Sunday, November 24, 2024
11/24/2024
The SSTAR CBHC Expansion Project targets Opioid addicted adults with co-occurring mental illness in Fall River, MA, a predominantly Portuguese community that is plagued by high rates of addiction, socio-economic stressors, poor health status influenced by prevalence of smoking and obesity, and high incidence of depression and anxiety. SSTAR has been providing behavioral health services since 1977 and has long been a leader in integrated primary and behavioral health care, providing primary care through our FQHC located in the same building as our outpatient behavioral health clinic and Opioid Triage Center. This project will increase access to psychiatric services for children and adults, maximize capacity of the behavioral health workforce through use of technology to streamline workflows, through new recruitment strategies for attracting psychiatric providers, and through trainings that foster the adoption of evidence-based practices such as DBT for adults with co-occurring disorders, AF-CBT for children and youth, and trauma-informed care. Family support services will be enhanced through the development and implementation of a new model of Family Peer Recovery Coaching. Family support and education using the ARISE model of family intervention and the peer recovery coach services will lead to increased treatment engagement and outcomes for the addicted loved one, while overcoming cultural barriers that perpetuate stigma of both the disease of addiction and medication assisted treatment as a legitimate path to recovery. A new outpatient level care will be introduced to improve treatment engagement for people with opioid use disorder and mental illness through a structured outpatient (partial hospital) that incorporates Medication Assisted Treatment, a clinical program that addresses substance use disorder and psychiatric symptoms, and availability of psychiatric assessment and medication management. Introduction of a digital health and wellness solution – myStrength mobile phone app- and tobacco education and cessation initiatives will contribute to overall improved health status of our population. Through activities in this project, SSTAR will become eligible for Certification by Month 4. Among the strategies for sustainability of the expansion initiatives will be enhancing capacity to bill public and commercial insurance for new services. The project will reach 740 individuals over the project period at a cost of. $1,818,231 in Year I.
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