1月24日, 2023, 社区综合医疗服务, 有限责任公司(bt356官网)收到75美元,000 grant from UnitedHealthcare Community Plan to help support its 以学校为基础的服务 and S-TACC™ (School Threat Assessment Care Coordination) programs. 我代表孩子们, 青年, and families throughout Southwest Washington that will benefit from this grant, bt356官网 is deeply grateful for UnitedHealthcare Community Plan’s dedication to helping people live healthier lives.

的 以学校为基础的服务 program embeds mental health professionals in the schools to collaborate with 学校工作人员 in identifying and meeting emergent behavioral health needs of students. Providing services in the schools eliminates the barrier of students accessing services, 减少被看到去诊所的耻辱, and helps address behavioral health issues or conditions that might otherwise result in longer-term problems. In addition to quicker and more consistent access to mental health professionals, bt356官网 has medical professionals on staff that means a much shorter turnaround time for getting medications. bt356官网的资金来自医疗补助报销. 一些孩子, 青年, 他们的家庭保险不足或没有保险, meaning they don’t have access to assessment and treatment services. Some families have insurance (private or publicly funded like Medicaid) but there are barriers that keep them from accessing services, such as long wait times for appointments and long distances to travel to in-network clinics. 的 以学校为基础的服务 program provides the early detection and intervention to best help children and 青年 in need, and the grant from UnitedHealthcare Community Plan will allow bt356官网 staff to provide these much-needed behavioral health services to students who have limited or no other options.

S-tacc™或学校威胁评估护理协调 bt356官网还有其他以学生为中心的项目吗. S-TACC provides that behavioral health monitoring of students during the time they are expelled to the home for a serious and credible threats of violence against the school, 学校工作人员, 或者其他学生. 的 school superintendent requests that bt356官网 monitors the student at home, often with daily visits. This keeps an eye on children and 青年 who are often unsupervised and unguided at home. bt356官网 staff reports back to the school’s Safety Team with regular updates on the students’ progress with taking medications, 参加治疗疗程, 并遵守学术和法律要求. 的 goal of the S-TACC™ program is to help students address the behavioral health issues that led to actions resulting in the expulsions and safely returning the students to the school environment. 的 care coordination activities in S-TACC™ are not covered by Medicaid and the school districts pay for this service. Grant funds will allow bt356官网 to provide S-TACC™ services at smaller and more rural school districts with limited budgets.

另外, bt356官网 is delighted to announce that a portion of the funds from the UnitedHealthcare Community Plan grant may be used to cover medical expenses and medication evaluations for students in the Southwest Washington area whose families are underinsured or uninsured. This comprehensive canvas of medical and behavioral health services means that students in our communities are able to get the help they need to have healthier lives and healthier futures.