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Aspire Indiana Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion Project

The Aspire Indiana Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion Project will expand and enhance access to behavioral health, substance abuse, and physical healthcare services in Hamilton County, Indiana. The project aims to offer comprehensive and fully integrated healthcare to each individual through a no-wrong-door, whole person health-centered model. The populations to be served include adults with serious mental illness (SMI), substance use disorders (SUD), or co-occurring disorders (COD), as well as children and adolescents with severe emotional disturbance (SED) or substance use disorders in Hamilton County.

This project will focus on addressing gaps in services, providing comprehensive behavioral health services, and increasing resources to support the population of focus. Aspire plans to expand its comprehensive health system by creating 24/7/365 mobile crisis and Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams. These teams will provide the appropriate level of care that the populations of focus need. These resources and activities are essential to ensuring equity in services for all populations, particularly Aspire's population of focus, as these populations require greater peer supportive services and case management than what is currently available.

Goal One of this project is to establish comprehensive community-based mental health and substance use disorder services for the target populations. This will be achieved by meeting all Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) criteria. Aspire will form a CCBHC certification team to draft, create, and approve policies and procedures, meet staffing requirements, operationalize policies and procedures, conduct staff training, and procure supplies and resources.

Goal Two of this project is to increase access to and engagement with CCBHC services for the target populations. Aspire plans to establish 24/7/365 mobile crisis services available within three hours of crisis events, as well as mobile and telehealth/telemedicine treatment and home monitoring services. Additionally, partnerships with law enforcement and emergency response agencies will be implemented to create mobile crisis partnerships. The goal is to engage 50% of individuals in more than one line of service and conduct full evaluations for new clients within 48 hours for urgent needs and 10 days for routine needs.

Goal Three of this project is to improve healthcare outcomes for individuals receiving CCBHC services. Aspire aims to serve a total of 50 individuals through ACT and a total of 50 individuals through mobile crisis services. The project also aims to reduce psychiatric hospitalizations for individuals served by 10%.

Aspire plans to serve 557 individuals in year one and 1,043 individuals in year two, for a total of 1,600 individuals to be served throughout the entire project period.

Aspire Indiana

FUNDING TO SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT OF PROPOSALS TO PARTICIPATE IN TIME-LIMITED COMMUNITY BASED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS DESCRIBED IN SUBSECTION (D) OF SECTION 223 OF P.L. 113-93 PROTECTING ACCESS TO MEDICARE ACT OF 2014, 42 USC 1396(A) NOTE. ADDITIONAL FUNDING AS OUTLINED UNDER SECTION 11001 OF BIPARTISAN SAFER COMMUNITIES ACT OF 2022 (P.L. 117-159) TO EXPAND THE NUMBER OF STATES ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SECTION 223 CCBHC DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM. THE LEGISLATION APPROPRIATES $40 MILLION TO THE SECRETARY TO AWARD PLANNING GRANTS, PROVIDE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO STATES, AND TO SELECT UP TO TEN STATES EVERY TWO YEARS (UNTIL ALL FUNDS ARE EXPENDED), WITH THE FIRST 10 STATES LAUNCHING CCBHC DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS BEGINNING JULY 1, 2024.

93.829 - Section 223 Demonstration Programs to Improve Community Mental Health Services

Division of Grants Management [HHS - SAMHSA]

Indiana United States

State-Wide

Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion Grants (SM-21-013)

Amendment Since initial award the End Date has been extended from 08/30/23 to 08/30/24.