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SAMHSA
Project LAUNCH
ODH – IPAC
partnership funded!
The purpose of Project LAUNCH is to promote the
wellness of young children, birth to 8 years of age. Project LAUNCH
defines wellness as optimal functioning across all developmental
domains, including physical, social, emotional, cognitive and
behavioral health. The goal is to create a shared vision for the
wellness of young children that drives the development of Federal,
State, Territorial, Tribal and locally-based networks for the
coordination of key child-serving systems and the integration of
behavioral and physical health services. The expected result is for
children to be thriving in safe, supportive environments and
entering school ready to learn and able to succeed.
Project Term: Five Years, $850,000 per year, $705,500
annually
to OU for local projects and evalution.
In addition to
supporting the contributions of University faculty and staff
from the College of Osteopathic Medicine, the College of
Communication, College of Health and Human Services, and
the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs, the
resources will reach local community agencies including
Health Recovery Services, Inc, TriCounty Mental Health and
Counseling Services, The Diary Barn, Family and Children
First Councils in Athens, Hocking, Meigs and Vinton
counties, Athens Co Help Me Grow and Athens County
Children’s Services.… and our regional tertiary care
partner, Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
This grant will provide
jobs, build workforce capacity to deliver evidence-based
care, strengthen our Family Navigator Program, further
efforts to integrate mental health and primary care,
increase the use of screening tools in primary care to
identify children and families health and wellness concerns,
expand early childhood mental health consultant services,
pilot telemedicine in our Interdisciplinary Assessment
Clinic, and deliver arts and recreation programming to area
youth -- overall, investing in promoting healthy young child
development. In addition, it establishes a local child
wellness council (which expands IPAC) that will work
cooperatively with a parallel structure at the state level,
the state child wellness council, to facilitate the
development of policies that are responsive to community
need.
The goal of Project
LAUNCH for Appalachia OH is to create a shared vision for
young child wellness that builds a solid foundation for
sustaining effective, integrated services and systems that
support and promote the wellness of young children and
families. A goal that echoes IPAC’s vision of ensuring
healthy development for all children.
Thank you to everyone
who has supported the development of IPAC, and specifically
to those who worked on the development of the LAUNCH
proposal… We are funded! Congratulations!
Building Capacity - Raising Resiliency
Our
Rural Health Outreach grant proposal was funded! The Office of Rural
Health Policy awarded us $375, 000 to integrate early childhood
mental health consultation into public preschool classrooms and to
implement a workforce development initiative. The three year project
period is May 1, 2009 – April 30, 2010.
Building Capacity –
Raising Resiliency will accomplish its goal of improving early
childhood outcomes and increasing the capacity of our early
childhood workforce to ensure healthy child development
through two objectives. First, we will implement an Early Childhood
Mental Health Consultation Program (ECMH-CP), serving preschool-aged
children annually in Athens County, OH. The ECMH-CP will offer three
tiers of intervention - universal, targeted and intensive - provided
by an interdisciplinary team of professionals including the ECMH
consultant, the Family Care Navigator, and a pediatric
neuropsychologist.
Second, we will implement an
Early Childhood Workforce Initiative
designed to advance a range of professional competencies through
didactic trainings, collaborative peer group supervision, learning
communities, journal readings, and program consultation through site
visits and videoconferencing with state and national experts.
Additionally, the ECMH-CP will deliver
on-site training through directed instruction, modeling and coaching
to the 19 teachers, 8 aides, and other related school employees
serving the
19 Athens City and Athens County public preschool and preschool special education classrooms.
This grant proposal expands the efforts of our rural
health network, Integrating Professionals for Appalachian Children (IPAC),
aimed at developing integrated health delivery systems (e.g., public
pre-schools and mental health agencies) and leveraging the
infrastructure established and lessons learned through our RHND
grant. Our consortium is composed of a subgroup of IPAC, bringing
together our community mental health center, Ohio University’s
College of Osteopathic Medicine and Psychology & Social Work Clinic,
public school teachers and administrators, and families in a jointly
planned initiative to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness
of a school-based, early childhood consultation model for
integrating education and mental health services.
Because Athens County, OH
is a rural eligible community, a mental health and dental
professional shortage area (Dental-HPSA, MHPSA), and MUA, we are
requesting a funding preference under the first category, health
professional shortage areas. Additionally, both the consultation
program and the workforce development trainings foster wellness and
disease prevention, qualifying the program for category 2 funding
preference.
Contacts: Jane Hamel-Lambert, PhD, MBA
hamel-lj@ohio.edu or Sherry
Shamblin, PCC,S at
sshamblin@tcmhcs.org
IPAC Meetings and Agendas
| Date |
Welcome
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Place |
Time |
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August 5, 2009 |
Board Members Only |
TCMH-CS |
3 - 5 pm |
September 9,
2009
(note date change) |
Board Members Only |
TCMH-CS |
3 - 5 pm |
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October 7, 2009 |
Everyone |
TCMH-CS |
3- 5 pm |
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Integrating Mental Health into Primary Care:
Sustainable Partnerships
Presented at The
9th All-Ohio Institute on Community Psychiatry
Conference:
Working Together: New Paradigms for Integrated Mental Health
Services by
Jane Hamel-Lambert, MBA, PhD
Karen Montgomery-Reagan, DO,
Sherry Shamblin, PCC-S
Dawn Murray, DO
Overview of Presentation
Two community mental health centers, our regional federally
qualified health center (Family Healthcare, Inc), private
practitioners and our university-affiliated,
not-
for-profit medical practice group (University Medical Associates (UMA)),
have over the past 1 ˝ years months developed models for integrating
mental health providers into four primary care sites (3 family
medicine, 1 pediatrics).
