CCCPs behavioral health efforts centered around identifying and working to fill gaps in service delivery systems. Our deployment mapping efforts helped identify the areas of greatest need where we could focus our provider recruitment and training.

It is no exaggeration that CCSPs efforts to increase capacity for behavioral health professionals who understood the unique challenges of deployment mental health for service members veterans and their families would have failed without the incredible strategic partnership with the NC AHEC.

 

NC AHEC provides and supports educational activities and services with a focus on primary care in rural communities and those with less access to resources to recruit, train, and retain the workforce needed to create a healthy North Carolina.

 

Bringing together the VA/VISN 6/MIRECC with Dr Harold Kudler to deliver our “Painting a Moving Train” to thousands of providers promoted and resourced through the network of AHEC centers in the state (promoted, through and conducted at the centers these providers receive their professional continuing education). These trainings coupled the latest information and treatment modalities for PTSD and TBI with moving first hand accounts or “Boots on the Ground” from folks like SSG Robert Mullins and his wife. Representatives like David Amos as Field Optimization Director Mid-Atlantic Health Net Federal Services and Brian W. Corlett as TRICARE Service Center Manager Health Net Federal Services spoke and helped CSSP significantly increase the number of behavioral health providers paneled with TRICARE.

 

 

Despite the Herculean efforts of Dr Kudler and Sheryl Pacelli we understood we needed a more efficient way to distribute our training to a larger audience. The perfect partner for bringing our training online was AHEC Connect in Greensboro, NC. Through the efforts of Karen Zeliff, the courses you see on our TRAINING tab were brought to life. Karen along with the leadership and financial support of Tom Bacon (NC AHEC Program Director) and Karen Stallings (NC AHEC Program Associate Director) ensured that CSSP maintained our goal of providing the best, most relevant content possible, free of charge and with free continuing education credits. Karen Zeliff worked tirelessly to ensure our courses were accredited with as many professional associations as possible and that the back end supported all the administrative requirements.