Monday, April 28, 2025
4/28/2025
InterCommunity Health Care Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic - InterCommunity Health Care (IC) is seeking to expand its integrated whole-person primary care, mental and behavioral health, and substance use disorder recovery services through the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) Expansion Grant to children, adolescents, adults, veterans, individuals experiencing homelessness, individuals who were formerly incarcerated, and individuals at-risk for HIV/HCV who have serious mental illness (SMI), substance use disorders (SUDs), opioid use disorders (OUDs), serious emotional disturbance (SED), and mental health and SUD comorbidities within IC’s 16-town catchment area in Connecticut’s Greater Hartford region. IC will become certified as a CCBHC at our 3 major health centers in Hartford, East Hartford, and South Windsor, Connecticut. IC currently provides comprehensive behavioral health services at its longstanding East Hartford service site and will expand these comprehensive, co-located, whole-person services into its Hartford and South Windsor locations, in addition to expanding agency-wide crisis services to 24/7. IC will use expand the use of evidence-based treatment that comprises of Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) as a primary EBP and will use integral EBPs in conjunction with MAT that includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. IC will provide services for 550 unduplicated persons in year 1 of the grant period and in will serve 800 unduplicated persons year 2 of the grant period. To address critical needs and improve access to integrated healthcare for low-income, underserved populations in IC’s catchment area, the following goals and subsequent measurable objectives will be achieved: (1) Increase IC’s capacity to provide integrated primary care, mental health, and SUD services in our expanded Hartford and South Windsor service sites to improve health outcomes and decrease health disparities, (2) Enhance care coordination model and population health management within IC’s spectrum of integrated services to increase linkages throughout IC’s continuum of care that will promote financial sustainability of IC’s programs and improve client engagement; (3) Improve IC’s standard of integrated healthcare by meeting 100% of the CCBHC criteria for Staffing, Availability and Access, Care Coordination, Scope of Services, Quality and Other Reporting, and Organizational Authority, Governance and Accreditation.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).