Wednesday, May 21, 2025
5/21/2025
Project Reality's Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic - Integrated Care Program (CCBHC-ICP) Expansion - Project Reality’s (PR) “Certified Community Behavioral Clinic-Integrated Care Program” (CCBHC-ICP) Expansion, will serve as a catalyst to increase access to personal and family centered, community-based integrated care services for individuals with untreated severe mental illness and/or substance use disorders. PR will scale current services and increase collaborations with designated collaborating organizations to rapidly become Utah’s first CCBHC. CCBHC-ICP will be conducted by Project Reality (PR), founded in 1971, is Utah’s first, and most experienced, non-profit, licensed substance abuse and mental health agency with a 45-year history of providing comprehensive addiction medicine services to individuals with severe impairment across all spectrums of functionality. Reality is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has consistently received the highest level of accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF). Project Reality’s mission is to provide integrated care services to severely and chronically substance dependent adults, veterans, low-income and underserved populations, and to provide prevention services designed to ameliorate risk factors and enhance resiliency factors in adults, youth and children. PR proposes to serve an additional 300 target population individuals each year, nearly a 30% increase, with 100 individuals being current patients (600 more individuals over entire project period). For the first project goal, PR will provide access to a 24/7 comprehensive collection of community based mental and substance use disorder services, integrating treatment of co-occurring disorders and physical healthcare in the catchment area and accepting patients regardless of ability to pay. To meet this goal, PR’s CCHBC-ICP will increase the number of medical and psychosocial providers on staff to provide primary healthcare services; increase 24/7 accessibility to integrated care services by hiring two Integrated Care Specialists to coordinate care and improve collaboration with University of Utah’s Neuropsychiatric Institute Mobile Crisis Outreach Team (MCOT) and Salt Lake County’s Assertive Community Team (ACT). The project will reduce barriers by addressing the lack of awareness to treatment by increasing community knowledge of CCHBC-Integrated Care Program by increasing marketing, conducting street outreach, and providing free, open house public education seminars. For the second goal, PR will improve the quality of community mental health and substance use disorder treatment services by becoming a certified community behavioral clinic while expanding upon a “Health Home” concept and meeting the CCHBC criteria compliance checklist. To do this, PR will expand coordinating with local justice providers to negotiate ways to bridge treatment and legal sanctions/incarceration; scale the partnership with USARA to fund a second Recovery Support Specialist; increase accessibility to primary care services, “Health Home”, by hiring two more primary care providers and pertinent supporting staff; utilize technical assistance to achieve the highest quality care; identify the CCHBC criteria compliance areas not provided directly and establish DCO relationships to certify Project Reality’s CCBHC-ICP; expand current services offered to patient families’ by hiring and training staff members to provide mental health services to children and adolescents; scale veteran-specific programming by training current staff on vet issues and hiring a Veteran's Integrated Care Specialist to coordinate care; formalize the current Advisory Work Group; and improve the referral system with Optum to complete Assertive Community Treatment.
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