Personal Enrichment Through Mental Health Services Inc

Programs: Crisis support/crisis stabilization:crisis support/crisis stabilization is the largest single program in the agency representing 73% of the total expense of the agency. This program provides emergency services on a 24/7 basis to adults and children, urgent care available six days per week on a walk in basis, and crisis stabilization services comprised of 59 adult psychiatric inpatient beds and 14 child psychiatric inpatient beds. Co-located with the children's beds is a 1 bed juvenile addiction receiving facility. The program is the only public psychiatric receiving facility in the county. As such, the program focuses on providing access to care for those individuals in the county who are indigent or otherwise not able to access care in other hospitals. Last fiscal year 7,670 individuals sought care through emergency services and of that 4,476 were admitted to a crisis stabilization unit. Of that total only 12 patients had to be sent to the state hospital.

family services initiative:the family services initiative (fsi) consists of the juvenile welfare board with collaborative partners including the 211 regional call center/pinellas family services team (triage), central florida behavioral health network (cfbhn-utilization management), personal enrichment through mental health services (pehms -navigation), pinellas county schools, service providers and vendors. The family services initiative provides direct access for families through 211's pinellas family services team and access for community providers seeking wrap around services through cfbhn's utilization management process. Personal enrichment through mental health services (pemhs) provides the navigation services for families with complex needs in the jwb/fsp component of the family services initiative, following their 211 triage screening. The family completes an evidence based intake assessment (cans), and with their system navigator (sn) develops a family driven support care plan, identifying and prioritizing their most pressing current barriers and needs for family stability. The system navigator then works collaboratively with the family to educate and link to community services, resources and supports, to alleviate the identified needs and barriers of the family. In addition, the front line direct care staff, system navigator, is empowered to utilize and access the jwb/fsp funds on behalf of the family for support based expenditures up to $300 (level 1); expenses beyond $300 (level 2) follow the utilization management process to receive authorization through cfbhn. The service duration of pehms navigators in the family services initiative is brief, generally less than 30 days, and is a focused collaboration between the family and their assigned system navigator. Linkages to community resources, services, and the utilization of the jwb/fsp funds result in enhanced family stability, increased community resource knowledge, and successful sustainability on behalf of the families served. In addition, a specialized pilot program has begun, truancy navigation, participating families are identified by the school system and are currently becoming involved with the judicial truancy system; all families receive navigation assistance as well as specific collaboration efforts between the schools and pemhs focusing on student success and positive school reengagement. The tn services are anticipated to have a 60-90 day length of service; to provide effective support, engagement, and court advocacy for the families. In the fiscal year ending on june 30, 2017 the program served 1628 families.

behavioral health network:the behavioral health network (bnet) program provides clinical, case management, and psychiatric services to children who have been diagnosed as severely emotionally disturbed and are participants under florida kid care. Last year 94 children received services that allowed them to remain in their homes, successfully diverted from residential care. Bnet provides and array of services including dialectical behavioral therapy (dbt), an evidence-based clinical model with proven success in treating significantly mentally ill adolescents and adults.