Program areas at Be Well OC
Be Well Oc program1. Be Well Oc brings together a community of action by leveraging collective power to transform mental health service and delivery into a world-class system of care. Our success starts with acceptance that the mental health sector alone cannot solve all of the challenges of this complex and pervasive health challenge. Be Well Oc brings together a robust, community-based, cross-sector strategy of public-private, academic, faith, and other organizations to positively impact those challenges that diminish mental health and well-being.2. Wellness regional hubs as a foundational component of the Be Well Oc blueprint, and essential to effective services coordination, three regional anchoring wellness hubs are required to support the Be Well mental health system of care. The wellness hubs will include a variety of mental health and treatment programs and will Be uniquely available to all residents of orange county, regardless of payer. Access will Be based on clinical need.
Mental health services is for individuals, primarily from the uninsured and underinsured population, and include crisis stabilization, transitional residential support, and withdrawal management. The services also provide for mobile crisis response teams serving orange county and support services.
The mobile crisis (hope) program (Be Well Oc mobile response team model) is a non-emergency support service for residents experiencing mental health, substance use and homelessness related crises. Each team is composed of two crisis counselors who provide in-community assessment and stabilization of individuals experiencing mental health or substance use challenges. The team also provides information and referrals, transportation to services, and additional follow-up support and case management. In cities with active programs, calls are received through the appropriate non-emergency line or 911. Dispatchers triage the situation and, when appropriate, deploy the hope team to assist.
Suicide prevention services is for individuals, primarily from the uninsured and underinsured population, for the purpose of increasing knowledge and awareness regarding mental health, stigma, suicide prevention, and intervention, as Well as providing support services for the those in need and those directly affected by suicide.be Well Oc mobile response teamsthe Be Well Oc mobile response team model is designed to support residents, first responders, healthcare workers, social service professionals and the entire community with a clinically-effective and cost-effective response to mental illness, substance use and homelessness. Each team is composed of two crisis counselors who provide in-community assessment and stabilization of individuals experiencing mental health or substance use challenges. The team also provides information and referrals, transportation to services, and additional follow-up support and case management. In cities with active programs, calls are received through the appropriate non-emergency line or 911. Dispatchers triage the situation and, when appropriate, deploy the Be Well Oc mobile response team to assist.adverse childhood experiences (aces)in partnership with more than 20 health systems, county and community-based organizations, Mind Oc, has been awarded $3 million over 17 months from the aces aware grant program, developed by the California department of health care services in partnership with the office of the California surgeon general. The project aims to implement a broad and inclusive trauma-informed network of care for orange county, which will ultimately work to prevent adverse childhood experiences (aces), promote ace screening in children and adults, improve treatment of ace-associated health conditions, and prevent intergenerational toxic stress transmission. Youth opioid use prevention services is for individuals, primarily from the uninsured and underinsured population, and who follow into the age range of 12 to 24 years old who are at risk of opioid use disorder (oud) or at risk of an opioid overdose. This program aims to provide outreach, education, and treatment for at risk youth with the goal of reducing opioid use and overdose in orange county.