ANTHC opening telehealth Behavioral Health Wellness Clinic
June 8, 2021
Increasing access to care for our people remains a top priority for the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC). Behavioral health services can be difficult to access throughout Alaska and ANTHC’s new clinic aims to make it easy to connect to compassionate care.
In late July, ANTHC will be opening the Behavioral Health Wellness Clinic (BHWC). The BHWC will serve Alaska Native and Native American individuals and families living in Alaska. All services will be provided exclusively through telehealth, so individuals throughout Alaska will have access to care.
“We are excited to begin offering this new service,” said Rebecca Robinson, Ph.D., ANTHC Clinical Psychologist. “Our goal is to promote Alaska Native wellness by offering immediate access to culturally attuned and evidence-based behavioral health care. With this telehealth clinic, we are specifically focused on serving people living in rural and remote areas of the state where access to behavioral health care is limited.” The BHWC will provide individual and group counseling, mental health and substance use assessments, health behavior coaching, and referral support. Behavioral health providers, Elder mentors, and case managers will be part of the team delivering these services. The clinic’s top priority is to increase access to behavioral health care in partnership with our Tribal health partners across the state.
The BHWC will directly support communities needing additional behavioral health provider resources, extend resources needed by individuals and families, as well as provide support and encouragement for people waiting to access other treatment services. In many cases, people will be able to make same-day telehealth appointments. Please stay tuned to ANTHC’s social media for announcements regarding the clinic’s opening date.
The clinic’s top priority is to increase access to behavioral health care in partnership with our Tribal health partners across the state. The BHWC will directly support communities needing additional behavioral health provider resources, extend resources needed by individuals and families, as well as provide support and encouragement for people waiting to access other treatment services. In many cases, people will be able to make same-day telehealth appointments.
Please stay tuned to ANTHC’s social media for announcements regarding the clinic’s opening date.