“Centerstone Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic – Kentucky” (C-CCBHC) will strengthen an
existing CCBHC at Centerstone’s Bullitt County outpatient clinic, improving access to/quality of
evidence- based community behavioral health and integrated primary care services for 7 north
central Kentucky counties. C-CCBHC will serve an unduplicated 2,400 individuals (Y1: 1,200; Y2:
1,200) with substance use disorders (SUD) or co-occurring disorders (COD), as well as adults with
serious mental illness (SMI) and children/ adolescents with severe emotional disturbance (SED).
C-CCBHC's catchment area (Bullitt, Henry, Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby, Spencer, and Trimble counties,
Kentucky) is home to nearly 783,000 adults, comprising 49% male, 51% female, 77% white, 18% African
American, and 5% Hispanic/Latino individuals. Approximately 8% of adults are unemployed, 14% live
below poverty, and 10% lack a high school diploma/equivalent. Nearly 6% of adults are Veterans.
Approximately 227,000 are under age 18 and comprise 51% male, 49% female, 65% white, 23% African
American, and 8% Hispanic/Latino individuals. Among this population, 14% experience poverty, and 4%
of those ages 16-19 are not enrolled in school. Within the catchment area, 22% of adults experience
any mental illness, 14% of children ages 2-17 have an emotional/behavioral/developmental
condition(s), and 8% of adults and 4% of adolescents 12-17 have SUD. Among catchment area Bullitt
clinic clients, 45% of adults experience SMI; 56% of children/adolescents, SED; and 30% of adults
and 5% of children/adolescents, COD. Without coordinated, whole person care options, the focus
population is vulnerable to poor outcomes, at risk for higher rates of mortality, suicide,
substance abuse, hospitalization, incarceration, and homelessness. C-CCBHC will provide an array of
integrated services/interventions, including crisis care; complete mental health screening;
outpatient primary care screening/monitoring of key health indicators; patient-and family-centered
integrated treatment planning; MAT and medication management; and comprehensive, trauma-informed,
evidence-based, outpatient mental health and substance use services. A partnering Centerstone of
Kentucky (CKY) clinic will provide psychiatric rehabilitation services and CKY has an established
well-developed 10-touch ACT Team available to all clients in the catchment area who meet criteria.
Other project goals include enhanced infrastructure/capacity; increased access to/availability to
services; improved health status/outcomes and improved systems and consumer care. Project
strategies support goal achievement of enhancing the existing array of EBP interventions offered;
expanding the consumer voice in the Advisory Council; increasing collaboration with community
providers; utilizing an experienced evaluation team; and applying continuous quality improvement.
C-CCBHC’s goals will result in decrease in mental health symptomatology by 25%; decrease in
substance use by 25%; decrease in smoking by 25%; increase in daily life functioning by 50%; 90%
consumer-reported satisfaction; and 90% of family members’
satisfaction.