Andrew Dreyfus
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86 appearances
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first heard Nov 2020
last heard Nov 2020
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And on the issue of diversity, we just have to continue to expand the number and kind of people who are serving the public because we just have insufficient diversity.
We know that in many cases, people want to talk with someone who looks and sounds like them and has their same background and they're
cultural barriers, language barriers, and other barriers that persist in our healthcare system.
Thanks, Joanna.
So what I was just going to add is that we've actually had some interesting developments in this in the treatment of substance use disorder.
One is
there's been the emergence of recovery coaches, which are another form of peer support, but they're not licensed clinicians, but we've started a program where we're paying for reimbursing for recovery coaches as part of a team and hoping that they may become
a new kind of category of licensed professionals that we can use and provide that important peer support.
As Victor said, it's not just how you look, but it's like, have you been there?
Any lived experience I had.
The other thing we did is we have tried to reach in a little earlier and we've been funding something called the Drug Story Theater, which is kind of older adolescents talking through theater with middle school students about their experience with addiction and mental health problems.
And I visited some of these programs and the kids are just wrapped.
One of the reasons we invested in a demonstration project is to, in fact, produce some evidence that will help persuade people, you know,
you can watch a kind of similar parallel work that's been going on in the area of autism treatment with applied behavioral analysis where that was something that was really mostly dealt with in the education system.
A new intervention came along.
You had people who knew how to do it.
They weren't licensed therapists.
A lot of parents were getting legislation filed in different states requiring health plans like ours to cover it.
And you had to almost create a new
kind of profession, a new kind of category of a licensed professional in order for us to be able to pay it under our kind of laws and contracts.
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