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Whole Health Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Project (WH-CCBHC)

Award Number: H79SM083318
ORGANIZATION: CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
OPDIV: SAMHSA
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: HEALTH SERVICES
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 05/01/2020
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 04/30/2023

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Whole Health Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Project (WH-CCBHC) - The Milwaukee Center for Independence (MCFI) proposed Whole Health CCBHC (WH-CCBHC) project will significantly expand capacity to serve residents of Milwaukee County with serious mental illness (SMI) or substance use disorders (SUD), including opioid use disorders; children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED); and individuals with co-occurring mental and substance disorders (COD). The MCFI clinic will qualify for certification as a CCBHC. Grant funds will help MCFI address the critical shortfall in capacity of Milwaukee’s behavioral health (BH) care system to meet the needs of its most vulnerable citizens, particularly those in crisis. The problem is evidenced by the fact that more than two-thirds of those admitted to County and private hospital emergency rooms with a primary BH diagnosis in 2017, were unable to access timely outpatient psychiatric rehabilitation services post-discharge, if at all, because of both limited funding and provider shortage (long wait times). MCFI will use grant funds to address this situation by expanding its existing service array to include outpatient SUD/COD and SED services, while enhancing its existing SMI and emergency crisis services with additional EBPs. Care coordination will be provided to every participant. The WH-CCBHC project will serve 225 individuals in Year 1 and 375 in year two. Services will be provided within MCFIs integrated primary care/ behavioral health clinic. It will subcontract with the National Council for Behavioral Health for technical assistance to meet all CCBHC criteria by the 4th month subsequent to grant award. MCFI will also contract with the Center for Evidence-Based Practices (CEBP) at Case Western Reserve University to provide training in Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment (IDDT) and related EBPs to project staff. Serving as DCOs will be 1) Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division, which will provide mobile crisis teams, the Milwaukee VA Medical Center, which will accept referrals of veterans for treatment, and the National Association for the Mentally Ill, which will provide evidence-based family support groups. Project Goals are: 1) Achieve full compliance with CCBHC Standards; 2) Expand and enhance access to behavioral health services; 3) Expand delivery of its behavioral health services to serve more people; 4) Fill in identified gaps in professional staff capacity to serve the needs of the target populations; 5) Expand programming to serve new treatment populations; 6) Provide care coordination for every individual/family assessed to benefit from this service. 7) Improve participants' mental; 8) Decrease participants’ substance use, and 9) Foster participant satisfaction with their care.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = -$227,854 )
2024	2020	MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC	2020 W WELLS ST	MILWAUKEE	WI	53233	MILWAUKEE	USA	Section 223 Demonstration Programs to Improve Community Mental Health Services	000	1	11/30/2023	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	-$227,854
														Subtotal = -$227,854

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2022	2020	MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE, INC.	2020 W WELLS ST	MILWAUKEE	WI	53233	MILWAUKEE	USA	Section 223 Demonstration Programs to Improve Community Mental Health Services	000	1	3/31/2022	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2021	2020	MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE, INC.	2020 W WELLS ST	MILWAUKEE	WI	53233	MILWAUKEE	USA	Section 223 Demonstration Programs to Improve Community Mental Health Services	000	1	4/26/2021	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2020 ( Subtotal = $4,000,000 )
2020	2020	MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE, INC.	2020 W WELLS ST	MILWAUKEE	WI	53233	MILWAUKEE	USA	Section 223 Demonstration Programs to Improve Community Mental Health Services	000	1	4/24/2020	NEW	$4,000,000
2020	2020	MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE, INC.	2020 W WELLS ST	MILWAUKEE	WI	53233	MILWAUKEE	USA	Section 223 Demonstration Programs to Improve Community Mental Health Services	001	1	9/25/2020	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
														Subtotal = $4,000,000

Grand Total All Awards = $3,772,146

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Whole Health Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Project (WH-CCBHC)

Award Number: H79SM083318

ORGANIZATION: CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

OPDIV: SAMHSA

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: HEALTH SERVICES

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 05/01/2020

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 04/30/2023

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