Dr. Michelle Silva is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and is based at the Connecticut Mental Health Center-Hispanic Clinic. She serves as the Associate Director of the Connecticut Latino Behavioral Health System, an academic-community partnership designed to expand access to behavioral health services for the monolingual Spanish speaking uninsured or underinsured of greater New Haven. Her professional interests include training and education of multidisciplinary behavioral health teams working with Latino populations, and the development of trauma-informed interventions for immigrant communities.

 

Presentation: Behavioral health services within an immigrant community: A population health perspective from a student-run free clinic

 

The HAVEN Free Clinic Behavioral Health Program for Depression is an American Psychiatric Association-funded initiative (A Helping Hands grant) in which supervised health professional students provide psychoeducational interventions to an uninsured immigrant community. Participants can expect to learn about the role of a supervised medical student as facilitator of a psychoeducational intervention and gain awareness into the challenges and strategies for delivering behavioral health interventions within a student-run primary care free clinic.