Behavioral Health News & Events
Volume 2, Issue 2 | April 2014
We Need You in our
Courage Beyond Network
of Mental Health Providers
What is Courage Beyond?
Courage Beyond is a community for those
facing post-traumatic stress disorder and
other invisible wounds of military service. We
serve military Americans and their families,
ensuring that service men and women and
their loved ones have access to the resources
and support they need to live a healthy and
fulfilling life.
What does Courage Beyond
Provide?
Courage Beyond offers up to 12 individual
and/or family counseling services for our
military and their families across Tennessee
with licensed clinical therapists trained in
military culture when families do not have
access to or do not want to use their military
benefits.
Will I get paid for my services?
Yes! Through the Tennessee Department of
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
(TDMHSAS) Courage Beyond has received
state appropriation dollars for our
Tennesseans. Courage Beyond offers $100
for the first 4 sessions, $90 with a $10 co-pay
for the 2nd 4 sessions, and $80 for the final 4
sessions with a $20 co-pay. Additional
sessions may be authorized if the service
recipient meets medical necessity.
What if I am not trained in military
culture?
Courage Beyond will provide training for you.
"Protecting patients' protected health information
is important to all health care providers and the
new tool we are releasing today will help them
assess the security of their organizations," said
Karen DeSalvo, M.D., national coordinator for
health information technology. "The SRA tool and
its additional resources have been designed to
help health care providers conduct a risk
assessment to support better security for patient
health data."
"We are pleased to have collaborated with the
ONC on this project," said Susan McAndrew,
deputy director of OCR's Division of Health
Information Privacy. "We believe this tool will
greatly assist providers in performing a risk
assessment to meet their obligations under the
HIPAA Security Rule."
The SRA tool's website contains a User Guide and
Tutorial video to help providers begin using the
tool. Videos on risk analysis and contingency
planning are available at the website to provide
further context.
The tool is available for both Windows operating
systems and iOS iPads. Download the Windows
version athttp://www.HealthIT.gov/security-riskassessment. The iOS iPad version is available from
the Apple App Store (search under "HHS SRA
tool").
The ONC is committed to improving the SRA tool in
future update cycles, and is requesting that users
provide feedback. Public comments on the SRA
tool will be accepted at http://www.HealthIT.gov/
security-risk-assessment until June 2, 2014.
How will I get referrals?
You can refer a person you are already seeing
that may be having difficulty paying or has
dropped out of services because they cannot
pay.
OR Courage Beyond will refer potential
service recipients who contact Courage
Beyond.
How do I become part of your
network if am a facility or an
individual provider?
Contact Kathy Campbell at
[email protected] to
learn more today!
For more information about all of Courage
Beyond’s services, call 888.497.0379 or visit
www.CourageBeyond.org.
treatment (SBIRT), an evidence-based practice, for
youth in up to 30 community behavioral health
organizations throughout the country. The project
will also address how Medicaid, through its Early
and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment
(EPSDT) mandate, can pay for SBIRT services.
“Youth with mental illnesses are at high risk for
developing a substance use disorder, and
behavioral health providers must take every
opportunity to address these concerns,” said Linda
Rosenberg, President and CEO of the National
Council for Behavioral Health (National Council).
“This significant investment in early intervention
will help many youth grow into healthy adults.”
Mental health and substance use treatment
organizations that serve youth will implement the
initiative and seek state reimbursement. Sites will
develop workflows for the screening to treatment
process, including identifying where and how
screening will be implemented within the agency,
what screening tool will be used, and how
information will be collected.
“Despite a strong evidence base, the use of SBIRT
is still limited among the organizations that have
contact with youth most at risk for developing
substance use disorders,” continues Rosenberg.
“Addressing substance use during this critical time
is an important investment into reducing the
costly impact of addictions in our society.”
The National Council will select participating
organizations through a competitive application
process beginning this spring, and participants will
be announced in the summer.
Contact: [email protected] or
202.684.7457
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Awards
National Council $1.3M to Address
Early Intervention for Substance Use
Grant supports up to 30 behavioral health
organizations to adopt SBIRT, motivational
interviewing for youth
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