FY 2024 behavioral health service expansion - healthcare network's behavioral health service expansion in collier county, florida funding of $500,000 per year for two years will address critical local…

FY 2024 behavioral health service expansion - healthcare network's behavioral health service expansion in collier county, florida funding of $500,000 per year for two years will address critical local needs and gaps in the behavioral health system of care in the following ways: 1) increase access for adult substance use disorder treatment by adding personnel at the health center sites demonstrating high demand; 2) increase the capacity to provide medication assisted treatment (mat) and medication for opioid use disorders (moud) for adults to augment new state-funded services in partnership with the florida coordinated opioid recovery (core) network of addiction care; 3) reduce barriers to care and increase capacity to for more robust mental health care by adding an advance psychiatric nurse practitioner with psychotropic medication prescribing ability; and 4) adding care coordination and peer specialists to the mat /moud team to provide recovery supports addressing barriers related to social determinates of health. Additional focus areas includes staff training and implementation/expansion of evidence-based practices via training from outside partners including the florida alcohol & drug abuse association (fadaa), florida behavioral health association (fbha), american society for addiction medicine (asam).