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Role of the Certified Peer Specialist in Innovative and Emergent Physician and Behavioral Health Integrated Delivery Systems of Care
Individuals with the shared life experience of mental diversity play a vital role (Certified Peer Specialist) of providing peer supports and services in the mental health and behavioral health care settings (SAMHSA, 2013). The Certified Peer Specialist is effective in promoting behavioral change in clients they serve by increasing utilization rates and providing significant reductions in hospital admissions and re-admissions (Fedder, Chang, Curry, 2003). The CPS can now provide for behavioral and physical wellness health coaching supports in an integrated setting (Swarbrick, M. (2013); Manderscheid, R (2013). The CPS is Medicaid, Manage Care Organization (MCO) and are public/privately sustainably fundable -- providing a win/win wellness and whole health solution in the ACA environment utilizing 100% peer-driven services (Vestal, C. 2013). The Medicaid MCO 1915(i) waiver and 1115 Medicaid waiver, and State by State Rehabilitation Option funding options offer direct solutions for viable peer supports via physical and behavioral health integrated delivery systems of care.
Learning Areas:
Administer health education strategies, interventions and programsAdministration, management, leadership
Other professions or practice related to public health
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Program planning
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health
Learning Objectives:
Formulate a hard-copy list of community partnership of Consumer Operated Service Provider (COSP), Collaborative and MCOs network;
Develop an applicable hard-copy list of roles for the CPS in own shared system of care;
Create a draft model for funding mechanism to drive the CPS in an integrated system of care.
Keyword(s): Affordable Care Act, Community-Based Partnership & Collaboration
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Padron, 2014 Candidate for her Doctor of Public Health works with Benchmark Human Services, Region I Georgia Mobile Crisis Intervention. She is consults with Vanguard Communications, Washington, DC to SAMHSA on wellness and social inclusion initiatives nationwide. Member to the Development Committee and Peer Leadership Interest Group, Member to Mental Health America National Board of Directors Committee for Diversity, Cultural and Linguistic Competency and a National Leadership Committee Member to NIDRR at Temple University.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.