MISTI
Invitation to the Monterey Integrated System Transformation Initiative
WELCOME TO ALL MONTEREY COUNTY BH STAFF, SERVICE PARTNERS, AND ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS
Monterey County Behavioral Health is excited to announce the launch of the Monterey Integrated System Transformation Initiative. This countywide initiative is designed to help all services become aligned with our most important values for the people who need our help the most. We will be participating in this initiative, guided by our consultants, Ken Minkoff and Chris Cline from ZiaPartners, who have guided systems all over the world in this transformational process.
The goal of this initiative is to improve our ability in all interactions to provide welcoming, hopeful, and integrated services to individuals and families experiencing mental health and substance use challenges, as well as other health and human service needs.
As we continue to navigate the complexities of a pandemic and shift towards new statewide policies, procedures and benefits with CalAIM, this initiative is an opportunity for us to all work together to connect with the values that brought us into the work of service. This initiative is about us and the people we serve.
All Monterey Behavioral Health staff and partners are invited to participate in this initiative. We are taking this opportunity to welcome all of our service and advocacy partners to join us as well. We believe this will be an exciting opportunity for all partners, including organizational leaders, front line change agents, and people with lived experience, to work together to help our system build health and hope for people who have many challenges in their lives.
- MISTI Project Implementation Framework
- Introductory Presentation - Changing the World in Monterey: Inspiring Hope, Health & Recovery
- Introductory PowerPoint - Changing the World in Monterey: Inspiring Hope, Health & Recovery
- MISTI Charter
For Organizational Leaders
- MISTI- Purpose, Principles and Process
- Introduction for Organizational Leaders. 40 minutes. Ken Minkoff, MD. Zia Partners
- MISTI - COMPASS-EZ: Self-Assessment of Current Co-Occurring Capability
- Walk though of why and how to use the COMPASS-EZ. 40 minutes. Ken Minkoff, MD. Zia Partners
- MISTI - COMPASS-EZ: Self-Assessment of Current Co-Occurring Capability – Action Planning (Part 2)
- Walk through of how to develop an action plan based on the information compiled from your self-assessment. 50 minutes. Ken Minkoff, MD. Zia Partners
For Frontline Providers
Three part series that orients curious clinical and administrative behavioral health staff about MISTI. 3 x 40 minutes = 2 hours. Ken Minkoff, MD. Zia Partners
- MISTI - The Challenges of Complexity & Hope (Part 1 of 3)
- MISTI - The Challenges of Complexity & Hope (Part 2 of 3)
- MISTI - The Challenges of Complexity & Hope (Part 3 of 3)
Contact Information
-
email: MISTI@co.monterey.ca.us
COMING SOON
- Committee notes
MISTI IMPLEMENTATION TEAM
Lindsey O'Leary LMFT
MCBH Role: Deputy Director of Quality Improvement and Substance Use Disorder Services
MISTI Role: Project Lead
Lindsey is currently co- leading the implementation of the Monterey Integrated Systems Transformation Initiative. Her experience serving individuals with complex needs began in her hometown of Santa Cruz at her first job as a domestic violence counselor. Since then, Lindsey has pursued helping positions with justice involved youth and adults, transition aged youth and school based services, substance using people, as well as adults with serious mental illness. Lindsey is most passionate about system- change and providing quality care to the community of Monterey County. Lindsey is excited to champion the goal to increase Monterey County’s capacity to welcome and provide meaningful services to individuals with complex, co occurring needs.
Mark Alexakos, MD.
MCBH Role: Behavioral Health Medical Director
MISTI Role: Project Lead
Mark currently is co- leading the implementation of the Monterey Integrated Systems Transformation Initiative. He is the Medical Director for Monterey County Behavioral Health and oversees the integration of psychiatric services into the behavioral health system. Over his career, he has focused on how policy, best practices, and integrated health care delivery improves the health and access to care for people. He has experience serving individuals with complex needs that stretches from community outreach in medical school in Chicago, to integrated metal health services at schools and primary care clinics in Boston, to enhancing psychiatric services in Monterey County. Mark has spent over a decade building community-based programs for people with complex co-occurring needs when he worked in a community that was an opiate “hotspot”. Mark is excited to partner with everyone to help MCBH improve the care we give to people who present with multiple co-occurring health care needs.
LeeAnn Jones, LCSW
MCBH Role: Quality Improvement Supervisor
MISTI Role: Assistant Implementation Manager
LeeAnn’s clinical experience has centered around serving survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. This experience led to LeeAnn’s believing that it is essential for our systems to work alongside one another as opposed to the siloed systems people in care are forced to currently navigate. This is no small feat, as LeeAnn recognizes there are many processes, systems, etc. in place that may require re-evaluation, restructuring, or even dismantling. Keeping the unique needs of the individuals in our community as the driving force for these efforts will lead to monumental change in our community, change our community partners involved with MISTI are capable of making one small step at a time, together.
Jan Wolf
MCBH Role: QI Analyst/Initiatives Manager
MISTI Role: MCBH Implementation
Jan has worked primarily in the physical health area including hospitals, clinics and health plans and is now working in behavioral health. She has seen, over time, the shift from using a siloed model of care, where different types of care for the same person are provided in isolation and the person in care has to navigate multiple systems of care, toward a vision of providing integrated care that recognizes and treats the whole person. Jan is excited to be part of the MISTI project team to help implement and support the vision of transforming and integrating systems of care that recognize, welcome and serve the mental health, substance use disorder, physical health, and social needs of each individual in care.