Monday, May 5, 2025
5/5/2025
Region 8 MHS - Greater8 CCBHC Project - Project Abstract Summary of Project: As a qualified local government behavioral health authority with 46 years of proven expertise serving the populations of focus, Region 8 Mental Health Services and DCOs will implement the Greater8 CCBHC to transform community behavioral health systems in Rankin County and expand access to quality care by strengthening infrastructure and advancing trauma-informed, culturally relevant integrated care, delivering comprehensive person and family-centered coordinated behavioral health services. Name: Greater8 CCBHC-PDI. Populations of focus: Adults with a mental or substance use disorder, including those with SMI, SUD, including opioid use; children/adolescents with SED; adults and adolescents with COD; and adults, children/adolescents experiencing a mental health and/or substance use-related crisis, including members of the armed forces, veterans, and families. Prioritized access to address existing behavioral health disparities: 62% Female; 37% Male; 1% Transgender; 20% African American; 1% Multiracial; 2% Hispanic/Latinx; 2% veterans/armed forces; 2% HIV/Hepatitis+; 45% COD. Strategies: 1) Planning, development, and implementation of a CCBHC model meeting CCBHC Certification Criteria, 2) Providing in-person and telehealth videoconferencing trauma-informed integrated care, including targeted outreach, crisis response planning, screening, assessment, outpatient MH/SUD/COD treatment, care coordination, and recovery supports based on the needs assessment aligned with CCBHC services; 3) Improving access and expanding wraparound recovery-oriented peer supports for SMI/SED/SUD/COD consumers. EBPs: MI, Team Solutions, Solutions for Wellness, S-BIRT, CBT, TF-CBT, Rx for Change: Clinician-Assisted Tobacco Cessation, EMDR, ACT, Disease Management, Long Acting Injectables and Medical Evaluation/Management, Peer Support, The Mandt System, WRAP, MHFA and Measurement-Based Care. Goals: 1) Plan, develop and implement CCBHC services increasing access to and availability of high-quality services responsive to emerging needs in Rankin County; 2) Support recovery from mental health and substance use disorder challenges via comprehensive community-based mental and substance use disorder treatment and peer recovery supports partnering with DCOs to promote whole-person wellness and recovery; 3) Use trauma-informed, evidence-based practices and team-based care coordination to holistically address person-centered treatment; 4) Facilitate CQI strategies to proactively measure, monitor and improve the quality of services that inform treatment, clinical decision-making, evaluation and sustainability; 5) Involve consumers/family in their own care and the governance of the CCBHC; 6) Improve integrated care outcomes and address health-related disparities. Measurable Objectives: 1) 100% timely submission of BHDIS/CCBHC Attestation; 2) Increase DCOs by 10% annually; 3) 100% accurate diagnosis and access to person-centered treatment planning; 4) 80% consumers report high perception of care; 5) 51% consumer/family governance; 6a)100% will receive physical health measurements, appropriate lab testing and physical examination; 6b) 65% will improve mental health functioning; 6c) 80% will reduce substance use; 6d); 6) 65% will improve employment status; 6e) 65% will improve housing stability. #Served: 75 (Year 1) 10 children/adolescents; 65 adults; (Years 2-4); 175 adults; 25 children/adolescents = 600 total.
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