FY 2024 behavioral health service expansion - neighborhood healthsource is requesting funding to expand our behavioral health services in anoka and hennepin counties

With this support, we will increase the number of people receiving mental health services and increase the number of patients receiving SUD services, including treatment (MOUD). Our clinic locations are in neighborhoods with high rates of opioid use disorder (OUD) and disparately low access to MOUD. The additional funding will increase our ability to outreach to both individuals and the community as a whole, providing education on the value and logistics of MOUD. Community needs assessments consistently rate mental health as one of the highest needs and most significant GAP in services for our counties. Our mental health providers are consistently full, and we are in need of much more capacity. We would like to expand our services and need this financial support to do so. In order to increase the number of patients receiving mental health therapy, MOUD, and SUD services, NHS will use the behavioral health expansion grant funds from hrsa to: • add spanish speaking mental health therapy. • integrate community health work, mental health, primary care, and MOUD. • create new pathways into MOUD. • RE-instate SUD services as a clinic-based service. • add school based mental health therapy. • renovate physical space for more therapy and staff workspaces. Upon completion of this project, we will increase the number of overall patients served, across MOUD, SUD, and mental health, by 434 patients. The new patient number will increase exponentially throughout the project, so we will see the most signifiant increase in the 2026 UDS data.