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Medical Rehab

The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services, Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (OMHSAS) will be holding a stakeholder webinar this Thursday, April 30, from 11:00 am –  11:30 am to provide updates on the work OMHSAS has been performing during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Please register here to participate. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

If you have questions or feedback, please contact RCPA Policy Directors Jim Sharp or Sarah Eyster.

A group of medical students at the University of Pittsburgh, along with physicians, autism advocacy staff, and medical students across the country created the attached COVID19 resource and symptom guide for individuals on the autism spectrum and/or with ID. We are working on sharing it with any and all community groups. The guide was created to distill the CDC guidelines to a reading level and to be visually informative and accessible to all individuals. We hope this guide can be of use to your staff, clients, and families. Additionally, these are available in a Spanish version.

As telemental health expands across the country in response to COVID-19, behavioral health providers are having to rapidly train up and transition staff with limited or little experience in delivering services remotely.

We’ve partnered with innovaTEL Telepsychiatry (also a National Council strategic partner) on the upcoming webinar, Ask the Experts: innovaTEL Telepsychiatry Shares Telemental Health Best Practices, to give you:

  • Best practices for offering telemental health services at your organization/practice
  • Tips to prepare you and your staff as you move to telemental health
  • Ways to engage new and established clients when meeting virtually

Join us on Monday, May 11, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. ET to hear from the experts and ask your questions on offering telemental health services.

Register for the Webinar

Also, check out our telemental health resource page for free training courses on telehealth.