#33 Douglas Co. IMPACTS Grant: Creative Funding to Meet People Where They’re At

The Center Collaborative: Creative Solutions in Behavioral Health and Criminal Justice

Sue Goldberg, Senior Director Decision Support for Umpqua Health Alliance Coordinated Care Organization and Cheryl McDonald, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Crisis Program Director for ADAPT Integrated Health Care discuss:

• IMPACTS Grant can uniquely meet people’s previously unmet needs.

• Grant covers 3 full-time outreach navigators, 1 part-time therapist housed in the E.D., 23-hour crisis resolution room, and a sobering center.

• Doesn’t require cohort members to engage in treatment to receive program support.

• Allow the cohort member to be the expert in their lived experience, and allow them to identify what they need to be stable.

• Reducing recidivism by providing Law Enforcement options for diverting people to where they need to be, rather than incarcerating them due to lack of an appropriate treatment environment.

• IMPACTS can fund services that aren't traditionally covered by insurances, such as peer support, phone calls, showers, clothing needs, food, etc.

• Timely and thorough data is allowing better outreach and getting the correct people into the cohort.

• Outcomes indicate a cost reduction in healthcare and jail costs for the individuals in the cohort (approximately 333).

• Community support: It’s not all about the money - people’s lives have been changed.

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