CO 2025 CCBHC Planning Grant - Colorado House Bill 24-1384 Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics mandates the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF), in collaboration with the Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) in the Department of Human Services, to apply to the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) for a CCBHC Planning Grant. HCPF and BHA will use the one year, one million dollar planning grant to explore how the CCBHC model could complement and bolster the Colorado Safety Net System to promote Colorado’s overall goal of integrated and accessible behavioral health care with sustainable funding practices. The CCBHC Planning Grant defines Populations of focus as: ● Priority Populations per state statute; ● Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) across the lifespan with MH/SUD issues, specifically the Hispanic/Latino, Black/African-American, and American Indian/Native/Indigenous persons; ● Justice-involved adults; ● Adolescents; and ● LGBTQIA+ persons. The Colorado CCBHC Planning Grant will support the following activities: ● Conduct a policy gap analysis of Colorado’s current metrics and standards, compared to required CCBHC metrics to inform an implementation plan for the demonstration project. ● Develop a CCBHC certification process utilizing SAMHSA guidelines. ● Engage persons with lived experience, providers, and community partners , to ensure the needs and voices of impacted communities are reflected in the planning and demonstration period. ● Finalize cross agency data collection and performance measures processes for the demonstration period. ● Explore how the Prospective Payment System (PPS) methodology will align with the current PPS methodology introduced July 2024 for Comprehensive Safety Net Providers. ● Finalize an implementation plan and draft an application for the CCBHC Demonstration Program, if it’s determined to be in the best interest of Colorado. Colorado anticipates that, through the planning grant and subsequent demonstration period, up to 100,000 individuals will be impacted through expansion and access improvement efforts in the first year of the demonstration with more than 400,000 individuals impacted over the course of the 4 year demonstration period according to projections in the 2023 Colorado Behavioral Health Legislative Report. House bill can be found out https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1384
