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Collaboration
1.
Description of current County Community
Service interfaces
with other services and supports of interest to priority
consumers:
Lee County consumers routinely access (or need to
access)
a variety of services which are not generally funded by or
under
the
control of County government.
These may include:
1.
Income assistance, such as SSI, AFDC,
Food
Stamps, Social Security, Veterans
Administration, etc.
2.
Certain housing assistance, such as rental
subsidies, access to federal public housing, etc.
3.
Employment Assistance, such as access
to
vocational rehabilitation, and job training
services
4.
Primary medical care
5.
Transportation
6.
Education, including special education and
adult
Education
7.
Court services (i.e., probate court services
for
guardianship,
conservator ship, etc.
8. Substance abuse services
Primarily through the case managers and
the CPC Administrator
Lee County has relatively good
relationships with the agencies or
organizations that provide these
services.
2.
Plan For
Coordination With The Medicaid Mental Health
Access Plan (MHAP):
Lee County will meet as needed with MBCI
to discuss
implementation and service access
issues related to the MHAP
program.
The primary objectives of this communication will be to:
1. Assure that MBCI, as the DHS agent for
MHAP, pays
for all behavioral heath care services for
Medicaid enrollees,
and does not (de facto or otherwise) attempt to
use county-
paid services as a method for
managing their risk under the
capitated contract.
2.
Work
with MBCI to engage their programmatic and
financial participation
in developing creative new
community-based services that are cost-effective
alternative to congregate or institutional services.
It is anticipated that this on-going
communication will require
assistance from other counties. It is also assumed that DHS will
have to be involved in these discussions.
There
is such significant overlap between and among the consumers,
services, providers, and funding streams, that coordination at every
level is
essential. Lee County will work to assure that there is
effective coordination of
resources.
3. Plan For Coordination With Chemical
Dependency Services:
The CPC administrator
is also responsible for budget recommend-
ations in the area of
substance abuse. As such, s/he
advises the
Board of Supervisors on issues related to chemical
dependency
funding. Since there is an overlap in providers and
consumers
between these two areas , efforts will be made along
with providers
to permit
a more seamless system of services, especially for
dual
diagnosis consumers.
4. Plan for Coordination With The Judicial
and criminal
Justice System:
There is regular
communication with the patient advocate to
facilitate the least
restrictive, appropriate placement of court
committed
individuals. She is a regular
attendee at stakeholder
meetings and serves on the oversight committee.
5.
Plan For Coordination With Other Resources
(Education,
Vocational Services, Child Welfare, Etc.):
As noted earlier in
this management plan, coordination with the
education system is a priority of Lee County. An AEA staff
person
served on the stakeholder group which helped develop
this
plan. One initiative will focus on transition planning for
individuals in special education who
will be graduating or aging
out of
the school system.
6. Agreements With Vocational Services Providers Will focus on:
1. Working with vocational providers to
develop creative
new approaches to
integrate supported employment with
employers in the community.
2. Developing
joint strategies to encourage employers to hire
individuals with disabilities, to
create supportive job
environments for individuals with disabilities, including
possible demonstration
projects.
7. Agreements With The Child Welfare Sector:
1. Will depend on further assessment of
mutual interests.
However, it is clearly in the interests of consumers
that all Medicaid, DECAT,
county-funded, education,
and
other services are coordinated.
Mental Health Services
Management Plan
Questions? : plogsdon@leecounty.org
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