Project Abstract for New Vista’s Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Improvement and Advancement Grant (CCBHC-IA)
New Vista is a Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) and CCBHC serving 17 counties in central Kentucky and offering person-centered, trauma-informed, integrated behavioral health, substance use and primary care services. The CCBHC-IA grant provides additional support and allows New Vista to increase service access and address the social determinants of health that negatively impact the clients we serve. New Vista offers a comprehensive array of services, serving urban and rural communities. This project will improve healthcare outcomes for clients across the region.
The populations of focus for the proposed programs include individuals who have been most negatively impacted by the pandemic: those with a Serious Mental Illness (SMI), Substance Use Disorder (SUD), Co-Occurring Disorder (COD), and/or Severe Emotional Disturbance (SED) in a 17 county catchment area that our CMHC currently serves in Kentucky. These counties include Anderson, Bourbon, Boyle, Clark, Estill, Fayette, Franklin, Garrard, Harrison, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison, Mercer, Nicholas, Powell, Scott, and Woodford. Demographically, Kentucky is about 87% white and 10% African American and the poverty rate is 14.9%, with higher rates in rural areas. These demographics align with the population residing in New Vista’s service region.
New Vista plans to serve 300 clients in the first year of this grant and increase clients served by 10% each grant year for a total of 1393 clients served. This grant allows New Vista to expand transportation services to the entire 17 county area served, as well as support alternative transportation like rideshare and public transportation. The new staff hired as part of this grant will allow New Vista to increase the number of children served in schools and expand MOUD services in counties where it is not currently available. Adding a peer to the mobile crisis team will allow New Vista to enhance best practices while building sustainability. Improving data collection and referral tracking will strengthen New Vista’s ability to identify and address care gaps in order to eliminate barriers so that all those in need of services can access them. This grant will allow New Vista to provide resources when no other resources exist allowing clients to access needed medication, food, medical aids, or housing necessities to stay connected to care and improve health outcomes. In this way, New Vista will address needs that otherwise would not be addressed.