Learning Session 5 took place in Boston, MA on February 4-5, 2026.

During this meeting, we:

• Deepened understanding of stakeholder roles and foster shared purpose and community
• Celebrated network achievements and collaboratively set goals for upcoming improvement cycles
• Streamlined CGI data collection workflows and address barriers to effective implementation
• Expanded quality improvement and leadership skills to empower participants and sustain progress
• Established comprehensive measures for bipolar care and align collaborative goals to drive meaningful improvements
• Focused on diagnostic accuracy, population management, and data-driven learning with shared goals and metrics

Learning Session 4 took place virtually on October 9, 2025.

During this meeting, we:

• Engaged in peer storytelling and solution design to test improvement ideas
• Practiced leadership by applying small, high-impact actions inspired by others’ successes
• Facilitated discussions between experts by experience and clinicians to shape priorities
• Refined data collection workflows and troubleshoot CGI barriers
• Developed and committed to SMART aims for the next 90 days

Learning Session 3 was held virtually across two sessions on June 23 and July 17, 2025.

During this meeting, we:

• Refined the draft change package developed with Health Management Associates to strengthen our shared approach to improving care.
• Aligned on a unified framework to guide improvement efforts across the network.
• Collaborated virtually to review progress, gather feedback, and ensure coherence in our next steps.

The Cincinnati Ohio site hosted Learning Session 2 on March 13-14, 2025.

During this meeting, we:

• Shared and celebrated our progress to date.
• Continued to build quality improvement and leadership skills.
• Identified priority areas for improvement.
• Collaborated to develop and advance promising innovations and change ideas.

The first learning session for the Bipolar Action Network took place in Cincinnati, OH, on November 18-19, 2024.

During this meeting, we:

• Defined members’ roles in the network.
• Described the patient and family experience of living with bipolar disorder.
• Discovered variations in practice across care centers.
• Utilized team dynamics to connect and build a shared network culture.
• Generated improvement goals for the next 90-day action period.
• Designed PDSAs for testing new ideas to improve care for bipolar disorder by accelerating equitable improvements.

Design Meeting 3 for the Bipolar Action Network (BAN) took place in Covington, KY on June 24–25, 2024.

During this meeting, we:

• Demonstrated the results of the BAN Design Challenges.
• Continued learning about how to improve care and outcomes together.
• Worked to ensure that we continued laying the groundwork for real collaboration and partnership across roles and care centers.

The Dauten Family Center site hosted Design Meeting 2 in Boston, MA, on March 19-20, 2024.

During this meeting, we:

• Fostered community building and solidified the vision and values of the network.
• Collaboratively refined aims, measures, and change ideas related to improving bipolar disorder care and outcomes.
• Strengthened skills and expertise in quality improvement and human-centered design.

The inaugural design session for the Bipolar Action Network took place in Cincinnati, OH, on November 8-10, 2023.

During this meeting, we:

• Developed community, connection, empathy, and partnership among participants.
• Oriented participants to their role in the Network so that they can change the current system of care using human-centered design and quality improvement methods using their creativity and innovative ideas.
• Participated in creating a vision for a system of care to meet the needs and goals of individuals with lived experience, families, and clinicians affected by bipolar disorder.
• Described what we know about the current state of the system of care for people living with bipolar disorder and identify what we need to learn to improve the system.
• Began to develop the design of an improvement framework for the Bipolar Action Network.