Course Summary

An overview of the roles of community health workers, peers, crisis professionals, and qualified behavioral health assistants including the differences in their respective roles and information to support the extender role.

Learning Objectives

Upon completing this material, learners will be able to:

1. Describe how integrating support from trusted, trained local representatives who look and talk like the populations they serve are best able to engage, support and bring value to those they serve. ​
2. Identify the ways in which community health workers, peer support professionals, crisis professionals, and qualified medication administration persons can support their organization’s population health strategy, including strategies for aligning efforts with existing CBOs who provide extender support and strategies for adding/expanding this workforce in-house. ​
3. Identify strategies to effectively and sustainably recruit, train, supervise, support, and finance this workforce, including options for value-based contracting with local healthcare partners. ​
4. Re-envision BH delivery of the future: outside of the clinic walls and beyond billing codes.

Learning Audience

This asynchronous course is designed for behavioral health providers seeking essential information on attaining and maintaining appropriate licensure and approvals, understanding regulatory requirements, and complying with updated standards in the State of Colorado.

Course Duration

• 48 minutes

External Content Notice

This learning content is housed and managed outside of the OwnPath Learning Hub system, and is shared in partnership with the Colorado Department of Healthcare Policy and Financing (HCPF).

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