The Utah Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has been awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) Expansion Grants program (CFDA 93.696). The grant will support the development of a framework for implementing a state CCBHC certification program in Utah. Three agencies - Volunteers of America, Utah, Project Reality, and Valley Behavioral Health - will serve as pilot sites to expand capacity for comprehensive behavioral health services and address gaps in mental health and substance use treatment. The key objectives are to complete state and community needs assessments, expand service capacity to meet CCBHC certification criteria, and facilitate procedural and organizational changes to support sustainable CCBHC services within the Utah Medicaid program. Lessons learned from this 12-month planning grant will be used to assist other sites in transforming to a certified CCBHC model.
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