprofessional team includes 60+directors & advisors from a variety of public, private & faith-based agencies. It is funded by the Healthy Oregon Workforce Training Opportunity Grant Program (HOWTO). HOWTO is administered under the direction of the Oregon Health Policy Board in partnership with the Oregon Health Authority and OHSU. For more information, visit www.ohsu.edu/howto.

  • DEI Action Plan ’23-’25
  • DEI Action Plan ’23-’25

    The CFHA Board of Directors and Just Medicine Committee have been working hard to develop a plan for the next 2 years related to CFHA’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts.

  • History
  • History

    1982
    1983
    1984
    1988
    1995
    20th Year Anniversary – Don Bloch Interview
    1982

    1982

    June 28, 1982
    1982 – Family Systems Medicine journal was founded by Don Bloch MD, Barry Dym PhD, Micheal Glenn MD, Don Ransom PhD
    1983

    1983

    May 9, 1983
    William Doherty PhD and Macaran Baird MD – published Family Therapy and Family Medicine: Toward the Primary Care of Families.
    1984

    1984

    May 9, 1984
    Cherokee Mental Health Center started their first primary care clinic in Blaine, TN. In 1987, it opened a primary care office in Knoxville, TN as federal representatives asked Cherokee to manage an existing health center.
    1988

    1988

    May 9, 1988
    Patricia Robinson PhD and Kirk Strosahl PhD begin experiments in primary care.
    1995

    1995

    June 28, 1995
    The first CFHCC / CHFA conference - Transforming the practice of healthcare: The collaborative solution

    20th Year Anniversary – Don Bloch Interview

    October 21, 2024
    https://youtu.be/7p44GDVATGY

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