Certified community behavioral health clinic at veterans recovery resources (ccbhc-VRR) - veterans recovery resources (VRR) proposes the certified community behavioral health clinic at veterans…

Certified community behavioral health clinic at veterans recovery resources (ccbhc-VRR) - veterans recovery resources (VRR) proposes the certified community behavioral health clinic at veterans recovery resources (ccbhc-VRR) project to expand its evidence-based mental health (MH) and SUD services to individuals with SMI, SUD, or COD along with children and adolescents with SED. VRR's interdisciplinary, trauma-informed and peer-infused outpatient treatment program serves a vibrant and diverse community of service members, veterans, and their families (smvf) as well as non-veterans, first responders, and other under-served populations in southwest alabama. By the end of the grant period, VRR will provide whole-person, whole-family, and community-based ccbhc services to 700 unduplicated individuals in mobile and baldwin counties (a health resources and services administration identified high-need area) and be poised to sustain ccbhc services in the future. In alignment with needs of the focus populations, project goals include: (1) increasing timely access to all ccbhc services; (2) increasing access to integrated MH/SUD treatment with primary care services by CO-locating and integrating services; (3) ensuring quality care by providing EBP education and training to staff and monitoring use of ebps, and (4) expanding peer support and community integration into evidence-based, integrated primary care. Objectives to support goal 1 include providing all required ccbhc services to focus populations; providing assisted outpatient treatment (AOT); conducting evidence-based, age-appropriate screening for suicide risk, depression, and SUD for all ccbhc adults and adolescents during initial intake; establishing an evidence-based protocol and frequency intervals for RE-screening clients, and implementing age-appropriate screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (sbirt) for all ccbhc clients. Objectives to support goal 2 include establishing a partnership with a pediatric clinic to provide pediatric primary care; engaging a local emergency departments (ED) to locate peer support specialists within the care setting; providing age-appropriate universal screening for overweight/obesity and tobacco use to all ccbhc clients. Objectives to support goal 3 include providing education and training to all ccbhc-VRR clinical staff on acceptance and commitment therapy (act), principles of trauma-informed care, other ebps, and the foundational building blocks of our unique model such that 100% of VRR clinical staff will report use of at least two ebps in year 1, as measured through a semi-annual survey. Objectives to support goal 4 include conducting a needs assessment using a community-based participatory action research approach to improve the quality of lives for youth via designing a peer-to-peer program for youth and advancing integration between VRR and the community; creating a community-integration advisory board with members from community-based, faith-based, and social support organizations to create an action plan for VRR community partnerships and pursuing a partnership with the juvenile court system to place a peer support specialist in the court system to connect juveniles and families to ccbhc and other community-based services.