Eastern KY CCBHC Expansion - Mountain Comprehensive Care Center will increase access to and quality of community mental and substance use disorder treatment along with integrated physical healthcare for persons with serious mental illness, substance use disorders (including opioid use), children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbance, and persons with co-occurring mental and substance disorders through the Eastern KY CCBHC Expansion across Floyd, Johnson, Pike, Magoffin, Martin, Lawrence, Carter, Bourbon, Clark, Harrison, Letcher, and Perry counties, KY.
Population: MCCC will serve persons of all ages in the targeted eastern KY region with mental and substance use disorders, including those with the most serious and complex issues. The targeted area experiences significant economic and behavioral health care disparities including among the highest regions in the state and country for mental health, SMI, SED, SUD/OUD and COD. It is anticipated that some clients may also have co-morbid medical issues.
Interventions: MCCC will provide a comprehensive collection of services that creates access, stabilizes people in crisis, and provides the needed treatment and recovery support services for those with the most serious and complex mental and substance use disorders. MCCC will integrate additional services through agency and community resources to ensure an approach to health care that emphasizes recovery, wellness, trauma-informed care, and physical/behavioral health integration. Key EBPs include Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Medication Assisted Treatment, Illness Management & Recovery, and trauma-informed care.
Goals & Objectives: MCCC will serve 300 unduplicated persons in Year 1 and 600 in Year 2 for a total of 900 over the project period. Goals are to: Increase the health of persons with mental health and SUD (including serious/complex) in the targeted service area by expanding access to evidence-based community behavioral health services; Improve stability by providing and/or coordinating access to comprehensive recovery support services; and Improve the agency’s infrastructure to provide high-quality community behavioral health services by providing staff training, resources, and CQI. Objectives include: by the end of each year MCCC staff will have: provided evidence-based outpatient behavioral healthcare so that 60% of clients of the targeted population served will show improvement in their mental health functioning and/or a decrease in use of alcohol/illicit substances; provided and/or coordinated: housing resources so that 60% of clients of the targeted population served who are homeless or precariously housed will improve their housing status, wellness and recovery supports so that 60% will participate in some type of recovery and/or peer support service, and wraparound services so that 50% will improve their education/employment status and/or access to benefits; and infrastructure supports include at least 200 agency staff will have received training; the agency will obtain CCBHC certification by Month 4; and the Project Director will expand and meet quarterly with an Advisory Work Group. Morehead State University will conduct the evaluation and participate in cross-site evaluation, as required.
