H8N53933
Project Grant
Overview
Grant Description
FY 2024 Behavioral Health Service Expansion - Applicant: Heart of Texas Community Health Center D/B/A Waco Family Medicine
Address: 1600 Providence Drive, Waco, TX 76707-2261
Project Director: Dr. Jackson Griggs
Project Geographic Area: McClellan, Hill, and Bell Counties in Texas
Federal Request: $1,100,000
HRSA 330 Grant: H80CS00719
Waco Family Medicine will increase the number of patients receiving mental health and SUD services, including patients receiving treatment with MOUD by:
Designing and implementing a Behavioral Health Champion training program.
This program will improve the systems’ capacity to detect, evaluate, and treat behavioral health disorders commonly seen in primary care, including substance use disorders and the provision of medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD).
The training will be longitudinal, including periodically iterative continuing education sessions and regular synchronous collaborative learning (e.g., peer learning network similar to a Project ECHO).
Training will also include apprenticed training regularly alongside WFM’s clinical psychologist and other behavioral health faculty physicians.
These sessions will be supported by faculty from the Massachusetts Hospital Psychiatry Visiting.
Developing enduring educational materials to support the Behavioral Health Champion training activities.
These materials will enhance clinicians’ understanding of behavioral health disorder evaluation and treatment (e.g., short teaching videos or written primers on specific behavioral health disorders).
The enduring materials will be developed for use at the point of care to ensure maximal usability and effectiveness and will be available to all clinicians in the WFM system.
Develop standardize clinical pathways for behavioral health.
Medical literature shows that clinical outcomes for disorders such as depression treated in primary care are comparable to treatment outcomes in specialty mental health clinics if primary care clinicians are involved; however, primary care clinicians often require structured clinical pathways to achieve these results.
WFM will develop standardized clinical pathways using the principles of measurement-based care to systematize the detection, treatment, and coordination of care for common behavioral health disorders.
This will include optimizing the electronic medical record by including validated psychometric tools and providing clinical decision support to clinicians to treat behavioral health disorders.
Implementing standardized clinical pathways would also maximize the utility of the whole team (e.g., nurses, behavioral health providers, and care managers) by providing a common language for evaluating and treating behavioral health disorders.
Hiring a licensed behavioral health provider (i.e., a clinical social worker at 1.0 FTE) to provide behavioral health interventions (e.g., brief cognitive behavioral therapy) for patients in our addiction medicine clinic.
Address: 1600 Providence Drive, Waco, TX 76707-2261
Project Director: Dr. Jackson Griggs
Project Geographic Area: McClellan, Hill, and Bell Counties in Texas
Federal Request: $1,100,000
HRSA 330 Grant: H80CS00719
Waco Family Medicine will increase the number of patients receiving mental health and SUD services, including patients receiving treatment with MOUD by:
Designing and implementing a Behavioral Health Champion training program.
This program will improve the systems’ capacity to detect, evaluate, and treat behavioral health disorders commonly seen in primary care, including substance use disorders and the provision of medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD).
The training will be longitudinal, including periodically iterative continuing education sessions and regular synchronous collaborative learning (e.g., peer learning network similar to a Project ECHO).
Training will also include apprenticed training regularly alongside WFM’s clinical psychologist and other behavioral health faculty physicians.
These sessions will be supported by faculty from the Massachusetts Hospital Psychiatry Visiting.
Developing enduring educational materials to support the Behavioral Health Champion training activities.
These materials will enhance clinicians’ understanding of behavioral health disorder evaluation and treatment (e.g., short teaching videos or written primers on specific behavioral health disorders).
The enduring materials will be developed for use at the point of care to ensure maximal usability and effectiveness and will be available to all clinicians in the WFM system.
Develop standardize clinical pathways for behavioral health.
Medical literature shows that clinical outcomes for disorders such as depression treated in primary care are comparable to treatment outcomes in specialty mental health clinics if primary care clinicians are involved; however, primary care clinicians often require structured clinical pathways to achieve these results.
WFM will develop standardized clinical pathways using the principles of measurement-based care to systematize the detection, treatment, and coordination of care for common behavioral health disorders.
This will include optimizing the electronic medical record by including validated psychometric tools and providing clinical decision support to clinicians to treat behavioral health disorders.
Implementing standardized clinical pathways would also maximize the utility of the whole team (e.g., nurses, behavioral health providers, and care managers) by providing a common language for evaluating and treating behavioral health disorders.
Hiring a licensed behavioral health provider (i.e., a clinical social worker at 1.0 FTE) to provide behavioral health interventions (e.g., brief cognitive behavioral therapy) for patients in our addiction medicine clinic.
Funding Goals
NOT APPLICABLE
Grant Program (CFDA)
Awarding / Funding Agency
Place of Performance
Waco,
Texas
United States
Geographic Scope
City-Wide
Related Opportunity
Heart Of Texas Community Health Center was awarded
Project Grant H8N53933
worth $600,000
from the HRSA Office of Federal Assistance Management in September 2024 with work to be completed primarily in Waco Texas United States.
The grant
has a duration of 2 years and
was awarded through assistance program 93.224 Health Center Program (Community Health Centers, Migrant Health Centers, Health Care for the Homeless, and Public Housing Primary Care).
The Project Grant was awarded through grant opportunity Fiscal Year 2024 Behavioral Health Service Expansion.
Status
(Ongoing)
Last Modified 10/21/24
Period of Performance
9/1/24
Start Date
8/31/26
End Date
Funding Split
$600.0K
Federal Obligation
$0.0
Non-Federal Obligation
$600.0K
Total Obligated
Activity Timeline
Transaction History
Modifications to H8N53933
Additional Detail
Award ID FAIN
H8N53933
SAI Number
H8N53933-1710695652
Award ID URI
SAI UNAVAILABLE
Awardee Classifications
Other
Awarding Office
75RJ00 HRSA OFFICE OF FEDERAL ASSISTANCE MANAGEMENT
Funding Office
75RC00 HRSA BUREAU OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
Awardee UEI
NYA9KT6XWEL7
Awardee CAGE
34YU8
Performance District
TX-17
Senators
John Cornyn
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
Modified: 10/21/24