Learning Communities/ECHOs

Current Learning Communities

CCBHC Rural Health Services Learning Community

This learning community will operate from October 2024-April 2025. Registration for this learning community is now open and closes on October 4. Apply today!  

This seven-month learning community will explore the best approaches to delivering effective rural CCBHC services.

CCBHCs in rural communities are required to deliver the same level of care similar to organizations in urban and suburban areas. However, rural CCBHCs face significant challenges when it comes to providing timely access to care and services. This learning community is designed to focus on sharing best practices and implementing effective service, offering strategies rural CCBHCs can explore to meet the needs of people receiving services.

Target Audience: Established CCBHCs, defined as clinics who received CCBHC grants in 2021 or prior.

Event Schedule: Participants are expected to attend all events or send a team member in their place. This learning community runs for seven months, from October 2024 through April 2025. Clinics are welcome to send the representative of their choice (either administrator, clinician or both). There is no cap on the limit of team members joining each session from your organization, but at least one person from each organization is requested to attend each session. Session topics and dates are listed below:

  • Session 1: Orientation to Learning Community — Oct. 15
  • Session 2: Workforce:  Recruitment, Retention, and Innovations in Rural Communities — Nov. 19
  • Session 3: Access to and Delivery of Core CCBHC Services — Dec. 17
  • Session 4: Crisis Services — Jan. 21
  • Session 5: Innovative Partnerships — Feb. 18
  • Session 6: Addressing Disparities and DEIB Efforts — March 18
  • Session 7: Care Coordination and Population Health Management — April 15

Please contact us at CCBHCeTTA@TheNationalCouncil.org for any questions.

Cohort Calls & Registration

The CCBHC-E NTTAC hosts monthly cohort calls for various CCBHC-E roles. These monthly, hour-long meetings will serve as a regular space to support peer sharing, solution generation and cross-collaboration for staff at CCBHC-E grantees. Participants can attend as regularly as they like. Sign up today and share this opportunity with other members of your team!

  • CCBHC-E executives meet the last Friday of each month from 12-1 p.m. ET. Register here.
  • CCBHC-E program directors meet the first Wednesday of each month from 12-1 p.m. ET. Register here.
  • CCBHC-E evaluators or CQI leads meet the first Tuesday of each month from 3:30-4:30 p.m. ET. Register here.

Past Learning Communities

Care Coordination Learning Community

This learning community will operate from April-September 2024. Registration for this learning community is now closed. Please contact us at CCBHCeTTA@TheNationalCouncil.org for any questions.

In monthly sessions, this six-month learning community will explore how to design an effective care coordination system (often considered the linchpin of the CCBHC model). The series will increase participants’ understanding and application of best practices in the successful implementation of CCBHC care coordination criteria requirements.

Lessons will cover topics including care coordination implementation strategies, partnerships with primary care, hospitals, justice systems and veteran services, and partnerships with entities providing social needs services.

Crisis Services Learning Community

This learning community operates from January-August 2024. Registration for this learning community is now closed. Please contact us at CCBHCeTTA@TheNationalCouncil.org for any questions.

The CCBHC Crisis Services Learning Community will bring together CCBHC-E grantees interested in learning how to understand and best meet the full range of requirements for providing a continuum of crisis services in their communities, including needs assessment, partnering, care traffic control, and crisis best practices, as well as the core services of call center connection, mobile crisis, and crisis walk-in and stabilization.  This 8-month community will meet monthly.

Zero Overdose Learning Community

This learning community operates from March-September 2024. Registration for this learning community is now closed. Please contact us at CCBHCeTTA@TheNationalCouncil.org for any questions. 

The CCBHC-E NTTAC, in partnership with Zero Overdose is thrilled to present an innovative capacity-building Learning Community specifically designed to equip CCBHCs with the knowledge and tools necessary to effectively implement overdose safety planning, meet harm reduction deliverables, and operationalize population health initiatives for substance misuse. This program is intended to address the critical need for quality safety planning in CCBHCs, establishing an implementation process that promotes long-term optimization and sustainability. The program will offer monthly learning community sessions from March-September that encompass various components to achieve organizational commitment to overdose safety planning and clinical pathways for identifying and managing populations at risk of substance misuse and/or overdose.

To learn more about this opportunity and receive details on the application process, Register today for an introductory webinar on Feb. 1, 9-10 a.m. ET OR 3-4 p.m. ET.

