May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and in Brevard County, there are resources available through your primary care doctor.Health First said its Collaborative Care Program helps integrate mental health support directly into primary care practices, making it easier for patients to access help in a familiar health care setting.The program brings together providers, behavioral care managers and psychiatric consultants to support patients dealing with anxiety, depression and other mental health concerns.”I think it’s super important to highlight programs like this because, for one, not many people know about it,” Behavioral Care Manager Charissa Reynolds said. “Not many people know they can get that care through their primary care setting. They don’t have to find an outside therapist and an outside psychiatrist and this and that. They can just do it all in one setting.”To learn more or book a consult, visit the link here.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and in Brevard County, there are resources available through your primary care doctor.
Health First said its Collaborative Care Program helps integrate mental health support directly into primary care practices, making it easier for patients to access help in a familiar health care setting.
The program brings together providers, behavioral care managers and psychiatric consultants to support patients dealing with anxiety, depression and other mental health concerns.
“I think it’s super important to highlight programs like this because, for one, not many people know about it,” Behavioral Care Manager Charissa Reynolds said. “Not many people know they can get that care through their primary care setting. They don’t have to find an outside therapist and an outside psychiatrist and this and that. They can just do it all in one setting.”
To learn more or book a consult, visit the link here.