{"id":391861,"date":"2026-09-06T03:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T03:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/391861\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T03:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T03:32:19","slug":"faculty-share-behavioral-health-research-and-insights-at-statewide-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/391861\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty share behavioral health research and insights at statewide conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/cfs-bhsp-conference-733x504.jpg\" alt=\"Lillian Deaton, Danielle Cravero, Jordyn Lord, Anna Abella and Annette Christy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Left to Right: Lillian Deaton, Danielle Cravero, Jordyn Lord, Anna Abella and Annette<br \/>\n                           Christy at the Florida Behavioral Health Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Faculty from both the department of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usf.edu\/cbcs\/cfs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Child and Families Studies<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usf.edu\/cbcs\/bhsp\/index.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Behavioral Health Science and Practice <\/a>presented at the Florida Behavioral Health Conference held August 26-28 in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>Team members from Evaluation of the Florida Pediatric Behavioral Health Collaborative (FPBHC) presented, &#8220;Improving Pediatric Behavioral Health Outcomes through an Integrated<br \/>\n                        and Capacity Building Model.&#8221; The presentation shared implementation insights and<br \/>\n                        outcomes from an integrated behavioral health model in the Big Bend region that provides<br \/>\n                        psychiatric consultation to pediatric primary care providers and care coordination<br \/>\n                        to children with behavioral health needs.<\/p>\n<p>FPBHC is funded by the Florida Department of Health and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usf.edu\/cbcs\/graduate\/bcs-graduates.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Areana Cruz, PhD<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usf.edu\/cbcs\/cfs\/faculty-staff\/abella-a.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Abella,PhD,<\/a> associate research professor, are principal investigators of the project.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usf.edu\/cbcs\/cfs\/faculty-staff\/walker-c.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connie Walker, PhD<\/a>, assistant research professor, co-presented accompanied by representatives from the<br \/>\n                        Florida State University Behavioral Health Hub, J\u2019ere Clark and Cori McGooden. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usf.edu\/cbcs\/cfs\/faculty-staff\/shockley-c.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cindi Shockley<\/a>, Data Coordinator of FPBHC, co-developed the presentation.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Abella, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usf.edu\/cbcs\/bhsp\/faculty-staff\/christy-a.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Annette Christy, PhD,<\/a> presented &#8220;The Main Characters: Learning from Adults\u2019 Experiences with Repeated Involuntary<br \/>\n                        Baker Act Examinations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The presentation covered data from the project, &#8220;Baker Act Reporting Center Qualitative<br \/>\n                        Evaluation&#8221; which is funded by the Florida Department of Children and Families. Christy<br \/>\n                        serves as the principal investigator.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The two, along with team members Jordyn Lord, Lillian Deaton, and Danielle Cravero<br \/>\n                        provided insights into challenges faced by individuals with repeated mental health<br \/>\n                        crises as well as recommendations for addressing gaps in care. This qualitative evaluation<br \/>\n                        supplemented data collected by the Baker Act Reporting Center for legislatively mandated<br \/>\n                        annual reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Left to Right: Lillian Deaton, Danielle Cravero, Jordyn Lord, Anna Abella and Annette Christy at the Florida Behavioral&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-391861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}