BHS ccbhc - behavioral health services, INC

Will expand services in the creation of a ccbhc in gardena, california serving the behavioral and medical health needs of 600 individuals with comorbidities of substance use disorder and/or mental illness and unmet primary medical needs over the two years of this project. We will do this by formal integration of our SUD treatment services in gardena with our medical serviced provided in our federally qualified health center in hawthorne, california, and adding full mental health and psychiatry services within this milieu. The target population for these services are adults living with mental illness, SUD, who reside or seek services in the centinela valley area of LOS angeles county. We expect that the majority will be low functioning, with poor education poor employment histories, history of lack of compliance with physical and behavioral health care, and often speaking english as a second language or not at all. Utilizing two assertive community treatment teams, coupled with a street outreach and engagement team, we will provide 24/7 mental health crisis intervention, assessment and treatment/service planning, psychiatric assessment/treatment and medication management, individual/group/family therapy, SUD treatment, peer counseling/mentoring, primary medical care with linkage/follow up to as needed specialty medical care, with continual care coordination and case management services. The goals of this project are to: 1) improve overall service quality, and enhance our ability to ensure that data drives all agency policies, 2) expand staff training as a primary strategy to ensure service quality, and 3) expand the delivery of timely services to the target population. The service team in the ccbhc will include the medical director/psychiatrist; tow act teams comprised of a licensed therapist, care coordinator, SUD counselor, and a peer counselor. The act teams will be supported by a street outreach team. Services will be provided in the office, medical clinic, in patient's homes, in the streets, or other locations most comfortable to individual patients.