For over a decade, the Foundation for Health Leadership and Innovation’s Center of Excellence for Integrated Care (COE) has been assisting healthcare clinics and systems in providing whole person care.

Our philosophy is simple: build buy-in across the organization and flexibly use evidence-based approaches to fit local needs. We recognize that clinics are not equally resourced and are prepared to take the core elements of evidence-based models and interventions and match them to the needs of your clinic.

Ultimately, our goal is to help clinics and providers improve the mental and physical health of primary care patients and clients of mental health homes. We work with a variety of sites and programs such as primary care offices, clinics and hospitals, community collaboratives, school-based health centers, substance use facilities, mental health clinics and local government organizations.

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Creativity for Self-Care

By: Allison HackmanAssistant Manager, Marketing & Communications | Foundation for Health Leadership & Innovation Creativity is a great way to practice self-care. But how exactly does creativity support mental health and well-being, and how do you incorporate it into your life? Girija Kaimal, EdD, ATR-BC, a Drexel University professor and leading art therapy researcher, says […]

No Maternal Health Without Maternal Mental Health

By: Austyn Holleman, MSW, MPH, LCSWDirector of Community Voice | Foundation for Health Leadership & Innovation After years of graduate school and endless trainings on fancy treatment modalities, I find myself saying, “This feels hard because it is hard” more than anything else to the moms sitting across from me in a therapy session. I […]

It’s Not Me, It’s the System.

One of my first clients as an outpatient therapist 12 years ago involved a woman who was living in a hotel with her daughter and grandchildren, limited food, no reliable transportation unless she had money for public transit, unable to work due to multiple health conditions, and uninsured—all while experiencing significant mood disturbances. I was […]

Prevention Parity

Medical providers talk with us about preventing high blood pressure, high cholesterol, weight gain, low bone density, diabetes…shall I go on? Each year I visit my primary care provider to have these conversations and as I have gotten older, some conversations have trickled in around perimenopause and menopause as well. But the same emphasis has […]

Community Responses to Mental Health

Living through the COVID-19 Pandemic taught us a lot about our well-being – physically, socially, and especially mentally and emotionally. With unending days of isolation and distance, lack of routines, consistent uncertainty and fear, as well as grief and loss, the topic of conversation quickly highlighted the emotional suffering experienced by many. It emphasized that […]

How to Find a Therapist

“A good therapist will meet you wherever you are in your journey and help you get closer to truly living your best life—however you define that.” Sara Herrity Moscarelli, MS, LMFT | COE Senior Project Manager Finding a therapist can be confusing and challenging to navigate whether you have been to therapy before or are […]

Social Media and Mental Health: Friends or Foes?

I am an elder millennial. I am part of the generation that knew what life was like before social media, but also went through middle school with the AIM screenname “saraobx”—leaving away messages with moody song lyrics and “brb ttyl lylas”. The generation who had to receive an invite to join Facebook when it was […]

All Parts Make Whole-Person Health

Our bodies are made up of complex systems. Not being a physician, I cannot explain the intricacies of our neurological system, respiratory system, endocrine system, digestive system and so on. I can however tell you that when I experience a stressor, I have a thought and depending on that thought my breathing may change, my […]

Nurture Your Whole-Person Health

Have you ever had a day, a month, or, heck, maybe even a whole year or YEARS that really tested your resolve? A time that really pushed you mentally, physically, socially, spiritually to the edge? Maybe your sleep was troubled and you ate what you could when you could. Perhaps you forgot to call and […]

The Spirit of Mental Well-being

In the behavioral and mental health space, we talk often about the biopsychosocial (BPS) model that was developed in the 70’s by psychiatrist Dr. George Engel. As we move in to 2023, some might reference the BPS model when talking about whole person care, a phrase that is firmly taking hold in healthcare overall. Our […]

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