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Sponsorship opportunities are still available. Please contact Erin, our event manager, for more information.
Please join CCO Oregon members and event sponsors for the 8th annual and 2nd virtual CCO Oregon conference. This year's conference will feature:
· U.S. Senator Ron Wyden
· U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley
· State Senator Deb Patterson
· State Senator Kate Lieber
· State Representative Rachel Prusak
· State Representative Dan Rayfield
· State Representative James Manning
· State Representative Lily Morgan
There will also be breakout discussions for attendees to interact in smaller groups and a panel of health leaders from across Oregon discussing current opportunities and challenges to strengthen the coordinated care model and meet our collective goals for population health.
Planning grants to support Oregon behavioral services
The Oregon State Legislature allocated over $400 million for the 2021-2023 biennium to support and strengthen behavioral health services, workforce, and infrastructure. In particular, $180 million will support regional community investments in residential care and housing.
To ensure that these investments meet community needs, the Legislature set aside $5 million in funds for one- time planning grants to be distributed by the Oregon Health Authority to community mental health programs, tribes, Regional Health Equity Coalitions, CCOs, and other community grantees. These funds will support partnerships among community-based organizations, counties, CCOs, and other entities to identify the current gaps in housing and facility-based residential services for people with behavioral health needs and make recommendations for how to best invest the funds from the appropriation. OHA will grant up to $50,000 per awardee.
OHA will work in consultation with the grantees, other community members, Oregon Housing and Community Services, and OHA’s advisory councils to develop a plan to invest available funds and increase culturally and linguistically appropriate residential treatment and housing capacity.
Oregon's Legislature allocated $19 million to OHP oral health
Provider reimbursements for delivering the Oregon Health Plan dental benefit were reduced by 11% for 2021. Dental Care Organizations (DCOs), CCOs, the Oregon Dental Association, and other stakeholders, including CCO Oregon, successfully worked with legislators on partially restoring this loss of funding for our provider community to mitigate the impact on OHP members and ensure a sustained patient-centered dental health system.
In June, the Oregon State Legislature passed House Bill 5006, the "budget reconciliation bill", and appropriated $19 million to restore 50% of the reimbursement lost due to the 11% rate cut. We are waiting on next steps to allocate the funds for disbursement from the Oregon Health Authority and legislative leaders. Meanwhile, the DCOs and CCOs continue to work with the OHA on dental rate setting for future years.
New positions open at the OHA
The Behavioral Health Incentive Program Manager will lead a transformative, community-led, and community-owned initiative to increase the recruitment and retention of providers in the behavioral health care workforce who are people of color, tribal members, or residents of rural areas in this state, in order to provide culturally responsive care for diverse communities. This position will oversee a professional team—the Behavioral Health Workforce Initiative team—and be led by external community stakeholders, such as communities of color, tribal communities, consumers and persons with lived experience, residents from rural areas and underserved areas of the state, and behavioral health providers.
This is a full-time, permanent position. Applications will be accepted until September 7th, 2021. See links to additional information and the application process below:
The Workforce Equity Coordinator will provide expertise to a transformative, community-led, and community-owned initiative to increase the recruitment and retention of providers in the behavioral health care workforce who are people of color, tribal members, or residents of rural areas in this state, in order to provide culturally responsive care for diverse communities. This position will work in partnership with Health Systems Division-Behavioral Health, an OHA cross-divisional workgroup, and other internal and stakeholders to advise on expanding the health care workforce and behavioral health workforce in an equitable manner and to identify evolving best practices and solutions to workforce issues.
This is a full-time, permanent position. Applications will be accepted until September 7th, 2021. See links to additional information and the application process below:
Join us on October 14 in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day (in the United States) and World Food Day 2021 to learn from Indigenous Chefs and Producers of Turtle Island (North America). Engage with Indigenous chefs, producers and international experts on the importance of Indigenous Peoples’ food systems and cuisine in the kitchen, production, policy, schools and community.
Participating chefs and the first 50 participants to register will receive a Native Foods Connection box from the American Indian Foods Program of the Intertribal Agriculture Council featuring Indigenous-produced products including blue corn mix, acorn bites, chokecherry syrup, bison sticks and more!
