Friday, May 3, 2024
5/3/2024
Vitality Unlimited, which opened its first CCBHC on July 1, 2017 is seeking to renew the grant for our second CCBHC in Carson City/Dayton and further increase our service base in Nevada by 1,200 new consumers. Carson City/Dayton, Nevada has a population of approximately 64,379 with a severe lack of outpatient services for the Serious Mental Illness (SMI), Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED), Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and Co-Occurring Disorders (COD). Statistics indicate that 5.4% of adolescents aged 12 – 17 reported non-medical use of pain relievers, 11.6% of all adolescents had at least one Major Depressive Episode within the past year, 4.4% of adults had serious thoughts of suicide within the past year and 4.3% of adults had a Serious Mental Illness (SMI) within the year prior to being surveyed. While many of our consumers come from the Carson City/Dayton area the need is so great in Northern Nevada that almost 40% of our consumers come from Douglas, Storey and Washoe counties where there is also a lack of access to behavioral healthcare. Vitality Carson City/Dayton's CCBHC will not turn away any consumer seeking services. If a client comes in in crisis they are seen that day. Our Carson City/Dayton CCBHC will continue to strengthen both Vitality’s and the State of Nevada’s behavioral health services, improve capacity, help improve the alignment between mental health and substance abuse disorder systems and increase proficiency in the use of evidence-based practices while integrating both behavioral and physical health care for our consumers. Our Carson City/Dayton location will continue to provide all nine core services without the use of DCOs. Vitality Unlimited opened our first state-of-the-art behavioral health clinic, a “practice without walls” on July 1, 2017 as one of four Demonstration Grant CCBHCs in Nevada. Our first CCBHC in Elko, Nevada, a town of approximately 20,450 residents we has provided over 44,500 units of service to over 3,200 consumers. Over 23% of our consumers are below the age of 17 with the youngest consumer being 3 years old. This clinic is one of two rural frontier Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHC) in the United States. Our second CCBHC located in Carson City/Dayton, Nevada was created as a result of the 2018 SAMHSA CCBHC Expansion Grant and opened its doors February 1, 2019. To date our Carson/Dayton CCBHC has provided over 26,000 units of service to over 2,100 consumers. Over 24% of our Carson City/Dayton consumers are below the age of 17 with the youngest consumer being 4 years old. Vitality Unlimited, a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation was founded in 1971. Long ago Vitality Unlimited began to weave into the threads of our culture an integrated network of co-occurring treatment services with clinical and non-clinical modalities, designed so that an individual’s changing needs were met as the individual moves through the treatment and recovery process. With this as a foundation, Vitality Unlimited added to our continuum of care for substance abuse and mental health clients, an 800 number to provide access to Vitality Unlimited, 24 hours a day seven day a week, bi-lingual services, pet therapy, transitional and low income affordable housing for families, seniors and homeless veterans. This includes but is not limited to, medication assisted therapy (MAT) along with addiction and psychological assessments and consultation, either on-site or through targeted case management, care coordination and coordinated consultation with off-site providers. Vitality Unlimited recognizes that success must be earned through innovation, hard work, responsiveness to client and employee needs, and integrity in all business practices.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
