{"id":61105,"date":"2021-09-24T10:51:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T15:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=61105"},"modified":"2021-09-24T10:51:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T15:51:03","slug":"high-plains-receives-block-grant-for-community-mental-health-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=61105","title":{"rendered":"High Plains receives block grant for community mental health services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Special to Tiger Media Network<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High Plains Mental Health Center has received a two-year Block Grant for Community Mental Health Services from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. This project, titled \u201cHope in the Heartland,\u201d will provide up to $3 million in funding to strengthen and expand current mental health and substance use services provided in HPMHC\u2019s 20-county Northwest Kansas catchment area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project will focus on several key program areas,\nincluding identifying and expanding services for adults and children with\nsignificant behavioral health disorders and expanding HPMHC\u2019s growing presence\nin public school districts throughout Northwest Kansas. Embedding mental health\nservices in public schools allows youth to quickly and efficiently be referred for\ntreatment, while also removing potential barriers to care such as travel and\nrequiring guardians to take time off work for appointments. This project will\ninclude offering mental health services through a hybrid on-site and telehealth\nplatform to 10 additional schools in the region. An additional two school\nliaisons will be hired to help facilitate referrals from schools and help\nfamilies coordinate service delivery. HPMHC also will further expand its\nexisting Mental Health First Aid training program to make this important\neducation more available for students and staff at regional school districts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HPMHC also will create a full-time jail liaison position to\nassist with diversion and post-release service coordination to help inmates\nsustain needed levels of treatment following incarceration in efforts to reduce\nrecidivism. This new program also will help inmates enter mental health services\nand coordinate their care during time served in regional county jails. HPMHC\nalso will partner with existing regional peer support entities to strengthen\nservices and increase referrals for individuals with a diagnosed mental health\ndisorder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In total, HPMHC will be hiring eight new staff positions as\npart of this grant project and contracting with two additional telehealth LSCSW\nclinicians to expand access for Medicare clients. The project also will help\naddress current workforce challenges by providing staff retention incentives\nand additional staff training and development opportunities. The project also\nwill include conducting a regional public survey to identify unmet needs within\nthe community and help guide further outreach and education programming in\nefforts to reduce stigma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High Plains Mental Health Center also recently received a\nfederal grant to implement Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic services.\nThe two projects will complement each other and allow HPMHC to significantly\nexpand service areas that have seen increasing local demand, said Walt Hill,\nexecutive director of HPMHC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are very grateful for the federal support, which will\nenable our community mental health services to significantly expand for the\nfirst time in many years as we continue our mission to provide high-quality\nclient care in many settings within our 20 counties,\u201d Hill said. \u201cWe are\ncontinuing to see unprecedented levels of community needs for services, and we are\neager to raise the bar by furthering important community partnerships and\nmaking care more accessible for those who need it most.\u201d<strong>High\nPlains Mental Health Center<\/strong> is\na licensed community mental health center dedicated to the aggressive pursuit\nof providing a comprehensive mental health program to the residents of\nNorthwest Kansas. Embodied in this pursuit are fundamental principles of\nestablishing quality services as close to home as possible, at an affordable\nfee, and delivered in the least disruptive manner available. Such services will\noffer a continuum of care so that treatment can be individualized, and our\nstaff can respond quickly and compassionately to those reaching out to us\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special to Tiger Media Network High Plains Mental Health Center has received a two-year Block Grant for Community Mental Health Services from the federal Substance&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61106,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61105\/revisions\/61106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}