News from HCA's Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery

Register today: DBHR's 2025 Coalition Leadership Institute

The Health Care Authority Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery is hosting the 2025 Coalition Leadership Institute on June 24 and 25. Register today to secure your spot at this year’s Coalition Leadership Institute!

Important update: 2025 Spring Youth Forum

Although the 2025 Spring Youth Forum will not be an in-person event this year, we would still like to recognize youth for their hard work, and we encourage youth to continue implementing projects in their communities. We welcome suggestions and feedback via email on meaningful ideas to recognize youth by Friday, April 4. 

Join an upcoming discussion to inform Washington's prenatal through age 25 (P-25) behavioral health strategic plan

Join the Health Care Authority's P-25 Section at its upcoming discussion and advisory groups meetings to inform the development of a strategic plan for prenatal through age 25 behavioral health! 

The DCA scholarship has been paused!

The Dedicated Cannabis Account (DCA) scholarship was established to provide registration fees to prevention providers. Unfortunately, at this time we have decided to pause accepting and processing applications until further notice.

Workforce survey: Calling all CPWI coordinators and SAPs

The CPWI workforce survey was created by the CPWI Workforce Subcommittee as the first-ever baseline survey for CPWI coalition coordinators and SAPs.

HCA's substance use prevention and mental health promotion services FOA is now open!

The Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) is proud to release a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) for organizations interested in implementing programming to address substance use disorder (SUD) prevention related to opioids and cannabis, mental health promotion, suicide prevention, and disordered eating prevention services in Washington.

Save the date: DBHR's 2025 Coalition Leadership Institute

Save the date! The Washington State Health Care Authority's (HCA) Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery (DBHR) is hosting the 2025 Coalition Leadership Institute (CLI) virtually on Tuesday, June 24 and Wednesday, June 25!

It's time to register for DBHR's January learning community meeting!

The Health Care Authority's Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery will be hosting its first learning community meeting (LCM) of 2025 on Wednesday, January 22, 9:05 a.m. to noon. Registration is live and required for Community Prevention and Wellness Initiative (CPWI) providers and community-based organization (CBO) grantees. We can't wait to see you there!

2024-2025 prevention training scholarships now open!

The Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery (DBHR) has identified funding to provide financial support for prevention partners to attend various conferences. These conferences provide training on prevention theory, strategic planning, coalition development, cultural competency, reducing health disparities, community organizing, and/or the Strategic Prevention Framework. These conferences are open to all interested individuals.

New feature in Minerva 2.0: Outcomes report

Exciting news! The Outcomes Report feature is now live in Minerva 2.0 under the Evaluate Channel for all users!

An Outcomes Report is one tool you can use to see how well a service is working. It’s also a way to show how many participants are completing pre- and post-tests, and how many of those participants have a positive or neutral/maintained outcome.