How Ballmer Group is Transforming Community Wellbeing – The State of Mental Wellbeing
How can America meet the growing need for services surrounding mental health and substance use care? In this episode of The State of Mental Wellbeing, we sat down with Andi Smith from Ballmer Group’s Washington team to answer that very question. Mohini and Andi discuss increasing adoption of the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) model and how it provides timely and personalized care for its communities. They dive deeper into the backbone of a CCBHC and how payment reform through Medicaid, cross-sector collaboration and the role of philanthropy supports the demanding need for large-scale change in behavioral health care services.
We discuss:
• Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) and Medicaid payment reform.
• Philanthropic partnership with public sectors.
• What is mental health as a force multiplier means.
Andi Smith is Executive Director of National Behavioral Health and Ballmer Group’s Washington team. She leads strategy and investments focused on economic mobility for children and families, with expertise in behavioral health, child welfare, housing, early childhood, disability and public systems change.
As our understanding of mental health care continues to grow in parallel with the demand, CCBHCs have become an emerging power model for how access to care and services can be attainable for anyone in the community.
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