Community health centers and community behavioral health organizations exist in a complex ecosystem. Partnerships can help these providers to thrive while providing quality care, but building partnerships can also be an adaptive challenge requiring changes in values and attitudes. “Soft” skills become essential, whether in truly understanding partners’ priorities, creating “productive disequilibrium” to bring about change, or reframing requests to get a different result. This document shares key takeaways from The Delta Center's third Learning & Action Collaborative in Oakland, CA, in February 2019.
Community health centers and community behavioral health centers are facing a time of unprecedented complexity and uncertainty. There is generally a feeling of building the payment reform plane while flying it — where is this payment reform plane going? This document shares four takeaways from the Delta Center's second convening of grantees participating in the State Learning and Action Collaborative.
In 2019, the Delta Center conducted a Safari Visit to Compass Health Network, just outside of St. Louis, Missouri. The intent of the Safari Visit was to use the strength of peer-to-peer sharing as a technical assistance tool by allowing attendees to see and hear about a concrete demonstration of how primary care and behavioral health collaboration and sustainable payment is being done.
In March 2024, the Delta Center for a Thriving Safety Net hosted its final grantee convening in New Orleans, Louisiana, to facilitate peer learning, celebrate achievements, and strategize for sustaining the Delta Center work. This document summarizes key insights from the convening.
The Delta Center hosted a virtual site visit for grantees in partnership with Oklahoma Primary Care Association (OKPCA) and Oklahoma Behavioral Health Association (OBHA), The site visit aimed to showcase collaboration across primary care and behavioral health at state and clinical levels, featuring the OKPCA, OBHA, and patients and providers from federally qualified health centers and community behavioral health organizations, including Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics .
In September 2022, the Delta Center for a Thriving Safety Net convened grantees and Delta Center partners in New Mexico for peer sharing and relationship building. This summary aims to capture the most important themes from the event.
This Q & A resource features advice from Deborah Riddick, a speaker at the May 2021 Delta Center convening, in order to build on her presentation about advancing racial equity and incorporating consumer voice.
This resource comes from one of the sessions at the Delta Center September 2022 convening. The presentation covers partnering with managed care plans in 2022, including tips on navigating the process and using managed care to promote health equity.
This brief describes describes four key outcomes of the first phase of the Delta Center, which funded 12 state teams for its first cohort of the State Learning & Action Collaborative. Relationships built through the Delta Center helped support the safety net’s initial response to COVID-19 and will continue to contribute to greater alignment between primary care and behavioral health in future policy and practice changes.
