| Welcome to the newsletter for Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics in Georgia.
This newsletter is dedicated to providing valuable information, resources, and updates on DBHDD’s enhanced focus on community-based care. Over the next five years, eleven Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) are are expected to provide a coordinated and integrated approach to behavioral and physical healthcare.
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This is about transforming mental health and addiction services across Georgia. When someone in Georgia needs behavioral health support, CCBHCs are better equipped to serve all their needs because people often need primary care and follow-up support, too. These needs are so often interrelated. CCBHCs can provide comprehensive and coordinated healthcare solutions with the goal of reducing readmissions in the long run.
In each edition of the newsletter, we will share the latest news, research, and best practices in behavioral health that impact both patients and clinicians. We hope you find this newsletter to be a valuable resource and we welcome your feedback and suggestions.
- CCBHC State Project Director, Sarepta Archila, LPC
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In December we hosted a webinar to provide a high-level overview of our work and the efforts to help clinics as they pursue CCBHC designation.
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A CCHBC is a specially designated clinic that receives flexible funding to expand the scope of mental health and substance abuse services in the community with a whole-person approach.
- In return, CCBHCs receive an enhanced Medicaid reimbursement rate based on their costs to deliver services that meet the needs of the people in the community.
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CCBHCs are nonprofit organizations or units of a local government behavioral health authority. They must directly provide (or contract with partner organizations to provide) nine types of services, with an emphasis on 24-hour crisis care, evidence-based practices, care coordination with local primary care and hospital partners, and integration with physical health care.
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Potential CCBHCs must demonstrate competence to treat the individuals they serve through an extensive 3 phases on the path to certification:
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CCBHCs are designed to serve individuals in need of care, including (but not limited to) people with serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, long-term chronic addiction, mild or moderate mental illness and substance use disorders, and complex health profiles. CCBHCs will provide care regardless of ability to pay, caring for those underserved, having low incomes, being insured, uninsured, or on Medicaid, and those who are active-duty military or veterans.
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Developing a governing board is a key step for CCBHCs in order to meet the requirements of ensuring consumer participation?
The CCBHC certification criteria include a requirement for ensuring consumer participation through a representative board. It is expected that fifty-one percent of the board comprises families, consumers, or people in recovery from behavioral health conditions.
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Tips for Recruiting Consumer and Family Board Members
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- Post a notice in the CCBHC waiting area to let consumers and families know about openings on the board
- Advertise for consumer board members on the CCBHC website
- Notify new consumers at intake that the board includes consumers and family members
- For clinicians at the CCBHC, consider alerting consumers and their families when there are board openings
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| - Consider that some portion of those who serve on the board may be people in recovery who are not consumers at the CCBHC. This widens the options available to others in the community who are served elsewhere.
- Reach out to community organizations, particularly those that work with populations that are under-represented on the CCBHC board, such as organizations working with members of specific ethnic communities or lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals
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Tips for Supporting Board Members
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Make sure potential board members understand in advance the role and responsibilities of the board and its members. This can alleviate misunderstandings before a person joins the board. Consider having a prospective board member sit in on a meeting before they decide whether to join.
- Provide an orientation for new board members to introduce them to other board members and their responsibilities
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Partner new board members with existing board members to help guide new members for the first three months
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Take steps to ensure that board members who are CCBHC consumers or family members of consumers are not placed in a position that represents a conflict of interest with that role. This includes requiring recusal of the consumer/family member in any decision that involves clinicians providing services directly to them or their family member.
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For more information, click here for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration website that details CCBHC board requirements.
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