{"id":67684,"date":"2025-02-04T10:42:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/alabama\/program-seeks-to-improve-youth-mental-health-care-with-federal-funds\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T10:42:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:42:51","slug":"program-seeks-to-improve-youth-mental-health-care-with-federal-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=67684","title":{"rendered":"Program seeks to improve youth mental health care with federal funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the state legislature set to begin its 2025 session this week, lawmakers have emphasized improving Alabama\u2019s mental health coverage as a key issue to address.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alabama Senate President Pro Tempore nominee Garlan Gudger, R-Cullman, highlighted deficiencies in the state\u2019s mental health care during a Jan. 10 appearance on Alabama Public Television program <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DHdq66YS-Yo\">Capitol Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYou\u2019re gonna see some mental health bills, I believe, and funding for mental health that is gonna be coming up and substance abuse programs,\u201d Gudger said. \u201cThere\u2019s not a long-term substance abuse facility in the state of Alabama, which is a shame, you know, and so I want to be able to help with that and bring that to the people of Alabama if they need that because so many people are dealing with that throughout the whole state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/mhanational.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2024-State-of-Mental-Health-in-America-Report.pdf?eType=ActivityDefinitionInstance&amp;eId=18ffe536-c4fd-4ab3-83b8-6b2a34118652\">Mental Health America<\/a> ranked Alabama 39th among the U.S. states and D.C. in terms of overall mental health coverage. The state ranked 46th in quality of access to care, up from 49th in 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Alabama Department of Mental Health suffered steep cuts in state funding in 2010, leading to <a href=\"https:\/\/alabamareflector.com\/2025\/01\/29\/alabama-mental-health-care-recovering-slowly-from-recession-era-cuts\/\">downsizing<\/a> of state psychiatric hospital beds and the closure of psychiatric facilities across the state. State funding for ADMH dropped from $176.3 million in 2009, to $117.2 million in 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">State funding for Alabama\u2019s mental health system has been slow to rebound after this recession-era low, with funding surpassing 2009\u2019s peak for the first time in 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">One federally funded ADMH program, however, has sought to ease stress on residential psychiatric facilities and the criminal justice system by addressing and correcting symptoms of psychosis at their first appearance in adolescence.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div class=\"zox-post-ad-wrap\"><span class=\"zox-ad-label\">Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">ADMH\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/mh.alabama.gov\/first-episode-of-psychosis-program\/\">NOVA First Episode Psychosis<\/a> program is designed to address the first signs of psychosis, which often occurs for the first time in a person\u2019s late teens to mid-twenties, by providing treatment for patients aged 15 to 29 experiencing early psychosis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">FEP offers cognitive behavioral therapy and low dose anti-psychotic medication, as needed.\u00a0FEP treatment centers provide individual or group outpatient counseling as often as once a week, as well as substance abuse counseling in a group setting offered multiple times a week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">FEP treatment is offered at sites in Huntsville, Cullman, Mobile and Birmingham, ran in partnership with local mental health organizations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Director of ADMH\u2019S Mental Illness Community Programs Kim Hammack emphasized the importance of treating psychosis patients early and providing educational and employment support to keep them out of long-term treatment or detention facilities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYou\u2019re trying to divert them from detention facilities, from emergency departments, from long-stay residential,\u201d Hammack said. \u201cIf you\u2019re graduating out of high school and you really want to focus on employment, just because you\u2019ve been diagnosed with schizophrenia or schizoaffective, it doesn\u2019t have to end your dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">FEP Programs Mental Health Specialist April Watkins explained that each FEP site employs a supportive employment and education specialist, to assist in providing for patients\u2019 educational and career needs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThat person spends at least 60 percent of their time out in the community, working with those individuals to either get their GED if they dropped out of high school, to attend college if that\u2019s something that they desire to do, but also to make sure that they have an opportunity to get back into the workforce,\u201d Watkins said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div class=\"zox-post-ad-wrap\"><span class=\"zox-ad-label\">Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hammack explained the NOVA FEP program came about in 2014, from ADMH\u2019s affiliation with the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">NOVA received its federal funding after a SAMSAH request for a grant which set aside funds for treating adolescents experiencing their first episode of psychosis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u201cYou had these individuals that they were worried about on the national level that kind of was how do you transition our individuals that\u2019s in our child adolescent world into our adult world,\u201d Hammack said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before NOVA, Hammack explained, Alabama\u2019s adult and child mental health care systems lacked programs that dealt with the unique challenges of adolescent psychosis care.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe adult system is more used to dealing with the psychosis, but they\u2019re not used to dealing with the fact that you still may be in school and education,\u201d Hammack said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">When planning the program, Hammack explained, ADMH looked at the two national \u201cstandards of excellence\u201d for first episode psychosis care: the Early Assessment and Support Alliance out of Oregon and OnTrackNY, an early psychosis program out of upstate New York.