Success Stories by Topic: Mental health

• Northeastern Rural Health Network- South Carolina
  October 2009
  The Northeastern Rural Health Network was organized in November 2006. The partners of this provider-based network recognized that through ongoing dialogue, they could begin to identify and prioritize common needs and network strategies.
• North Central Washington Mental Health Project
  July 2009
  The goal of the North Central Washington Mental Health Project was to increase and improve access to appropriate mental health and chemical dependency services, particularly for lowincome residents and Hispanics.
• Wellness in the Valley: Suicide Prevention Task Force
  July 2009
  Wellness in the Valley was developed to be a community-based program designed to reduce the incidence of suicides and suicide attempts and to address the factors contributing to suicide in the area.
• Eastern Panhandle Integrated Delivery System Rural Health Outreach Project
  May 2009
  The project was designed to promote health, prevent disease, and increase access to health care services for older individuals by providing outreach and education about existing health care and social services.
• Community Connection
  May 2009
  The main goal of the Community Connection project was to provide integrated mental health and primary preventive services to adolescents and elderly individuals living in the Beverly, Daily, Mill Creek, and Mingo districts of Randolph County and the Belington district of southern Barbour County.
• Tellico Plains Full-Service, School-Based Clinic
  May 2009
  The school-based clinic was designed to address several health problems in the community by improving the physical health status of school-age children in Tellico Plains and surrounding communities and by identifying and treating health problems and ensuring followup care.
• Behavioral Health Services Model Project
  May 2009
  The primary focus of the project was to expand the number of behavioral health encounters by increasing the number of, and access to, behavioral health care providers.
• Continuum of Care
  May 2009
  The Continuum of Care project was created to increase access to culturally appropriate mental health and substance abuse services for those in need. The project specifically targeted lowincome tribal members and their families.
• Butte Silver-Bow Primary Care Clinic
  May 2009
  The main goals of the project were to change destructive life patterns and improve the physical and mental health status of residents by providing intensive mental health services, promote collaboration among key health and social service agencies in providing comprehensive services, and educate community members about how, when, and where to get help when they need it.
• Rural BASICS
  May 2009
  Rural BASICS (Behavioral Access Study Integrating Continuum Services) succeeded in developing and implementing a continuum of care that served individuals of all age groups and ethnicities.
• ElderLynk
  May 2009
  ElderLynk was established to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness and to build awareness of the mental health needs facing rural senior citizens in a 10-county region in northeast Missouri.
• Outreach Rural Health for Rural Maine
  May 2009
  This project was designed to expand home care services for patients with anxiety and depression in the easternmost counties of the United States—Aroostook County and Washington County.
• Treutlen County School Health Initiative
  May 2009
  The Consortium members launched an onsite school clinic; conducted onsite assessments and screenings for vision, hearing, blood pressure, and mental health and provided various other services to Treutlen County students and staff.
• Delta Enterprise Community Rural Health Outreach Program
  May 2009
  The project established a single point of contact for clients to the services available throughout the six-county region. The single point of contact was the outreach workers employed by the program.
• Center for Rural Mental Health Studies at the University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth
  July 2008
  The Center for Rural Mental Health Studies is integrating mental health into primary care settings for underserved rural populations.
• Sowing the Seeds of Hope
  July 2008
  Sowing the Seeds of Hope is responding to the mental health needs of farm families. This is a collaborative effort of project leaders in seven predominantly rural states: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
• Behavioral Health Becomes a Top Priority
  June 2008
  The providers in Chesterfield and Marlboro Counties created county level working relationships among human service agencies.
• IPAC: Integrated Health Services for Appalachian Children
  September 2007
  Focused on the assessment and comprehensive treatment of behavioral and developmental needs of children ages six and under, IPAC blends 19 university and community health care organizations in Appalachian Ohio into a partnership that provides "one-stop shopping for families."
• Illinois 24/7 Suicide Prevention-Crisis Network
  August 2007
  The Regional Behavioral Health Network has established a 24-hour toll-free crisis line and mobile crisis program to improve access to care, service quality and staff moral.
• One-Stop Shop for Mind and Body
  June 2007
  Designed to simplify access to care in Newaygo County Michigan, the Baldwin Family Health Care center is combining health care and human services in a one-stop shop for the mind and body.
• Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association, Inc. Project
  January 2007
  This partnership project was developed to impact dementia service and availability in a sixteen county area in northern Wisconsin.
• East Texas Border Health Consortium Project
  January 2007
  The goal of this project is to deliver integrated primary and mental health care to isolated, chronically ill population groups in Harrison and Marion counties.
• Border Area Mental Health Services, Inc. Project
  January 2007
  The main goals of the project were to increase access to appropriate levels of care for mental health and/or substance abuse services,to increase capacity to provide services to individuals with substance abuse and/or mental health disorders; and to improve access to and management of psychotropic medications.
• Northern New Mexico Rural Infant Mental Health Consortium Project
  January 2007
  The Northern New Mexico Rural Infant Mental Health Consortium project will provide access to mental health services for high-risk families with young children, from birth to age 5.
• Northern Tele-psychiatry Initiative
  January 2007
  The Northern Tele-psychiatry Initiative will improve the mental health of children and teens, reduce the number of admissions to child psychiatric in-patient units, and help prevent the inappropriate prescribing of psychotropic medications by primary care practitioners to children and adolescents.
• Project R&R
  January 2007
  Project R&R offers a solution to the critical need for mental health and substance abuse services in a high-risk, multi-cultural frontier community.
• School-Based Health Centers Expansion Consortium
  January 2007
  Bassett Healthcare and six school districts have formed a Consortium that seeks to expand and enhance their School-Based Health Centers (SBHC) to include dental and mental health care programs and community outreach services.
