California Health Care Improvement Projects (CHIPs) are designed by CHCF Health Care Leadership Program participants with the goal of addressing meaningful challenges or opportunities in health care.
This project aims to provide access to Countywide therapy groups for adults suffering from severe mental illness. Monterey County Behavioral Health (MCBH) Adult System functions within regional silos composed of 4 different regional clinics in Salinas, Marina, Soledad, and King City. Currently, a behavioral health client can only obtain therapy group services offered by a regional clinic actively serving the client.
The project will create a cohesive network of therapy group services that can be offered to any behavioral health client within the Monterey County adult care system- regardless of which region serves the client. The referral form will be a simple cloud-based excel sheet on Microsoft Teams application. Every MCBH regional office already utilizes the same electronic health record system (AVATAR) and the same billing codes; thus, offering county-wide group therapy services to all Monterey County behavioral consumers is a no-brainer!
By utilizing a network of shared group resources, our adult behavioral health system will achieve the following goals:
- Strengthen inter-regional collaborations.
- Provide MCBH client’s a diverse list of available therapy groups across all regions.
- Leverage the expertise and creativity of our master-level clinical staff/social worker team acrossMonterey County Behavioral Health.
Monterey County residents already view our entire agency as one large entity- it’s time we (MCBH) actually as one cohesive adult care system.