Cornerstone montgomery integrated care expansion - since 1971, cornerstone montgomery (CM) has delivered comprehensive, community- and evidence-based mental health and CO-occurring mental health and…

Cornerstone montgomery integrated care expansion - since 1971, cornerstone montgomery (CM) has delivered comprehensive, community- and evidence-based mental health and CO-occurring mental health and substance use disorder treatments and supports, specifically targeting individuals who are living in poverty and require severe behavior health interventions. CM is one of five organizations in maryland to become a certified community behavioral health center (ccbhc) and we were one of the original two when we received the 2018 samsha ccbhc expansion grant. The goals of the proposal project, cornerstone montgomery integrated care expansion, are to 1) increase CM's service capacity so more people with mental health and substance use disorders in montgomery county, maryland can access integrated treatment and 2) improve physical and behavioral health outcomes by implementing care coordination and treatment with medical support staff. This will enable CM to improve access to communtity-based mental health and substance use disorder treatment and support, to anyone in CM's service area who needs IT, regardless of their ability to pay or place of residence. The cornerstone montgomery integrated care expansion will promote health equity by reducing health disparities for any individual with a severe and persistent mental health or substance use disorder who seeks care. CM serves up to 3,000 people each year ages 12 and up. Over the 4 years of this grant, we expect to serve an additional 520 individuals. We also expect to improve the health of the people we serve by ensuring that clients are linked with a primary care provider (PCP), receive diabetic screening, and have access to smoking cessation treatment. CM will achieve this by 1) expanding our services to children and adolescents down to age 5, 2) expanding american society of addiction medication (asam) level 1 services including implementation of screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (sbirt) screening across the agency, 3) improving the coordination of all services to better serve the whole individual by adding primary care services, and 4) improving somatic and psychiatric care by adding nursing staff to our crisis team. CM client demographics are as follows: race/ethnicity: 10% latino/hispanic, 29% african american, 5% asian/pacific islander, 1% american indian/alaskan, 44% white, and 11% other SEX: 51% male, 41% female, 8% other age: 1% aged 17 & under, 33% aged 18-39, 36% aged 40-59, 30% aged 60+ socioeconomic status: over 85% of people served receive benefits/entitlements and/or other public assistance and are very low to low income. Insurance: 4% uninsured, 47% medicaid, 8% medicare, 26% MA/MC. 5% private, 10% private/MA or MC. CM will apply a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens throughout our policies, procedures, and practices ensuring that underserved populations and communities have a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. We will continue our trauma informed approach with the goal of being an inclusive, welcoming, and therpeutic home for the people we serve.