Edmond system of care - the city of edmond system of care (esoc) will serve children, youth and young adults ages 6-21, at risk for or with serious emotional disturbance (SED) or serious mental…

Edmond system of care - the city of edmond system of care (esoc) will serve children, youth and young adults ages 6-21, at risk for or with serious emotional disturbance (SED) or serious mental illness (SMI) and their families. An emphasis will be placed on those with multi-system involvement and in need of intensive home and community-based services. The geographic catchment area is the city of edmond, oklahoma, located in oklahoma county and the metropolitan area of oklahoma city. Edmond system of care (esoc) providers will identify and assess children, youth and young adults in the population of focus and will connect them to a fully integrated continuum of coordinated behavioral health services. This project aligns with the findings of the edmond community behavioral health needs assessment final report and action plan and the 2024 edmond city council strategic plan initiative to "continue implementation of solutions to meet needs identified in the mental health needs assessment." over the course of the four-year grant, the esoc expects to reach 325 unduplicated children, youth and young adults. The esoc centers activities on the following goals: (1) strengthening coordination of the city's child-serving agencies by establishing a governance team (GT) to oversee and sustain the esoc, (2) decreasing emergency room encounters by strengthening and coordinating crisis care across local and state-contracted crisis providers, (3) improving clinical outcomes for children and youth at-risk for SED by increasing public and private provider capacity to provide intensive stabilization services and home and community-based (HCB) services, (4) increasing meaningful family and youth participations at all levels of the esoc, and (5) increasing edmond public school student access to evidence-based (EB) behavioral health interventions in and out of school. The esoc will complete these goals by hiring a project director, completing a needs assessment that identifies gaps in services; racial and ethnic health disparities; and cultural and linguistic competency needs and identifying and appointing a GT made up of leaders from child-serving agencies, family members and youth, and key stakeholders. A team to support children and youth to transition out of the urgent recovery center will be established, along with a crisis advisory team (CAT) made up of crisis providers, who will map the current crisis continuum to identify opportunities to improve coordination. A wraparound team to provide intensive HCB services will be established and providers will select evidence-based crisis stabilization services to begin providing services to children and youth. The lead family coordinator and the GT will recruit parents and youth to serve on the GT and CAT, assess the capacity of family and peer support and develop a plan to increase youth and family representation in leadership and support capacity. Edmond public schools will collaborate with crisis response providers and develop a graduated response system for mental health crises in schools.