#3 Klamath County: Yoga for trauma work and other innovations in a rural community

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stan Gilbert, Klamath Basin Behavioral Health (KBBH) Executive Director, discusses how collaboration with community stakeholders has resulted in the following innovations:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Behavioral Health embedded in the Community Corrections office, resulting in same day warm handoffs to behavioral health staff upon first check in upon release from prison/jail.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">KBBH’s certification as a yoga studio, so therapists can be certified in yoga for bodywork for trauma work. </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">KBBH’s certification as a Certified Community Behavioral Health Center (CCBHC), which has been a gamechanger for funding, and thus has fueled more innovations.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Klamath County stakeholders’ commitment to braided funding to support the upcoming sobering center. </span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For more information about the intersection between criminal justice and behavioral health in Oregon, please reach out to us through our website at</span> <a href="http://www.ocbhji.org/podcast"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">http://www.ocbhji.org/podcast</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and Facebook page at</span> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OCBHJI/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.facebook.com/OCBHJI/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We’d love to hear from you.</span></p>