Friday, November 22, 2024
11/22/2024
Project Abstract Summary Project Name: Seasons CCBHC Enhancement Project Applicant: Northwest Iowa Mental Health Center dba Seasons Center for Behavioral Health Project Summary: To increase access to and improve the quality of community behavioral health services and care though the expansion of CCBHC services in nine rural counties in northwest Iowa. Target Population to be Served: The target population for the proposed project is adults with a serious mental illness, children with a serious emotional disturbance, and individuals with co-occurring disorders. The project will target subpopulations: infants and young children; youth in foster care, out of home placement, kinship care or adopted; and veterans and military families. Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Target Population: The geographic service area for the project encompasses 9 counties in rural northwest Iowa: Buena Vista, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Lyon, O’Brien, Osceola, Palo Alto, and Sioux. The 9 county region has a population of 137,943 residents (Census 2018 Estimates). Seasons provided behavioral health services to 4,382 individuals in 2019, including 1,729 children within this service area. Evidence-Based Strategies and Interventions: Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), Intensive Psychiatric Rehabilitation (IPR), Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT), Matrix Model, Motivational Interviewing (MI), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Seeking Safety (SS), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Parent Child Interactive Therapy (PCIT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Theraplay. Project Goals and Measurable Objectives: The goals of the project are: Goal I: To equip mental health professionals with skills, knowledge, and resources to provide high quality, evidence-based, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive CCBHC services. Goal II: Conduct data collection and evaluation activities as required by SAMHSA, to monitor and report on project effectiveness, and evaluate outcomes for use with expansion and sustainability as a CCBHC. Goal III: To ensure families are able to easily obtain behavioral health services, resources, and supports, along a continuum of prevention, early intervention, and treatment, within their local communities. Goal IV: To create the organizational capacity to lead and champion a sustained, high-quality CCBHC within a rural geographic service area. Number to be Served Annually and Throughout Lifetime of Project: The targeted number of individuals to be served over the two-year project period is 1,150, and to maintain at least 80% of the individuals throughout the course of the project.
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