Ccbhc-IA - the andrews center, located in public health region 4 of texas, a region of the state that has shown increased rates of suicide attempts, suicide completion, and substance misuse in…

Ccbhc-IA - the andrews center, located in public health region 4 of texas, a region of the state that has shown increased rates of suicide attempts, suicide completion, and substance misuse in recent years, adopted the ccbhc model in 2020 to improve the quality of trauma-informed and evidence-based services to meet the increased demands of the community. Adherence to the ccbhc criteria has led to an increased awareness of the importance and value of data collection and analysis (from community needs assessments as well as internal quality measures) and the utility of sharing the data to inform decision-making that improves the overall quality of services provided to the community. The purpose of andrews center's certified community behavioral health clinic improvement and advancement (ccbhc-IA) grant program is to enhance treatment services to address growing concerns of substance misuse and deaths by suicide by increasing staffing in key areas (such as the mobile crisis outreach team, psychiatry, care coordination, and substance use disorder treatment) to address gaps in mental health care and substance misuse treatment as identified by recent community needs assessments for the service area; improve and advance quality data collection, analysis, monitoring, and use for best-practices decision making; and using these efforts to improve timely access to crisis services, substance use disorder treatment, and outpatient mental and behavioral health care services. The population of focus is children, adolescents, and adults who are experiencing serious mental illness (SMI), substance use disorder (SUD), CO-occurring mental and substance disorders (COD), and/or serious emotional disturbance (SED). With increased availability and accessibility of needed crisis services in conjunction with a strategic staffing plan driven by an updated community needs assessment, andrews center's ccbhc-IA program will target the following goals: 1. Increase timely access to crisis services for children, adolescents, and adults who are experiencing SMI, SUD, COD, and/or SED to reduce consequences of non-treatment. 2. Increase timely access to evidence-based outpatient behavioral health care for chidden, adolescents, and adults who are experiencing SMI, SUD, COD, and/or SED to reduce consequences of non-treatment. 3. Escalate care coordination activities to reduce risk factors contributing to poor health outcomes. Andrews center will serve 400 unduplicated individuals each year of the grant project, totaling 1600 unduplicated individuals during the life of the project with an anticipated ongoing increase beyond the four-year funding opportunity. The coordinated impact of the project will have a positive impact on local emergency departments, county jails, and law enforcement as the citizens will be better able to access appropriate and timely mental health care.