H79SM085165

Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic at Veterans Recovery Resources (CCBHC-VRR) - Veterans Recovery Resources (VRR) proposes the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic at Veterans Recovery Resources (CCBHC-VRR) project to expand its evidence-based mental health (MH) and substance use disorder (SUD) services to individuals with serious mental illness (SMI), substance use disorder (SUD), or co-occurring disorders (COD), along with children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED).

VRR's interdisciplinary, trauma-informed, and peer-infused outpatient treatment program serves a vibrant and diverse community of service members, veterans, and their families (SMVF), as well as non-veterans, first responders, and other underserved populations in Southwest Alabama. By the end of the grant period, VRR aims to provide whole-person, whole-family, and community-based CCBHC services to 700 unduplicated individuals in Mobile and Baldwin counties, which are identified as high-need areas by the Health Resources and Services Administration. Additionally, VRR aims to be poised to sustain CCBHC services in the future.

In alignment with the needs of the focus populations, the project goals include:

1. Increasing timely access to all CCBHC services.
2. Increasing access to integrated mental health/substance use disorder treatment with primary care services by co-locating and integrating services.
3. Ensuring quality care by providing evidence-based practice (EBP) education and training to staff and monitoring the use of EBPs.
4. Expanding peer support and community integration into evidence-based, integrated primary care.

Objectives to support Goal 1 include providing all required CCBHC services to focus populations, providing assisted outpatient treatment (AOT), conducting evidence-based, age-appropriate screening for suicide risk, depression, and substance use disorder for all CCBHC adults and adolescents during initial intake, establishing an evidence-based protocol and frequency intervals for re-screening clients, and implementing age-appropriate screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) for all CCBHC clients.

Objectives to support Goal 2 include establishing a partnership with a pediatric clinic to provide pediatric primary care, engaging a local emergency department (ED) to locate peer support specialists within the care setting, and providing age-appropriate universal screening for overweight/obesity and tobacco use to all CCBHC clients.

Objectives to support Goal 3 include providing education and training to all CCBHC-VRR clinical staff on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), principles of trauma-informed care, other evidence-based practices, and the foundational building blocks of our unique model. The aim is for 100% of VRR clinical staff to report the use of at least two evidence-based practices in year 1, as measured through a semi-annual survey.

Objectives to support Goal 4 include conducting a needs assessment using a community-based participatory action research approach to improve the quality of lives for youth by designing a peer-to-peer program and advancing integration between VRR and the community. Additionally, creating a community-integration advisory board with members from community-based, faith-based, and social support organizations to create an action plan for VRR community partnerships and pursuing a partnership with the juvenile court system to place a peer support specialist in the court system to connect juveniles and families to CCBHC and other community-based services.

Veterans Recovery Resources

NOT APPLICABLE

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

Division of Grants Management [HHS - SAMHSA]

Alabama United States

State-Wide

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

Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 92% from $1,999,617 to $3,847,281.