Children and youth are facing increasingly unique mental health challenges, and behavioral health providers are tasked with delivering care that is personalized, evidence-based, and responsive to the evolving needs of young people and their families. Measurement-Based Care (MBC), also known as Measurement-Informed Care (MIC), is a proven framework that empowers clinicians to deliver high quality, evidence based care by leveraging ongoing client-reported data and insights to guide treatment discussions and decisions, and improve outcomes. With the recent updates to CARF’s accreditation standards now requiring MBC within youth services, behavioral health organizations across North America are prioritizing its adoption.
Join us on September 30th from 1-2 pm ET, to explore how MBC is transforming child and youth behavioral healthcare. This interactive panel discussion will feature behavioral health experts from the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, UConn Health, and CARF. Drawing from real-world examples and successful MBC implementations, panelists will share insights and explore strategies to engage young clients and their caregivers, integrate input from schools and care teams, select age-appropriate assessments, and meet CARF accreditation requirements.
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear about lessons learned from youth-specific MBC implementations, practical tips for building clinician buy-in, and insights on leveraging MBC to prepare for value-based care across child and youth services.
Meet the Panelists:
Theresa Lindberg
Managing Director for Child and Youth Services
CARF
Theresa Lindberg is the Managing Director for Child and Youth Services at CARF International, supporting CARF’s expanding accreditation ventures. Lindberg joined CARF in February 2021 as a resource specialist after 13 years as a licensed professional counselor in Arizona in the mental health and child welfare fields. She worked with children as young as four up to 18 years old and their families/support systems at a community mental health agency in Southern Arizona serving in several roles. Also, Lindberg worked with other agencies statewide to streamline procedures for in-home services and helped to create and build partnerships with more than 25 elementary, middle, and high schools to establish mental health services for students.
Dr. Jeff Capobianco
Senior Consultant
National Council for Mental Wellbeing
Dr. Jeff Capobianco has over 30 years of clinical, administrative and health care research experience. He has an extensive background in strategic planning to design and implement primary, substance use disorder and mental health care integration models for children and adults. With expertise in evidence-based practice implementation, Lean Six Sigma methodologies, Adaptive Leadership and learning community approaches to organizational change he focuses on developing sustainable, efficient and effective approaches to health care integration. He has consulted with dozens of health care organizations, including state departments of Medicaid, hospital systems and county health departments. Prior to joining the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, where he is a senior consultant, he held positions as a research investigator at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, where continues to teach part-time and as the director of Research and New Program Development for a behavioral health managed care organization. A master’s level licensed clinical psychologist in the State of Michigan, he received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Wayne State University in program evaluation.
Dr. David FitzGerald
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, and Director, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic
Uconn Health
David FitzGerald, Ph.D., is a Licensed Psychologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. He is the director of the UConn Health Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic, where he also provides outpatient therapy and assessment and contributes to the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship program. He supervises the fellowship training in psychotherapy, through which fellows have the opportunity to provide evidence-based psychosocial treatment for a variety of disorders. He also co-precepts the Delivery of Clinical Care (DoCC) and the Vertical Integrated Teams Aligned in Learning (VITAL) courses for second-year medical students in the UConn School of Medicine. He also directs the Child and Family Development Program, a community-based service that provides parenting groups designed to strengthen parents’ skills to support their children’s social, emotional, and behavioral development.
Hosted By:
Jesse Hayman
Chief Growth Officer
Greenspace Health
Driven from personal and family mental health experiences, Jesse Hayman has committed his career to improving culture, education and support services surrounding mental health. Prior to Greenspace, Jesse served as the Vice President at Jack.org; guiding them through unprecedented growth. He founded and led the development of Be There which was awarded two Webby Awards as the Top Health Website in the World. Jesse also spent seven years leading Development at the Movember Foundation and serves on the Board of Directors at Sheena’s Place, a centre for ED group therapy.
