BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
MISSION STATEMENT
Our mission at Mono County Behavioral Health (MCBH) is to encourage, and help facilitate recovery through Whole Person Care and community connectedness. Our services are strengths-based and client-centered. We strive to create a safe and welcoming environment to serve all with dignity, respect and compassion.
Our vision is to promote healthy living and improve the quality of life for all members of our community.
DEPARTMENTAL OVERVIEW
Mono County Behavioral Health (MCBH) offers mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) treatment services throughout Mono County. In addition to these services, MCBH provides community programming with the goals of reducing stigma, increasing access to services and promoting wellness.
CHALLENGES, ISSUES & OPPORTUNITIES
Mono County Behavioral Health continues to grow programs in all of our communities. We have added staff dedicated to the northern part of Mono County to provide wellness programs, enhance school mental health responses, and increasing services for Seniors. With our recent departmental restructure, we have increased mental health, SUD, and telepsychiatry services for individuals and families.
Mono County Behavioral Health (MCBH) has taken the lead in addressing the disparities in our Latino and Native communities. We have developed a Cultural Outreach Committee and a Covid-specific Latino Outreach program to respond to the needs of our communities, and begin our county’s desire for an antiracism ‘dialogue’ with the Board of Supervisors, and all county staff.
We are in the process of creating a Training and Professional Development Institute within our department. Our Institute will provide all state mandated trainings for all staff, and provide learning opportunities to enhance professional development. Our Institute will also be dedicated to offering trainings to other county departments and community partners, when appropriate.
We continue to build a robust Harm Reduction program. We have dedicated staff to this program in an effort to meet the concerns about increased overdoses, and to provide these services in our outlying areas.
Much of our work overlaps with other county entities which allows us to work collaboratively with Public Health, Child Welfare, Social Services, Probation, Sheriff, Medics, related to WRAP and provide crisis responses for the county.
We are set to begin the Crisis Now program (creating a response system to address psychiatric crises in remote areas) with the Sheriff’s Department and Medics, with MCBH taking the lead for this program.
Specifically related to Covid, MCBH has dedicated staff to the EOC and JIC. MCBH’s staff is also participating in Contact Tracing as requested by the Public Health Department. This places an extra strain on our system, but we are addressing this issue as we continue to meet all requirements and mandates, while we simultaneously monitor any extra strain on our staff and department resources.
DEPARTMENT ORGANIZATIONAL CHART
CORE SERVICE & PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
MCBH provides the following core services: therapy, case management, telepsychiatry, rehab aide, SUD counseling, mandated services (DUI and Batterers Intervention), Harm Reduction services, services for those in our jail, in-patient SUD placement, evaluation for psychiatric emergencies and other crisis, WRAP around services, school based services, and prevention and early intervention. We are committed to provide all of our services in Spanish by bi-lingual, bi-cultural providers. As well as being the LPS Conservator, overseeing those who are unable to care for themselves related to a mental health condition, MCBH provides help with housing those who are chronically homeless and/or living with insecure housing. The department is actively working with a development partner to construct 8-12 units of permanent supportive housing in Mammoth Lakes for individuals with mental illness.
MCBH also offers a variety of programs including Wellness Centers in Walker and Mammoth, community socials, school-based counseling, SUD prevention, suicide prevention, staff training and professional development, transitional housing, housing development, response to COVID-19 through social media and
responding to other community needs.
MCBH will continue to expand services throughout the county as needed.
CORE SERVICES
DEPARTMENTAL ACTION PLAN FOR 2020-2021
MCBH is committed to providing services throughout the county and is adjusting, along with other county departments, around the needs and changes that are connected to living during a pandemic.
- Maintain all required services through out the county and adapt to Covid-19 related needs throughout the year
- Increase stakeholder engagement in each community to tailor services and programs related to changes in communities related to Covid-19
- Work closely with community and county partners to address needs within the working community, including underserved or economically disadvantaged.
- Continue housing projects in Mammoth Lakes and Walker, CA
- Begin Innovation Project, Crisis Now, in partnership with Mono County Medic and Sheriff departments
- Work on Racial Equity within the department and county through our Cultural Outreach Committee
- Provide staff to work on EOC and JIC as needed
- Work with partners on County Wellness projects
- Work with all three school districts to adapt school-based services to a remote, web based product
- Provide daily community wellness programs via Facebook Live
POSITION SUMMARY
MEASUREMENTS, RESULTS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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