Certified community behavioral health clinic expansion: seneca ccbhc expansion initiative - seneca ccbhc expansion initiative focuses on strengthening comprehensive behavioral health services to those…

Certified community behavioral health clinic expansion: seneca ccbhc expansion initiative - seneca ccbhc expansion initiative focuses on strengthening comprehensive behavioral health services to those w/serious mental illness, substance use disorder (including opioid disorder); children w/serious emotional disturbance, and those with CO-occurring mental & SUD located in greenbrier CO. West virginia while increasing services to rural nicholas/webster/pocahontas counties, all of which suffer from high overdose rates/poverty/poor mental health/lack services. The initiative will serve 2,500 individuals (1,150-Y1, 1,350-Y2). Project goals (interventions/ strategies) are to (1) increase access to community mental & SUD treatment services for the focus population via (a) finalizing a staffing plan based on a needs assessment; (b) hiring 2 health educators to educate all psych clients RE health; (c) building an act team to serve greenbrier & nicholas; (d) hiring 2 SUD case managers to ensure that 60% of mat clients stay engaged with mat for at least 6-MO; (e) hiring 2 case managers to provide intensive case mgmt. To children; (f) hiring 3 therapists to expand services to additional clients; (g) providing clients with evening & weekend service hours; (h) providing clients w/ expanded telehealth services; (i) initiating an appt. Reminder & telehealth platform accessible by text; (2) improve the quality of community mental & SUD treatment services for the focus population via (a) implementing a needs assessment driven staff training plan; (b) hiring 2 program coordinators to provide supervision to licensing track therapists & promote service delivery growth; (c) initiating a ccbhc advisory board; (d) measuring EBP use via satisfaction survey & outcome measures; (e) conducting qtly reviews to ID opportunities; (3) improve client behavioral health outcomes via (a) administering standardized assessments to 95% of clients to guide person driven service plans; (b) clients show annual improvement in mental health functioning; (c) clients show reduced substance use; (d) increasing length of stay in TX for SUD/COD clients; (4) improve client physical health outcomes via (a) improving health indicators via health education; (b) reducing tobacco use by 25% via tobacco cessation services; (5) ensure that disparity group clients have equal service access, use & outcomes via (a) developing target POP. Focus groups for target pops.; (b) monitoring disparity GRP access/use/ outcomes; (c) establishing service training program for target pops.; (d) increasing # of military clients served; (6) improving crisis response/services to ensure individuals in crisis receive the appropriate level of care via (a) hiring 2 child crisis staff in Y1; (b) hiring 4 community crisis staff in Y1; (c) reducing # hospital admissions for psychiatric reasons; (d) reducing # jail days by 50% or maintain 0 jail days; (7) sustain the SHS ccbhc initiative via (a) hiring an evaluator to initiate moving from fee for service to value-based reimbursement; (b) maximizing the agency EHR; (c) completing a sustainability plan; (d) joining WV state ccbhc expansion grantees in working with WV to achieve formal ccbhc status; (e) sustaining incr. Staffing/ retention incentives via billable services & (f) initiating sustainable tuition reimbursement program.