What It Takes to Make Integrated Behavioral Health Work for Children & Families: Lessons from New England
Watch the webinar here.
📅 Date: Wednesday July 22, 2026
🕛 Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET
Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) is an evidence-based approach that brings mental health, substance use, and physical health services together within the settings where children and families already seek care—primary care offices, schools, and community organizations.
Integration means a child flagged for anxiety at a well-child visit could speak with a behavioral health clinician the same day. It means a school counselor and a pediatric practice could share care plans. It means families could receive more coordinated support and would be less likely to fall through the cracks between systems.
This webinar brought together leaders from Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut to share how their states were advancing IBH for children and families—what they had built, what they had learned, and how states across New England could move forward.
Speakers highlighted the partnerships that supported integrated care among healthcare providers, schools, and community organizations; discussed workforce challenges; shared how states were measuring impact; and explored emerging policy opportunities.
SPEAKERS
Panel Members:
Daley Gay, JD-MHA, Clinical Integration Specialist, Connecticut Children’s Care Network, Connecticut Children’s (Connecticut)
Keri Herlan, PhD, Program Director, Integrated Care, The Village for Families & Children (Connecticut)
Linda M. Cabral, M.M, Director of Program Operations, Care Transformation Collaborative of Rhode Island (Rhode Island)
Anita Morris, MSN, FNP-BC,Executive Director | TEAM UP Scaling & Sustainability Center, Boston Medical Center
Chair: Andrea Chu, Director of Programs and Operations, Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute (Rhode Island)
For any questions or inquiries, please contact us at info@necbhn.org
