Lifeways certified community behavioral health clinic - lifeways community mental health has provided behavioral health services since 1966

We are a carf-accredited agency whose aim is to provide comprehensive integrated behavioral health services to the hillsdale and jackson communities in south central michigan. Using ccbhc expansion grant funds of #3,886,311.79, lifeways proposes to serve an additional 1,000 unduplicated individuals who lack services that address their specific needs, have difficulty accessing services and have increased risk of CO-morbidity. Lifeways plans to serve 300 individuals in year 1 and an additional 700 individuals in year 2, for a total of 1,000 unduplicated individuals served. Lifeways' primary goals to address the unmet needs identified for our populations of focus, which are individuals who have a diagnosis or are at risk of developing a diagnosis of serious mental illness (SMI), serious emotional disturbance (SED), substance use disorder (SUD), or CO-occurring disorders (COD). Goal 1: increase capacity to provide comprehensive services that address the needs of those uninsured, underinsured, and underserved. Goal 2: reduce barriers to accessing services by developing an outreach program that engages the underserved populations. Goal 3: deliver comprehensive and coordinated care that provides access to effective evidence-based interventions for individuals with complex care needs. To accomplish these goals, we will expand our crisis diversion options to reduce hospital inpatient use and recidivism by opening a 23-hour crisis room as well as a five-bed crisis stabilization unit, expand our SUD service array by offering medication assisted treatment (mat), conduct outreach, and develop specific programming to underserved individuals such as veterans, and utilize care coordinators to screen and monitor health indicators that impact overall health. Through partnership with the federally qualified health center (center for family health), we plan to expand and enhance our ability to provide primary care services to a large group by offering more availability for integrated behavioral health and primary care services. All objectives within our project focus on improvement of health outcomes by providing and coordinating the right services at the right time. All strategies include the use of data and continuous quality improvement efforts to improve overall health, wellness, recovery, and resiliency.