Thursday, April 25, 2024
4/25/2024
Oklahoma State University for Health Sciences (OSUCHS), acting through its Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, seeks to expand and enhance existing mental health awareness training efforts to better prepare individuals and emergency services personnel, establish referral linkages, more readily identify persons with a mental illness, employ de-escalation techniques, and educate the community about available resources within our complex and under-served rural and urban population. Untreated mental illness has been devastating for generations of area families. The Finding Hope project is a strategic initiative for OSUCHS. Today, the total CSA population is 1.2 million, with more than 210,000 youth between the ages of 12-25 in the service area- many are marginalized, hard-to-reach, and under-served. It is further estimated that 22% are at risk to experience a mental disorder and 10% are at high risk. Individuals to be trained include medical and allied health students, primary care providers and staff, school personnel, veterans, first responders, law enforcement, and fire personnel. The population of focus shall be area adolescent, transitional youth, and adults from all races, males and females, with mental health disorders especially those with SMI or SED. Based on the public health model and utilizing the evidenced-based MHFA and CIT, the project shall provide a solid foundation for delivering and sustaining effective, efficient, and culturally appropriate mental health training and awareness services. This vision shall both expand and enhance the continuum of care for mental health services, reduce the prevalence of mental illness and substance abuse and their negative impact on health, increase the number of trained individuals, and reduce costly health utilization. Moreover, the project plan, goals, and objectives fully establish a rationale for the impact the project will have on communities, agencies, and the population of focus. The evaluation plan was developed with great consideration for the needs of the target population in our large and complex service area. OSU CHS has a proven ability to collect and report GPRA data in similar populations at the individual and program levels (NIAAA, NIH, and DOE). Specifically, the project will collect data including number of people in the workforce trained in mental health practices, number who received prevention and mental health promotion training, and the number referred for mental health services. Data will be collected reported into SPARS as required and the evaluation team will develop and conduct routine structured reviews of collected GPRA performance data.
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