IMPACT REPORT
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In partnership with Peg’s Foundation, the Northeast Ohio Medical University Department of Psychiatry Coordinating Centers of Excellence — the Best Practices in Schizophrenia Treatment (BeST) Center, the Criminal Justice Coordinating Center of Excellence (CJ CCoE) and the Ohio Program for Campus Safety & Mental Health (OPCSMH) — provide community stakeholders with expertise and resources that increase access to bestpractice treatments and programs that ultimately improve the quality of care and quality of life for people affected by schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses.
IMPACT: Percentage of Ohioans with Access to Coordinating Centers of Excellence Practices and Programs As of July 1, 2020
93%
81%
93% have access to programs/practices of at least one coordinating center of excellence
81% have access to programs/practices from at least two coordinating centers of excellence
50% 50% have access to programs/practices from all three coordinating centers of excellence
Coordinating Centers of Excellence Fundraising 2019-2020
Result: $1,000,904 Goal: $1,000,000 0 02
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$600,000
$800,000
$1,000,000
$1,200,000
A Message from Executive Director, Coordinating Centers of Excellence Ruth H. Simera, M.Ed., LSW It is my pleasure to share the NEOMED Department of Psychiatry’s Coordinating Centers of Excellence IMPACT Report for 2019-2020. While each of the Coordinating Centers of Excellence has its own mission, programs and goals, we are increasingly focused on ways in which the centers can work collaboratively to improve the overall, collective impact of the centers to bring recovery and hope to the lives of people affected by mental illness with whom the Centers’ constituents interact every day. We invite you take a few minutes to watch our Stories of Recovery and Hope video to see first-hand how the programs and practices of the coordinating centers of excellence are making significant and positive differences in the lives of individuals, their friends and families and their communities. We are so grateful to Peg’s Foundation and our numerous and diverse partners without whom these stories of recovery and hope might never have come to be.
Stories of Recovery and Hope – NEOMED Coordinating Centers of Excellence
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PROBLEM: Lack of Access to Effective Schizophrenia Treatment Only 50%
of all individuals with schizophrenia in the U.S. are in treatment
Less than 20% receive best practice treatment
NEOMED RESPONSE: Best Practices in Schizophrenia Treatment (BeST) Center
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IMPACT: As of July 1, 2020, 56% of Ohioans have access to at least one best practice in schizophrenia treatment.
13 FIRST Coordinated Specialty Care for First Episode Psychosis teams serving 23 Ohio counties provide integrated early identification and treatment to promote a faster, more complete recoveries to individuals experiencing initial episodes of a psychotic illness;
BeST Center experts provide training and consultation in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis interventions and Family Education and Support to all Ohio CSC for FEP teams and a Clinical High Risk for Psychosis treatment team;
4 Northeast Ohio partner agencies offer recoveryoriented strategies informed by Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis to help individuals cope more effectively with symptoms of psychosis;
3 partner agencies statewide offer Cognitive Enhancement Therapy, the gold standard intervention for addressing the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia that can affect social and vocational functioning.
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Trainees in “favorable” range for working with psychosis
100% 80% 60% 40% Post Test
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Pre Test PAS Total
Empathy
Adequacy
Optimism
Favorable = 5.5 or higher per item
IMPACT: Attitudes — particularly attitudes about psychosis — matter. “Do Attitudes Matter? Evaluating the influence of training in CBT-p-Informed Strategies on attitudes about working with people who experience psychosis” by the BeST Center’s Harry Sivec, Ph.D., Valerie Kreider, Ph.D., Debra Hrouda, Ph.D., as well as Christopher Buzzelli, Ph.D., and Megan Hricovec was published in Community Mental Health Journal in April 2020. Studies show that negative attitudes about psychosis are not uncommon among mental health providers and that these attitudes can affect how they deliver treatment to clients. The BeST Center explored how its partner mental health agency providers felt about working with people with psychosis before and after attending its intensive training in recovery-oriented strategies informed by Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis (CBT-p). Upon completion of training, providers endorsed more optimistic attitudes about recovery, improved confidence in working with psychosis and greater empathy for the experience of psychosis.
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IMPACT: Developing cognitive skills to improve daily work and social interactions In July 2019 the BeST Center convened international experts for a Cognitive Remediation Think Tank to discuss proven and promising approaches to addressing cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia. Treatments for schizophrenia address clinical symptoms, such as hallucinations, delusions and mood, but often do less to address the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia, including memory, attention, social cognition and executive functioning, that can affect daily work or social interactions. The BeST Center will be pilot-testing the implementation of Action-Based Cognitive Remediation (ABCR), developed by Christopher Bowie, M.D., of Queen’s University, in community treatment settings. ABCR participants have shown improvements in cognitive abilities, community functioning, daily functioning, and higher rates of employment and reduced job stress.
