Improving the Health of Individuals with Complex Health & Social Needs

1 Saint Anthonys Way,Alton IL 62002

28 February, 2023

Description

LUNCH & CME/CEU's will be provided. Seating is Limited. Registration is Required. Hosted by the Alton Police Department and OSF Saint Anthony's Health Center and funded through a grant from the Madison County Mental Health Board, this training will provide an opportunity to help health care providers and EMS workers on their journey to being integral in the development of the ecosystem of care in Alton. It is designed to address the complex care needs of the residents of our community. Over the course of the session, we hope to address two major questions: What are the system related challenges?What opportunities exist to strengthen and integrate behavioral health services?We will address topics such as: stigma, mental health code- myths/reality, trauma 101, and the social determinates of health root cause map; and then the remaining period of time will be spent working through case scenarios. This training will be provided by Mark Benson & Tracey Smith, DNP, PHCNS-BC, MS.Mark Benson is a certified CIT Coordinator with CIT International. He has been working in the field of mental health since 1990. He earned a Master of Science in Education with a focus on Community Mental Health from Illinois State University in 1997. He is also a Nationally Certified Counselor and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor. Mark is trained in the Mitchell Model of Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM). Mark has worked in a variety of mental health settings including in community mental health, geriatric and youth mental health, higher education, private practice, in-patient settings and jail counseling. His primary focus has been on crisis intervention. Mark worked in several capacities with two different mobile crisis teams in Central Illinois for more than 10 years. He also provided mental health services in the McLean County Detention Facility over an 18-year span; the last five years through his own private business. In his role as a program manager with a crisis team, Mark worked side-by-side with first responders, emergency departments and in-patient mental health units. He collaborated with these systems to create integrated services to assist individuals, to increase the likelihood of connection/reconnection to appropriate community services and to advance the goal of decreasing the likelihood of another crisis or psychiatric hospitalization. Mark has been a Certified Mental Health Trainer with the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board (ILETSB) since 2002. He has been involved with Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training since 2010 and has been serving as the Regional Coordinator for Central and Southern areas of Illinois since 2013. Throughout his career, Mark has been fortunate to work side-by-side with first responders. Dr. Tracey Smith is the Director of Community Health and Programs at Illinois Public Health Association (IPHA) since October 2021. Currently, she provides private consultation duties external of IPHA. Previously she was the Director, Population Health Integration at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (SIU SOM) and the first Executive Director of the Office of Community Initiatives and Complex Care. She received her Doctorate in Nursing Practice with a focus on health literacy and public health management and a masters in community health nursing with a minor in multicultural nursing. She has been involved in healthcare in numerous roles allowing her to build skills to engage multiple types of health care providers and customers. She has managed over 65 million dollars in grant/program funding aimed at Population Health and leads programs providing support services to local police systems, schools, healthcare clinics, and community-based organizations. At IPHA she leads efforts in the writing and executing of innovative grant/funding aimed at transforming the Illinois healthcare system to be a system of interconnectivity between local health departments, federally qualified healthcare centers, hospitals, and community-based organizations. She has led the state in their Pandemic Health Navigator program to respond to the needs arising from Covid-19. This program has over 60 community-based organization partners and 20 FQHC partners leading a team of over 400 community health workers responding to individual and community needs. At SIU SOM she worked to build the capacity of the school of medicine to provide education to all levels of medical students and healthcare disciplines especially in the areas of population health and prevention, health disparities, community, and patient engagement, and conduct research with a focus on engagement, health literacy, and social disparities and leading efforts to change the landscape of communities to become communities of health. She has presented locally, regionally, and nationally over 32 times in the last 5 years on topics around changing the landscape of a community to improve health for all residents.