Neisha Kaye LeStage

This Consolidated Local Service Plan (CLSP) provides a comprehensive roadmap for local mental health and behavioral health authorities under the Texas Health and Human Services. The plan outlines local services and needs, details a psychiatric emergency plan, and establishes priorities for system development. Key focus areas include expanding mental health and substance use services, developing integrated psychiatric emergency responses, implementing jail diversion programs across multiple intercepts, and aligning with statewide behavioral health strategic goals. Specific initiatives for the next two years include establishing a Family/Children's Center of Excellence, developing an Intensive Outpatient Treatment and MAT Center, and enhancing collaboration with law enforcement and schools to address mental health crises and workforce development, ultimately aiming to improve access, coordination, and quality of care across the community.

The Local Provider Network Development Plan for Fiscal Year 2025 outlines requirements for Texas local mental health authorities (LMHAs) and local behavioral health authorities (LBHAs) to develop and manage their provider networks. The plan mandates the submission of baseline data on services, contracts, and provider availability, along with documentation of Planning and Network Advisory Committee (PNAC) involvement and public comment. It also includes provisions for procurement plans if new providers are to be included, strategies for administrative efficiencies, and detailed guidance for assessing and contracting with external providers to ensure comprehensive service delivery for the non-Medicaid population.

This Quality and Utilization Management (QMUM) Plan for Andrews Behavioral Health establishes a foundational framework for delivering safe, effective, and person-centered services. It guides continuous efforts to enhance treatment outcomes, promote client safety, and strengthen organizational efficiency through structured monitoring, data-driven analysis, and adherence to evidence-based best practices. Key focus areas include stakeholder involvement, leadership oversight, performance contract measures, quality assurance audits, client rights protection, and continuous improvement initiatives across mental health, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and youth empowerment services, aiming to ensure compliance with regulatory standards and a commitment to excellence and accountability.

This Consolidated Local Service Plan (CLSP) outlines the service planning requirements for Local Mental Health Authorities (LMHAs) and Local Behavioral Health Authorities (LBHAs) for fiscal year 2025, with strategic plans extending for the upcoming two years. The plan focuses on local services and needs, psychiatric emergency response, and system development priorities. Key areas include enhancing mental health services, supporting justice-involved individuals, fostering community participation, improving crisis hotline and mobile crisis outreach team (MCOT) services, integrating emergent psychiatric, substance use, and physical healthcare, and addressing critical gaps in the local crisis response system. Strategic priorities also encompass jail diversion initiatives, expanding trauma-informed care, coordinating across agencies for housing and employment, developing a Family/Children's Center of Excellence, and strengthening the behavioral health workforce.

This strategic plan outlines two primary goals. The first goal is to increase timely access to evidence-based outpatient behavioral health care for children, adolescents, and adults experiencing serious mental illness, substance use disorder, co-occurring disorders, and serious emotional disturbance, aiming to reduce consequences of non-treatment. Key objectives include providing initial evaluations, improving depression remission, assessing suicide risk, and facilitating referrals for supported housing, employment, nicotine cessation, and unhealthy alcohol use screening. The second goal is to expand care coordination activities to reduce risk factors contributing to poor health outcomes, with objectives focused on managing no-show rates, ensuring medication adherence, and confirming primary care physician relationships for clients.