Our Mission
The San Joaquin Valley Integrated Behavioral Health Project's (SJVIBHP) mission is to enhance, strengthen, and promote the integration of behavioral health in medical settings. Currently, the focus is on rural primary care settings. We believe that integrated care is the foundation of a strong and healthy community. Given that the inland central California region is largely underinvested and underserved, we aim to focus our efforts on this region. SJVIBP serves as an informational hub for the most up-to-date best practices in integrated behavioral health and will highlight hot topics relevant to the needs of Central California providers and residents. With this, we hope to improve health care in rural areas, advance health equity, and increase awareness of the importance of integrated behavioral health.
Our Goals
Goal 1: Training Doctoral Students Through a New Partnership
Through a new partnership with a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), nine advanced doctoral-level clinical psychology students will be trained from 2022 to 2025 in integrated, interdisciplinary, community-based primary care settings that provide trauma-informed, culturally responsive integrated behavioral health services, including OUD and other SUD prevention and treatment, in high need, high demand, HRSA-designated mental health provider shortage areas (HPSAs).
Goal 2: Enhancing Integrated Behavioral Health in Central California
Informed and driven by specific regional needs, the ‘San Joaquin Valley Integrated Behavioral Health Project (SJVIBHP)’ serves as a hub for all things related to integrated behavioral health, through organizing interdisciplinary community partners, providing free gold-standard training, sharing timely information, and strengthening integrated behavioral health in primary care settings in high need, high demand areas of Central California.
Goal 3: Strengthening the Pipeline
To strengthen the pipeline of psychologists entering interdisciplinary behavioral health settings, all second-year doctoral-level clinical psychology students will be trained through an updated curriculum that focuses on best practices in interdisciplinary care, prevention and treatment of OUD and other SUD, and provision of trauma-informed, culturally responsive services in integrated behavioral health settings. To prepare to deliver this updated/revised curriculum, PsyD program faculty also undergo extensive, ongoing professional development to complement their expertise areas.