Vitality Unlimited - Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) Expansion to Carson City and Lyon County Nevada. - CCBHC PROJECT EXPANSION PROJECT ABSTRACT
Vitality Unlimited, with one successful CCBHC celebrating our first anniversary, is seeking to expand our services by opening two CCBHCs in Carson City/County, Nevada and Dayton, Nevada with the hope of increasing our service base in rural Nevada by 1,000 new consumers. Carson City/County and Dayton, Nevada have a combined population of approximately 63,000 with a severe lack of services for the Serious Mental Illness (SMI), Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED), Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and Co-Occurring Disorders (COD). The Center for Mental Health Services has ranked Nevada as the worst among the 15 western states for mental illness prevalence. The study projected that 23.7% of Nevada residents will have a diagnosable mental disorder at some point in their lifetime. According to the Suicide Prevention Resource Center Nevada has the 4th highest rate in the nation and suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death for Nevadans ages 15 – 24. More Nevadans die from suicide than from homicide, HIV-Aids or car crashes. Nevada adults over the age of 65 rank highest in the nation for suicide. Suicide behavior is known to correlate with certain psychiatric disorders; over the last could of decades, Nevada has ranked at the top of the nation for per capita suicides. The Behavioral Health Barometer for Nevada shows that 14.5% of all individual 12-20 reported binge alcohol use within the month prior to being surveyed and 61.6% of all adolescents aged 12 – 17 perceived no great risk from having five or more drinks once or twice a week.
These two new CCBHC’s will strengthen both Vitality’s and the State of Nevada’s behavioral health services, improve capacity, help improve the alignment between mental health and substance abuse disorder systems and increase proficiency in the use of evidence-based practices while integrating both behavioral and physical health care for our consumers. Our new locations will provide all nine core services without the use of DCOs.
Vitality Unlimited opened our first state-of-the-art behavioral health clinic, a “practice without walls” on July 1, 2017. On the anniversary of our first year of service to Elko, Nevada, a town of approximately 20,450 residents we had provided over 12,000 units of service to over 1,100 consumers. Over 23% of our consumers are below the age of 17 with the youngest consumer being 3 years old. This clinic is one of two rural frontier Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHC) in the United States.
Vitality Unlimited, a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation was founded in 1971. Long ago Vitality Unlimited began to weave into the threads of our culture an integrated network of co-occurring treatment services with clinical and non-clinical modalities, designed so that an individual’s changing needs were met as the individual moves through the treatment and recovery process. Vitality Unlimited recognizes that success must be earned through innovation, hard work, responsiveness to client and employee needs, and integrity in all business practices.
