Wednesday, May 8, 2024
5/8/2024
Easterseals Michigan - FY2018 Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion Grant Easterseals Michigan will implement a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) to meet the underserved behavioral health (BH) needs of children, adults and families within Oakland County, Michigan. The CCBHC will serve indigent, un/under insured individuals with Substance Use Disorders (SUD), Serious Mental Illness (SMI), Serious Emotional Disorders (SED), including, complex co-morbid, high-risk youth, veterans and opiate addiction subgroups. Oakland County has a significant population living in poverty (108,823) with many having limited or no access to the essential array of comprehensive, integrated BH services to maintain optimal health and well-being resulting in high costs to themselves, their families and communities. Youth with depression/suicide risk is a pressing MH issue in Oakland County along with high rates of opioid addiction with low access to treatment for substance use disorders. Oakland County has a substantial Veterans population with well documented high rates of SMI and SUD needs and barriers accessing care. Easterseals Michigan (ESM) plans to meet the proposed CCBHC’s target population’s unmet BH needs by leveraging its extensive comprehensive behavioral health services experience from five strategically located ESM service centers and via designated collaborative organizations partnerships for state sanctioned crisis, primary care and medication assisted treatment. The CCBHC’s goals are to: expand & improve screening/increased access of BH care for the targeted children and adults in Oakland CO; implement complex care delivery approaches to expand coordination of care for individuals with co-morbid physical and behavioral health needs; increase the use of evidence based treatment interventions for individuals served; expand efforts to address youth ages 7-17 demonstrating risk of suicide and/or depression with additional evidenced based practice modalities; and increase access to specialized BH treatment for members of the Armed Forces, Veterans and their families. To accomplish its goals, The CCBHC will provide the full range of required BH activities including: 24 hour crisis services; screening, assessment and diagnostic services for all populations; patient/family centered, strength based treatment planning; comprehensive outpatient MH and SUD services; outpatient primary care screening and monitoring of key health indicators: targeted case management; psychiatric rehabilitation; social support -psycho-social rehabilitation; comprehensive community recovery supports; intensive community BH care for members of the Armed Forces/Veterans; Assertive Community Treatment; collaborative community “partnerships”; and an Advisory Work Group representing the populations served. ESM’s CCBHC expects to serve 735 new CCBHC individuals/families by the end of year one and an additional 815 by the end of year two. In addition, the CCBHC anticipates serving 3108 of ESMs existing individuals in need of a fuller array of integrated primary care and behavioral health care via CCBHC expanded services over the two-year span.
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).
