Saturday, May 3, 2025
5/3/2025
Hamilton Center, Inc. - CCBHC - Vigo County, Indiana - Hamilton Center, Inc. (HCI) will establish a CCBHC at its Vigo County outpatient clinic, improving access to evidence-based community behavioral health and integrated primary care services for individuals who live and seek services in Vigo County, Indiana. According to “The State of Mental Health in America 2020” from Mental Health America, 1.04 million, or 21% of the population in Indiana, suffer from mental illness, but 272,000, or about 25.2%, are unable to receive treatment, ranking Indiana 7th-highest among states. Several factors contribute to this, including a shortage of psychiatrists, lack of insurance, and lack of treatment sites/options. Indiana ranks 9th-worst for the ratio of mental health providers to patients. Challenges in Vigo County are similar, with limited access to psychiatric beds, lack of a mobile crisis unit, limited access to intensive services, and limited opportunities for short-term crisis stabilization. Vigo County is also designated as a Low-Income Population HPSA. With this project, HCI proposes to help address some of these unmet needs by focusing services on adults and children in Vigo County, Indiana, with serious mental illness (SMI) or substance use disorders (SUD); children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED); individuals with co-occurring disorders (COD); and individuals with chronic physical health needs. HCI proposes to serve 150 individuals in the first grant year, and an additional 325 in year two, for an unduplicated count of 475 individuals. HCI has three goals with this project: 1) Increase access and coordination of crisis stabilizations services for adults and children by implementing evidence-based practices within the 24-hour crisis service model, 2) Improve access and coordination to intensive community based services for adults with SMI, SUD or COD, and 3) Improve coordination of care by increasing primary care screenings, monitoring and referrals for individuals within the targeted populations. HCI is well positioned to achieve CCBHC certification within four months of award. HCI has been a state-certified as a community mental health center since inception in 1971. It has grown to become a regional behavioral health organization in central and west central Indiana. Services offered include trauma-informed behavioral health and substance abuse services to children, adolescents and adults with specific programs designed for the most intensive consumers - those with serious mental illnesses, substance use disorders (including medication assisted treatment programs), serious emotional disturbances, those with co-occurring disorders and those with chronic health conditions. In addition, HCI is a certified Integrated Care Entity by the State of Indiana and has a designated community health center site (primary care and behavioral healthcare) working towards an FQHC look alike designation.
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