VOA spokane's whole person health home (wphh) project - volunteers of american eastern washington & northern idaho (voaspokane) proposes the whole-person health home (wphh) certified community…

VOA spokane's whole person health home (wphh) project - volunteers of american eastern washington & northern idaho (voaspokane) proposes the whole-person health home (wphh) certified community behavioral health clinic (ccbhc) to serve teens, adults, and veterans experiencing homelessness, at high-risk of becoming homeless, and meeting the federal definition of chronically homeless in spokane county, washington. Within a housing-first framework, wphh will provide outreach, engagement, and harm reduction from the moment participants initiate shelter or housing placement services and follow them with evidence-based clinical, case management, and peer support services as they move from shelter to supported independent housing. Wphh will serve 100 participants in year 1, 125 in year 2, 140 in year 3, and 150 in year 4 for a total of 515 participants over the grant period. The goals of wphh are to become a housing-first ccbhc that: (1) provides every participant who presents for housing services with access to a fully integrated, multidisciplinary care team; (2) utilizes a centralized assessment process to develop low-barrier, person-centered plans from the first point of contact; and (3) delivers mobile treatment services and ongoing rehabilitative support directly within voaspokane's shelters and housing settings to participants along all stages of readiness and recovery. To achieve these goals, wphh major objectives include: (i) hiring inhouse prescribing and nursing capacity to increase access to pharmacotherapy for mental health and SUD treatment; (II) configuring the voaspokane EHR to streamline assessment, care planning, and the participant experience; (III) fully integrating existing housing-first case management and peer support staff into multidisciplinary teams akin to act/iddt models; and (IV) providing training in trauma-informed care, harm reduction, cultural competency, and mental health first aid to all staff.