CONTACT US:
For more information or to be added to a listserve(s), please contact:
Flor Cano-Soto, TH Conference Coordinator
Phone: 505-934-6579
Fax: 505-272-1876
fcano-soto@salud.unm.edu.

Other Telehealth Activities

ValueOptions (past)
   Supporting child, adolescent, adult and addictions psychiatry.
Lead Contact        Steven Adelsheim, M.D.
Partners:                ValueOptions New Mexico, NM Behavioral Health Purchasing Collaborative, New Mexico
                                  Telehealth Commission
Goal:                        This program provides funding to expand support to increase child, adolescent, adult and addictions
                                  psychiatry support to behavioral health and primary care programs throughout New Mexico. In
                                  addition, this partnership serves to coordinate statewide behavioral telehealth efforts throughout New
                                  Mexico.

Carlsbad Mental Health Center (current)
   Providing child, adolescent, adult and addictions psychiatry.
Lead Contact        Caroline Bonham, MBBS, MSc
Partners:                Carlsbad Mental Health Center, ValueOptions New Mexico
Goal:                        This program provides weekly child, adolescent, adult and addictions psychiatry support to Carlsbad
                                  Mental Health Center consumers, families and staff. Direct service, consultation, supervision and
                                  training, along with systems consultation are all components of this partnership. Efforts are also
                                  underway to expand rural training partnerships through this program.

Mental Health Resources (past)
   Providing child, adolescent, adult and addictions psychiatry.
Lead Contact        Steven Adelsheim, M.D.
Partners:                Mental Health Resources, Tucumcari NM.
Goal:                        This program provides weekly child, adolescent, adult and addictions psychiatry support to Mental
                                  Health Resources consumers, families and staff. Direct service, consultation, supervision and
                                  training, along with systems consultation are all components of this partnership.

Partnerships Uniting Schools & Health (PUSH) (past)
   Increasing student access to quality mental health care services.
Lead Contact        Ernest Coletta, B.S.
Partners:                Celeste Bonds, School Based Health Services Director, Region IX Education Cooperative
Goal:                        To assemble a statewide network of partners to coordinate resources, provide technical assistance and
                                  build capacity to increase student access to quality mental health care services. The project will build on
                                  (a) the rapid expansion of School-Based Health Centers in New Mexico; (b) the capacity of Regional
                                  Education Cooperatives to provide intense, ongoing technical assistance and make critical linkages to
                                  schools; and (c) the potential for telehealth to break down barriers of distance and increase access to
                                  resources to professional development, technical assistance and direct services.

Indian Health Services (current)
    Providing weekly psychiatriac support to IHS service units.
Lead Contact        Caroline Bonham, MBBS, MSc
Partners:                Indian Health Service (IHS) Albuquerque Area, New Mexico department of Health and New Mexico
                                  Behavioral Health Collaborative
Goal:                        This program provides weekly child, adolescent, adult and addictions psychiatry support to IHS service
                                  units and tribal behavioral health and substance abuse programs. Direct service, consultation,
                                  supervision and training, along with systems consultation are all components of this partnership.

Suicide Prevention (past)
    Preventing, screening for, assessing, and treating suicidal behavior and related disorders.
Lead Contact:        Avron Kriechman, M.D.
Partner:                   Department of Health Office of School and Adolescent Health
Goal:                         To facilitate the collaborative efforts of health care providers, behavioral health care providers, and
                                  educators to prevent, screen for, assess, and treat suicidal behavior and related disorders in youth
                                  and their families and communities by telehealth trainings, consultations, and interdisciplinary
                                  patient/family/community/provider interviews.

Sangre de Cristo: Screening, Brief Intervention, and referral to treatment program (SBIRT)(current)
    Supporting the screening, assessment, and brief treatment of substance abuse disorders by SBIRT
Lead Contact:        Avron Kriechman, M.D.
Partners:                SBIRT
Goal:                         To support the screening, assessment, and brief treatment of substance use disorders by SBIRT
                                  providers through multi-site telehealth trainings, consultations and patient/family/community/provider
                                  interviews.

Project ECHO (current)
    Consulting with and training primary care providers.
Lead Contact:        Avron Kriechman, M.D.
Partners:                Project Echo
Goal:                        To Provide child/adolescent, general, and addiction psychiatry consultation and training to primary care
                                  providers, and to provide group supervision and co-consultation for psychoanalytic psychotherapy via
                                  telepsychiatry.