The Mental Health Services Conference 2021: On Demand-Community Leadership and Frontline Care

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Video Summary

In the first video, Dr. Jacqueline Moss Feldman facilitates a session on community leadership and frontline care, emphasizing the collaboration of different disciplines to advance patient care and address social determinants of care. Dr. Ken Thompson discusses the need for psychiatry to integrate with primary health and public health services. Dr. Rochelle Head Dunham discusses Metropolitan Human Services District, which provides behavioral health services with a focus on person-centered care and culturally relevant services, as well as addressing social determinants of health.<br /><br />In the second video, the importance of integrating behavioral health and primary care services is emphasized. The prevalence of mental illness and substance abuse among patients is highlighted, along with the limited access to mental health specialists and disparities in healthcare. The benefits of integrated care, such as improved patient experience, health outcomes, staff experience, and lower costs, are discussed. Examples of integrated care programs at the Los Angeles LGBT Center are provided and challenges and successes of implementing integrated care are mentioned. Dr. Amir Ahuja, the director of psychiatry at the Los Angeles LGBT Center, shares his experience and highlights the center's efforts to integrate mental health and primary care services for the LGBTQ population.<br /><br />No credits were mentioned in either video transcript.

Keywords

community leadership

frontline care

collaboration

social determinants of care

psychiatry

primary health

behavioral health services

person-centered care

integrated care

mental illness

LGBTQ population