Kansas All-Hazards Behavioral Health Program

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Kansas All-Hazards Behavioral Health Program

• Workshop for KAHBH Community Mental Health Center
  Coordinators
• Briana S. Nelson Goff
• KAHBH Program Director
• Becky Rinehart
• SRS Mental Health

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• KAHBH Program Overview
• Background and Overview
• KAHBH timeline and key accomplishments for the
  state
• Funding
• Funded by KDHE and SRS
• Proposals/requests submitted for additional
  funding
• How does Kansas compare to surrounding states?

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2006 KAHBH Budget
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Team Development and Organization
KAHBH Coordinators Workshop, 10/17/06

• Logistics
• Planning
• How to keep teams involved and committed to the
  program
• Local disaster/all-hazards drills and Planning
• LEPCs
• Getting Behavioral Health to the table
• KAHBH database
• Listserv
• Regular meetings

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CMHC Disaster Plans

• Status of CMHC Disaster Plans
• Is there one?
• Where is it?
• Who knows where it is?
• Is it up to date? When was it last revised?
• Examples of Plans

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Next Steps for KAHBH

• Tasks for 2007
• List of tasks from contract
• Specify CMHC coordinators role

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Tasks from 2007 Contract

• Task 1 To continue providing technical
  assistance to the SRS CMHCs and KDHE hospitals
  and public health departments in developing
  appropriate response capacity to respond in
  emergency situations to those with persistent
  mental illness as well as to those affected
  psychosocially by major emergencies affecting the
  state.
• Task 2 To develop a template Emergency
  Operations Plan for community mental health
  centers.

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• Task 3 To develop a template annex, with respect
  to the Emergency Operations Plan template, for
  participating hospitals in order to provide
  behavioral health support to staff throughout the
  duration of a possible response.
• Task 4 To continue the development of a
  compendium of resources for use by SRS and KDHE
  and its constituents, available at community and
  regional levels, to meet the peri- and post-event
  psychosocial needs of victims, at-risk
  individuals, family members, and emergency first
  responders (including health care personnel,
  public health professionals, EMS, etc.).

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• Task 5 To present previously developed
  curriculum based on identified minimum behavioral
  health training competencies for health care
  professionals responding to a terrorist event or
  other public health emergency across Kansas.
• Task 6 To maintain the previously developed
  system to identify and track the number of health
  professionals trained in the recognition,
  treatment and referral of patients exhibiting
  behavioral health consequences related to
  terrorism or other public health emergencies.

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• Task 7 To increase the availability of worker
  crisis counseling and mental health and substance
  abuse behavioral health support related to
  terrorism or other public health emergencies.
• Task 8 To improve comprehensive stress
  management strategies, programs, and crisis
  response teams among those who have been isolated
  or quarantined related to terrorism or other
  public health emergencies.

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• Task 9 To maintain an emergency behavioral
  health plan (which will serve as an excerpt to
  the Kansas Response Plan), and include KDHE in
  existing behavioral health preparedness networks
  and work groups overseeing the plan maintenance
  and revision, and work with KDHE to ensure that
  regional hospital and health department
  preparedness plans are integrated with this plan.

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• Task 10 To meet periodically with the staff of
  SRS and the KDHE Center for Public Health
  Preparedness to review contract progress.
• Task 11 To utilize Kansas Learning Management
  System, KS TRAIN, as the primary registration
  platform for all trainings using funds associated
  with the agreement.

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Next Steps for Coordinators

• Connected with local ARC?
• Connected with local emergency managers through
  LEPCs?
• Community hospitals and county health departments
• Greater focus in 2007
• Is behavioral health a part of their plans?

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Guided Discussion

• What is working well?
• With KAHBH?
• With your team?
• In your area?
• What are the opportunities for change?
• How are CMHCs integrating into emergency
  management and public health in your areas?

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Dont forget the websiteLots of great resources
and information!

• www.ksu.edu/kahbh

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• Final Concluding Comments
• ______________________
• THANKS for all you do
• the KAHBH Program is a success because of each of
  you!