Thursday, November 21, 2024
11/21/2024
Community Care of West Virginia (CCWV) is embarking on a project to provide Behavioral Health in all of its fifty-four School Based Wellness Center locations spanning six rural counties in North Central West Virginia. This project will directly address the mental health of its adolescent population and in addition the educational, developmental, and/or traumatic effects COVID-19 related isolation has had on this population. CCWV will be hiring behavioral health staff for each area to that will include a team consisting of an LICSW, LGSW, and Case Manager. These staff will integrate care with CCWV’s current Primary Care Providers in these schools. These staff members will work with our school system partners to develop a program based on a holistic approach to the student’s health and wellbeing using the Social Determinants of Health model to ensure all the students physical, social and emotional needs are being met. Many students have been isolated throughout the COVID-19 pandemic which has led to a rise in suicide attempts and deaths. CCWV will directly address suicide prevention, eating disorders, trauma abuse and neglect, chronic disease management, psychiatric medication management, anxiety and all other mental health needs of CCWV’s student population the counties it serves. CCWV will also expand the use of the Paxis Institute’s Good Behavior Game (PAX GBG) which is a SAMHSA approved evidence based prevention model. Currently, PAX GBG is being used in three counties included in this project. CCWV will implement this model into the additional three counties and expand the use in the three existing counties. This will be directed by the Prevention Specialist position. CCWV will also collaborate with its school system partners to develop Intensive Outpatient Programs in the counties we serve. CCWV currently has a program in Upshur County that serves students that are suffering from a Substance Use Disorder. These students report to a special alternative learning location where they receive treatment and education in a combined supportive program. CCWV is also working with Lewis County Schools to implement an alternative learning IOP program for children in early elementary school that have faced trauma or development delays from SUD households, unstable living situations and in some cases were exposed to neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS).
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).
