Saturday, May 18, 2024
5/18/2024
Title: THRIVE: An Integrated, Developmental Continuum of Care for Youth and Their Caregivers: Screening, Referral, Treatment and Training The population of focus for Cherokee Health Systems’ (CHS) project is children from birth through age 18 and their caregivers who are underserved, uninsured, underinsured, and/or from minority or marginalized populations. Proposed screening, intervention, and training components are designed to improve the comprehensiveness of care and facilitate early intervention with youth and families who are at highest risk for mental health disorders. 86% of CHS patients in the population of focus have TennCare insurance coverage or are uninsured (proxy measures of poverty). The project will be implemented in 10 clinics located in Anderson, Blount, Knox, Hamblen, Loudon, and Sevier counties in Tennessee, and by school-based behavioral health providers in Anderson, Blount, Knox, and Sevier counties. Overall goals are to improve behavioral health outcomes, increase access to the full continuum of behavioral health services, and increase workforce capacity to effectively treat youth. Measurable objectives include increases in preventive screenings, referrals, and early interventions as well as expansions to wrap-around services for at-risk youth, and training programs to improve provider competence in the utilization of evidence-based practices to treat youth and their caregivers. CHS will strengthen its robust telehealth infrastructure, provide trauma-informed screening and care, implement evidence-based practices, enhance clinical recovery support services, and provide professional development training for behavioral health providers; all proposed components aim to improve patient outcomes via enhanced provider expertise, coordination of care, the early identification of mental health needs, appropriate referrals to intervention and treatment, and the use of evidence-based approaches to effectively treat mental health needs. In each year of funding, CHS proposes to serve 400 unduplicated individuals.
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