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By Pete Nielsen, LAADC, SAP California Assemblyman Jim Wood has set out to initiate significant and positive change with the introduction and hopeful passing of Assembly Bill 942. The bill will implement behavioral health components into the Department of Health Care Services’ (DHCS) California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) initiative. It is designed to help …
Evidence-based practices deliver greater outcomes for individuals and programs is supported by research. But they can only reach their full potential when people are engaged with learning and utilizing these best practices. What is Engagement? The definition of ‘engagement’ can be ambiguous, vague, or narrow. Often it’s taken to mean simply ‘enrollment’ or ‘attendance’. But …
Research shows that evidence-based practices deliver greater outcomes for individuals and programs in behavioral health settings. But these practices can only reach their full potential when people are engaged with learning and utilizing these best practices. Curriculum design and development is a discipline onto itself. Training and development is an industry with subject matter experts, …