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This session will present ways to introduce an organization, practice, and/or primary care physician to integrated behavioral health. Speakers will advocate utilizing successful strategies and lessons learned when establishing an integrated care practice.   Learning Objectives:  Describe tools/rubrics available to assist with assessing an organization’s ability to integrate behavioral health services Describe strategies for initiating conversations with the team about integrating behavioral health in primary care settings Identify business models for integrated care Describe different approaches to initiating and maintaining behavioral health in primary care   Target Audience: Behavioral Health Providers Primary Care Providers Nurses   Learn more: https://bit.ly/ComingHometoIC  

This is the slide deck for Considerations in Maintaining Equity on Our Path to Pediatric Primary Care, the fourth session in our series Coming Home to Primary Care: Pediatric Integrated Health. This session will cover considerations associated with racial equity in primary care settings. It is important to ensure that efforts are made to increase access to behavioral health services in primary care clinics. Speakers will identify ways to improve, enhance, and maintain an equitable integrated care practice.   Learning Objectives: Describe racial equity considerations in integrated care Identify resources to achieve health equity in primary care Describe evidence-based strategies utilized by the health care team for efforts associated with reducing disparities   Target Audience: Behavioral Health Providers Primary Care Providers Nurses   Learn more: https://bit.ly/ComingHometoIC  

This session will cover considerations associated with racial equity in primary care settings. It is important to ensure that efforts are made to increase access to behavioral health services in primary care clinics. Speakers will identify ways to improve, enhance, and maintain an equitable integrated care practice.   Learning Objectives: Describe racial equity considerations in integrated care Identify resources to achieve health equity in primary care Describe evidence-based strategies utilized by the health care team for efforts associated with reducing disparities   Target Audience: Behavioral Health Providers Primary Care Providers Nurses   Learn more: https://bit.ly/ComingHometoIC  

Compassion Fatigue Resilience Series Compassion fatigue includes elements of burnout (work demands that outpace psychological resources), secondary traumatic stress (vicarious traumatization), direct traumatic stress (the experience of fear when treating patients), and prior traumatic stress history (Figley et al., 2004). Its signs resemble those seen in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and include physiological hyper-arousal, anxiety, avoidance, social withdrawal, irritability, and persistent thoughts about difficult, “traumatic” clinical experiences. Part 3 of the Compassion Fatigue Resilience series focuses on self-care. Self-care gives us the fuel we need to be effective within our formal, professional roles. We cannot take care of others if we are not taking care of ourselves. Trauma makes us fearful, and being fearful we can mistrust each other. Mistrust leads to shame, and we may find ourselves withdrawing or reacting in anger. Self-care is about nourishing your mind and body and accessing an important source of strength: each other. This workshop-recording explores different elements of self-care and helps viewers build strategies for ongoing self-care tactics to enhance personal and professional resilience. Learning Objectives: Define secondary traumatic stress, burnout and compassion fatigue Describe the negative and positive impacts of our work Describe and practice techniques for self-care   View Part 1: Self Regulation and Part 2: Reframing of this series.

Compassion Fatigue Resilience Series Compassion fatigue includes elements of burnout (work demands that outpace psychological resources), secondary traumatic stress (vicarious traumatization), direct traumatic stress (the experience of fear when treating patients), and prior traumatic stress history (Figley et al., 2004). Its signs resemble those seen in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and include physiological hyper-arousal, anxiety, avoidance, social withdrawal, irritability, and persistent thoughts about difficult, “traumatic” clinical experiences. Part 2 of the Compassion Fatigue Resilience series focuses on reframing. Living with fidelity to our purpose and in alignment with our principles is equally important in developing and maintaining our professional quality of life. Trauma makes us fearful, and being fearful we mistrust each other. Mistrust leads to anger, and then we find ourselves violating our own values, the same ones that brought us to mental health and healthcare. Although we might want things to be different from what they are, resilience arises from acceptance of the world as it is, focusing instead on what meaning we make of it for ourselves. This recorded workshop will lead viewers in exercises to help them reframe and move forward within their roles with intentionality and perceptual maturation.   Learning Objectives: Define secondary traumatic stress, burnout and compassion fatigue Describe causes and effects of stress Describe and practice techniques for reframing   View Part 1: Self Regulation and Part 3: Self-Care of this series.

