BHcare, the Local Mental Health Authority for the Lower Naugatuck Valley and the Shoreline regions of Connecticut, proposes to establish CCBHC locations in Branford and Ansonia that are focused on providing coordinated primary and behavioral healthcare, integrated behavioral health services for children and their families, and comprehensive mobile crisis services that are available to our community 24x7x365, all while systematically improving the quality of our care. We intend to grow our clinics' capacity to 2,750 unique individuals in year one, and 3,000 in year two of the grant period. Our proposal has five goals, 1) to fully implement the required services within the CCBHC model, 2) to integrate behavioral health and medical services in both our clinic sites, 3) to offer behavioral health services to children as part of comprehensive service provisions to the entire family. 4) to increase the availability of crisis services, and 5) to increase care quality through measured-based care and training improvements. We intend for our CCBHC to collaborate with leading health and behavioral health organizations in the region including Clifford Beers, CommuniCare, Fair Haven Community Health Center, Griffin Hospital, and Stonington Institute in order to offer comprehensive, coordinated, and integrated care. To do this, we intend to hire two children's behavioral health clinicians, four Registered Nurses, two Medical Assistant, three clinicians to provider Assertive Community Treatment, one Project Evaluator, and one data analyst. We propose to enhance the training of our staff in order to offer four evidence-based models of car. Primary Care Access, Referral, and Evaluation (PCARE) will facilitate the integration of our behavioral health and primary care services. Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) will enable us to prove short-term, family-centered treatment for children. We will implement the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) Risk Assessment and Safety Planning model in all of our crisis services. And throughout our services, we will implement Measurement-Based Treatment (MBT) to Target, so that all of our clients received care that is driven by their achievement of their personal goals. In addition, all of our staff will receive annual training in military cultural competency in order to ensure that Veterans feel comfortable, welcome, and cared for in BHcare's service system. BHcare has been moving for many years in the direction of the comprehensive, coordinated, integrated model that CCBHC represents, and we look forward to becoming CCBHC certified within four month of grant award.