• Behaviorial Health Resource Consortium
  January 2007
  Using an approach that integrates behavioral health into primary care practice, the consortium will add behavioral health faculty and trainees from the training program at UNMC to its existing array of services at the Good Neighbor CHC and to the diagnostic and treatment services of the Boys and Girls Homes programs.
• Alcona Citizens for Health, Inc.
  January 2007
  The project provided new psychiatric services at four clinics and added two new behavioral health consultants and neurological health services to address the needs of the substantial elderly population.
• Cooperative Health Center Patient Mental Health Project
  January 2007
  The three-agency consortium formed for this project will provide access to mental health and substance abuse services, regardless of patients' ability to pay.
• Mahnomen County Mental Health Consortium
  January 2007
  The Mahnomen County Mental Health Consortium will focus on at-risk children and adolescents and their families, while expanding access of the general population to short-term outpatient services to ensure earlier intervention for individuals and families.
• Mercer County Behavioral Health Outreach Project
  January 2007
  The Mercer County Behavioral Health Outreach Project sought to increase access of children and isolated rural farm families to behavioral health care by providing outreach and education resources and promoting greater community involvement in an integrated network of services.
• Rural Access: Mental Health Care Project
  January 2007
  The Rural Access: Mental Health Care Project will increase behavioral and mental health care services to low-income American Indian children and youth living on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in rural northeastern Montana.
• Worcester County Health Department (WCHD) Aging Initiative
  January 2007
  This project, Worcester County Health Department (WCHD) Aging Initiative [formerly ACCESS] proposed to expand services that promote independent, unrestricted living for Worcester County’s aging population.
• Franklin Parish Hospital Service District Mental Health Project
  January 2007
  The overarching goal of this project is to establish a primary care-based behavioral health program in the Franklin Parish region.
• Mid-Coast Mental Health Integration Initiative
  January 2007
  The goals of the Mid-Coast Mental Health Integration Initiative are to improve access to child and adolescent mental health services, reduce the stigma associated with mental health, reduce the number of crisis interventions, improve coordination and cooperation among local health providers, and disseminate an innovative model.
• Wayne County Multi-Generational Behavioral Health Project
  January 2007
  The Project aims to increase access to behavioral health care for children, youth, and isolated elderly members by providing outreach and education resources, and promoting greater community involvement in an integrated network of services.
• Community Health and Wellness Project
  January 2007
  The goal of this project is to improve the health and wellness of people living in the rural communities of Fayette, Franklin, and Rush counties in Indiana, especially the low income and elderly.
• Integrated Service Pathways Network Project
  January 2007
  This project aims to divert people with co-occurring disorders from the traditional criminal justice system/jail into programs which can effectively treat the problem and break the cycle of arrest, jail, release, and re-arrest.
• Project for Perinatal and Postpartum Depression Detection
  January 2007
  This project will increase community awareness about perinatal depression, improve access to mental health screenings for childbearing women, and provide assessments and linkages to appropriate treatment for women with symptoms of depression.
• Family Healthcare Network, Tulare County
  July 2006
  Family HealthCare Network (FHCN) is a primary care clinic with ten sites located in Tulare County, in California's rural San Joaquin Valley. FHCN exists to provide quality healthcare to everyone in the communities we serve.
• Callam County Hospital District #1
  July 2005
  This network consisted of 11 sites representing community mental health centers, health care providers, and other health, education, and social services agencies that supported the delivery of behavior health and other health care services.
• Nelson County Rural Health Outreach
  July 2005
  This Rural Health Outreach Program launched a school nursing program that placed registered nurses in each of the six Nelson County public schools as well as creating a supplementary health education program provided by a registered nurse who traveled to each site.
• Parish Nurse Outreach Project
  July 2005
  Since the church is widely considered the most viable institution in Harper County, area churches were the crux of the project's outreach efforts to address the limited health care resources available in the community, to assess individual and community needs, and to assist members of the community in accessing local resources.
• Facilitating Health Care for Special Needs Children in Southwest Washington State
  July 2005
  The project consortium developed survey instruments, policies, procedures, and data forms and then contacted health departments, schools, and local medical and service providers to introduce project services and encourage referral of children with special needs.
• Rural Health Outreach Project (Hazard, Kentucky)
  July 2005
  This project was designed to improve access to mental health, primary care, and other necessary services such as education, social services, housing, and job assistance for people with severe and persistent mental illness.
• Integrated Primary and Behavioral Health Care
  July 2005
  This project provided case management, integrated behavioral health care, risk reduction services, provider retention initiatives, and transportation for targeted low-income and working-poor families.
• Senior Peer Counseling Project
  July 2005
  Composed of 16 agencies and professional organizations that provide services to seniors in the region, this project was developed to serve seniors age 60 and above who were suffering from mild to moderate situational depression.
• Community Care Clinic
  July 2005
  Four network members funded and established a clinic to link existing health care providers and social services agencies to address and provide for the medical, emotional, and health education needs of individuals and families in seven counties designated Health Professional Shortage Areas.
• Rural Health Outreach Grant Program (West Wendover, Nevada)
  July 2005
  Four consortium members created this program to provide local access to mental health services and to provide a school-based program teaching resiliency and social skills to school-aged children and their parents.
• For Our Children
  July 2005
  The project objective was to provide improved health care services to 2,500 K - 12 students by using grant funds to provide a full-time Registered Nurse and one dedicated social worker to local public schools.
• Healthy Connections West
  July 2005
  The goal of this project was to provide mental health intervention services to targeted children and their families in order to achieve improved academic and social performance.