Kanza Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Planning, Development, and Implementation Grant (CCBHC-PDI) - Project Name: Kanza Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Planning, Development, and Implementation Grant (CCBHC-DPI) Project Summary: Kanza Mental Health & Guidance Center, Inc. is a Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) in northeastern Kansas that proposes to establish a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC). This will enable the agency to expand and enhance access to comprehensive, coordinated behavioral health services for individuals with serious mental illness (SMI), serious emotional disturbance (SED), substance use disorder (SUD), and co-occurring disorders (COD) in Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, and Nemaha Counties. Kanza seeks to address health disparities faced by individuals who are uninsured and under-insured and by three populations of focus: American Indians, veterans, and individuals experiencing homelessness. As a licensed CMHC and the only crisis resource in the four-county area available 24/7, Kanza provides many of the required CCBHC services, though there is a need to expand these to more individuals and provide whole-person integrated and coordinated care. Kanza proposes to enhance existing services and add additional services to meet CCBHC criteria by focusing on organization capacity, including hiring additional staff, providing staff training in cultural competency and evidence-based practices (EBPs) relevant to the target populations, and implementing a new electronic health record (EHR) system, plus expanding its mobile crisis services and SUD services. Population to Be Served: Kanza serves individuals with SMI, SED, SUD, and COD through four office locations in Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, and Nemaha Counties in Kansas. All four federally-recognized American Indian tribes in Kansas are located in the region. Brown and Jackson Counties, in particular, have large American Indian populations (9.5% and 8.9%, respectively). Approximately 2,766 veterans live in the region, representing 1.7% of the state’s total veteran population. Additionally, the rates of residents under the age of 65 without health insurance in three of the four counties exceed the national average. Through this project, Kanza will emphasize reaching and serving individuals who experience significant barriers to accessing the services they need; this includes those who are uninsured or under-insured, an increasing number of the agency’s clients that are from low-income households and experiencing homelessness, as well as American Indians and veterans. Strategies/Interventions: Grant funds will support the expansion of services offered and the use of EBPs, such as Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT), and Individual Placement and Support (IPS). Most significantly, Kanza will enhance its existing mobile crisis services, increasing access to individuals regardless of their location, and SUD services, providing assessment and treatment to fit individual needs. Kanza will build organizational capacity through additional full-time and contracted part-time personnel, targeted staff training, and a new EHR that will improve data collection and patient outcome tracking. Goals and Objectives: The goals of this project are to increase organizational capacity to deliver and track high-quality CCBHC services; to increase CCBHC service penetration into and provide high-quality services for the targeted populations; and to improve access to care through enhanced mobile crisis services and SUD services to individuals in the region. Kanza proposes to serve a total of 1,575 unduplicated individuals throughout the four-year period of performance.
