Integrating Behavioral Health to Strengthen Healthcare Preparedness Capabilities and Coalitions
Incorporating behavioral health into healthcare preparedness capabilities is essential to planning for a successful response to, and recovery from, disaster. Such planning will bring new partners, resources, challenges and opportunities so that Healthcare Coalitions can ensure continuity of care for current patients and extend services to those adversely impacted by the event. Learn how HPP awardees incorporate behavioral health into the healthcare capabilities for responding to the medical and psychological impacts of a disaster. Speakers discussed available resources, strategies and lessons learned from real world events to strengthen Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) collaborations with the behavioral health system. Topics discussed include disaster behavioral health: community health resilience, Concept of Operations (CONOPS), behavioral health Capacity Assessment Tool (CAT), planning templates, surveys, and training resources.