H79SM087004

AUMHC CCBHC-IA - Project Name and Summary:

Aurora Comprehensive Community Mental Health Center, d/b/a Aurora Mental Health Center (AUMHC), will improve and advance our certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic. This will be achieved through enhancing the client experience of care, developing clinical capacity in trauma-focused care, increasing care coordination activities, and addressing health disparities and improving outcomes through measurement-based care and targeted interventions.

Population to be Served:

The project aims to serve individuals of all ages who have or are at risk for a mental illness or addictions disorder, including individuals with co-occurring disorders. AUMHC will focus on three key underserved subpopulations to reduce disparities in behavioral healthcare access and outcomes: refugees, asylum-seekers and immigrants; individuals experiencing homelessness; and members of the armed forces and veterans.

Strategies/Interventions:

AUMHC will develop, implement, and evaluate the impact of best practices to advance clinical expertise, build capacity for population health management, and improve client outcomes. Key strategies include staff training pathways to improve clinical competency and trauma-focused care, investment in technology solutions to enable measurement-based care, integrating feedback from the client advisory council and community needs assessment to improve client experience of care, and developing targeted interventions to address disparities in outcomes for suicide risk and two additional data-driven areas of health focus.

Project Goals and Measurable Objectives:

Goal 1: Improve client experience of care through alignment of service delivery to community needs. This will be measured by completion of a community needs assessment, development of a sustainability plan, implementation of a client portal, and integrating meaningful input from the client advisory council.

Goal 2: Increase AUMHC capacity to treat the impact of trauma for clients through provision of training pathways and implementation support to deliver trauma-focused clinical interventions. This will be measured by training 155 staff in trauma-focused practice and providing trauma-focused supervision training.

Goal 3: Increase AUMHC capacity to conduct population health management through improved data collection and enhanced analysis to identify client-level and population-level health outcomes. This will be measured by identifying and collecting additional client-level indicators and developing data literacy training and data dashboards for clinical staff.

Goal 4: Increase AUMHC capacity to improve health equity through provision of targeted interventions to identified high-risk clients and clients with disparities in access and outcomes in care. This will be measured by developing targeted interventions to address identified indicators for each selected area of population health management.

Goal 5: Increase client treatment plan adherence by implementing targeted care coordination activities that improve both internal and external resource collaboration and communication. This will be measured by improving coordination with primary care providers, creating a standard care coordination scope of work and training, and improving referral processes.

Aurora Comprehensive Community Mental Health Center

THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROGRAM IS TO INCREASE ACCESS TO AND IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF COMMUNITY MENTAL AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER TREATMENT SERVICES THROUGH THE EXPANSION OF CCBHCS. CCBHCS PROVIDE PERSON- AND FAMILY-CENTERED INTEGRATED SERVICES.

93.696 - Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion Grants

Division of Grants Management [HHS - SAMHSA]

Aurora, Colorado 800117117 United States

Single Zip Code

Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC)– Improvement and Advancement Grants (SM-22-012)

Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 300% from $999,951 to $3,999,866.