Hope and healing for post-pandemic recovery and resilience - places for people's "hope and healing for post-pandemic recovery and resilience" will promote the health and well-being of persons with…

Hope and healing for post-pandemic recovery and resilience - places for people's "hope and healing for post-pandemic recovery and resilience" will promote the health and well-being of persons with behavioral health concerns that have either emerged during the covid-19 pandemic or who have had existing behavioral health conditions amplified during the pandemic. We will serve persons experiencing substance use disorders (SUD) and CO-occurring disorders (COD), adults with serious mental illness (SMI), and youth with severe emotional disturbances (SED) in ST. Louis city and ST. Louis county, missouri. We will focus enrollment on those who are uninsured, underserved, and who lack access to mental health treatment in our region. Places for people will serve 600 unduplicated people- 250 in year one and 350 in year two. We will also implement activities to help support staff, addressing their mental health needs related to the fears, anxieties, and losses from the pandemic. We intend to achieve the following program goals: 1) increase access to ebps for persons with behavioral health concerns by providing integrated family treatment and incredible years/dina school to at least 50 children and their parents; serving 250 people involved in the criminal justice system through critical time intervention or forensic act; delivering therapies and psychopharmacological outpatient services to 300 clients, including cognitive behavioral therapies, community reinforcement approach, and seeking safety; and providing psychiatric rehabilitation services (e.g., itcd, IPS, IMR) to 50 high-need adults with SMI or COD. 2) strengthen agency infrastructure to provide hipaa compliant telehealth services to increase access and availability of services, including the purchase of a hipaa compliant texting platform and training staff to utilize this service. 3) enhance staff well-being through organizational supports and evidence-informed intervention including burnout reduction: enhanced awareness, tools, handouts, and education; appreciative inquiry to identify organizational factors related to employee wellness and service excellence; and a systematic assessment of overall organizational cultural competence, using the multiculturally competent service system assessment guide and the iowa cultural understanding assessment-client form. 4) support recovery and improve psychosocial functioning of persons served as evidenced by a reduction in the severity of mental health symptoms as indicated by the DSM-5 cross-cutting symptom measure and noms indicator for serious psychological distress; reduction in the severity of substance use, as indicated by the decreased frequency of use measured in the cross-cutting symptom measure for DSM-5 and the substance abuse treatment engagement scale; and strengthened social and personal relationships, as indicated by increases in social support in the noms collected at reassessment interviews.