Fraser ccbhc planning, development, and implementation - fraser is one of the largest nonprofit community mental health programs in minnesota

We serve more than 8,000 children and adults each year at six clinics and multiple community partner locations. This grant will fund the "fraser ccbhc planning, development, and implementation" project. By the end of the first grant year, our largest clinic in the city of bloomington and the catchment area of hennepin county will be a fully certified ccbhc. Over the course of the four grant years, we will strive toward our goals of closing disparities in access to comprehensive integrated services, whole-person health outcomes, and other structural inequities facing our community. Over that time, we will also serve an additional 750 individuals. The primary focus of the first grant year will be completing our state's formal certification process, which we will finish no later than september 2023. Key grant-funded activities toward this milestone will include expanding our interdisciplinary team with additional staff such as a substance use specialist and a peer specialist, completing a comprehensive needs assessment with consumer input gathered by a community facilitator, and adding care coordinators to help our clients navigate within our clinic and across the community. This grant also will help US implement critical ccbhc infrastructure in the form of a new electronic health record to coordinate and integrate care. By the end of the first grant year, we will develop a sustainability plan. Our plan will rely heavily on leveraging the prospective payment rate we will receive once we complete state certification. Because about a third of our clients are not covered by medicaid, our plan also will direct as much of the grant funds as possible in years two, three, and four toward providing access to ccbhc services for uninsured and under-insured clients. Our project will be led by our long-time director of clinical quality and staff development. She is a clinical psychologist with deep experience helping our programs implement new regulations while customizing them for the unique specialty populations we serve. Finally, if we are awarded this grant, we will partner closely with our state to ensure that we meet our state's rigorous certification standards and maintain our status as a ccbhc.