USA CON Team-Based Trauma-Informed Integrated Behavioral Health (TBTI-IBH) ECHO®

Attention Healthcare Providers – If your patients benefit from comprehensive and sensitive behavioral health services from local people they know and trust, then the USA CON TBTI-IBH ECHO® can provide you with interprofessional telementoring.

No cost to participate | Free continuing education credits available to eligible participants.

Mission

To provide additional support to trauma-informed integrated behavioral health workforces locally, regionally, and across the nation.

Background on Health Issue

A confounding impact on mental health is trauma. Trauma includes adverse childhood experiences, accidents/disasters, physical/sexual assault, and sudden/violent loss of a loved one that can negatively impact mental health. Approximately 70% of adults, 75% of children, and 90% of behavioral health clients in the U.S. have experienced at least one traumatic event. Among all populations, those who experience six or more traumatic events die approximately 20 years earlier than those who experience less traumatic events. Adding to this list is the present COVID-19 pandemic. It may present like a disaster due to the non-routine character that exceeds the local capacity to respond to it and changes to the community, government, individual support, and infrastructure affecting a region's stability. In June 2020, COVID-19-related restrictions resulted in a 40% increase in reported mental health and substance use disorders.

Blacks, Asians, Hispanics, and people of other diverse racial/ethnic groups can experience additional racial/ethnicity-based traumatic stress and racial trauma, with those reporting two or more races being at greater risk. Given the relationship between exposure to trauma, mental health, substance use, and the additive impact of the potentially traumatic COVID-19 pandemic, it can be anticipated that there will be lifelong adverse effects on peoples’ mental health if left untreated.

TBTI-IBH ECHO^® Purpose

To bring healthcare professionals together in a virtual learning environment where collaboration and connection with subject matter experts will increase the frontline capacity to provide thorough trauma-informed integrated behavioral healthcare and thereby increase access to care. A special focus will be the child, adolescent, and transitional-aged youth at risk for behavioral health disorders within the high-demand Gulf Coast southeastern region of the United States.

Our ECHO^® programming consists of the following:

• A Zoom session (6 monthly sessions)
• A short lecture provided by a subject matter expert
• A case scenario presentation and discussion
• Questions, discussion, and engagement with other providers and experts

Session Dates

Calendar Year 2025

Launch Date: January 30, 2025

6 monthly sessions

This ECHO® series, entitled Successful use of Team-based Telehealth in Trauma-informed Integrated Care Settings, will consist of six (6) sessions. We encourage you to join in all sessions but attendance at all sessions is not mandatory. All sessions are 90 minutes, from 12:00 p.m. until 1:30 p.m., Central Time.

To Join

To join the USA CON TBTI-IBH ECHO®, please complete the Registration Form using the following link and you will be registered for all of the six sessions.

Project ECHO®:  The University of South Alabama collects registration, participation, questions/answers, chat comments, and poll responses for ECHO® programs. Your individual data will be kept confidential. These data may be used for reports, maps, communications, surveys, quality assurance, evaluation, research, and to inform new initiatives.

Questions? Email us – USA CON TBTI-IBH - at briley@southalabama.edu