Thursday, November 21, 2024
11/21/2024
The Pima Prevention Partnership (PPP) Building Bridges program will strategically apply the proposed funding to enhance its existing Medicaid-supported outpatient treatment services with needed wrap around and intensive case management services using an integrated care model for 300 adolescents, 13 – 21 years old with co-occurring serious emotional and substance use disorders who are experiencing homelessness to improve their health and housing outcomes. Youth who have been diagnosed with a life-altering and potentially long-term chronic functional impairment (SED) are one of our most vulnerable citizen groups and have a high likelihood of poor life outcomes without meaningful, sustained support. Building Bridges will be used to systematically pilot individualized sets of wrap around services above what is possible with Medicaid funding alone to address this adolescent population’s complex needs and low treatment completion rates. Building Bridges is a program of Sin Puertas, PPP’s state-licensed Sin Puertas behavioral clinic focused on serving court-involved adolescents and their families since 1991. The program will enroll and serve 300 adolescents, 13-21 years old, over five years (60 per year) with a combination of intensive outpatient treatment services utilizing an evidence-based COD treatment model, Adolescent – Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA) and evidence-based trauma curricula, Structured Sensory Interventions for Children, Adolescents and Parents (SITCAP-ART) delivered by certified behavioral health technicians. Pathways Coaches will provide case management services, averaging 4 hours per month, following the Assertive Continuing Care model and an integrated care focus. The course of treatment will be six months with after-care group supports to be available indefinitely. PPP receives referrals from the Pima County Juvenile Court Center and from local health homes operated through the regional behavioral health authority, which manages the integrated care (primary and behavioral health) needs of Medicaid-insured adults and children. All referred youth have a substance use diagnosis and approximately 80% have a co-occurring serious emotional disturbance. On average participants report having experienced 14 traumatic events, with a range from zero to 40 incidents. The ethnic/racial composition of participants is 65% Latino/a, 5% African American, 5% American Indian, and 25% Caucasian; these percentages indicate an over-representation of Latinos and American Indians compared to Tucson’s general population. Building Bridges program completers will demonstrate a) increased safety and security by completing the program and by taking steps toward meeting basic needs and developing a community safety net; b) reductions in general life problems and substance use; and c) increased community re-engagement as evidence by school attendance and/or employment.
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