Elizabeth layton center ccbhc - elizabeth layton center (ELC) is a community mental health center (cmhc) in eastern kansas that proposes to pursue certification as a community behavioral health clinic…

Elizabeth layton center ccbhc - elizabeth layton center (ELC) is a community mental health center (cmhc) in eastern kansas that proposes to pursue certification as a community behavioral health clinic (ccbhc). This will allow the agency to expand and enhance access to comprehensive, coordinated behavioral health services for individuals with serious mental illness (SMI), serious emotional disturbance (SED), substance use disorder (SUD), or a CO-occurring disorder (COD) in and around franklin and miami counties. This project also seeks to address health disparities experienced by individuals who are uninsured and under-insured. As a licensed cmhc and outpatient SUD service provider in the state of kansas, ELC provides many of the required ccbhc services, though there is a need to expand these services to more individuals and provide whole-person integrated and coordinated care. ELC proposes to enhance existing services and add additional services to meet ccbhc criteria by focusing on workforce development, by training staff on and implementing evidence-based practices (ebps) relevant to the target population, and by expanding access to intakes and mobile crisis response. Population to be served: ELC serves individuals with SMI, SED, SUD, and COD in two counties in eastern kansas. While both franklin and miami counties post poverty rates that are less than the state average (10.6%), a far greater proportion of our clients experience poverty. Among franklin county residents, nearly half (48%) of clients reported incomes below the federal poverty level (FPL) last year. For miami county clients, this rate was 42%. These clients experience significant barriers to accessing the services they need. This project will emphasize reaching and serving individuals who are uninsured or underinsured, a growing subpopulation among ELC clients that includes individuals from low-income households, those experiencing homelessness, and those returning from incarceration. Serving these clients often results in a financial burden that challenges organizational capacity, including ELC's ability to recruit and maintain high-quality staff. Strategies/interventions: this funding will support the expansion of services offered and the use of evidence-based practices, such as assertive community treatment (act), medication-assisted treatment (mat), and individual placement and support (IPS). Most significantly, ELC will expand and enhance its existing crisis services and increase access to individuals regardless of their place of residence. ELC will build staff teams that enable an enhanced, multidisciplinary approach to crisis response. This will also improve service accessibility, creating a bridge for individuals who need entry into ELC's community-based services. Goals and objectives: the goals of the ELC ccbhc project are to increase workforce and organizational capacity to deliver and track high-quality ccbhc services; to increase ccbhc service penetration into the population of focus and provide high-quality, targeted services for individuals who are uninsured or underinsured; and to enhance access to care through expanded access to intakes and enhanced mobile crisis response services to individuals in our geographic area of focus. ELC proposes to serve a total of 4,002 unduplicated individuals throughout the four-year period of performance.