Healthy Start for Minnesota Children
Five health plans – Blue Plus, Health Partners, Hennepin Health, South Country Health Alliance, and UCare – launched the Healthy Start performance improvement project in the spring of 2021.
The project focuses on ensuring a “healthy start” for Minnesota children by concentrating on improving services provided to pregnant women and infants, with a particular focus on reducing racial and ethnic disparities. Interventions will include working with a wide variety of partners to improve access and coordination of resources to help mothers and children get the right care at the right time in the right setting.
Healthy Start for Minnesota Children
View Healthy Start for Minnesota Children Hide Healthy Start for Minnesota ChildrenAntidepressant Provider Toolkit
Resources for providers and care coordinators working with culturally diverse and senior/Medicare patients experiencing depression including best practices for depression care, mental health resources for providers and patients, cultural competency, and shared decision making. (15-page PDF)
A Provider Toolkit: Meeting the Challenges of Opioids and Pain
Resources include patient education on pain and opioid prescriptions, addressing opioid prescription practices, identifying safe and effective pain management protocols, and nonpharmacologic and non-opioid pharmacotherapy alternatives. (28-page PDF)
Alternative Pain Management Therapies – Minnesota Medicaid Benefit Coverage
This grid may assist clinicians in determining therapy options that may be covered and therapy options not covered by Medicaid in Minnesota. (4-page PDF)
Alternatives to Opioids
January 14, 2019. While prescription opioid pain medication can be effective for treating certain types of pain, there are other options available that can address pain as well. For many conditions and injuries, experiencing pain is a normal part of the healing process, and finding ways to manage pain without reliance on opioids is important. This webinar provides an overview of therapies that are commonly used as an alternative to opioid medications. Understanding what options may be available to treat pain can help professionals support patients and clients through their healing journey. Speaker is Isaac Marsolek, MD. (61-minute webinar), slides (23-page PDF)
Behavioral Health Care for Refugees Series: Mental Health Issues of the Refugee Population–Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment webinar
Session 2, July 25, 2016. This session looks at mental health issues in the refugee population. Georgi Kroupin, Ph.D., LMFT, MA, LP – HealthPartners Center for International Health, discusses screening, diagnosis, and treatment. (61-minute webinar)
Behavioral Health Care for Refugees Webinar Series: Mental Health Issues of the Refugee Population–Working with Interpreters in Mental Health Settings
Session 4, December 19, 2016. This webinar focuses on working with interpreters as part of the clinical team and the therapeutic process of treating behavioral health issues in refugees. (62-minute webinar)
Behavioral Health Care for Refugees Webinar Series; Immigration: Surviving Trauma, Loss and Finding Hope
Session 1, May 18, 2016. This session of the webinar series looks at immigration in Minnesota—trauma and loss experienced by refugees and how it affects individuals and families. It also explores ways of identifying and utilizing strength and resiliency of refugees. (61-minute webinar), slides (29-page PDF)
Behavioral Health Care for Refugees: Barriers, Best Practices, and Cultural Humility
February 3, 2016. New arrivers to this country present an array of unique challenges which may include trauma, unique cultural values and varying cultural views of western medicine and mental health. Understanding the refugee community’s perceptions of behavioral health issues can help improve interactions with this community. (45-page PDF)
Body chart
Print out this body chart so you can circle your pain areas and share with your doctor. (1-page PDF)
Breathing Techniques
By allowing more air to enter your body, you will slow down your heart rate, lower your blood pressure, and break the stress cycle. Breathing techniques offered by the University of Minnesota’s Taking Charge of your Health and Well-Being program.
Chasing the Dragon: The Life of an Opiate Addict
An FBI documentary aimed at educating students and young adults about the dangers of addiction. (47-minute video)
Chlamydia Screening Provider Toolkit
Tools to increase chlamydia screening rates in your practice. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, HealthPartners, Medica, UCare. (14-page PDF)
Complementary, Alternative, or Integrative Health: What’s In a Name?
Fact sheet looks into these terms to help you understand them better and give you a brief picture of the mission and role of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health in this area of research.