IMPACT: Connecting clinicians with virtual best schizophrenia practice communities through ProjectECHO®, a distance health education and case construction model.
BeST Center Project ECHO Participation July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020
ECHO Program
Number of Sessions
Total Annual Attendance
Distinct Attendees
Average Attendance per Session
First Episode Psychosis
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344
97
31.3
Integrated Primary and Mental Health Care
45
419
126
9.3
Pharmacotherapy for Schizophrenia
51
785
151
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PROBLEM: Over-representation in jails and prisons 2 million people
with severe mental illness cycle through local jails annually
10X more people
with serious mental illness are in jail or prison than psychiatric hospitals
3X more men and 6X more women
with serious mental illness are in jail than in the general population
NEOMED RESPONSE: Criminal Justice Coordinating Center of Excellence
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“In addition to training, there are
IMPACT:
a number of elements required
CJ CCoE Receives $3.1. Million to Lead Statewide Crisis Intervention Team Training and Program Development
for successful CIT programs. Through this funding from the state of Ohio, the CJ CCoE is working with counties throughout Ohio to
The CJ CCoE was awared a $3.1 million allocation from the state of Ohio to lead a statewide Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Support and Expansion Project.
expand and enhance CIT programs through increased training, policy development, information and data collection and sharing, and enhanced partnerships with law
The CJ CCoE will also continue the successful training trajectory that Ohio has experienced for many years by offering statewide and regional trainings for probation officers and public defenders and working with communities to adapt CIT training to virtual and online platforms.
enforcement agencies.” Kent State University Police Officer Jeff Futo, CJ CCoE Law Enforcement Liaison
IMPACT: Celebrating 20 Years of CIT in Ohio and All 88 Ohio Counties with Trained CIT Officers In May 2020, Ohio celebrated 20 years of Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) programs. CIT programs are collaborative efforts between law enforcement and mental health systems to help officers to safely de-escalate mental health crises and direct people to treatment instead of unnecessary incarceration. In 2020, just two Ohio counties had CIT programs. Today, all 88 Ohio counties have trained CIT officers. More than 16,000 professionals have been trained throughout Ohio, of which nearly 12,000 are sworn law enforcement officers.
“We are all so grateful to the officers for volunteering to serve as Ohio’s first CIT officers and for setting examples of dedication and professionalism for the many others who followed. So many individuals with mental illness, their families and friends and their communities rely on CIT officers to ensure safe, compassionate interactions and access to mental health care throughout the recovery process.” Retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio Evelyn Lundberg Stratton
IMPACT: As of July 1, 2020, the CJ CCoE has facilitated SIM exercises in 40 percent of Ohio counties, with 35 percent of these counties completing SIM mapping for adult mental health and justice systems. Sequential Intercept Model (SIM) mapping, based on the Sequential Intercept Model (Munetz & Griffin, 2006), provides a collaborative community framework for problem solving and highlights “points of interception” where interventions can occur for justice-involved individuals with mental illness. The goal is to help communities develop effective systems of care that minimize criminal justice involvement for people with mental illness.
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PROBLEM: Suicide and Lack of Success for Young Adults in Higher Education Recent reports demonstrate Onset of
Suicide is the
second leading cause of death for people age 10-24
75% of all mental illness occurs before the age of 24
increases in rates of suicides and poor academic success/retention among college students with mental illness
NEOMED RESPONSE: Ohio Program for Campus Safety & Mental Health
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IMPACT: In 2019, the Ohio Program for Campus Safety & Mental Health (OPCSMH) awarded a total of $77,309 in Collaborative Program Development Grants (CPDGs) to 16 campus/community collaborators to support suicide prevention, mental health awareness campaigns and screening and other programming. Since 2009, the OPCSMH has supported 90 campus/community collaborations with approximately $450,000 in CPDGs.
IMPACT: More than 900 faculty, staff and students participated in the 2019-2020 Ohio Program for Campus Safety & Mental Health webinar series, with more than 200 individuals receiving continuing education credits. Leading experts provided training, support, information and resources on timely topics, including: Increasing Student Engagement: Outreach to Marginalized Populations on Campuses Crisis Intervention in Higher Education A Class of Our Own: Supporting the Mental Health Needs of Students of Color PASS: A Peer Coaching Program for College Students with Mental Health Conditions International Student Mental Health Before and During COVID-19
The webinars were video-recorded and viewed at impressive rates on the OPCSMH YouTube channel.
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To join with the NEOMED Coordinating Centers of Excellence to improve the quality of care and quality of life for people with schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses, please contact Ruth H. Simera, M.Ed., LSW Executive Director, Coordinating Centers of Excellence Department of Psychiatry Northeast Ohio Medical University 4209 St. Rt. 44, PO Box 95, Rootstown, Ohio 44272 rsimera@neomed.edu | 330.325.6670