Community mental health centers grant program - the community mental health centers (cmhc) grant program at the guidance center (TGC) is crafted to ensure a comprehensive range of evidence based…

Community mental health centers grant program - the community mental health centers (cmhc) grant program at the guidance center (TGC) is crafted to ensure a comprehensive range of evidence based behavioral health services and programs are made available to citizens of our service area. With a focus on immediate accessibility, high quality, trauma-informed and outcome-based solutions, our clients achieve and sustain overall improved mental wellness. In addition, we seek to provide appropriate health screening and early intervention. TGC's ccbhc expansion grant will serve the populations of leavenworth, atchison, and jefferson counties in kansas. With samhsa funds, we plan to serve approximately 1,000 unduplicated clients annually. TGC's patient population includes children who experience serious emotional disturbance (SED), adults with severe and persistent mental illness (spmi), and clients with substance use disorder (SUD). We have an access clinic available five days a week for walk-in clients and 24 hour, 7 day a week crisis services available. TGC is the primary behavioral health provider in the region and we see all clients regardless of their ability to pay. TGC's medical services provide psychiatric medication management, psychotropic injections, and clinical monitoring for adverse effects through on-site and telehealth providers. Our leavenworth location has an on-site pharmacy. TGC provides 24/7 crisis response, stabilization, and crisis planning services. Qmhps provide screening, assessment, and diagnosis services and patient-centered treatment planning. TGC has robust programming for children and adults. TGC has five goals for this grant. First, we will increase wages of current and prospective employees to promote the attraction and retention of qualified personnel. Our objectives for this goal are to reduce the percentage of employee turnover attributed to salaries through the creation of more competitive salary and benefits packages by 30% in year 1, attract and retain qualified personnel by creating more competitive salary and benefit packages to reduce the number of open positions by 30% in year 1, and reduce the number of client transfers to other providers by 30% by end of year 1. Our second goal is to increase access to medication management and nursing services to current and prospective patient populations. Our objectives are to hire a fulltime medical director/child psychiatrist within four months of the grant award, hire a fulltime registered nurse within sixty days of the grant award, and to increase psychiatry appointment availability by 50% by the end of year 1. Our third goal is expand access to outpatient therapy and crisis services for SED students in schools. Our objectives for this goal are to will hire five school-based therapists to work onsite at local schools by the end of year 1, train all youth case management staff in trauma-informed crisis intervention for school-based clients by the end of year 1, and to see 150 more SED students for outpatient therapy as evidenced by client caseload numbers. Our fourth goal is to expand client access to telehealth services. Our objectives for the fourth goal are to increase the number of zoom licenses to include all direct service providers by the end of year 1 and to hire a licensed practical nurse to assist clients with telehealth provider visits within sixty days of the grand award. Our fifth and final goal is to increase access to case management to the leavenworth spmi homeless population. Our objectives for this are to hire an adult case manager for the leavenworth interfaith community of hope homeless shelter within two months of the grant award and to provide case management services to 10 spmi homeless shelter clients as evidenced by client caseload numbers.