The FSU Center for Behavioral Health Integration has received $1 million to expand the Florida BH Impact Program (Improving Maternal and Pediatric Access, Care and Treatment for Behavioral Health) statewide. 

The FL BH Impact Program is a partnership with the Florida Department of Health and aims to improve mental health and substance-use outcomes around the time of childbirth. BH Impact works with obstetrics and other prenatal care clinical sites throughout the state to integrate best practice approaches including behavioral health screening and connection to the right treatments and services. 

The goal of this evidence-based program is to support obstetricians and other obstetrics clinicians to detect, treat and monitor outcomes for behavioral health. The program provides training and provider-to-provider psychiatric consultation for obstetricians, as well as technical assistance to build and sustain integration of behavioral health in prenatal and postpartum care. 

BSSM team members on the project include Megan Deichen Hansen, Ph.D., Amandla Shabaka Haynes, M.D., Bill Bobo, M.D., MPH, Monica Ragans, Yuxia Wang, and student researcher Jasmine Max.