Across the country, philanthropic leaders are calling for collaboration over competition, and for a renewed commitment to equity and systems-level solutions in the face of widespread uncertainty and decimated funding for safety-net services. The Delta Center for a Thriving Safety Net offers a concrete example of what such collaboration looks like in practice.
Telehealth is a key modality for putting behavioral health and primary care within reach for patients. In recent years, state and federal policy alike shifted to support telehealth access during the pandemic and in response to increasing behavioral health needs. This post spotlights how Alaska and New York, teams participating in the Delta Center's State Learning and Action Collaborative, worked with partners to advance telehealth for their states as one example of state level collective action that ultimately benefits patients.
Alaska faces unique challenges in delivering behavioral health care, given its frontier setting. Amid high demand for services, many communities are remote, requiring providers to travel by plane to reach patients. Meanwhile, outdated regulations have created unnecessary administrative burdens, pulling providers away from critical patient care. Our new video series highlights Alaska Behavioral Health Association's journey to reshape the behavioral health landscape in Alaska.
During the Delta Center’s final convening in March 2024, we sat down with grantees and partners to hear about their experiences in Phase II of the State Learning & Action Collaborative.
The Phase 2 Evaluation Report summarizes the progress state associations have made toward advancing policy and practice change during their participation in the Delta Center.
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 episode of the Delta Center podcast spotlights Michael Curry, Esq, the President and CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers (Mass League) and one of the co-founders of the state’s Health Equity Compact. In this episode, Michael specifically emphasizes how health centers can and should be at the forefront of health equity work: “Why can't health centers be closer to the power?”
In this blog post, Ariel Singer, who was part of the Delta Center-funded team from Oregon, shares information about Rapid Engagement, a behavioral health access innovation that aims to make it easier for people to get started with services. She details her own experience with behavioral health services as well as one Oregon Health Plan consumer’s Rapid Engagement experience.
In April 2023, the Delta Center for a Thriving Safety Net convened grantees and Delta Center partners in Austin, Texas for opportunities to learn from each other, celebrate the successes, and plan for ways to sustain Delta Center activities. These are some takeaways from the convening.
