Betsy Payn, MA, PMP is the Integrated Care Training Program’s (ICTP) project manager. She also oversees the data collection and analysis for ICTP and APA SAN Projects. Her bachelor’s and master’s degrees are in Criminal Justice from Washington State University.
Prior to coming to the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington, she worked as a senior project manager and her duties included project management, management of staff, overseeing data collection tasks and staff, proposal writing and budgeting, and data analysis. Her interest in mental health comes from her interest in crime and its connection with drug use. She is also interested in the criminalization of certain substances as opposed to others.
She’s attracted to collaborative care because it is cost-effective, and at the same time, effective at delivering mental health care. She cites her most important work as being on any project where something is learned that has been able to help people immediately. Five years from now, she hopes to see integrated care broadly implemented across the US.