The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced that Family & Children’s Services (FCS), the largest Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) in Oklahoma, will continue as a CCBHC (Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic).
Grants will fund increased access, high-quality community behavioral health services and advanced integration with physical health care for Tulsa’s under-served and neediest individuals.
“Though the award of a second SAMSHA CCBHC $4 million-dollar grant, we are grateful to continue pioneering this gold standard service delivery model in Tulsa. These funds enhance our capacity to serve the city’s most under-served by integrating high-quality services with physical health care for those with mental illness and addiction disorders,” said FCS’s CEO Gail Lapidus.
FCS CCBHC provides comprehensive outpatient mental and substance use disorder services that are evidence-based including an array of crisis services as well as outpatient clinic primary care screening and monitoring of key health indicators and health risk.
FCS CCBHC will ensure access to high-quality care for adults with serious mental illness, substance use disorder and individuals with or at risk for co-occurring disorders. FCS CCBHC will also serve children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbances.
“Expanding community-based hubs for behavioral health care could not be more crucial for the United States,” said Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use Elinore F. McCance-Katz, MD, PhD, the head of SAMHSA. “CCBHCs already perform a vital role of addressing in one location the complex needs of people with mental and substance use disorders. The coronavirus pandemic substantially increases the need for these comprehensive services.”