ASAM Substance Use ECHO
CCBHC-E NTTAC has partnered with ASAM to provide a six-session CCBHC ECHO on substance use. The ECHO series offers a comprehensive, in-depth analysis of actual patient cases submitted by attendees. Participants can look forward to receiving guidance and feedback from a diverse panel of expert faculty. This program is tailored for professionals new to the field of addiction treatment, providing them with the means to enhance their knowledge, skills and confidence. This introductory program is specifically designed for CCBHC grant recipients, including social workers, therapists and additional clinical team members involved in patient care. Register for each session today!

Detailed Registration Instructions:

Part 1: Create an ASAM Account:

  1. Click on the following link: asam.org
  2. On the top right part of the screen, click on “Login”
  3. Underneath the spaces where you would put your login information, you will need to create an account by clicking, “Create Account” (If you don’t already have an account)
  4. There will be a variety of different information you need to fill out during the account creation. After you create your account, you will need to return to these steps to register for the training.

Part 2: Register for the Sessions

  1. Choose Session or Sessions you would like to register for. To register for individual sessions, you will need to click on each of the links below.
  2. Click on the green, “Register” button.
  3. Click on the blue button, “Complete Registration Now”.
  4. There will be some questions you need to fill out to finish the registration process
  5. You will receive an automated message to the email you used to create the account confirming your registration.

Contact ASAM if you have any technical difficulties at education@asam.org or by phone at 301.656.3920.

CCBHC New Grantee Learning Community

This learning community operates from November 2023-September 2024. Registration for this learning community is now closed. Please contact us at CCBHCeTTA@TheNationalCouncil.org with any questions.

The CCBHC New Grantee Learning Community is designed for those new to CCBHC implementation. This year-long learning community will provide monthly guidance and peer-to-peer sharing opportunities for CCBHC-PDI grantees over the first year of grant implementation.

By the end of this learning community, participants will:

  • Increase knowledge and understanding of CCBHC criteria elements and apply this knowledge to the grant implementation requirements and deliverables throughout the year.
  • Establish and implement project management and change management to promote successful organization transformation as a CCBHC.
  • Utilize lessons learned from CCBHCs and guidance from experts to inform the development of all Y1 deliverables — including needs assessment, establishing all required services, staffing plan and sustainability plan.

Target audiences: The New Grantee Learning Community is designed for CCBHC-PDI grantees that are in their first year of implementation and looking for support in gaining a deeper understanding of the CCBHC model and its requirements, as well as learning about strategies that support implementation. This learning community could also be acceptable for new Program Directors who are looking to get up to speed on existing CCBHC programs.

CCBHC Foundations Data Learning Series

This series operated from November 2023-March 2024 and has ended.

The Center hosted a new installment of the CCBHC Data Foundations Learning Series from November 2023-March 2024. PDI CCBHC-E grantees interested in joining the series can watch recordings of the sessions below:

Medical Directors ECHO Series

This series operated from April-August 2023 and has ended.

This five-month CCBHC Advancing Quality and Integration by Effective Implementation of Medical Director Role ECHO, launched in April 2023. This series brought together CCBHC medical directors interested in receiving guidance and education on their role in effectively supporting the CCBHC model strategic framework and implementation to enhance the integration and quality of care. Contact us at CCBHCeTTA@TheNationalCouncil.org for past series content.

CCBHC Care Coordination Learning Community

This community operated from April-August 2023 and has ended.

This five-month learning community explored care coordination — often considered the “lynchpin” of the CCBHC model — to improve understanding and application of best practices in successful implementation of CCBHC care coordination criteria requirements. Core topics included: care coordination implementation strategies, partnerships with primary care, hospitals, and justice systems, and establishing culturally sensitive care.

Access Past Content:

Session One: Introduction

Session Two: Strategies and Considerations for Care Coordination in a CCBHC

Session Three: Partnerships

Session Four: Partnerships with Emergency Departments and Hospitals

Session Five: Partnerships with Law Enforcement and the Justice System

Session Six: Community-Based Organizations and Obtaining Consent

Session Seven: Partnership with Culturally Specific Providers

Session Eight: Recap and Review

Child & Family-focused CCBHC Learning Community

This learning community operated from February-September 2022 and has ended.

The Child and Family-focused CCBHC Learning Community was a monthly peer learning opportunity designed to support increased access to and improved quality of CCBHCs in meeting the needs of youth and families. The learning community featured national experts and CCBHC representatives from across the country and is focused on design and implementation approaches for CCBHCs.

Participants in the learning community focused on:

  • Understand the value of children’s services and the framework and role of child-serving systems.
  • Identify design and implementation approaches CCBHCs can establish to meet the unique needs of children, youth and young adults with behavioral health needs and their families.

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The CCBHC-E National Training and Technical Assistance Center provides free consultation and technical assistance on CCBHC implementation to expansion grantees.

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