Wednesday, February 5, 2025
2/5/2025
Project Title: FY 2024 Behavioral Health Service Expansion Organizational Website Address: clinica.org Amount of Funding Requested: $1,100,000 Health Center Program Grant Number: H80CS00690 Clinica Campesina Family Health Services has grown since its founding in 1977 from a single nurse practitioner facility with 500 patients into a multi-site health care system that is a critical piece of the Colorado health care safety net, serving 58,723 patients in 2023. We are the only organization in our service area that provides a full spectrum of integrated medical, dental, and behavioral health care to patients of all ages, regardless of ability to pay. Clinica’s mission is to be the medical and dental care provider of choice for low-income and other underserved people in west Adams, south Boulder, Broomfield, and Gilpin counties. Our care is culturally appropriate and prevention focused. We envision that every member of our target population will have access to high quality preventive medical and dental care that integrates behavioral health care. Clinica operates facilities in the cities of Black Hawk, Boulder, Denver, Lafayette, Nederland, Thornton, and Westminster. The designated ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) that represent Clinica’s service area include a low-income population of 151,852, of whom 57% are not currently served by a health center. Twenty-six percent of all service area residents have no usual source of care and 14% have delayed or not sought care due to high cost. The targeted area includes federally-designated Medically Underserved Area/Populations (MUA/Ps) as well as Primary Medical Care, Mental Health, and Dental Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs). Under this application, Clinica is requesting federal financial assistance to increase access to the complement of mental health services integrated within our primary health care model. The proposed program would expand behavioral health professional FTE, strengt hen substance/opioid use disorder services, increase mental health-focused care coordination, intensify behavioral health staff recruitment, and create health information technology infrastructure to support our mental health system.
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