Monday, October 7, 2024
10/7/2024
Project Summary: JAMHI Health and Wellness Inc (JAMHI), founded in 1985, is a multi-service, non-profit community health center with a Federally Qualified Health Center look-a-like (FQHC-LAL) and operates a designated CCBHC. JAMHI operates a clinic site offering integrated medical, mental health (MH), substance use disorder (SUD), and ancillary/enabling services to area residents. As the original provider of mental health therapy for the Juneau Therapeutic Courts, JAMHI desires to enhance services provided with SUD and COD services to the Therapeutic Courts and improve its current services in collaboration with the courts aligned with the key components of a drug court, using evidence based practices to provide treatment instead of provide treatment instead of incarceration, to the benefit of the accused and the community. Geographic Catchment Area: The catchment area is the City and Burrough of Juneau Alaska (pop 31,534), accessible by sea or air only. Juneau has a total area of 3,255 square miles and encompasses part of Mendenhall Glacier. Project Name: Juneau Therapeutic Court SUD Enhancement Project Contact: Rachel Gearhart, COO, 907-463-3303, rachel@jamhi.org Populations to be served: The population of focus are adults referred by the court with an SUD or Co-occurring SUD/MH diagnosis, providing treatment instead of incarceration. Number to be served: Year 1: 40; Year 2 through Year 5: 45 each year. Life of project: 220 Project strategies/interventions: JAMHI will use a combination of several evidence-based- interventions, including Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT), Case Management (CM) and Peer Support Services (PSS) as well as FDA-approved medications for addiction treatment (MAT) in conjunction with counseling services. Project goals and measurable objectives: Our goals include: for each grant year, across the whole agency, screen referred participants from the courts, and collaboratively with the justice system provide SUD and if indicated mental health therapies supporting participants as they reach sobriety, and reestablish themselves in the community. JAMHI projects that 65% of participants will have reduced substance use in the first six months, and 65% with sobriety more than 30 days prior to program completion. Additionally, 50% of participants will have no recidivism after one year. JAMHI will provide peer support services with a target of 60% of participants engaged in a peer support opportunity at least monthly. For those with COD, JAMHI anticipates, that 30% of patients will feel less bothered by mental health.
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