AtlantiCare Behavioral Health (ABH) CCBHC Expansion - The AtlantiCare mission is to make a difference in health and healing, one person at a time, through caring and trusting relationships. We believe in the importance of treating the whole person and that you cannot separate the mind and body in healthcare. Through an integrated service team that includes, psychiatrists, nurses, therapists, case managers and peers, the AtlantiCare Behavioral Health CCBHC Expansion program will increase access to mental health and substance use services; provide quality outpatient mental health and substance use treatment; and screen, monitor, and address key health indicators. The target population is individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) or substance use disorders (SUD); children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED); and individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders (COD). The target geographic region is the mid to eastern part of Atlantic County, NJ including Atlantic City, Pleasantville, Absecon, Galloway Township, Egg Harbor Township and the surrounding areas.
The care team will provide comprehensive screening and assessment to individuals requesting services. The screening and assessment will address mental health and substance use needs; physical health risk and key health indicators; suicide risk; and needs around social determinants. The team will then work with the individual to create a comprehensive plan to address the identified needs. Individuals will be encouraged to include family members and other supports in their assessment, planning and care. These comprehensive plans will include mental health and substance use treatment goals as well as goals to improve key health indicators; address social determinants and reduce risk. The CCBHC team will provide direct services including: outpatient and intensive outpatient individual, family and group services; medication management including medication treatments for substance use disorders and long-acting injectable antipsychotic medication; psychiatric rehabilitation services; social supports and community recovery supports; and ongoing monitoring of key health indicators. Case management and care coordination will be provided by program staff and are the glue that hold the services together and improve the individual’s success in meeting their goals.
All services will be provided in an atmosphere of care and concern. AtlantiCare understands the broad reaches of trauma and builds its practice on the concepts of safety, humility, collaboration, empowerment, and transparency through the lens of Trauma-Informed Care. As appropriate, evidence based services will be utilized including Motivational Interviewing, Integrated Treatment for Co-occurring Disorders, Illness Management & Recovery, Stages of Change, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Seeking Safety, and Zero-Suicide protocols.
825 individuals will be served in the first year, and 1000 individuals will be served in the second year for a total of 1500 unduplicated individuals (some individuals will be served in both year).
