Behavioral Health Consulting

Our group of public health professionals, nurses, a physician, and a clinician give you personalized attention and facilitate an individualized solution.
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There is no feeling more helpless than the depth of addiction.

Both affected people and their families and friends endure sleepless nights, physical illness, runaround from the health care system, and the frustration of relapse.

For the professionals that help people with substance use disorder (SUD) survive and put their lives back together, the experience can be nearly as trying as addiction itself. The Steadman Group’s Behavioral Health Consulting Division can ease this process. We help you– often a physician, clinicians, peer, or clinic administrator– create systems of care in which your clients can recover, making your job easier and more effective.

Our group of public health professionals, nurses, a physician, and a clinician give you personalized attention and facilitate an individualized solution. We are small but effective, focusing on high-impact projects at the cutting edge of policy and evidence-based practice. 

Here are some of our recent projects:

  • Facilitated 8 of the 19 Regional Governance Committees that determine how to spend their share of the $400 million dollars in opioid settlement funding coming to Colorado. Through the 8 regions we facilitate, we support 22 counties across the state in addressing opioid related harms.
  • Conducted an education and advocacy campaign for contingency management, a particularly promising evidence-based practice for stimulant use disorder and other substance use disorders, across Colorado. Through this, we met with providers, people with lived expertise, and regulators to get a better understanding of what Colorado needs to widely adopt this promising practice on a larger scale.
  • Written over $5M of winning SUD-related grants, including SAMHSA and HRSA grants for rural areas. We also help facilitate these grants once awarded.
  • Worked with DynamiCare Health to successfully obtain Breakthrough Device Development (BDD) from the FDA for their software-as-a-medical-device (SaMD) to treat smoking among pregnant persons using contingency management (CM). Over the course of 2022, we helped to secure over $2M in funding for contingency management programs to improve substance use treatment outcomes among Medicaid, uninsured, and other high-risk populations.
  • Worked with the Health District of Northern Larimer County (HDNLC) to complete an inclusive environmental scan of the county’s recovery support services (RSS) ecosystem which resulted in community informed recommendations to improve Larimer County’s RSS environment.
  • Successfully advocated for a bill to mandate and fund medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder in Colorado jails and prisons. Over $5M was allocated for this effort and we have assisted dozens of institutions in implementing their MAT programs.
  • Assessed statewide substance use disorder treatment capacity. Ahead of Colorado Medicaid’s 1115 waiver for residential SUD treatment, we assessed the current capacity and recommended ways to improve that.
  • Facilitated SUD treatment program implementation at 8 community health centers, community mental health centers, syringe access programs, and public health departments, providing regulatory, personnel, and clinical policies.

As you can see, we focus on a single but important niche, substance use disorder, in the Mountain West region. You won’t find anyone more familiar with substance use policy in the region. Our solutions are creative– we don’t rely on a proprietary tool or one-size-fits-all solution. With our broad expertise, we can help with medical, clinical, regulatory, legal, and financial aspects of your program. Furthermore, we help you seek out government and philanthropic funding opportunities to build your program toward sustainability. 

We look forward to hearing from you. Consultations are always free, so if you would like to discuss a question or a potential program, please contact us. Also, as a woman-owned business, we often support principals on larger state and federal grants. Please contact us to discuss partnership opportunities. 

Too often, people with substance use disorder suffer in silence, uncertain where to turn for help. Our clients often delay as well, putting off a new program or working on shoestring funding for years. The Steadman Group’s Behavioral Health Consulting Division will improve your capacity to help people with SUD and mental health problems, so contact us today.

What people say

I cannot overstate how great you (Madeline) have been to work with. I appreciate your knowledge, conscientiousness, and ability to synthesize community info and needs on complex topics. Not to mention the professionalism with which you’ve dealt with our revolving door of staff and ever-present questions and anxieties. You’ve exceeded my expectations and I have heard the same from multiple community members you worked with!
It’s a LARGE VICTORY in this is our first quarter with TSG assisting in this work, in place of our former hero. It was a smooth transition, and we’ve made a lot of progress (as noted in the Work Plan Progress Report). Thank you very much for your work throughout the weeks/months helping the Consortium, and the end-of-the-month push to get the deliverables completed.
We could not have completed the project without you. You steadied the ship while preserving my time and focus elsewhere.
Thank you for bringing in the speaker today, he was great! Probably was the best speaker I have heard here in the whole time I have been employed here. He was so passionate and clearly really cares about what he is doing. Thank you a bunch :)!!
It is great to listen to a speaker that has a passion for the topic, gives it more salience.
Great updates and work on today's call with HRSA around the way you are keeping an eye on the opioid settlement and state plan. It's always great when the TA provider is asking you questions about how you did something. You make us look good. Really appreciate all you do!
My experience working with Steadman group was fantastic. They are responsive to emails, pay attention to deadlines and their work is exceptional.
Steadman group staff were punctual, professional, and very helpful. They were able to write an excellent proposal with limited meetings and time spent on my end.
Steadman Group was critical to our company receiving an FDA Breakthrough Device Designation. We developed the product and gathered the data, but they figured out how to present the information in a clear and compelling way, saving us from countless hours of writing and research. It's hard for us to delegate writing to third parties, since many won't understand our field or meet our high standards, but we've come to trust Steadman Group because they can do both. They understand the nuances of behavioral health, from the macro public health perspective down to the micro lived experience perspective. They hold themselves to a high standard of professionalism with clear communication, rapid turnaround times, and strict deadlines. I'm grateful to have found a group that meets our needs and I'm looking forward to our next project together!
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  • Developed and managed implementation of a care management program with a population health focus for a plan with a predominantly Medicaid and Medicare population. Programs included transitions of care, complex care management and disease/condition management
  • Developed an administrative query tool to identify children with special health care needs for a health plan's performance improvement project
  • Conducted readiness review preparations, Medicaid managed care compliance audit preparations, corrective action plan management, reporting and response
  • Performed Medicaid managed care contract and compliance reporting
  • Managed project to connect care management tool with alerts from local health information exchange
  • Managed project to integrate data from electronic health records, health plan claims data, and health information exchange to support proactive panel management, risk stratification, and patient engagement
  • Supported accountable health communities deployment
  • Medicaid global payment model: served as an integral partner with health plan from initial proposal development through implementation, including planning, documentation, internal and external communications, and system changes
  • Facilitated health plan attribution model development and managed internal, external and system implementation
  • Developed health plan Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) communications and training, conducted process improvement and compliance, and updated policies