Personal Enrichment Through Mental Health Services

Crisis support/crisis stabilization is the largest single program in the agency representing 76% 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, mobile crisis response team on a 24/7 basis, and crisis stabilization Services comprised of 45 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 5,208 individuals sought care Through emergency Services and of that 2,786 were admitted to a crisis stabilization unit. Of that total only 1 patient had to be sent to the state hospital.

The pic team is an intervention and diversion based program, with the goal of intervening with individuals in a behavioral Health crisis, and connecting them with appropriate level of care Services with the purpose of reducing the unnecessary use of law enforcement via 911 and wellness check calls. It is the goal of pic team to identify barriers to accessing and retaining behavioral Health Services for community members, and to improve the overall continuum of care. Pic team offers immediate and short term behavioral Health intervention Services, to include assessment, information and referral linkage, recovery support, and short term counseling. In the fiscal year ending on june 30, 2023 the program served 355 individuals.

The family Services initiative (fsi), family connection navigation (fcn), and home navigation 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 truancy navigation program, home navigation, works with participating families that 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, 2023 the program served 939 families.