Cultural competence is essential to achieve patient-centered or client-centered care. This workshop continues the work of enhancing skills and knowledge to work more effectively in a multicultural setting. Participants explore stereotypes and enhance skills for interrupting bias. Sometimes we hear others say demeaning, degrading, or hurtful comments and lack skills to interrupt and redirect the intentional or unintentional behavior. This workshop provides skills to interrupt bias in a healthcare setting using a video titled “Ouch! That Stereotype Hurts,” and concludes with points on what it means to be culturally competent. Learning Objectives Define stereotypes, bias and oppression Describe the Ladder of Oppression Learn skills for interrupting bias, stereotypes and derogatory remarks or jokes Intended Audience: Mental Health Professionals and Healthcare Professionals   Watch Recording of Part 1.   About the Presenter  Joel Jackson serves as a subject matter expert for several programs at the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination. Through Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation of Greater Chicago, Joel serves as a Racial Healing Practitioner. In this role, Joel co-facilitates Racial Healing Circles across Chicagoland, helping to provide space for healing and connection and to reaffirm the humanity in all of us. He is also the UChicago Medicine Assistant Director of Inclusion and Training for the Urban Health Initiative Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity. He coordinates the hospital’s cultural competence training strategy and is the lead facilitator of the UChicago Medicine Cultural Competence Course. Joel is also helping to coordinate the hospital’s Resilience Based Care training strategy, which will include a focus on compassion fatigue resilience and a focus on trauma-informed care. He is a Certified Compassion Fatigue Professional and the 2020 Staff Diversity Leadership Award recipient for the University of Chicago.

Compassion Fatigue Resilience Series Compassion fatigue includes elements of burnout (work demands that outpace psychological resources), secondary traumatic stress (vicarious traumatization), direct traumatic stress (the experience of fear when treating patients), and prior traumatic stress history (Figley et al., 2004). Its signs resemble those seen in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and include physiological hyper-arousal, anxiety, avoidance, social withdrawal, irritability, and persistent thoughts about difficult, “traumatic” clinical experiences. This session-recording is designed to decrease burnout and compassion fatigue, as well as increase satisfaction and resilience. Part 1 focuses on the skill of Self-Regulation and teaches resilience techniques to help participants self-regulate their nervous systems. Learning Objectives: Define secondary traumatic stress, burnout and compassion fatigue Describe the physiological effects of compassion fatigue Describe and practice techniques for self-regulation   View recordings of Part 2: Reframing and Part 3: Self-Care in this series.       About the Presenter  Joel Jackson serves as a subject matter expert for several programs at the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination. Through Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation of Greater Chicago, Joel serves as a Racial Healing Practitioner. In this role, Joel co-facilitates Racial Healing Circles across Chicagoland, helping to provide space for healing and connection and to reaffirm the humanity in all of us. He is also the UChicago Medicine Assistant Director of Inclusion and Training for the Urban Health Initiative Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity. He coordinates the hospital’s cultural competence training strategy and is the lead facilitator of the UChicago Medicine Cultural Competence Course. Joel is also helping to coordinate the hospital’s Resilience Based Care training strategy, which will include a focus on compassion fatigue resilience and a focus on trauma-informed care. He is a Certified Compassion Fatigue Professional and the 2020 Staff Diversity Leadership Award recipient for the University of Chicago.

This is the slide deck for Ready to Hit the Pavement: How to Dive Into Primary Care, the third session in our series Coming Home to Primary Care: Pediatric Integrated Health. This session will present ways to introduce an organization, practice, and/or primary care physician to integrated behavioral health. Speakers will advocate utilizing successful strategies and lessons learned when establishing an integrated care practice.   Learning Objectives:  Describe tools/rubrics available to assist with assessing an organization’s ability to integrate behavioral health services Describe strategies for initiating conversations with the team about integrating behavioral health in primary care settings Identify business models for integrated care Describe different approaches to initiating and maintaining behavioral health in primary care   Target Audience: Behavioral Health Providers Primary Care Providers Nurses Learn more: https://bit.ly/ComingHometoIC  

