FY 2022 certified community behavioral health clinicplanning, development, and implementation grant(short title: ccbhc-PDI) - core health, a 501©3 non-profit since 2017, proposes to become a certified…

FY 2022 certified community behavioral health clinicplanning, development, and implementation grant(short title: ccbhc-PDI) - core health, a 501©3 non-profit since 2017, proposes to become a certified community behavioral health center (ccbhc) serving cowlitz and lewis county. Core will increase the access and availability to quality health care, both primary care and behavioral, to low-income medicaid-eligible and uninsured children, youth, and adults and medicare-eligible adults with mental health, substance use and CO-occurring disorders. Our targeted focus is on (1) adults with opioid use disorder (OUD), (2) children and adolescents with severe emotional disturbance (SED), (3) local veterans with mental health and/or substance use disorders, (4) individuals with a dual diagnosis of mental health and substance abuse, (5) adolescents with substance use disorder, (6) individuals experiencing homelessness and (7) limited english speaking residents. The need for outpatient mental health and substance use, psychiatric medication management, peer support, supported housing and employment has grown astronomically over the past two years. Core health provided outpatient services to 1,574 in 2021 and 2,216 in the first four months of 2022 equating to an 322% increase from the first four months of 2021 to the first four months of 2022. Over the 4-year grant period, our goal is to provide comprehensive integrated services to 4,000 new unduplicated lives. The health resources and services administration (hrsa) has designated cowlitz county a health professional shortage area for both primary care and mental health specific to the 'low-income population.' for lewis county, hrsa has designated a health professional shortage area for the 'low-income homeless migrant farmworker population' in regard to primary care and for mental health they have designated all of lewis county as a 'high needs geographic.' goal 1: hire an addiction psychiatrist, licsw, lmhc, master level therapists, medical assistant and/or registered nurse to increase accessibility and availability of person-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally competent services to help meet the needs of our communities. Goal 2: establish agreements with our community partners to increase care coordination for primary care, judicial, food and housing insecurity, fact, wise, withdrawal management, crisis stabilization, domestic violence, and transportation. Goal 3: decrease youth substance abuse, SED, and anxiety by implementing school-based programs within each school district. Goal 4: implement health screenings as part of each client's evaluation/assessment and monitor progress. Goal 5: create a mat program to address prescription/opioid use disorder/overdoses. Goal 6: enhance treatment services through specialized trainings of evidence-based practices for our targeted population. Goal 7: increase data collection and measurable objectives via software which will provide accurate data on client outcomes, gaps in care, identify social determinants of health so that we deliver value-based care. Every individual we serve deserves to have treatment barriers removed (including the inability to pay for services) and to engage in all facets of care designed to enhance their quality of life.