FY 2024 behavioral health service expansion - SUNRISE community health (SUNRISE) will expand integrated behavioral health services by supporting staff increases, improving workflows and processes, and…

FY 2024 behavioral health service expansion - SUNRISE community health (SUNRISE) will expand integrated behavioral health services by supporting staff increases, improving workflows and processes, and developing the BH workforce development. With this grant, SUNRISE will contract with north range behavioral health (NRBH), our community mental health center and a certified community behavioral health clinic (CCBHC), to expand MH and SUD services at SUNRISE clinic sites in weld county. SUNRISE and NRBH have collaborated on a small scale and implemented an integrated care model where NRBH providers and case management staff are embedded in SUNRISE's family medicine clinics. In this grant, we will contract for 6.0 FTE NRBH staff (4.0 FTE MH staff and 2.0 FTE SUD staff) who are working on licensure, and these staff will be located within SUNRISE facilities and provide both treatment and recovery/support activities. The staff and activities proposed in this grant will expand integrated behavioral health services to 600 new and existing patients (400 MH patients, 200 SUD patients, and 80 moud patients) through 6,000 visits and reach 100 patients new to the health center by december 31, 2025. Ultimately, this grant will increase access to mental health services and substance use disorder services including moud services, to underserved, low-income patients in northern colorado.