H79SM085296

Voamass Integrated Care Center - Volunteers of America Massachusetts (Voamass) proposes a CCBHC expansion to improve access to and quality of community mental health and substance use disorder treatment services through its Integrated Care Center. The expansion project will provide 24-hour crisis intervention and community-based, integrated treatment and rehabilitative services for the target population who suffer with serious mental illness (SMI), substance use disorder (SUD), co-occurring disorders (COD), and serious emotional disturbance (SED).

The CCBHC will serve a total of 850 clients, 350 in year 1 and 500 in year 2 in Metro Boston, Massachusetts including the communities of Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, Somerville, and Quincy. Metro Boston is home to a diverse ethnic population of Black (25.2%), Latinx (19.8%), and Asian (9.7%) residents; including 16,022 veterans and more than 6,252 undomiciled persons in addition to traditionally underserved minorities and criminal justice-involved persons.

The CCBHC Integrated Care Center will implement clinical treatments, coordinated primary health care, and wraparound services through a distinct patient-centered, trauma-informed, culturally-competent, whole-person care approach, Voamass' Integrated Care Approach or ICA, delivered by a licensed and vetted multi-disciplinary team.

Through a centralized intake process, clients will receive screening and assessment for risk, mental health, and primary health indicators; follow-up diagnosis and patient-centered integrated treatment and care plans (ITCPs); coordinated primary care, housing, employment, and other wraparound services to address gaps in social determinants of health. The multidisciplinary team will update ITCPs with integrated care goals across CCBHC services; and quarterly, clinicians and clients will review their ITCPs to assess progress, discuss any barriers to success, and modify goals.

CCBHC staff will employ evidence-based practices for behavioral health treatment and services including trauma-informed care; motivational interviewing; cognitive behavioral therapy; integrated dual diagnosis treatment; medication-assisted treatment; dialectical behavioral therapy; tobacco recovery across the continuum; and high-fidelity wraparound used by the agency's designated community organization (DCO), Justice Resource Institute.

Voamass has identified five goals for expansion implementation:
1) Employ a diverse staff reflective of its population and enhance staff competencies to deliver a patient-centered, culturally competent, whole-person approach to integrated behavioral health care;
2) Create a trauma-informed organizational approach to improve client engagement, treatment, and retention of adults and children with SMI, SUD, SED, COD, and underserved populations by addressing individual, systematic, and cross-cultural sensitivity to trauma;
3) Expand capacity to deliver an integrated behavioral health model with low barrier, rapid access trauma-informed treatment to reduce traditional barriers to care for underserved populations with SMI, SUD, SED, and COD;
4) Improve whole-person health by focusing on social determinants of health for adults and children with SMI, SUD, SED, COD, and underserved populations; and
5) Ensure the continuity of integrated behavioral health services after CCBHC funding.

Voamass respectfully requests SAMHSA funding for $3,302,948 to implement the proposed two-year CCBHC expansion project - Voamass Integrated Care Center to improve access to and quality of community mental health, substance use disorder treatment, and wraparound services in Metro Boston.

Volunteers Of America Of Massachusetts

NOT APPLICABLE

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

Division of Grants Management [HHS - SAMHSA]

Quincy, Massachusetts 021695250 United States

Single Zip Code

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 02/29/24.