Advocating for a collaborative person-centered system to repair and restore lives
The Denton County Behavioral Health Leadership Team strives for adequate mental and behavioral health care for everyone. One in five Denton County residents experience a mental health crisis each year.
DENTON COUNTY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP TEAM INITIATIVES
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CredibleMind
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Denton County Mental Health Navigators
A Denton County Public Health program, Mental Health Navigators link patients experiencing a mental health issue with providers.
DENTON COUNTY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP TEAM ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
DCBHLT VISION
Comprehensive behavioral health for every person in Denton County
DCBHLT MISSION
The Denton County Behavioral Health Leadership Team will advocate and facilitate a collaborative person-centered behavioral health system to repair and restore lives:
- Ensure behavioral health services are available to meet the needs of all
- Assess data for continuous outcome measurements
- Prioritize data driven recommendations
- Provide a continuum of care
DCBHLT METHOD
Collective Impact
noun
A community coming together around a backbone organization as a team of equals to collaborate on solutions that no one organization can implement on their own.
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Lt. Elisa Howell, Chair
Hope Galloway, Co-Chair
Terry Widmer, Secretary
DCBHLT Workgroups
Volunteers are welcome to serve on one of these workgroups:
Suicide Prevention
Data
Substance Use
Cross Care Collaborative
Child & Family Systems
The Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute co-sponsored a Mental Health Best Practices Report for Denton in March 2015 with several recommendations focused on producing a plan for coordinated, community-wide efforts to address mental health needs. Acting on this recommendation, we launched our first collective impact initiative and formed the Denton County Behavioral Health Leadership Team to address mental health needs across Denton County. The inaugural meeting convened in June 2015.
As the backbone organization to the Denton County Behavioral Health Leadership Team, we enhance the outcomes of all partners by facilitating a shared vision, shared measurements, mutually reinforcing activities and continuous communication.
Agendas, minutes and meeting materials are maintained for each meeting of the Denton County Behavioral Health Leadership Team, encouraging the utmost transparency, openness and participation. United Way of Denton County staff will update this webpage with new documents on a regular basis in our role of backbone support to this collective impact initiative.
Backbone Support Provided by:
