LIGHTHOUSE CCBHC improvement and advancement - the LIGHTHOUSE CCBHC improvement and advancement project will improve access to community-based mental health and substance use disorder treatment and…

LIGHTHOUSE CCBHC improvement and advancement - the LIGHTHOUSE CCBHC improvement and advancement project will improve access to community-based mental health and substance use disorder treatment and support and effectively address the needs of people with SED, SMI, and COD across nine counties in rural south-central oklahoma. Grant funding will establish a strong crisis continuum of care to transition consumers to wholistic outpatient services and expand and enhance outpatient children/youth services. LIGHTHOUSE behavioral wellness centers (LIGHTHOUSE), formerly known as mental health services of southern oklahoma, is a certified community behavioral health center (CCBHC). IT is the largest provider of addiction and mental health services to vulnerable individuals within a 5,000 square mile service area, including bryan, carter, garvin, johnston, love, marshall, murray, pontotoc, and seminole counties. LIGHTHOUSE, a national health service corp site, has been providing care for oklahomans with serious mental illness (SMI), serious emotional disturbance (SED), substance use disorder (SUD), and CO-occurring disorder (COD) since 1955. With this project, LIGHTHOUSE will serve 3,291 unduplicated individuals over the four-year project period. Goal 1 of this project is to improve access to quality, whole-person outpatient mental health services for children/youth with unmet mental health needs, especially those with SED and their families across the service area. Objectives to be achieved include establishing and implementing children's teams across the nine-county area through leveraged partnerships with local schools. Goal 2 of this project is to improve the crisis continuum of care for consumers discharging from crisis or urgent recovery services and those identified by the state as "most in need" of behavioral health services. Objectives to be achieved include establishing and implementing community engagement and outreach teams. Goal 3 of this project is to expand outpatient primary care screening, monitoring, and treatment of chronic and preventive physical health care services for consumers. Objectives to be achieved include the addition of a primary care provider and nurse case manager. Goal 4 for this project is effective, efficient implementation and administration of the project. Objectives include timely and accurate reporting, meeting all required activities; conducting community needs assessments every three years; and collecting, reporting, and tracking outcomes and qualitative data.