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">ADMH ultimately decided on EASA as the model for NOVA FEP\u2019s programming, with Hammack saying, \u201cWe looked at which one was more similar to Alabama and similar to our concept and how we deliver services.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div class=\"zox-post-ad-wrap\"><span class=\"zox-ad-label\">Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe looked at where our data was of individuals between the age of 15 and 25, and where did they live?\u201d Hammack said. \u201cOf course, you\u2019re going to see that more in your more metropolitan, urban-type areas, and so the planning council had wanted us to focus on approaching JBS Mental Health Authority, who covers that Birmingham area, and Alta-Pointe, who cover the Mobile area, and then added on Wellstone, which covers that Huntsville area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Hammack, during the 2024 fiscal year, NOVA FEP treated a total of 281 individuals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hammack emphasized the difficulties of providing first episode psychosis treatment in rural areas, but said the program is taking steps to flesh out its rural coverage alongside other ADMH initiatives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alabama\u2019s more urban counties are \u201cwhere you\u2019re gonna have the population that can support that kind of comprehensive first episode psychosis team,\u201d Hammack said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The FEP program requires the participation of a comprehensive team made up of a psychiatrist, nurse, team leader, case manager and education and employment specialist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The program also provides a youth peer specialist who has had experience with early psychosis to counsel patients, as well as a parent peer with experience living with a child with early psychosis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hammack said providing a workforce capable of providing for NOVA\u2019s patients has been a consistent barrier to expanding care into rural areas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div class=\"zox-post-ad-wrap\"><span class=\"zox-ad-label\">Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cReally those who do this and do this well are folks who don\u2019t mind working non-traditional hours, and they don\u2019t mind going to someone\u2019s home,\u201d Hammack said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">NOVA FEP is piloting a program where it\u2019s Mobile team has been expanding into Washington County, according to Hammack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe also want people to realize, because you may not have a FEP team in your area, it doesn\u2019t mean you don\u2019t have access to a team of some sort in your area,\u201d Hammack said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">ADMH currently operates five crisis centers across Alabama, which are operated in partnership with local mental health organizations. Hammack said that, while FEP teams are not tied to crisis centers, the two rely on one another to ensure patients receive adequate training.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThey may have what\u2019s called a child and adolescent in-home team or an adult in-home team or what we call an ACT team\u2014that\u2019s an assertive community team,\u201d Hammack continued, saying, \u201cIf you don\u2019t have an FEP team in your area, please find out what you do have, because every center has some type of team whether it\u2019s adolescent or adult.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hammack also highlighted the ADMH\u2019s Connect Alabama app as a valuable resource for those looking for mental health care services in the state. The app provides information on substance abuse and mental health treatment as well as a service locator and a list of available helplines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Crisis centers in the state include: AltaPointe Behavioral Health Crisis Center in Mobile, WellStone Emergency Services in Huntsville, Carastar Health Crisis Center in Montgomery, Craig Crisis Care Center operated by JBS Mental Health Authority in Birmingham and Hope Pointe operated by Indian Rivers Behavioral Health in Tuscaloosa.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div class=\"zox-post-ad-wrap\"><span class=\"zox-ad-label\">Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">ADMH is also currently in the process of constructing the SpectraCare Crisis Center in partnership with SpectraCare Health systems in Dothan. The crisis center is expected to begin operations this month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state also offers the 988 hotline and mobile crisis services. 988 is the national hotline number for any mental health, substance abuse or suicide related crisis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to ADMH, mobile crisis services are offered for Alabamians without easy access to a crisis center. The state operates 14 mobile crisis teams across 11 community health centers to help treat mental health crises face by residents of Alabama\u2019s 55 rural counties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, according to Hammack and Watkins, the stigma around mental health and getting services at a mental health center remains another barrier to mental health access in the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cA very important part of the FEP program is to make sure that they\u2019re giving outreach,\u201d Watkins said, continuing, \u201cThey\u2019re going to those schools; they\u2019re going to the churches and to the hospitals and to the physician offices just so we can erase those barriers to access.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hammack also explained ADMH is also currently looking at ways to incorporate possible sources of funding from the state as well as its federal grant saying, \u201cThere\u2019s work being done to expand that so that you can start blending some funding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the state legislature set to begin its 2025 session this week, lawmakers have emphasized improving Alabama\u2019s mental health coverage as a key issue to address. 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