H79SM085181

Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion: Seneca CCBHC Expansion Initiative - Seneca CCBHC Expansion Initiative focuses on strengthening comprehensive behavioral health services to those with serious mental illness, substance use disorder (including opioid disorder); children with serious emotional disturbance, and those with co-occurring mental and SUD located in Greenbrier Co. West Virginia. While increasing services to rural Nicholas/Webster/Pocahontas counties, all of which suffer from high overdose rates, poverty, poor mental health, lack services.

The initiative will serve 2,500 individuals (1,150-Y1, 1,350-Y2). Project goals (interventions/strategies) are to (1) increase access to community mental and SUD treatment services for the focus population via (a) finalizing a staffing plan based on a needs assessment; (b) hiring 2 health educators to educate all psych clients re health; (c) building an ACT team to serve Greenbrier & Nicholas; (d) hiring 2 SUD case managers to ensure that 60% of MAT clients stay engaged with MAT for at least 6-mo; (e) hiring 2 case managers to provide intensive case management to children; (f) hiring 3 therapists to expand services to additional clients; (g) providing clients with evening & weekend service hours; (h) providing clients with expanded telehealth services; (i) initiating an appointment reminder & telehealth platform accessible by text.

(2) Improve the quality of community mental and SUD treatment services for the focus population via (a) implementing a needs assessment driven staff training plan; (b) hiring 2 program coordinators to provide supervision to licensing track therapists & promote service delivery growth; (c) initiating a CCBHC advisory board; (d) measuring EBP use via satisfaction survey & outcome measures; (e) conducting quarterly reviews to identify opportunities.

(3) Improve client behavioral health outcomes via (a) administering standardized assessments to 95% of clients to guide person-driven service plans; (b) clients show annual improvement in mental health functioning; (c) clients show reduced substance use; (d) increasing length of stay in treatment for SUD/COD clients.

(4) Improve client physical health outcomes via (a) improving health indicators via health education; (b) reducing tobacco use by 25% via tobacco cessation services.

(5) Ensure that disparity group clients have equal service access, use & outcomes via (a) developing target population focus groups for target populations; (b) monitoring disparity group access/use/outcomes; (c) establishing service training program for target populations; (d) increasing the number of military clients served.

(6) Improving crisis response/services to ensure individuals in crisis receive the appropriate level of care via (a) hiring 2 child crisis staff in Y1; (b) hiring 4 community crisis staff in Y1; (c) reducing the number of hospital admissions for psychiatric reasons; (d) reducing the number of jail days by 50% or maintaining 0 jail days.

(7) Sustain the SHS CCBHC initiative via (a) hiring an evaluator to initiate moving from fee for service to value-based reimbursement; (b) maximizing the agency EHR; (c) completing a sustainability plan; (d) joining WV state CCBHC expansion grantees in working with WV to achieve formal CCBHC status; (e) sustaining increased staffing/retention incentives via billable services; (f) initiating a sustainable tuition reimbursement program.

Seneca Health Services

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93.696 - Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion Grants

Division of Grants Management [HHS - SAMHSA]

Summersville, West Virginia 266511125 United States

Single Zip Code

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

COVID-19 $2,000,000 (50%) percent of this Project Grant was funded by COVID-19 emergency acts including the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 100% from $2,000,000 to $4,000,000.