About the Event:  As COVID-19 infections reach the 6 month and 6 million infected mark in the United States, behavioral health organizations are finding themselves having to move beyond rapid infectious disease preparations and on to a "next phase" of care. This webinar explored the ongoing approaches to care and how they are evolving to best meet the needs. From telehealth to revenue cycle concerns, remote supervision to resuming in-person treatment, balancing staff resilience and second wave safety concerns, this is a transitional phase in what appears will be a lengthy pandemic experience for all of us.    Learning Objectives:  1) Describe where your organization is now in a COVID trajectory and planning process moving forward.  2) Identify best practice approaches to delivering telehealth services. 3) Identify methods to continue to maintain staff resilience as the pandemic progresses.    About the Presenter:  Dr. Lori Raney is a board-certified psychiatrist and Principal with Health Management Associates in Denver, Colorado. She is considered a leading authority on the collaborative care model and the bidirectional integration of primary care and behavioral health. Her work focuses on service evaluation, gap analysis, and design and training of multidisciplinary teams to implement evidence-based practices to improve the identification and treatment of mental illness in the primary care setting and improve the health status of patients with serious mental illness in behavioral health settings. Her current work also includes evaluating hospitals and clinics in recognizing and developing strategies to deal with the impact of behavioral health across health care systems, including the design and implementation of integrated care in primary care practices. 

About the Event:  A global epidemic, social unrest, racial tensions, economic uncertainty -- these are just a few of the widespread stressors impacting you and your patients as you navigate the challenges of adapting your practice to safely engage individuals who at baseline face stressors and adversity. Mental health clinicians have adapted to COVID-19 with increased use of telehealth, aided by relaxed regulatory constraints and increased willingness to adopt new technology. But how are you really doing? Dr. Glenda Wrenn provided an overview of the unique challenges created by the pandemic that impact mental health and present ways to mitigate provider fatigue and burnout while providing both telepsychiatry and in person care. She also discussed how the intersection of mental health and current racial tensions may impact your practice, with helpful tools to navigate the discomfort and uncertainty of these unprecedented times.     Key Learning Objectives:  1. Identify challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic that impact mental health;   2. Identify ways to mitigate provider fatigue and burnout while providing telepsychiatry and in person care; and 3. Discuss how the intersection of mental health and current racial tensions may impact practice.     About the Presenter:  Dr. Glenda Wrenn is a psychiatrist and mental health policy expert with a focus on building resilience and advancing mental health equity. She currently serves as Chief Medical Officer of 180 Health Partners, an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Morehouse School of Medicine, and was the founding Director of the Kennedy Satcher Center of Mental Health Equity in the Satcher Health Leadership Institute until 2018.     

About the Event:  COVID-19 has been called the “patchwork pandemic” because of its uneven impact across regions and subpopulations. Emerging evidence indicates a similar pattern for the mental health effects of the pandemic. Dr. Benjamin Druss reviewed what is currently known about COVID-19 and mental health, with a focus on which populations are at elevated risk of developing behavioral health problems. He addressed the complementary roles that clinicians and public health practitioners can play in addressing the mental health consequences of the pandemic. This webinar is co-sponsored by the Region IV Public Health Training Center.   Key Learning Objectives:  1. Understand the rates of mental health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic;  2. Identify the subpopulations at highest risk for mental health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic; and 3. Address roles for clinicians and public health practitioners in addressing the mental health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.    About the Presenter:  Benjamin Druss, MD, MPH is Professor and Rosalynn Carter Chair in Mental Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University and Director of the Southeast Mental Health Technology Transfer Center. Dr. Druss is working to integrate mental health, physical health, and public health. His research has focused on understanding and improving access, quality, and outcomes of care for populations with serious mental illnesses and medical comorbidity. This work has included epidemiological studies, intervention trials, and health policy and public health research.    