Cultural Awareness in Mental Health Care
July 14, 2015. A recorded webinar for health care providers, nurses, public health, health educators, CHWs, social workers, therapists and anyone who interacts with individuals from other cultures. (42-minute webinar), transcript (9-page PDF)
Decrease Stress by Using your Breath
Focusing on your breath is a powerful tool. Learn breathing techniques that ease anxiety, depression and other stress-related issues. Offered by the Healthy LifeStyle by Mayo Clinic.
Dental Provider Toolkit: Special Needs Dental Care
Tools and resources to help improve access and enhance dental care offered to people with special dental needs. Includes information on dental benefits specific to Minnesota Medicaid (SNBC), strategies and best practices for improving dental care for individuals with disabilities. (22-page PDF)
Depression Care for Somali Americans: Barriers, Best Practices, and Cultural Humility
July 13, 2016. Like all cultural groups, Somali-Americans face their own unique barriers to successful treatment of mental illness. Learning more about the specific cultural context of mental illness, as well as common causes and best practices for engaging this community in treatment may improve adherence to treatment and ultimately improve health outcomes. (51-minute webinar), slides (17-page PDF)
Depression in Older Adults: The Mental Health Continuum webinar
March 9, 2017. Dr. John Brose, PhD, L.P. This workshop discusses the various types of depression including evidenced-based treatment to treat depression in older adults. Examples on how to engage older adults to discuss their mental and cognitive health. (121-minute webinar), slides (20-page PDF)
Direct Care and Treatment Dental Clinic Decision Tree
This decision tree will assist dental clinics, medical providers, care managers, and caregivers in identifying appropriate individuals to refer to the Direct Care and Treatment Dental Clinics (DCT-DC) for dental care. (2-page PDF)
Earth911.com
A website all about being earth friendly. Find information on where to recycle or to search for medication takeback locations near you.
Flier: Privacy and Rights
Educational tool on confidentiality and privacy rights for sexual health screening. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, HealthPartners, Medica, UCare.
Gray Matters–Depression in Older Adults
June 19, 2017. Kay King of NAMI Minnesota talks about risk factors, warning signs, stigma, treatment, recovery and resources for depression in older adults. King is the Older Adults Program coordinator and community educator at NAMI Minnesota (the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Minnesota) and the former executive director of a retirement community in the Twin Cities that offers both independent and assisted living services. She also managed a home health care agency. King is a family member whose grandmother, mother, sister and niece (four generations) lived/lives with a mental illness. (91-minute webinar), slides (19-page PDF)
Gray Matters–Understanding Anxiety in Older Adults
July 20, 2017. Kay King of NAMI Minnesota talks about symptoms, risk factors, the different types, treatment, management, warning signs of suicide, recovery, and resources for anxiety in older adults. King is the Older Adults Program Coordinator and Community Educator at NAMI Minnesota (the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Minnesota). King is a family educator who teaches NAMI’s Family-to-Family 12-week education course and she is a Mental Health First Aid, Older Adult Mental Health First Aid and Youth Mental Health First Aid instructor. King is a family member whose grandmother, mother, sister and niece (four generations) lived/lives with a mental illness. (91-minute webinar), slides (25-page PDF)
How Pharmacists are Working to Address the Opioid Crisis
May 16, 2019. Pharmacists may work in a variety of practice settings, but all have directly seen the impact of the opioid crisis first-hand. This webinar will provide an overview of pharmacist perspectives of the opioid crisis from the viewpoint of different practice settings, and will discuss initiatives or strategies that have been implemented in order to address one common problem. Presenter is Erika Bower, PharmD, BCACP, clinical pharmacist at UCare. (49-minute webinar), slides (19-page PDF)
Lifestyle Strategies for Pain Management
Pain affects every aspect of your life. It can challenge or change the activities you choose to do, the thoughts you have and even the sleep you get. Your day-to-day life plays a key role in managing pain. See these tips from the Mayo Clinic to help manage your pain.
