Thursday, November 21, 2024
11/21/2024
Utilizing outpatient services, case management, care coordination and extensive training COMCARE's CCBHC ICT-1 IA project aims to increase access to services through greater care transitions for those with severe emotional disturbance (SED), serious mental illness (SMI) and co-occurring disorders (COD) established in services, in crisis or new to services requiring higher levels of engagement and intervention as well as to impact staffing through addressing burnout and compassion fatigue. COMCARE serves the general population of Sedgwick County and focuses on those who present with high and/or complex levels of need and serve all individuals regardless of their ability to pay. The target populations for this grant are 1) adults with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI) &/or co-occurring disorders (COD) 2) youth with severe emotional disturbance (SED) and 3) individuals in a mental health and/or substance use crisis. Goal 1: Over the grant period, COMCARE will increase access to services for unduplicated adults with SPMI, youth with SED and individuals with COD by 150 each year of the grant by 3/30/25 Expand workforce by adding two mobile crisis clinicians by 9/30/23. Implement a crisis chat feature to increase access for persons in crisis by 9/30/2023. Add two unarmed mobile crisis units through evaluation and best practices from other communities across the country, that focus on non-degreed staff by 04/01/2024. Goal 2: Improve and advance CCBHC culture through training and community engagement internal to COMCARE and external to broader community by 3/30/25. Increase the number of certified Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) providers by 09/29/2025. Increase the number of employees trained to administer NARCAN by 30%. Train all law enforcement officers in the use of the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale by 09/30/23. Participate in development of a Stepping Up strategic plan by 09/29/25. Implement competency-based trainings for the four-core evidence-based practices identified for CCBHCs by the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services by 12/31/24. Goal 3: Execute expansion of Zero Reasons Why (ZRW), a teen led suicide prevention program and social media campaign to more high schools to reduce mental health stigma by 3/30/25. Expand number of participating high schools by adding five schools by 08/01/2024. Teen Council develop strategies toward execution of ZRW strategic plan by 10/30/24. Train 25 teen ambassadors how to appropriately communicate to peers with mental health needs and media to deliver effective suicide prevention messages by 11/30/23. Goal 4: Improve and advance care coordination activities by growing our care coordination team by five staff during transitions of care by 3/30/25. Define and implement care coordination needs for medication only patients by 9/30/23. Increase the number of intakes completed prior to hospital discharges by 15% for persons in need of CMHC services by 09/29/24 Increase follow up by 50% with persons seen through crisis services by 09/29/25.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
