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Colorado is transforming its behavioral health system. The goal is to expand access to care and enhance the quality of care delivered to all people in Colorado.

 

As part of this reform, the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) has launched a Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) program to address the diverse needs and goals of behavioral health providers.

 

The TTA program is designed for all behavioral health providers. Review available offerings below. Scroll to the bottom of the page for grouped Categories of learning.

Categories

Behavioral Health Basics

Foundational knowledge on Colorado's state agencies and Managed Care Entities, offering comprehensive insights into their roles, responsibilities, and interactions within the behavioral health system.

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Behavioral Health Administration Licensure and Approval

Comprehensive reviews of Colorado's rules impacting behavioral health providers.

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Payment

Equipping Colorado behavioral health providers with essential knowledge on billing and reimbursement processes, alternative payment models, and implementing value-based payment arrangements.

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Quality Improvement and Capacity Building

A diverse range of topics designed to enhance the quality and capacity of behavioral health providers across various domains. Topics include treating patients with co-occurring disorders, medication-assisted treatment strategies, measurement based care, care compacts and enhanced referral approaches, implementing trauma-informed care using cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), collaboration with law enforcement agencies, use of digital tools and technology, and understanding the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) model.

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Serving Specific Populations

Specialized training tailored for behavioral health providers in Colorado, focusing on treating distinct demographic groups such as children and adolescents, pregnant persons, LGBTQ+ individuals, justice-involved individuals, and culturally diverse populations. These modules aim to enhance the quality and accessibility of behavioral health services statewide.

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Workforce

Addressing the critical need for building and sustaining a competent behavioral health workforce in Colorado. These trainings focus on recruitment strategies, professional development, retention practices, and enhancing job satisfaction to strengthen the workforce's capacity to meet the increasing demand for behavioral health services across the state.

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Medicaid Billing for Evidence-Based Practices and Intensive Services

An overview of coverage of Evidence-Based Practices (EBPs) and intensive services under Health First Colorado and the Behavioral Health Administration, including how to use available resources that describe how to submit encounters/claims.

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Medications Assisted Treatment in Jails/Prisons: Supporting Re-Entry and Recovery

An overview of current policy and practice standards for medication assisted treatment (MAT) in carceral settings and key components to support effective MAT implementation in carceral settings, with a focus on re-entry transitions.

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Medications for Addiction Treatment

An overview of the biology of addiction, why medications are essential in treating substance use disorders, a history of the use of medications for addiction treatment (MAT), FDA-approved medications, and how providers can deliver MAT.

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Models for Engaging Transgender Youth

An overview of transgender youth and best practices to engage youth in substance use treatment programs, and evidence-based interventions and harm reduction strategies to support transgender youth.

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Navigating Complexity: Overcoming the Unique Challenges to Mobile Crisis Response in Colorado

An overview of Colorado’s mobile crisis response benefit, secure transportation following a mobile crisis response, best practices or lessons learned, and principles to support providers in managing complex scenarios.

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Opening the Door to Residential Addiction Treatment

An overview of residential addiction treatment levels of care, the changes to these levels in the 4th edition of the ASAM Criteria, and lessons learned by the trainer after providing 15 years of specialty addiction treatment.

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Partners as Assets: Developing and Organizational Strategy to Optimize Partnerships to Advance Community Wellbeing and Health

An overview of why an organizational partnership strategy is vital for strategic planning to facilitate connections to BH care, advance BH equity, support whole person care, and promote organizational growth and fiscal stability.

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Paying Differently in Colorado

An overview of alternative payment models (APMs), how APMs vary from a fee for service payment approach, why models are shifting from volume to value driven payment, how changes align in clinical models, and provider roles in achieving quality outcomes.

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Prospective Payment System Reconciliation

An overview of the HCPF prospective payment system reconciliation process and relevant timelines, including when the reconciliation process applies and for which providers; the fiscal implications; and how providers work with MCEs to minimize potential financial challenges.

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