9/27/22

Within one year, we'll be required to be providing the following services:

o Crisis mental health services, including 24-hour mobile crisis teams, emergency crisis intervention services, and crisis stabilization.

o Screening, assessment, and diagnosis, including risk assessment.

o Patient-centered treatment planning or similar processes, including risk assessment and crisis planning.

o Outpatient mental health and substance use services.

o Outpatient clinic primary care screening and monitoring of key health indicators and health risks (e.g., BMI, blood pressure, tobacco use, HIV/Viral Hepatitis).

o Targeted case management.

o Psychiatric rehabilitation services.

o Peer support, counselor services, and family supports.

o Intensive, community-based mental health for members of the armed forces and veterans.

At present, we're providing all of the above services with the exception of treatment specifically for veterans or armed forces members, mainly because the VA is so close by and it provides similar services. Adding capacity to serve more people in need is the goal.

The primary benefit to us and our community is that this additional grant funding will allow us to expand our total number of client-facing clinical staff positions to be able to treat an ever-growing number of people in need of mental health and substance use disorder treatments across all age groups. To the extent we can add workforce capacity in this era of ever-declining staff numbers across many industries, we'll be better positioned to address the increasing demand for our services.

And readers should know that the NH Rapid Response Access Point crisis number is 833-710-6477 or NH988.com. This is not to be confused with the new 988 national crisis hotline, which does not engage local mobile crisis response clinicians as does the NH RRAP number.