Make It OK webinar
One in five adults experience a mental health issue, but there is still a lot of stigma related to the disease. The Make It OK campaign focuses on reducing the stigma of mental health and encouraging people to support each other. In this webinar, learn the history of the Make It OK campaign, how one town implemented the campaign and how you could also implement the program community-wide.
Managing Unwanted Medications
Avoid flushing prescriptions down the toilet or pouring in a drain because they can pollute water supplies. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has a this web page about managing unwanted medications and a search for collection sites in Minnesota.
Medicaid Dental Services Grid
The grid was designed for dental clinics, care managers, and counties as an easy-to-use tool that outlines important dental-related information for each health plan in Minnesota that offers Medicaid products. Topics included in the grid are additional dental benefits, referral resources, contact information–member and provider–incentives, etc. (2-page PDF)
Meeting the Challenges of Opioids and PAIN
June 21, 2018. Brad Johnson, MD, medical director, South Country Health Alliance, and Patty Graham, senior quality consultant, HealthPartners, introduced two new resources to help address the surge in opioid use and misuse in clinical practice: Minnesota Opioid Prescribing Guidelines and the Provider Toolkit. (53-minute webinar), slides (16-page PDF)
Meeting the Opioid Challenge webinar
October 24, 2019. Erin Foss, RN, Opioid Program Development and Outreach Coordinator, CHI St. Gabriel’s Health, Little Falls, Minnesota, and Ruth Meirick, Director, Minnesota Farm Bureau Foundation. This recorded workshop focuses on gaining a better understanding of the opioid epidemic in rural Minnesota. The cultural factors that contribute to making these communities vulnerable to opioid misuse and abuse will be discussed. Viewers will learn about some of the work being done to address the needs of people living in Greater Minnesota communities. (121-minute webinar), slides (120-page PDF)
Minnesota Chlamydia Partnership
The purpose of the MCP is to call attention to the epidemic of chlamydia among young people, to develop strategies to reduce rates of chlamydia, and prevent new cases. The goals of the MCP are to enhance public and professional awareness of chlamydia, increase screening and treatment rates in clinical settings, support efforts to make screening more accessible and affordable, reduce health inequities among communities of color and in LGBTQ communities and improve the sexual health of all young people in Minnesota.
Minnesota Chlamydia Strategy
The purpose of this Strategy is to inform the people of Minnesota about the epidemic of chlamydia, the factors that contribute to increases seen over the past 14 years, and the consequences of ignoring the state of health of our youth. It also provides suggestions and recommendations for actions that can be taken to improve the sexual health of young Minnesotans. These actions include suggestions for members of the medical community, including raising the awareness in medical providers of the need to screen more young women and their sexual partners and to assist the MDH in assuring that they are treated when positive for the infection.
One Nation, Overdosed: Documentary On The Deadliest Drug Crisis In American History
MSNBC’s Jacob Soboroff examines the cause of the deadliest drug crisis in American history. (45-minutes video)
Opioid (Narcotic) Pain Medications
Opioid pain medication guide and video by WebMD. (1-minute video)
Opioid Side Effects
Waismann Method provides information about serious risks of prolonged opioid use.
Opioids and Behavioral Health webinar
November 13, 2018. For some people who take opioids and have a mental health condition, there can be increased risk for opioid misuse. This webinar discusses the intersection of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and mental health issues; and the role that social determinants of health play in both areas. Speaker is Jessie Everts, PhD, LMFT. (62-minute webinar), slides (14-page PDF)
Pain Management and Opioids Guide for Consumers PDF
Learn more about pain, pain medication, and ways to manage pain with self-care. Also, understand the problem with continued opioid use. Share this information with your family and friends.
This pain management and opioid guide was created by seven Minnesota health plans that are collaborating to reduce the rate of chronic opioid use in the state: Blue Plus, HealthPartners, Hennepin Health, Medica, South Country Health Alliance, and UCare.
