Saturday, April 27, 2024
4/27/2024
Summary. The Golden Triangle Region System of Care will improve mental health outcomes for children, youth and young adults (birth to age 21) at risk for or with serious emotional disturbance (SED) and their families by expanding access to trauma and grief informed, culturally responsive evidence-based mental health services and related recovery support services, the formation of policy and infrastructure, cross-agency collaboration and sustainable financing for seven rural medically underserved counties in Northeast Mississippi, Lowndes, Oktibbeha, Noxubee, Clay, Webster, Choctaw and Winston. The System of Care expansion will ensure that children, youth, and young adults at risk for or with SED, and their families, receive access to mental health care within their communities, and that co-serving providers coordinate care in a family-friendly and culturally relevant manner. EBPs will include Motivational Interviewing; Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; Moral Recognition Therapy; SPARCS; QPR; MHFA; Coping and Support Training; Illness, Management and Recovery; ARISE Life Skills Curricula; Second Step Program; Skills Streaming; The Prepare Curriculum; youth/family peers. Project Name: Golden Triangle Region System of Care. Populations served: Birth to age 21; 48% Female; 49% Male; 2% Transgender; 3% LGBTQI+; 70% African American; 3% Hispanic/Latinx; 1% American Indian; 50% trauma-involved; 45% COD; 85% at or below poverty level; 2% age birth to five; 10% age 5-9 year; 35% age 13-15 years; and 39% age 6-21 years. Strategies: The SOC expands trauma and grief informed care, cultural and linguistically responsive evidence-based mental health services, suicide prevention and intervention, policy development with a co-serving network of agencies strengthening transitional planning, integrated mental health treatment with cross-agency care coordination coupled with wraparound recovery support services with linkages to vocational counseling, education services, primary healthcare, dental, substance abuse prevention, stable housing, including independent living. Each participant will work with a care team that facilitates the identification and implementation of an individualized service plan in partnership with the child/youth, family, supports to achieve their personal goals. The SOC expansion will include family/youth peer support, family and youth leadership development, mentoring, and youth-guided activities. Goals: 1) Expand, integrate and sustain the SOC improving access, infrastructure and sustainable financing while ensuring a flexible, innovative CQI approach, cross-agency collaboration, implementing trauma/grief informed care; 2) Meaningfully involve children, youth and young adult consumers and family/caregivers in their own care and the broader governance of the SOC; 3) Facilitate a network of co-serving providers wrapped around the system of care who use trauma and grief-informed care, evidence-based practices and programs to assess, screen, treat, and manage mental health, including suicide risk; 4) Improve mental health functioning, embedding evidence-based and evidence-informed services and supports in early childhood, youth and young adult intervention services and mental health disorders treatment; 5) Improve health equity with targeted outreach in underserved communities to engage racial, ethnic and LGBTQI+ minorities into SOC services. Objectives: Between 9/30/23-9/29/27: 1) 100% of 400 will improve access; 2) 80% will improve mental illness functioning; 3) 80% will improve employment/education; 4) 80% will reduce criminal justice involvement; 5) 80% will improve housing stability; 6) 80% will reduce admissions to inpatient psychiatric hospitals; 7) 80% will improve social connectedness; and 8) 85% will report high client perceptions of care. # served: 100 in Year(s) 1-4, totaling 400 in four years.
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