Friday, April 19, 2024
4/19/2024
Veterans Recovery Resources (VRR) proposes the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic at Veterans Recovery Resources (CCBHC-VRR) project to expand its evidence-based mental health (MH) and SUD services to individuals with SMI, SUD, or COD along with children and adolescents with SED. VRR’s interdisciplinary, trauma-informed and peer-infused outpatient treatment program serves a vibrant and diverse community of service members, veterans, and their families (SMVF) as well as non-veterans, first responders, and other under-served populations in Southwest Alabama. By the end of the grant period, VRR will provide whole-person, whole-family, and community-based CCBHC services to 700 unduplicated individuals in Mobile and Baldwin counties (a Health Resources and Services Administration identified high-need area) and be poised to sustain CCBHC services in the future. In alignment with needs of the focus populations, project goals include: (1) increasing timely access to all CCBHC services; (2) increasing access to integrated MH/SUD treatment with primary care services by co-locating and integrating services; (3) ensuring quality care by providing EBP education and training to staff and monitoring use of EBPs, and (4) expanding peer support and community integration into evidence-based, integrated primary care. Objectives to support Goal 1 include providing all required CCBHC services to focus populations; providing Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT); conducting evidence-based, age-appropriate screening for suicide risk, depression, and SUD for all CCBHC adults and adolescents during initial intake; establishing an evidence-based protocol and frequency intervals for re-screening clients, and implementing age-appropriate Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for all CCBHC clients. Objectives to support Goal 2 include establishing a partnership with a pediatric clinic to provide pediatric primary care; engaging a local emergency departments (ED) to locate peer support specialists within the care setting; providing age-appropriate universal screening for overweight/obesity and tobacco use to all CCBHC clients. Objectives to support Goal 3 include providing education and training to all CCBHC-VRR clinical staff on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), principles of trauma-informed care, other EBPs, and the foundational building blocks of our unique model such that 100% of VRR clinical staff will report use of at least two EBPs in year 1, as measured through a semi-annual survey. Objectives to support Goal 4 include conducting a needs assessment using a Community-based Participatory Action Research approach to improve the quality of lives for youth via designing a peer-to-peer program for youth and advancing integration between VRR and the community; creating a community-integration advisory board with members from community-based, faith-based, and social support organizations to create an action plan for VRR community partnerships and pursuing a partnership with the juvenile court system to place a peer support specialist in the court system to connect juveniles and families to CCBHC and other community-based services.
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).