Providing Mental Health Services to Latinos
February 28, 2017. Presented by Carla Maldonado, MA, LMFT. This webinar discusses the delivery of mental health services to the Latino population; the focus on delivering services in a culturally appropriate way and better understanding the barriers and solutions to providing this population with quality mental health services. This is a webinar in the Shared Decision Making and Depression Treatment in Primary Care series. (61-minute webinar)
Resistance and Non-Compliance in Care for Refugees
Session 3, October 27, 2016. Dr. Georgi Kroupin discusses potential cultural reasons for non-adherence and resistance to treatment and how providers can move past these barriers when treating refugees. (61-minute webinar)
Rx Awareness: Real stories about the devastation of opioid use disorder and overdose
With the real stories in this campaign, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) aims to increase awareness and knowledge among Americans about the risks of prescription opioids and stop inappropriate use.
Self-Care Approaches to Treating Pain
Mayo Clinic guide offers information to determine the source of pain and numerous methods to self-treat that pain.
Tools and Information for Care Coordinators webinar
August 2, 2018. Speakers: Dr. Stacey Ballard, Senior Medical Director, Medica, and Ruth Boubin, MA, Opiate Case Management Program and Restricted Recipient Case Manager, South Country Health Alliance. This recording includes a Q&A session. (102-minute webinar), slides (50-page PDF)
Shared Decision Making and Depression Treatment in Primary Care
November 12, 2015. A recorded webinar for health care providers focusing on how to incorporate shared decision making into primary care when working with patients who experience depression. (55-minute webinar), transcript (19-page Word doc)
Trauma in Communities of Color
September 27, 2017. Dr. Kate Uchechi Onyeneho discusses delivering quality mental health services in a culturally appropriate way and understanding the barriers and solutions in serving this population. Dr. Onyeneho is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Center for Africans Now in America, Inc. (CANA) Health Care Clinic and the founder and president of All Star Academy. Dr. Onyeneho has a doctorate in Educational Administration and Special Education. She currently serves as a member of the Minnesota Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities. Dr. Onyeneho is also a Licensed Independent Social Worker and has a certificate in Marriage and Family Therapy. She is an expert in multicultural competency training. (67-minute webinar)
Understanding the Opioid Epidemic
A one-hour PBS documentary that traces the causes behind the unprecedented growth in the use of prescription opioids and the devastating impact these drugs are having in every part of America. The documentary is broken into six videos.
UPMC: Opioids
UPMC website with more information and possible side effects of opioids.
Webinar: Adolescents and STDs: A Call to Action for Providers and Health Plans
A webinar with strategies for payers and providers to improve youth screening and treatment. Hosted by the NIHCM Foundation and the National Chlamydia Coalition. Recorded July 24, 2013. (92-minute webinar)
Webinar: Increase Chlamydia Screening: Tools and Resources for Maximum Impact
A recorded webinar for health care providers, nurses, clinic administration, public health, health educators, social workers, school health staff, youth workers, and anyone who interacts with youth. Recorded April 15, 2013. (52-minute webinar)
Webinar: Minor Consent and Confidential Care for Adolescents: Legal Issues, Barriers and Opportunities
Recorded August 11, 2016. (64-minute webinar)
Webinar: Teen Friendly Clinics and Minor Consent
A recorded webinar that focuses on ensuring your clinic is youth friendly by helping teens feel safe and comfortable in seeking services. Includes updated knowledge of Minnesota’s minor consent laws. Recorded October 29, 2013. (45-minute webinar)
What Behavioral Health Providers Need to Know About Clients from Rural Areas, and Why
November 9, 2017. Katherine (Kay) M. Slama, PHD, MSS, LP, discusses how rural culture may influence the ways that behavioral health services are viewed and used by people raised in rural communities. (107-minute webinar), slides (19-page PDF)
*Please note that a technical issue during the recording process resulted in a 10-minute period not recorded – this occurs in the last portion of the recording.
Why the Human Brain Loves Opioids
Pain and pleasure rank among nature’s strongest motivators, but when mixed, the two can become irresistible. This PBS News Hour video shows the science of how opioids create addiction in the brain. (5-minute video)
The Agony of Opioid withdrawal—and What Doctors Should Tell Patients About It
In this TED talk, Travis Rieder tells his story of opioid dependency and the agonizing attempts at tapering without medical assistance or guidance. (14-minute video)
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