Monday, November 25, 2024
11/25/2024
Comprehensive Healthcare (CHC), an organization with 48 years of experience, will increase access to and quality of services to individuals with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, including opiates, children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbance, and individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders throughout Yakima County. CHC will serve an additional 710 unique individuals over the two-year project. Yakima County is home to a population with significant behavioral healthcare needs, social determinants of health challenges, and ranks 32nd out of 39 counties for overall health. Yakima has a diverse group of residents including 10,000 migrant seasonal farmworkers and is home to the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation. Comprehensive Healthcare has an extensive history of providing high quality, evidence-based care to individuals throughout the county and seeks to expand and improve these services to populations that have previously had limited access to care. Examples of program expansion includes increasing access to Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) for Methadone and adding Buprenorphine and Naltrexone MAT services. In response to the significant methamphetamine abuse prevalent in Yakima County, peer support specialists will be hired to assist individuals to successfully transition from inpatient treatment back into the community. Quality of care will be improved through enhanced specialty training in provision of culturally appropriate services to subpopulations including veterans, the LGBTQ community, and adolescents with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. To promote a community approach to improved mental health, and reduce stigma, Comprehensive will provide four Mental Health First Aid trainings, free of charge, to community members, as well as train five (5) staff to provide Critical Incident Stress Debriefings to community organizations and first responders following traumatic events. In a specific effort to provide more culturally appropriate behavioral healthcare to American Indian/Alaska Natives (AI/AN) CHC will hire a liaison to provide direction on evidence-based treatment options and strengthen relationships. CHC will improve capacity to serve AI/AN and will increase services provided by 20% within two years. Additional counselors and peer support specialists will be hired to provide services in the schools, including those located on the Yakama Nation, with the goal of increasing school-based services by 50%. Goals will be monitored through external professionals from Pacific Northwest University to ensure that all the objectives identified in this project are successfully accomplished. CHC will also report measures on 21-quality indicators to ensure that whole person healthcare is being delivered consistently to all individuals, regardless of residence or ability to pay.
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