Wednesday, February 5, 2025
2/5/2025
Sinnissippi Centers (SCI) is the primary provider of mental health, substance use, child and family treatment, and prevention services for Carroll, Lee, Ogle, and Whiteside counties. Our primary population of focus for the CCBHC-IA grant will be children, youth, and adults with SED, SMI, and chemical dependency, or co-occurring disorders. We will continue to prioritize outreach to individuals identifying as Hispanic/Latino, as well as members of the LGBTQ+ community. SCI uses a strategic planning process for service expansion to respond to community needs. Our 2022 CCBHC community needs assessment identified a need for more outreach to people who identify as LGBTQ+, who identify as Hispanic, and who speak Spanish. Through this needs assessment and our work over the past 2 years to implement the CCBHC model, we have identified a need to support better primary care coordination, outreach, and targeted case management for veterans and people experiencing homelessness with SMI or COD. We also recognize that to improve the quality and effectiveness of our CCBHC services, we need to advance our Health Information Technology (HIT) infrastructure and utilization to collect and report on Behavioral Health Clinic (BHC) quality measures and move toward measurement-based care. This includes educating staff around the importance of accurate and consistent collection and recording. The CCBHC-IA grant will allow us to continue expanding access to CCBHC services to additional populations in our core service area. Further, we will use grant support to advance our work in primary care screenings and access to primary care for marginalized communities, improve care coordination, improve consumer and family engagement in service assessment and delivery, and advance our data reporting capabilities. Our goals for this project include (1) maintain compliance with all CCBHC requirements and improve consumer and family engagement in CCBHC planning, implementation, services, and evaluation activities and advance data capabilities for BHC quality measure reporting; (2) increase access to and improve primary care screening, monitoring, and care coordination through hiring for primary care positions and increasing our capacity to offer MAR; (3) increase engagement with marginalized and vulnerable populations through targeted outreach; (4) and improve care coordination, case management, and peer support to better address the social determinants of health for clients—particularly those with SMI, SED, COD, are veterans, or have unstable housing;
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).