Sunday, April 28, 2024
4/28/2024
Since 1967, Integral Care has supported the health and well-being of children and adults living with mental illness, substance use disorder (SUD), and intellectual and development disabilities in Travis County, Texas. The "Healthy Impacts through CCBHC" project expands access to a fully integrated systems of care, in the interest of improving the health status of Integral Care clients. The program will enroll 500 individuals per year over 2 years for an unduplicated number of 1,000 individuals. The project will focus on adults and children who have a serious mental illness, SUD, serious emotional disturbances, co-occurring disorders and/or chronic medical conditions. These conditions are often intertwined as more than 77% of Integral Care clients have multiple diagnoses. The complexity and prevalence of co-occurring conditions are higher when stratified by economic status and race/ethnicity. Integral Care expects increased demand for behavioral health services as individuals feel the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the priorities for this program are to increase the likelihood of connection to ongoing and equitable care. The program will first aim to reduce the risk of suicide and self-harm among individuals discharging from inpatient psychiatric hospitalization by expanding and strengthening Integral Care's 24/7 helpline, peer recovery, and Mobile Crisis Outreach Teams (MCOT) as measured by a) adding capacity at these access points; b) training 100% of the project staff on evidenced-based approaches to addressing suicidality, and c) providing follow-up care within 7 days of hospital discharge for 70% of individuals discharged from a psychiatric inpatient setting. The program will address the social drivers of health and health disparities identified in the population of focus by a) enrolling 200 individuals meeting this criteria into complex case management services; b) linking 75% of individuals and families with social barriers to specialty services such as landlord outreach, SSI/SSDI benefits and employment assistance; c) linking 75% of adults and children with an elevated risk due to chronic medical conditions to comprehensive disease management and primary care services, and d) decreasing the rate of inpatient psychiatric admissions by 15% for individuals enrolled in complex case management. The final goal is to expand the availability of virtual care and telehealth services for individuals with medical and social barriers by a) establishing a counseling team to provide virtual and telehealth services exclusively; b) developing an outreach and engagement campaign to inform the community on the availability of Integral Care's newly enhanced virtual care and telehealth services, and increasing the percent of virtual care appointments by 20 percent.
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