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Relationships: The Linchpin of Successful Management of Mental Health Caseloads
SESSION INFO
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Session Type: Workshop
For specialty mental health probation (SMHP) officers, the ability to quickly link an individual under supervision to treatment involves more than a release of information form and an open slot on a mental health treatment caseload. There are numerous factors that can either enhance or impede this service linkage function and these factors can vary based on the local context (e.g., county, circuit). This session describes results from a study conducted as part of North Carolina’s SMHP program. The research team analyzed data from 40 interviews with state and local representatives from probation and behavioral health services about the barriers to collaboration and coordination of services, resources to address these challenges, and strategies aimed to enhance collaboration. The session’s presenters will describe how they launch service provider engagement, leverage leadership, develop and test strategies, and how they are using research results to tailor provider engagement strategies to the local context.
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SESSION PRESENTERS
Brian K. Gates, MPA
Director of Program Services, NC Department of Adult Correction
Brian K. Gates is the Director of Program Services with the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction and has over 30 years of experience with Probation and Parole. Mr. Gates graduated from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke with a Master of Public Administration. Brian was Vice-Chairman of Surry County Schools Board of Education from 2006 to 2014, received the Governor’s Award of Excellence in Human Relations in 2013, and was presented the North Carolina All State School Board Member by the North Carolina School Boards Association in 2009.
Dave Peterson
Regional Vice President, Trillium Health Resources
Dave Peterson is the Regional Vice President of Trillium Health Resources that manages mental health, substance use, and intellectual and development disability services for high-risk individuals in 46 counties in North Carolina, managing We manage the high-risk individuals to help them access services and supports. He has over 40 years working in the Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability arena and has worked with both adolescents and adults at inpatient Mental Health and Substance Use hospital. He also served as the director of a 70-bed adolescent behavioral health facility and have provided respite for older adolescents in locked psychiatric facilities. Mr. Peterson also holds a Master’s degree in Psychology.
Dr. Tonya Van Deinse, PhD
Research Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Tonya Van Deinse is a research associate professor in the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Van Deinse and her lab – Health Interventions in the Legal System (HILS Lab) – focus on intervention design, implementation, and evaluation at the interface of behavioral health and legal systems. Dr. Van Deinse started her work in mental health 20 years ago in residential treatment with adults with severe mental illnesses and then later worked in mental health at the systems level (i.e., managed care organization) where she began to focus on people with severe mental illnesses in the criminal legal system. Dr. Van Deinse is the principal investigator and implementation science researcher on a number of research studies and program evaluations. Examples of studies in the legal system include: (1) developing and testing tailored implementation strategies to improve collaboration and coordinator between mental health probation officers and community resource providers, (2) testing clinical case consultation and network building effort to improve implementation of specialized mental health supervision, (3) evaluating an expansion model of a county’s mental health court.
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