Strong minds, strong futures: Weaving together basic needs and behavioral health
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McKinsey on Healthcare, a podcast series about visionaries, leaders, and problem solvers shaping the future of healthcare.
My name is Erica Hutchins Co. I am a partner with McKinsey based out of our Atlanta office. I've been with our healthcare practice for a number of years, and along with my colleague, Kana, I co-lead our Center for Societal Benefit through healthcare. What we're here to talk about is addressing healthcare needs early and holistically through integrated preventive care for children, adolescents, young adults, and families. in ways that will be critical to really unlocking healthy lifespan opportunities. With that, I will hand it off to you, Kana.
Thanks, Erica. I appreciate it. So I am Kana Inamoto. I'm a senior expert in McKinsey's D.C. office and very privileged to co-lead the Center for Suicidal Benefits together with Erica. I'm going to start off by asking each panelist to tell you a little bit about themselves. So, Johanna, would you mind kicking us off?
Who are the panelists and what perspectives do they bring to youth behavioral health?
I'm Johanna Bergen and I lead the Youth MOVE national team. MOVE stands for Motivating Others Through Voices of Experience. And that's what we do. We're a youth-run program, chapter-based organization that looks to harness the voices of young people who have lived experience in our country's child and youth serving systems. We center our work in mental health and also work in child welfare, juvenile justice, and the education system. And our goal is to uplift the power of young people's lived experience in creating systems change, particularly in creating systems that work better for our young people.
Hi, I'm Andrew Dreyfus. I'm the CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. Thank you to Mackenzie and our hosts for including me today. I've worked on mental health from both in the public sector and in the private sector. And our health plan thinks a lot about how do we care better for our members with both mental health and substance use disorder conditions and how to make that a part of the broader healthcare movement.
And hi, I'm Megan Jones Bell. Thank you, Mackenzie, Erica, Kana, and the rest of the organizers. I am a clinical psychologist by training. Lived experiences got me into that business in the first place and devoted the first chapter of my career to designing and evaluating digital mental health interventions really across the age continuum, but with a large focus on youth. I realized that nothing I developed in academia was actually getting into the hands of the people for whom I was designing it, so I decided to start a company. It was one of the first coached mental health offerings since been absorbed into a number of other digital apps. And now I'm the chief strategy and science officer of Headspace, which is the world's leading mindfulness app.
Hi, my name is Victor Armstrong, and I am director of the North Carolina Division of Mental Health Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services. And I have been in this role for all of six months. So I came in right in the midst of COVID pandemic. But I come to this work after spending about the last eight years working in the hospital systems. And I've worked for a large hospital system in Charlotte, North Carolina, atrium health, where I was vice president of behavioral health. And of late, I'm really focused a lot on some of the disproportionate impact of health disparities on communities of color. So This conversation today is very relevant to me.
What role can public institutions play in addressing behavioral health needs and health-related basic needs in youth and families?
I think that we need to think about the changes that we would make programmatically, but also culturally and philosophically. I think that some of the things that we can do programmatically would involve how we can better integrate care. But I think where there need to be changes philosophically and culturally is that we may need to rethink what integration means. We've done some work within our systems on integrating behavioral health into primary care and primary care into behavioral health.
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