Friday, May 9, 2025
5/9/2025
Abriendo Caminos CLUES CCBHC Expansion - With SAMHSA CCBHC Expansion funds, Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio (CLUES), will expand and improve our culturally and linguistically responsive behavioral health services for Latino individuals in Hennepin and Ramsey Counties in Minnesota with serious mental illness (SMI), substance use disorders (SUD), co-occurring mental and substance use disorders (COD), and children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED). Funding from SAMHSA will support: 1. The integration of behavioral health and primary care; 2. The addition of new services, including Adult Rehabilitare Mental Health Services, Peer Recovery Services, Assertive Community Treatment, and Medication Assisted Treatment Services; and 3. Enhanced care coordination and increased capacity for outpatient behavioral health services. In 2020, CLUES received a CCBHC planning grant from the state of Minnesota and is on track to apply for certification in July 2021 to become Abriendo Caminos CCBHC. Abriendo Caminos will target services for low income Latino adults, children, adolescents and families with limited access to health insurance and limited English language proficiency. Abriendo Caminos will achieve the following goals: 1. Increase access to and improve quality of culturally-responsive behavioral health for Latinos in Hennepin and Ramsey Counties. 2. Enhance quality of behavioral health services provided through systems and data driven quality measurement. 3. Increase capacity for sustainable CCBHC services. Key objectives include: Objective 1A. Serve 30 new children (0-11), 95 new adolescents (12-17), and 210 new adults (18+) each year through expanded community behavioral health services including case management, care coordination, rehabilitative services, counseling and psychiatry. Objective 1B. Integrate primary care and behavioral health care to improve outcomes for individuals with SMI,SUD, COD, and children and adolescents with SED and utilize a comprehensive assessment for all 8000 consumers. Objective 1C. Serve 40 new adult consumers per year through the addition of Medication Assisted Treatment, and Peer Recovery Services. Objective 2A Within 2 months of award, develop and implement a comprehensive evaluation plan to measure service delivery and impact for improved wellness. Objective 2B. Within 2 months of award, have fully operational electronic health record (EHR) that is interoperable with DCO's systems. Objective 3A. By year 2, obtain approval of Prospective Payment System (PPS) rate for continued sustainability of CCBHC services. The CCBHC will serve 800 consumers each year through grant funding for a total of 1,6000 consumers served with expanded behavioral health care services. CLUES mission is to ensure the advancement of social and economic equity and wellebing for Latinos in Minnesota. CLUES has provided beahvioral health care since 1981 to the Latino community via bilingual and bicultural providers. Abriendo Caminos will build on organizational expertise to offer increased and integrated comprehensive behavioral health services, providing a critical intervention where culturally specific services are limited or unavailable.
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