Where we are, what we changed, and what has to happen next.
Where we are
Certain grants ended. Our grant funding fell over 50 percent.
We have relied on grants for too much of what we do. When one ends we feel it immediately, and that is not a sustainable way to run an agency. It is exactly the position we are in now.
How we work
Each one budgeted, staffed and reported on its own, with nobody responsible for moving a client between them.
PsychiatryTherapyCase managementCrisisLiving RoomPathwaysIntakeOverheadPsychiatry and Clinical work side by side, sharing clients and coordinating care. Neither one sits inside the other.
Overhead and admin sit outside because they do not touch clients.
We would do this even if money were not a problem. Right now a psychiatry patient who also needs therapy is handed between two departments that budget and report separately, and no one person owns whether that handoff happens. Side by side means somebody does.
What happens next
The future
The people in these five counties need us. We owe it to them to make this sustainable, so we can serve them the way we all know they deserve.