H79SM089050

Westbrook CCBHC-IA Initiative - The Westbrook CCBHC-IA Initiative will provide comprehensive, coordinated behavioral health care for all people across the lifespan in need of behavioral health services at Westbrook's Wood County Clinic which serves Wood & Wirt counties in West Virginia.

The target population suffers from SUD, poor mental health, low mental health workforce capacity, poor social determinants of health & poor disparity group outcomes.

The initiative will serve 1,600 clients (400/year).

Project goals (interventions/strategies) include:
(1) Provide a comprehensive suite of CCBHC services for the focus population with fidelity to the CCBHC certification criteria and based on regular needs assessments by:
(A) Initiating a project director to manage the CCBHC initiative;
(B) Ensuring agency compliance with the CCBHC certification criteria;
(C) Collaborating with the state to obtain CCBHC certification;
(D) Contracting with a consultant to conduct the required needs assessment;
(E) Completing the CCBHC attestation post needs assessment;
(F) Supporting processes & procedures for collecting, reporting & tracking encounter, outcome, and quality data;
(G) Collaborating with the Westbrook Change Team in new policy/procedure implementation; and
(H) Ensuring agency participation in CCBHC Technical Assistance Center activities.

(2) Enhance Westbrook's Wood County Clinic CCBHC service provision for the target population by:
(A) Hiring care coordinators to enhance the nine core CCBHC services;
(B) Hiring a mental health peer to serve clients discharging from the crisis unit;
(C) Designating a veterans care coordinator to serve the veteran population;
(D) Designating a tobacco cessation care coordinator to initiate an agency-wide tobacco cessation program;
(E) Expanding medical director and physician's assistant time; and
(F) Initiating an SDOH screener to be conducted & addressed by the care coordinators.

(3) Enhance CCBHC infrastructure development at Westbrook's Wood County Clinic CCBHC by:
(A) Implementing health information technology to support care coordination;
(B) Working with West Virginia University to gain access to the WVU Medicine EHR;
(C) Managing care coordination agreements with service partners;
(D) Developing community partnerships; and
(E) Working with the Westbrook Grit Diversity Team to provide cultural competency and implicit bias reduction training.

(4) Support recovery from mental illness and/or substance use disorders by providing access to high-quality mental health and substance use services to the target population by:
(A) Serving a total of 400 clients annually;
(B) Clients having a statistically significant decrease in illicit substance use at 6-month NOMS follow-up;
(C) Clients having statistically significant improvement in mental health outcomes at 6-month follow-up;
(D) Clients having statistically significant improvement in social connectedness at 6-month follow-up;
(E) Having 100 clients engage in the smoking cessation program throughout the duration of the grant;
(F) Having 80% of clients remain in treatment for at least 6 months throughout the life of the grant; and
(G) Monitoring disparity group data to ensure equal access/use/outcomes/retention.

(5) Sustain CCBHC services beyond grant funding to serve the target population by:
(A) Having the peer-led Board of Directors serve as the CCBHC Board; and
(B) Creating a sustainability plan.

Westbrook Health Services

NOT APPLICABLE

93.696 - Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion Grants

Division of Grants Management [HHS - SAMHSA]

Parkersburg, West Virginia 26101 United States

Single Zip Code

Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Improvement and Advancement Grant (SM-23-016)

Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 300% from $1,000,000 to $4,000,000.