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Volume 1, Issue 1
BLAIR COUNTY’S
CO-OCCURRING DISORDERS (MISA) PROJECT
INFORMATION BULLETIN
CONSENSUS DOCUMENT
The Blair County COD Project has worked on their Consensus Document
over the past few months. The document presents the project vision and
mission and then describes Blair’s commitment to providing welcoming,
accessible, integrated, continuous, and comprehensive services to
individuals with co-occurring disorders by adopting the CCISC
(Comprehensive, Continuous, Integrated System of Care) model for
designing system change at the local and state level, developed by
Kenneth Minkoff, MD.
The CCISC model’s 8 best practice principles and the 5 core
implementation characteristics are described succinctly in the document.
The document then includes a detailed Implementation Action Plan for
both the Blair County MH/MR/D&A Program and the Blair County
Providers. The action plan describes specifically what both parties agree
to do that will move the county toward integrated treatment and system
change.
The Consensus Document was develop over many months of discuss with
all stakeholders and has now been formally endorsed by the Behavioral
Health (BH) Advisory Committee of the Blair County BH & MR Advisory
Board, the Blair County Behavioral Health Providers Organization, the
MH/MR/D&A Administrator and Drug and Alcohol Administrator, directors
of numerous individual mental health and substance use disorder
providers and representatives of other community service organizations.
The Consensus Document includes Scopes of Practice for Mental Health
and Substance Use Practitioners working in singly licensed organizations.
Information on that can be found in Volume 1, Issue 2 of these Information
Bulletins.
The final version of Consensus Document is attached to this Issue of the
Information Bulletin and counties are encouraged to use this document as
a model in their own work to implement system change.
As of December 2004