Jerome Galea, PhD, LCSW, MSW, an associate professor in the School of Social Work, presented during a webinar hosted by the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation. The webinar, explored how the evidence-based intervention Project Management Plus (PM+) — which was originally developed by the World Health Organization to address mental health treatment gaps in low- and middle-income countries — is now being implemented in the U.S.
Galea learned about PM+ in Peru through Partners in Health and worked on the project "Enfrentando Problemas Plus (EP+)" in the country. When he began his work with the at ±«Óãtv, he saw that the clinic had similar patient populations to populations he was working with in Peru. The patients were predominantly Spanish speaking (70%), didn’t have access to health insurance, and many were agricultural workers, undocumented, and living below poverty line.
Having taught community workers in Peru to deliver PM+, he decided he would teach MSW student volunteers to do it as well. In the webinar, he goes into detail of this work of training of five bilingual MSW students at ±«Óãtv to deliver PM+. View the presentation .