Greater bangor ccbhc enhancement project - community health and counseling services (chcs) is implementing the greater bangor region certified community behavioral health clinic (ccbhc)

The bangor region ccbhc increases access to and improves the quality of community mental and substance use disorder treatment services. The ccbhc serves adults with SMI, SUD, COD and children and adolescents with SED who live in the greater bangor, maine region. We will enhance our ccbhc by dedicating more ccbhc resources to serve the uninsured/underinsured population, expanding the network of ccbhc providers, enhancing the quality of assessment with the implementation of an evidence-based practice and enhancing our infrastructure to support the use of data for quality improvement. The greater bangor region ccbhc expects to serve 500 unduplicated individuals during the first year of operation. The program projects to increase the numbers of unduplicated individuals served to 525 in year two and 550 in years three and four. The greater bangor region ccbhc is focused on five areas that will address gaps and advance and improve our ccbhc. 1. SUD outpatient treatment: increase capacity to provide SUD outpatient treatment by increasing the number of licensed substance abuse clinicians available for referrals through direct hire and partnerships with local SUD providers. 2. Provider network: enhance access to services for children and families by expanding coordination with existing providers in the community. Increase other core service areas by expanding our network. This will be accomplished by adding five DCO's within the first two years of the project. 3. EBP: enhance the screening and assessment process by adopting promis® (patient-reported outcomes measurement information system®) a highly reliable, evidence-informed set of measures to evaluates and monitors physical, mental, and social health in adults and children. 4. EMR: enhance EMR capacity to capture and retrieve essential health and core ccbhc metrics to support client level care coordination and tracking of health outcomes. 5. Primary care: enhance primary care screening to include screenings for key health indicators and establish baseline data for ongoing monitoring and treatment planning. The use of promis® and EMR enhancement will improve primary care screening. 6. Peer/family supports: enhance the use of peer/family supports by connecting consumers at the early stages of ccbhc connection. A core team of clinical service providers, including clinicians and care coordinators, will be based at chcs to respond to and triage immediate behavioral health needs of the community. Augmenting this hub will be a collaborating network that initially includes five designated collaborating organizations (dcos). The vision and mission of the ccbhc is to create a cohesive, highly accessible system of care. An advisory committee comprised of community stakeholders will provide ongoing assessment of gaps in services, align system resources, and explore options to improve system coordination.