Behavioral Health Tele-ECHO Project

Feb 17, 2025

This project will provide primary care providers with the knowledge, tools, and referral pathways to optimally treat patients with mild to moderate behavioral health diagnoses. The Upper Peninsula Health Care Solutions team will recreate the successful ECHO model,...

Adolescent Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Program

Feb 17, 2025

The goal of this program is to greatly improve the identification rates of youth, ages 11-18, who struggle with depression, suicidality, potential substance abuse concerns, and other mental and behavioral health issues, all within a primary care context, using a peer...

Building the Capacity of Rural Health Centers to Deliver Adolescent-Friendly Integrated Behavioral Health

Feb 17, 2025

Using a proven clinic training and competency model, this project will increase capacity for rural clinics in the Upper Peninsula to integrate behavioral health services for adolescents into primary care health centers.  

Responding to Adolescent Depression through Integration and Telemedicine (RAD-IT)

Feb 17, 2025

This project will use telemedicine to improve the behavioral health outcomes of rural Michigan adolescents, by increasing the recognition of depression and providing timely and effective treatment. Altarum and its partners will train 45 primary care and family...

iHeLP: Implementation of Technology-Based Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment in Pediatric Primary Care

Feb 17, 2025

This project will leverage the existing iHeLP screening tool to increase identification of problematic substance use and access to evidence-based interventions among 14- to 17-year-olds in Henry Ford Health System pediatric primary care clinics. iHeLP software follows...

Integration of Non-Pharmacological Pain Management Into Primary Care

Feb 17, 2025

Great Lakes Bay Health Centers (GLBHC) will create a stronger continuum of care for older adults who are using opioids to manage chronic pain. GLBHC will form fully integrated pain management team in Saginaw, providing high-quality, person-centered care; offering...

“I Vaccinate” Provider Education Tools

Feb 17, 2025

The Michigan Health and Hospital Association Foundation aims to increase the state’s childhood immunization rates to national levels or better by 2023 by working with providers to create educational tools and resources about the effectiveness and safety of...

Health Care and Food Bank Partnership Initiative

Feb 17, 2025

The Health Care and Food Bank Partnership Initiative will strengthen the connection between health care and good nutrition by increasing access to healthy food for individuals struggling with food insecurity and improving health care providers’ awareness of the hunger...

Behavioral Health Integration to Enhance an Interprofessional Primary Care Clinic

Feb 17, 2025

Bay County Health Department and Bay-Arenac Behavioral Health will improve outcomes for county residents who have concurrent physical and mental health conditions. The Interprofessional Primary Care Clinic will include health care providers and students from different...