Wednesday, February 5, 2025
2/5/2025
The Human Service Center - UnityPlace Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (HSC - CCBHC) will address the community mental health and substance use disorder treatment needs of Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford county in Central Illinois. The HSC-CCBHC will improve access to and quality of community mental health care for individuals of any age with serious mental illness (SMI), serious emotional disturbance (SED), and individuals with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders (COD). HSC-CCBHC proposes to serve 5,740 individuals in the first year and 6,315 in year two, with a specific sub-population of focus of 1,500 mid or high-risk individuals per year. In 2020, HSC served a predominantly Medicaid insured population (78%), that was 51% male and self-identified as 55% White, 26% Black/African American, 2% Hispanic, 3% Other and 14% Unknown. In the Central Illinois Tri-County area's 2020 Community Needs Assessment reported. 69% of individuals reported mental health as the most significant health issue throughout the community. All three counties have a higher suicide rate than the Illinois state average (11.3 per 100,000) with Peoria County at 12.2, Tazewell County 12.0 per 100,000 and Woodford County at 17.7 per 100,000. Peoria County's poverty rate is nearly 17%, exceeding the state average of 11.5%. The Illinois State Board of Education annual report card shows that 78% of students attending Peoria Public Schools live in poverty, 30% higher than the Illinois state average of 48.5%. Black students make up 56.9% of the district's enrolled students. HSC-CCBHC will increase access to care and provide critical improvements and expansion of existing services. Expansion of care coordination services will allow for increased outreach and engagement efforts and standardization of rapid care communication across providers. Development of an Advisory Work Group will increase the presence of the consumer voice into the planning, implementation, and evaluation of critical services in our community. HSC will partner with the regional Heartland Healthcare (FQHC), UnityPoint Clinics, UnityPoint Hospitals, and others quality mental health care and care coordination through data driven implementation: Goal 1: to establish HSC-CCBHC UnityPlace as a CCBHC to grow the service capacity and increase access and quality of care for individuals in Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford Counties with SMI, SED, and COD by decreasing wait times, increase number of individuals cared for and developing robust data metrics to guide implementation and ongoing evaluation. Goal 2: Strengthen HSC - UnityPlace Care Coordination practices to decrease utilization of high-cost services by decreasing number of ED visits by high utilizers, decreasing psychiatric rehospitalizations, increasing engagement of new and existing patients, and ensuring all individuals have a PCP and attend an annual wellness check. Goal 3: Expand HSC-UnityPlace Crisis Services for Youth and Adults in Order to initiate and engage individuals in services to mitigate harmful behaviors by increasing crisis staff, providing 24 hour follow up, and implementing an innovative approach to early identification of children experiencing adverse childhood experiences. HSC-CCBHC is uniquely situated to implement a CCBHC in the Central Illinois region. HSC- UnityPlace has served the behavioral health and substance use Central Illinois region for over 40 years.
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