Newport mental health ccbhc improvement and advancement - newport mental health's (NMH) current ccbhc seeks to improve and enhance evidence-based practices to individuals with serious mental illness…

Newport mental health ccbhc improvement and advancement - newport mental health's (NMH) current ccbhc seeks to improve and enhance evidence-based practices to individuals with serious mental illness (SMI), children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbances (SED), and chronically homeless adults with SMI. With one collaborator (codac behavioral health), NMH will provide expanded and enhanced ccbhc services to 1,900 people across newport county, rhode island in the first year of the project. A total of 4,620 (UNDUPLICATED) people will be served over four years. The project will expand evidence-based behavioral health practices to over 1,900 adults, children and families who currently do not have access to these services in the first year and over 8,250 over the four-year grant period. Newport county, rhode island covers an area of 102.39 square miles and a population of 85,264 (85.6% white alone, 4.4% black or african american, 0.6% native american and alaska native, 2.0% asian, 0.1% native hawaiian or other pacific islander, and 2.8% multiracial, and 6.0% hispanic or latinx of any race).the share of adults in rhode island with any mental illness was 22.4% in 2018-2019, compared to 19.9% in the US. RI has higher rates of frequent mental distress than the U.S. As a whole (14.6% VS. 12.0%).3 in RI, 59.1% (58,000) of adults with mild mental illness, 45.7% (26,000) of adults with moderate mental illness, and 38.3% (15,000) of adults with serious mental illness in the past year did not receive mental health treatment. The project has three main goals: 1.) NMH will continue to implement a fully operational ccbhc, providing the complete scope of ccbhc services to individuals regardless of ability to pay. 2.) NMH will improve existing ccbhc services by advancing five program areas to address the needs of a wide range of clients across the lifespan: enhanced mobile crisis services, expand and improve existing assertive community treatment (act) services, improve integrated health home (IHH) outcomes, improve integrated health care (IHC), and enhance recovery oriented and person-centered programming by training and hiring peer support workers 3.) NMH and its DCO partners will implement infrastructure enhancements to improve the overall quality and coordination of care. 3.) NMH will enhance infrastructure to improve overall quality/coordination of care, by improving the core competencies of the workforce to provide evidence-based effective interventions.