This is the slide deck for The Road to Primary Care: Several Paths to Coming Home, the second session in our series Coming Home to Primary Care: Pediatric Integrated Health. This session will focus on models of integrated behavioral health care with emphasis on the Primary Care model. Speakers will present the importance of communication with the primary care team and communication strategies such as warm hand-offs and hallway consultations. The benefits of utilizing these strategies will be highlighted as ways to promote collaboration, increase attendance rates for patients, and provide the type and brevity of communication needed in a busy primary care clinic.   Learning Objectives: Identify core features of interprofessional collaborative care models and the primary care models of integrated care with a focus on behavioral health Describe considerations for selecting an integrated care model that best suits the clinic/organization Describe elements of formal and in-formal communication and collaboration amongst the primary care team related to both models of integrated care   Target Audience: Behavioral Health Providers Primary Care Providers Nurses   Learn more: https://bit.ly/ComingHometoIC  

This session will focus on models of integrated behavioral health care with emphasis on the Primary Care model. Speakers will present the importance of communication with the primary care team and communication strategies such as warm hand-offs and hallway consultations. The benefits of utilizing these strategies will be highlighted as ways to promote collaboration, increase attendance rates for patients, and provide the type and brevity of communication needed in a busy primary care clinic. Learning Objectives: Identify core features of interprofessional collaborative care models and the primary care models of integrated care with a focus on behavioral health Describe considerations for selecting an integrated care model that best suits the clinic/organization Describe elements of formal and in-formal communication and collaboration amongst the primary care team related to both models of integrated care Target Audience: Behavioral Health Providers Primary Care Providers Nurses Learn more: https://bit.ly/ComingHometoIC  

This is the slide deck for Starting Down the Integrated Care Road and How the Mid-America MHTTC Can Help, the first session in our series Coming Home to Primary Care: Pediatric Integrated Health. This session will introduce the integration of behavioral health providers in primary care practices as well as the technical assistance the Mid-America MHTTC offers in this field. Speakers will demonstrate how integration efforts increase access to behavioral health, increase appointment attendance and reduce stigma. Members of the Mid-America MHTTC Integrated Care Program will welcome requests to establish and/or enhance integration efforts in primary care.    Learning Objectives:  Define integrated behavioral health care  Identify the consequences and costs of poor health to society, particularly poor behavioral health  Explain the importance of primary care in mental health delivery  Describe the advantages of integrated care for patients, physicians, and providers   Target Audience: Behavioral Health Providers Primary Care Providers Nurses   Learn more: https://bit.ly/ComingHometoIC  

Suicide Prevention in Rural Primary Care  People who die by suicide are more likely to have been seen by a primary care provider in the 30 days prior to their death than any other health care discipline. In rural areas especially, where behavioral health resources are fewer and stigma around seeking mental health help may be greater, it is crucial that primary care providers have the knowledge, skills, and tools necessary to help prevent suicide among their clients. This webinar series introduced a simple toolkit to help put suicide prevention protocols into place in a practice or clinic, and walked participants through the screening, assessment, and intervention phases of suicide prevention. Tips for addressing suicidal issues via telehealth were also included.   Part One Office Protocols, Screening, and Assessment August 26, 2020 This session offered an overview of rural suicide issues, contributing factors to suicide rates in rural communities, primary care providers’ critical role in suicide prevention, office protocols, and patient screening and risk assessment. Slide deck Recording Suicide Prevention Toolkit for Primary Care Practices: U.S. edition   Part Two Intervention, Follow-up, and Telehealth Tips September 10, 2020 This session covered intervention including medication, safety planning, documentation, and follow-up for patients expressing suicidal ideation as well as tips for helping patients via telehealth.   Slide deck Recording   Trainer Liza Tupa, PhD Technical Trainer, Mountain Plains MHTTC Director of Education and Research, WICHE Dr. Liza Tupa is the Director of Education and Research for the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, Behavioral Health Program (WICHE BHP) and a technical trainer for the Mountain Plains MHTTC. A licensed clinical psychologist, her work at the WICHE BHP has included expanding rural psychology internship development to seven western states, behavioral healthcare workforce training, service delivery system and clinical consultation, statewide behavioral health needs assessments, and developing toolkits for Suicide Prevention in Primary Care and School Behavioral Health Advocacy.

