Community Rehabilitation Center (CRC) of Jacksonville, FL, proposes to implement Project Integrated Health Services (IHS) to enhance and improve its current CCBHC services including integrated and collocated behavioral health, substance abuse, primary care, and 24-hour crisis intervention services. CRC’s CCBHC is in compliance with the certification criteria as demonstrated by SAMHSA acceptance of the Certification Attestation obtained in 2022. The program will continue to serve all individuals with a Severe Mental Illness (SMI), Substance Use Disorder (SUD), Co-Occurring Disorders (COD), and children with a Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED) but specifically focus on increasing equity of access to minority adolescents and minority women in need of comprehensive women’s health services with a SMI, SUD, COD, and/or SED.
Overall, Project IHS aims to enhance the existent CCBHC services and continue to increase access to high- quality behavioral, primary, and support services that are recovery-oriented, trauma-informed, and equity-based. The goals of the program are: 1) expand primary care services to include comprehensive women’s health, 2) strengthen and maximize coalitions and collaborations with community partners serving and representing minority adolescents with SED, and 3) increase individuals served by the CCBHC to 150 per year (100 adults and 50 adolescents) over the span of 1 year with a focus on minority, adolescents.
Project IHS will achieve the proposed goals by sustaining the current multidisciplinary staffing plan, based on the needs assessment, and hiring a part time Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner (WHNP), Specific areas of improvement for CRC, as a result of the grant, include: 1) expansion of services to 2,400 unduplicated individuals with a primary focus on adolescents experiencing SED; 2) enhancement of primary care services to include comprehensive Women’s Health care; 3) enhancement of compendium of evidence-based practices by adding Measurement-based care (MBC); and 4) strengthening community collaborations to include participation of agencies serving minority adolescents with SED and primarily Spanish-speaking individuals. All activities will be initiated by the fourth month of funding. Project IHS’s evaluation plan includes collection of all mandated performance and CCBHC clinic-level measures and adherence to SAMHSA-CMHS’ reporting schedule.
