CFHA’s 2025 Annual Report highlights a year of resilience, growth, and continued investment in the integrated care community. Despite challenges affecting membership across the healthcare landscape, CFHA maintained strong financial health, expanded learning and engagement opportunities, and delivered one of its highest-attended conferences to date. This report shares our accomplishments, financial performance, membership trends, and […]

Celebrating 30 Years of Integration In 2024, CFHA reached 30 years of age. At our annual conference that year, we celebrated the legacy of integrated care with people who breathed life into integrated care and wrote it into the different possibilities we see today. As President of the Board, in addition to honoring them, I […]

CFHA’s 2024 Annual Report highlights a year of meaningful progress. From strengthening our technical assistance efforts to growing our training and event offerings, we continued to support members and partners in advancing integrated care. This report shares our accomplishments, financial performance, and the work that will guide us into 2025.

It’s true. The large majority of us roll our eyes when it comes to strategic plans and their myriad of KPIs, other acronyms and promises about the future. The truth is that what is most essential about an organization’s viability and efficacy is its strategic vision, not it’s guesses about what it could accomplish in […]

RE: Talking Points for CFHA Members Engaging Policymakers, Medicaid Leaders, and Local Officials Integrated care—the coordination of medical and behavioral health within primary and specialty settings—is a key solution to the most pressing health issues of our time. It is also perfectly aligned with the vision of Make America Healthy Again (MAHA): the root causes […]

RE: When it feels like our backs are against the wall. To: Our Members & The Larger Healthcare Workforce Over the last several weeks …  We at CFHA want to share with you: you are not alone.  Our members across the country are directly impacted or work in communities deeply impacted by the series of […]

At this year’s CFHA conference in San Antonio, we were thrilled to recognize the outstanding contributions of individuals and organizations who exemplify the spirit and mission of integrated care. These awardees inspire us all with their dedication, innovation, and impact. Join us in celebrating their achievements! Aimee Burke Valeras – Don Bloch Awardee This award […]

By Joellen Patterson, PhD, LMFT The foundation of this small project was a curiosity about whether, and if so to what extent, Don Bloch’s (physician, key founder of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association) ideals for integrated care as voiced at Wingspread (first CFHA meeting) have been realized in the world of integrated care today. C.J. […]

Do We Engage Or Protest States With Regressive Healthcare Policies? As the CEO of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA), I want to address a topic that has been on many of our minds: our decision to host conferences in states with regressive policies related to healthcare for women and other justice issues that impact […]

February 2024 As we look ahead, I’m filled with optimism and excitement for the journey we’re embarking on together. Our mission at the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) has always been to push the boundaries of integrated care, and today, I want to share with you the key strategies we’re focusing on to make that […]

Meet the new Research and Evaluation Committee (REC) Leadership Council! Last month, council members Zach Cooper, Jodi Polaha, Alissa Mallow, Gerald Nebeker, Alexander Melkonian, Jeffery Goodie, Christopher Hunter, Committee co-chairs Aubrey Dueweke and Jennifer Funderburk, and CFHA staff member Jackie Poor-Hahn met for the first meeting of 2023 to set goals for the group. The […]

African-Americans have made innumerable contributions to the field of integrated primary care and behavioral health. In honor of Black History Month, we’d like to take a moment to recognize some of these accomplishments and celebrate the individuals behind them. The National Institutes of Health recognizes Dr. Joycelyn Elders as one such pioneer in this field. […]

New years often inspire us to look to our futures but they also often cause us to re-examine our past, so as CFHA turns 29 this January we thought we would give you a snapshot of the very first CFHA newsletter from the Fall of 1994. While much has inevitable changed in the healthcare landscape […]

The recent Supreme Court decision overturning federal precedent guaranteeing protection for people who can become pregnant to seek comprehensive, evidence based reproductive services, which includes abortion care, is antithetical to the goals of integrated, whole-person care. The ruling has been opposed by the World Health Organization, American Medical Association, American Psychological Association, American Academy of […]

June 22, 2022 – The Pediatrics Special Interest Group (PED SIG) at the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) has issued a response to the growing awareness around the pediatric mental health crisis. The response, posted below, is part of an invitation to CFHA members to join the PED SIG in various efforts aimed at addressing […]

May 14, 2022 (Raleigh, NC) Neftali Serrano, PsyD, Chief Executive Officer After not having an in-person meeting in over three years due to the pandemic the CFHA Board of Directors met in person in Raleigh, NC at the JC Raulston Arboretum to discuss how to continue to pursue Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) commitments […]

The recordings for CFHA 2021 Annual Conference are available. CEUs are available for almost every session. Conference – Includes concurrent sessions, plenary sessions $349 – Professionals, members or non-members$49 – Trainee members (students, post-docs, fellows) Extended Learning Opportunities More information $99 – One extended learning opportunity$198 – Two extended learning opportunities$297 – Three or more […]

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We are excited to present 2019. We encourage you to take a moment to review the report and learn more about CFHA’s mission, membership, and future endeavors!

For immediate release: September 5, 2019Rochester (NY), Chapel Hill (NC), Denver (CO), Madison (WI) – The Board of theCollaborative Family Healthcare Association released the following statement todayto support legislation in Congress (H.R. 2482) that removes barriers to physicianprescribing of life-saving opioid treatment: “As a national coalition of leaders in integrated care we are acutely aware […]

For immediate release: May 21, 2018 Rochester, NY – The Board of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Associationreleased the following statement today to support legislation in Congress (H.R. 5531& S. 2613) that expands access to behavioral healthcare: “As a national coalition of leaders in integrated care we are acutely aware ofthe access-to-care crises for patients with […]

For immediate release: July 10, 2017 “The Collaborative Family Healthcare Association urges members of congress to pass theMental Health Access Improvement Act of 2017 (HR 3032). Our organization’s efforts tolower healthcare costs through the integration of behavioral and medical care hinge onaccess to a workforce that is recognized by all payers of healthcare. This bill […]

For immediate release: May 15, 2017 Rochester, NY – The Board of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association releasedthe following statement today in response to the U.S. House of Representativespassage of the American Health Care Act: “We urge the U.S. Senate to consider the economic and quality of care impactof disincentives for payers to cover treatment […]