Project east texas - behavioral health improvement program (BHIP) - sspecial health resources for texas, INC. (SHR), a federally qualified health center in the heart of east texas, is seeking…

Project east texas - behavioral health improvement program (BHIP) - sspecial health resources for texas, INC. (SHR), a federally qualified health center in the heart of east texas, is seeking funding to transform its community clinic and service compendium into a newly established certified community behavioral health clinic (CCBHC) delivering high-quality behavioral health services that are person- and family-centered, integrated, comprehensive, and coordinated. To accomplish this, SHR proposes to implement project east texas - behavioral health improvement program (BHIP) to establish a CCBHC offering services including, mental health, substance abuse, primary care, and mobile 24-hour crisis intervention unit. Project BHIP's population of focus will be all individuals with a mental or substance use disorder who seek care, including those with serious mental illness (SMI), substance use disorder (SUD) including opioid use; children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED); individuals with CO-occurring mental and substance disorders (COD); and individuals experiencing a mental health or substance use-related crisis. Project BHIP will utilize a multidimensional crisis intervention approach that links clients to an array of services and a compendium of evidence-based practices designed to specifically improve the lives of the population of focus. A pivotal aspect of project BHIP will be to strengthen collaborative community partnerships to efficaciously overcome the challenges underlying the delivery of integrated substance abuse, mental health, and primary care services. Project BHIP will establish a project-specific advisory workgroup, the community crisis and behavioral health coalition to work with project staff in executing the work plan. Project BHIP will achieve its goals and objectives by recruiting, hiring/assigning, and training a competent and multidisciplinary team that is comprised of a project director, psychiatric medical director, family nurse practitioner, licensed professional counselors, licensed vocational nurse, substance abuse counselors, recovery support specialist, patient navigators, and evaluator. The following table describes the proposed measurable goals of the project: - goal 1. Develop and strengthen organizational capacity to successfully become a certified community behavioral health clinic. - goal 2. Develop a comprehensive mobile crisis intervention program that will be accessible 24/7 to increase access to integrated care to the population of focus. - goal 3 provide culturally tailored treatment services that are based on evidence-based practices. - goal 4. Provide ongoing monitoring and performance assessment of project activities and effectiveness in accomplishing goals and objectives.