This two-part series provides information on how the behavioral health system can employ the tools of population health management for planning and redesigning. Part 1 describes and provides strategies on how to implement population management.

This two-part series provides information on how the behavioral health system can employ the tools of population health management for planning and redesigning. Part 2 discusses value-based reimbursement.

On August 5th, we held an online discussion session led by Dr. Ken Duckworth, MD, Chief Medical Officer of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.  To access a copy of this presentation, click here. 

The Intersection between Traumatic Brain Injury and Mental Health: An Introduction August 4, 2020 The Mountain Plains Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) is proud to partner with the National Association of State Head Injury Administrators (NASHIA) to present six virtual events focused on the significant intersection between brain injury, mental health, and addiction.  This first session was open to a general audience and provided attendees with a working knowledge of traumatic brain injury and its relation to mental health. This 60-minute session is a pre-requisite for anyone wanting to attend any of the four Intensive Workshops that follow. If you have been registered for the one of the intensive workshops, but missed this session, view the recording or the slide deck.   Slide deck Recording   Trainers Rebeccah Wolfkiel, Executive Director, NASHIA Judy Dettmer, Director for Strategic Partnerships, NASHIA Opening remarks from Charlie Smith, SAMHSA Region VIII  Regional Administrator   Trainer Bio-Sketches Rebeccah Wolfkiel Rebeccah Wolfkiel, Executive Director National Association of State Head Injury Administrators (NASHIA) Rebeccah joined NASHIA as Executive Director in January 2018. She brings fifteen years of experience in promoting policies that provide resources for individuals with brain injury, and their families. In her role as Executive Director, Rebeccah is committed to representing the interests of State governments and supporting the unique and integral role they play within the service delivery system. Rebeccah has also worked with former Pennsylvania Governor, Tom Ridge, at the Ridge Policy Group, for ten years, where she formerly represented NASHIA as a government affairs advisor. She played an integral role in the successful reauthorization of the Traumatic Brain Injury in 2014, paving the way for the federal TBI program’s move to the Administration for Community Living. Prior to her time at the Ridge Policy Group, Rebeccah worked on Capitol Hill for over six years where she served as Legislative Director to Congressman Todd R. Platts, Co-Chair of the Traumatic Brain Injury Taskforce. Managing the Congressman’s legislative agenda, she learned how to effectively navigate the lawmaking process and develop successful strategies. During her tenure on the Hill, Rebeccah became keenly aware of the importance of bipartisanship and developed strong Congressional relationships with Republicans and Democrats alike. She often bridged partisan gaps and facilitated communication between contrasting viewpoints. In her free time, Rebeccah enjoys traveling and spending time with her family, husband Ryan, daughter Anna (11) and son Jack (4). Rebeccah received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and a Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree from George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia.   Judy Dettmer Judy Dettmer has been working in the field of brain injury for 30 years. Ms. Dettmer serves as NASHIA’s Director for Strategic Partnerships and a Technical Assistance Lead for the Traumatic Brain Injury Technical Assistance and Resource Center. Ms. Dettmer has worked extensively with adults, children and family members of individuals with brain injury. She has provided direct and systems consultation to improve the lives of individuals with brain injury. Judy has also assisted with research efforts related to brain injury and has conducted countless presentations, classes and seminars on brain injury both in the state of Colorado and nationally. Ms. Dettmer has provided technical assistance to numerous states on topics including but not limited to; screening on brain injury; developing infrastructure within state systems; interagency partnership development; and creation and management of advisory boards and councils. Judy has become a national leader in the field of criminal justice and brain injury, developing screening, identification and accommodations protocols in Colorado that have been routinely modeled by states. Ms. Dettmer is currently a co-facilitator for the National Collaborative on Children’s Brain Injury.     Intensive Workshops Following this introductory session are four intensive workshops directed towards specific populations. The intensive workshops are intended for individuals and providers who support the mental health, substance abuse, veterans, and school-age communities. The four Intensive workshops were  limited to 20 participants each. Each workshop lasts 90 minutes and consist of a presentation, an interactive exercise, and Q & A. This format is designed to facilitate experiential learning and problem solving. Each workshop will be led by a nationally recognized subject matter expert.   Certificates of Attendance will be issued for these workshops. Workshops                                       Traumatic Brain Injury and Mental Health: Intensive Workshop for the Addiction Prevention and Treatment Community August 18, 2020   11:00 am - 12:30 pm MT   Trainer: Anastasia Edmonston, Maryland State Behavioral Health Administration Traumatic Brain Injury and Mental Health in the Veterans Community  September 8, 2020 11:00 am - 12:30 pm MT Trainer: Dr. Lisa Brenner, Veterans Affairs Traumatic Brain Injury and Mental Health for the Mental/Behavioral Health Community September 10, 2020       9:00 am - 10:30 am MT Trainer: Dr. Kim Gorgens, University of Denver  Traumatic Brain Injury and Mental Health in the K-12 Education Community  October 6, 2020 11:00 am - 12:30 pm MT Trainer: Dr. Karen McAvoy Open Session Webinar: Traumatic Brain Injury and Mental Health for the Primary Health Care Community October 27, 2020          1:00 pm - 2:30 pm MT Trainers: Caitlin Synovec, OTD, OTR/L and Amber Richert, BSN, MSN, DNP  

