Excelsior wellness spokane, WA ccbhc IA - excelsior wellness, based in spokane, washington, is a non-profit, integrated healthcare and education organization with 35 years of experience in…

Excelsior wellness spokane, WA ccbhc IA - excelsior wellness, based in spokane, washington, is a non-profit, integrated healthcare and education organization with 35 years of experience in delivering whole-person care. Excelsior operates four subsidiaries within the fields of public health, hospital/healthcare, public education, and social services. Excelsior takes a trauma-informed and person-centered approach to care with a mission to empower youth and families to live and stay well. The goals for this funding are to increase equitable access to care and reduce the overutilization of emergency systems, excelsior's proposal focuses on a 24-7 pre-crisis and pre-diagnostic mobile engagement and response model and includes advancement to more accessible integrated health services within school settings. Excelsior is spokane's largest provider of integrated behavioral services for youth, children, and families in eastern washington state. Excelsior serves individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) or substance use disorders (SUD), children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED); and individuals with CO-occurring disorders (COD). Excelsior serves disproportionately represented populations such as racial and ethnic minorities, individuals with disabilities, and lgbtqia youth and adults. Excelsior's proposed project will continue to provide the core ccbhc direct services and will use the funding to advance our engagement and response system to a 24-7 model to be staffed with licensed providers and certified peer supports. IT will also advance our offerings and care coordination within local schools to include access to onsite medical providers through our wraparound intensive care service teams. Excelsior currently serves approximately 1400 individuals and families a year. As we increase capacity and advance service offerings through this funding, excelsior aims to serve over 600 more youth and families in our region. Specific goals for this funding are to increase the capacity to engage and assess youth experiencing SMI-SED who are in a pre-admission status or requesting services, increase access to and deliver high-quality services that are timely, and increase the capacity to serve youth in school settings in need of comprehensive health services and person-centered recovery planning and improve health literacy to support the transition of care from pediatric to adulthood. A few of our objectives are: to increase the point of entry through the warm-line by 25%, increase trauma-informed mobile interventions and/or stabilization by 15%, and reduce the wait time to initial appointments by 2 days, reduce the number of no shows or dropouts by 10%, divert 50% of individuals from using emergency departments and/or crisis response services, increase initial health screens and provide responsive medical treatment in school settings by having medical providers and interdisciplinary team available during the school day, and provide materials and conduct health care education for families in schools