Thursday, November 21, 2024
11/21/2024
The Rhode Island Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) Planning grant activities will support action to improve access to and delivery of coordinated, comprehensive behavioral healthcare. Once CCBHCs are fully implemented, it will result in the transformation of services for an estimated 15,000 newly admitted individuals with Serious Mental Illness and Co-occurring Substance Use Disorders. The Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals (BHDDH), the Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) and the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) have been working closely together as the "CCBHC Interagency Team" in the planning for Rhode Island's implementation of CCBHC and mobile crisis services. This includes the oversight of a 30 million dollar infrastructure grant program to prepare behavioral health and equity focused agencies to become CCBHCs and Designated Collaborating Organizations (DCOs). This collaboration began in 2020 with the development of a Behavioral Health System Review. In cooperation with SAMHSA, our local partners, consumers, youth and family members, the CCBHC Planning Grant will allow us to continue this implementation work. We are creating certification systems for CCBHCs, establishing a Prospective Payment System (PPS) for Medicaid reimbursable services, and preparing to support our potential CCBHCs and DCOs with community engagement. Our goals for the planning period are to (1) have at least 50% of advisory committee members representative of consumers, (2) improve resource sharing and collaboration among partners, and (3) improve readiness of CCBHCs to change policies and practices to implement the nine core services. Specific planning activities include evaluating the feasibility of standardizing a biopsychosocial assessment tool, assessing the need for additional fidelity instruments to evaluate delivery of evidence-based programs, and outreach in catchment areas to build local governance structure inclusive of consumers.
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).
