Thursday, November 21, 2024
11/21/2024
Tri-County Behavioral Health Care, a safety net provider of behavioral health and housing to low-income underserved populations in 3 Counties at the periphery of the Houston, Texas metropolitan area, will establish a CCBHC to provide expanded access to treatment for adults with SMI and COD, increased rural SUD treatment, expanded MH care for children/youth with SED, including school-based services, and Care Coordination for chronic health issues. Tri-County [TCBHC] will add the capacity to provide services in Spanish for the growing population of children and adults with limited English literacy. The project name is the Tri-County Behavioral Healthcare Expanded CCBHC Access. Total area population is over 768,551 persons in three Counties. Poverty rates for these Counties range from 10.3% to 24.4%. White population ranges from 54% to 63%, Hispanic from 18% to 23%, and African American from 4.6% to 23%. Fifty-five percent of adults served have at least a GED, 27% are employed, 3.9% are homeless, and 45% report no income. The CCBHC needs assessment indicated that there is a high incidence of untreated mental illness and substance abuse, attributable to demand far exceeding resources, poor access to limited services, costs beyond the means of low-income clients, and stigma associated with seeking care. Four major project goals address the unmet need in the catchment area: 1) Increase access to SUD treatment for rural consumers; 2) Increase access to MH care for children/youth with SED, through expanded intake, expanded therapy and culturally and linguistically appropriate outpatient and school-based treatment; 3) Increase access to therapy for adults with SMI and COD and culturally appropriate outpatient treatment and psychosocial interventions; 4) Provide Care Coordination to improve health outcomes for the populations of focus. Objectives include: Add IOP SUD groups in 3 rural sites; increase walk-in clinic days for children/youth and families impacted by SUD; add school-based MH services in rural schools with high proportions of Spanish-speaking children/youth; eliminate past 30-day substance use for 30% of adults and youth in SUD treatment for 6 months; reduce symptoms of SED for 50% of children/youth by treatment completion; reduce depressive symptoms of 50% of adults with SMI/COD after treatment completion. In addition to adding MH and SUD treatment staff, some bilingual in Spanish and English, the Project will add a Care Coordination Team consisting of a Licensed Vocational Nurse, MH clinician, Certified Peer Recovery Specialist, a Benefits Specialist, and a Data Analyst. The evaluation will be conducted by SAE and Associates (SAE) Behavioral Health Evaluation (BHE), which has evaluated CCBHC projects and multiple SAMHSA initiatives. 150 adults and 167 children/youth will be served in Year 1, 205 adults and 235 children/youth in Year 2, with a total of 757 unduplicated clients served over the 2 project years.
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