Robert A. Cole, MHSA, Chief Operating Officer of the Connecticut Mental Health Center and Lecturer in Psychiatry at Yale, spoke at two national conferences on October 9 and 12.
Cole participated in a roundtable discussion October 9 on strategies for making and sustaining organizational changes aimed at social determinants of health at the second annual National Summit of The Root Cause Coalition (TRCC) in Louisville, KY.
TRCC is a national, non-profit organization that addresses the root causes of health disparities by focusing on hunger and other social determinants to reverse the nationwide epidemic of preventable chronic health conditions. It was founded in 2015 by The AARP Foundation and ProMedica, a non-profit health system based in Ohio, and CMHC was an inaugural partner.
Cole was joined at the meeting by Marydale DeBor, Lecturer in Psychiatry at Yale and a nationally recognized policy and program development expert on food policy in the healthcare sector.
On October 12, Cole presented a talk titled, “The Connecticut Mental Health Center: A Unique and Vibrant University-State Partnership” at the Fall 2017 Education Conference of the National Association of Academic Psychiatry Administrators. The conference was held October 11-13 at Yale.