Course Description:

Training for BHRS Providers to include a review of new legislation affecting behavioral healthcare providers and their patients, new confidentiality regulations impacting substance use disorder treatment providers who must follow 42 CFR Part 2, a general review of confidentiality regulations for all providers, consent and non-consent issues, including minor consent, and a review of the legal and ethical issues raised by certain hot topics currently facing healthcare providers.

Course Objectives:

1. Providers will be able to describe and follow new state laws regarding gender discrimination in healthcare settings, changes in the elder abuse & neglect reporting laws that add substance use counselors to the list of other healthcare providers who are mandated reporters, and the new CURES 2.0 legislation and guidelines for providers who treat chronic pain;
2. Providers will learn how new 42 CFR Part 2 regulations impact their handling of substance use disorder records, and will be able to explain the new definitions, and recognize new limitations they will be subject to when sharing information with third parties and with other County staff working on multi-disciplinary teams such as Whole Person Care projects; and
3. Providers will be able to explain how the HIPAA “treatment purposes” exception to privacy applies to behavioral health records, and will be able to describe the state laws that protect mental health information, as well as 42 CFR Part 2 regulations that protect substance use disorder information; they will learn about new state laws permitting the sharing of information with first responders and emergency department staff in an emergency, and the new parameters for sharing substance use disorder information in a bona fide emergency

Location:     Foster City Community Center Wind Room (2nd floor) 
1000 E. Hillsdale Blvd., Foster City, CA            

Time:           9:00a-4:00p

To register, Please log on to LMS and locate on “Events Calendar” or click on the purple “Calendar” button and locate the training by date

Disclosure of  Relevant  Financial Relationships

The speaker(s) and planner(s) declare that neither they, nor any member of their immediate families, have had a financial relationship in the past 12 months that is relevant to this training activity.

Important Continuing Education Information

This course is provided free of charge. Unless otherwise noted, all activities included within the course are eligible for CEU/CEH credit. For those attendees that successfully complete the course, a completion certificate will be provided at the conclusion of the course or within 30 days via mail/email.

San Mateo County Behavioral Health & Recovery Services is approved to provide the following:

This course meets the qualifications for 6 hours of continuing Education credits for LMFTs, LCSWs, and LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. CAMFT CE Provider # 128414

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP1405, for  6   hours.

Provider approved by CCAPP-EI, Provider Number 4C-06-400-1119 for 6 CEH’s.

To register, Please log on to LMS and locate on “Events Calendar” or click on the purple “Calendar” button and locate the training by date