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Promoting the Integration of Primary and Behavioral Health Care: Collaborative Care Model (PIPBHC-CoCM)

Working in partnership with the New Jersey Department of Human Services' Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS), the CIC will implement the collaborative care model (CoCM) in two primary care and one pediatric care clinics located in Newark and Elizabeth. The CoCM initiative will serve individuals with serious mental illness (SMI), serious emotional disturbance (SED) and co-occurring physical health and/or substance use disorders (SUDs) who present in the primary care and pediatric clinics. Teams of psychiatric consultants, behavioral health care managers, nurse care managers, and support staff coordinate behavioral health services with primary care utilizing the CoCM, including patient-centered, team-based, measurement-based, and population-based health care, as well as evidence-based behavioral health practices, such as brief cognitive behavioral therapy, early detection clinical high-risk for psychosis, and medications for opioid use disorder.