This session will introduce the integration of behavioral health providers in primary care practices as well as the technical assistance the Mid-America MHTTC offers in this field. Speakers will demonstrate how integration efforts increase access to behavioral health, increase appointment attendance and reduce stigma. Members of the Mid-America MHTTC Integrated Care Program will welcome requests to establish and/or enhance integration efforts in primary care.  Learning Objectives:  •    Define integrated behavioral health care  •    Identify the consequences and costs of poor health to society, particularly poor behavioral health  •    Explain the importance of primary care in mental health delivery  •    Describe the advantages of integrated care for patients, physicians, and providers Target Audience: •    Behavioral Health Providers •    Primary Care Providers •    Nurses Learn more: https://bit.ly/ComingHometoIC

Fact sheet describing COVID-19's effect on child mental health.

Download the slide deck here Today’s economic crisis, driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing measures, poses significant challenges for state budget-makers. This webinar, led by health care financing expert Dr. Adam Wilk, will discuss those challenges in the context of school and school district leaders’ efforts to finance school mental health programs. Leaders must look for opportunities to sustain these programs using new funding (e.g., federal) sources and, when possible, anticipate which previously counted-on funding sources may see the largest cuts.   By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to: 1. Identify new sources of financing for school-based mental health services derived from governmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2. Discuss the potential implications of state budget crises for school-based mental health financing. 3. Illustrate the importance of state, federal, and local sources for financing school-based mental health services in different states and communities in the Southeast.

Drs. Kenneth Ruggiero and Margaret Anton describe strategies to address COVID-related and other barriers to care and demonstrate an iPad-based toolkit that houses a collection of games and activities clinicians can use to improve quality of care in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). By the end of the webinar, participants are able to: Describe the benefits of telehealth based platforms Recognize the limitations of telehealth platforms Understand the potential benefits of protocol-driven games and activities in the context of child mental health treatment Describe the state of the science relative to telehealth and technology-based solutions Understand how to better serve patients while we struggle with COVID-19

Original Webinar Date: 05/26/2020 Times of crisis necessitate health care leaders to balance competing priorities, including patient need, staff wellbeing, and one’s own health. While it can be difficult to reflect in the midst of a crisis - like in the case of the COVID-19 pandemic - this recorded session dedicates time to exploring strategies to improve leadership’s response in times of crisis. This webinar video explores the Crisis Leadership Continuum (readiness, response, recovery and renewal), highlighting health care leadership approaches and strategies integral to ensuring staff wellbeing through crisis.   LEARNING OBJECTIVES Explore and examine the four stages of the Crisis Leadership Continuum: readiness, response, recovery and renewal. Using reflective questions, identify 2-3 leadership crisis strengths and growth points to enhance organizational resilience. Identify 2-3 applicable strategies in the short term and long term to address staff wellbeing through crisis.   This webinar was hosted by our partner, California Primary Care Association (CPCA), and was facilitated by Leora Wolf-Prusan, the School Mental Health Lead at the Pacific Southwest MHTTC.