During this workshop both participating physicians and mental health
professionals will highlight lessons learned while co-locating
mental health providers in primary care settings and implementing
early identification protocols for children with developmental and
behavioral health needs. Our experiences illustrate the importance
of defining roles and responsibilities to create sustainable
partnerships. Designing an infrastructure that addresses scheduling,
billing, chart management, and cross-provider communication requires
being flexible and responsive to the missions and mandates of the
individual agencies, and discipline specific health delivery
patterns. Specifically, the rules and regulations governing the FQHC
demanded a fiscal model distinct from that employed by the
university affiliated medical group practice, whereas types of
patients served informed MH provider selection. All models benefit
from strong interdisciplinary leadership.
This project was possible because of funding from HRSA's Office of
Rural Health Policy (P10RH06775, D06RH07920).
View the Presentation:
PDF |
PPT
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Photo Illustration: Larry Hamel-Lambert
Jane Hamel-Lambert, PhD, President of IPAC and John
Borchard, RN, BSN, Chair, IPAC Board of Directors accepted the 2007
Award for Distinguished Rural Health Program from Heather Reed from
ODH Office of Primary Care and Rural Health and Susan Isaac, Ohio
Rural Health Coalition on September 18, 2007.
The award recognizes a program that promotes or facilitates the
development of innovative rural health care delivery systems. The
evaluation committee looked at the following criteria: innovation
and perceived effectiveness, the programs lasting impact on the
community and an emphasis on coordination with others in the
community.
IPAC Partners also present at the awards luncheon joining us in
accepting the award included parent partners Liana Flores and Annie
Pepper; Dave Hunter, Project Director of Athens Co. Help Me Grow;
Sue Meeks, RN,C from OU-COM Community Health Programs; John
Constanzo, PhD Superintendent from the Athens Co. Schools; Robert
Stewart, Judge from the Athens County Juvenile Court; Kendall
Brown-Clovis, PCC, LICDC HR Director, Tri-County Mental Health and
Counseling Center, Inc.
Congratulations to everyone. IPAC clearly embodies the principles
of this award!
Heather Reed, Susan Isaac present the award for
2007
Distinguished Rural Health Program to Jane Hamel-Lambert,
IPAC President and John Borchard, IPAC, Board of Directors
Chair. Photo Credit: Larry Hamel-Lambert
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Abstract
| Program: |
HRSA/ORHP/Rural
Health Network Development Grant |
| Title: |
Integrating Professionals for Appalachian Children (IPAC) |
| Applicant: |
Ohio University (IPAC network member)
Jane Hamel-Lambert, PhD, MBA
Ohio University, 070 Grosvenor Hall
Athens, OH 45701 (740) 593-2289, hamel-lj@ohio.edu |
Integrating Professionals for Appalachian Children (IPAC) will use
the RHND grant to improve access and quality of health and mental
health services. Across the next three years, IPAC will (1)
implement our strategic plan to improve our ability to identify, to
refer and to provide coordinated care, and comprehensive care for
young children in our community with special needs through clinical
and functional integration across partners, and (2) IPAC will
strengthen infrastructure of its network and develop its capacity to
become a self-sustaining network capable of developing innovative
sustainable solutions to the challenges facing our community. Two
SAMSHA model programs, Circles of Care and Starting Early Starting
Smart, have guided our proposal for transforming the delivery of
services to children between 0 – 6 years of age.
To accomplish the first goal, IPAC will (a) improve early
identification by training frontline providers in 11 early childcare
programs and 4 primary care practices to routinely screen young
children for developmental and socio-emotional risk; (b) establish a
Family Care Navigator program to improve care coordination and
empower families; (c) develop the infrastructure to co-locate
service providers creating a sustainable interprofessional behavior
and development assessment clinic, and (d) develop the
infrastructure to support co-locating mental health providers in
four primary care settings (Both c and d improve coordination and
comprehensiveness of services).
IPAC is a newly incorporated entity, with an independent Board of
Directors. To strengthen its capacity to function effectively as a
rural health network, IPAC will (a)operate within the adopted
governance structure, create functional committees to achieve our
goals, strengthen community participation, file for 501c3 status,
write policies, evaluate the network and write a comprehensive
sustainability plan; (b) pursue staff development to to support
integration efforts, interprofessional teams, and clinical
expertise; and (c) develop a communication strategy for internal and
external stakeholders including a web site and a narrative awareness
campaign.
The service area for this project includes four Appalachian
counties: Athens, Meigs, Hocking and Vinton Counties, where over
7,000 children between 0 and 6 years of age live.All are single
county MHPSA; Vinton is whole county HPSA, Meigs and Hocking are Low
Income HPSA. Vinton and Meigs County are whole county Medically
Underserved Areass (MUA); Athens and Hocking are Partial County MUAs.
Additionally, Athens, Vinton and Meigs Counties are designated
distressed by the Appalachian Regional Commission.
IPAC is a community-consumer-university partnership. Our membership
includes 11 community service partners, including consumers, and
five University-affiliated service partners. Community partners
comprise nearly 70% of our membership. IPAC is a mix of “doers” and
“directors,” informed by “consumers,” transforming the way our
community delivers health and mental health services through network
integration.
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