CDP Presents: inTransition - Helping Bridge the Gap Between Patients, Providers and Healthcare Systems

inTransition is a Department of Defense mandated program that supports Service members, veterans, National Guard, and reserves of all services as they move between health care systems and providers. inTransition provides resources that facilitate treatment engagement during geographic and or career transitions, to include those made to DoD, VA, and non-Tricare settings. Information about local community resources, support groups, healthy lifestyle options, benefit enrollment, and other health care resources are also available. Service members from all branches and veterans with any category of discharge qualify to use inTransition. inTransition provides individualized, regularly scheduled, coaching and warm handoff referrals to no-cost mental healthcare in a desired setting. This free resource may be accessed by clinicians or Service members 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from anywhere in the world.  This webinar explores how inTransition assists Service members and clinicians, the research and policy behind the program, as well as policy-driven process enhancements and self-initiated improvements since program inception. It will provide clinicians and program leads within and outside the DoD the scientific rationale and policy requirements behind this important program that helps them and their patients maintain mental healthcare continuity during difficult transitional periods.  

Learning Objectives (one measurable objective per credit hour; no more than 4)

1. Describe the inTransition program to include rationale, policy mandates, and ongoing process improvements.  

2. Explain how the inTransition program works and the benefits for patients and providers.   

3. Appraise clinical situations where inTransition has been used to positively impact patients and recognize how inTransition might assist in one's own clinical or programmatic efforts.

Target audience: This introductory level webinar is appropriate for mental health professionals, psychologists, social workers, counselors, nurses and other professionals working with military Service members, Veterans, or their families.

This activity is approved for 1.5 continuing education credits (CEs)

The Center for Deployment Psychology is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Center for Deployment Psychology maintains responsibility for this program and its content.