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Meet Our CCBHC Team

CCBHC Support is a part of Gary Bess Associates (GBA). Founded in 1991, GBA has helped more than 500 private, not-for-profit organizations and public agencies meet their missions and better serve their clients and communities. GBA has three-decade history of success delivering customized consultation services ranging from developing community health assessments, program evaluations, GIS mapping and analysis, community health planning, strategic planning, and grant proposal development. 

 

In 2019, GBA became involved with the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) program, funded by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Since then, GBA has worked with more than a dozen agencies to assess readiness for the program; has assisted twelve (12) CCBHCs with their attestation process; has written 18 CCBHC grant proposals; and has served as the evaluator for nine (9) CCBHC programs. We have worked with CCBHCs across multiple states: California, Alaska, Alabama, New Jersey, and Florida. Four of our six CCBHC team members are trained social workers (MSW and DSW), which lends to our passion and expertise in the CCBHC program.

 

To formalize our work in this arena, GBA established this website, CCBHC Support, to streamline the provision of resources, guidance, and consultation to current, new, and prospective CCBHCs. At GBA, we believe the CCBHC has become the standard of behavioral health care for diverse, low-income, underserved, uninsured, and marginalized populations. We are passionate about the CCBHC program - with experience serving clinics in all aspects - from assessing readiness to grant writing, to implementation, compliance, attestation/certification, federal reporting, and full-service evaluation. We would be honored to work with your organization in this area. 

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South Central Alabama Mental Health Center (SCAMHC) | Andalusia, Alabama

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"After we received our SAMHSA CCBHC PDI Grant, we engaged Gary Bess Associates as our Project Evaluator. They have been more than just a “Project Evaluator," they have worked with us on just about every aspect of the CCBHC project. They essentially handed us our Diversity Impact Statement when we started the CCBHC project. This was a tremendous help when we were overwhelmed with work and information during the initial months of the project. GBA has been able to help us with any questions concerning the CCBHC criteria and supported us through the evaluation and data planning process working with us on our sampling plan, the list of measures, and our internal data collection process and plan. ​We worked with GBA on our CCBHC Attestation and the supporting documentation. GBA provided us with a roadmap to develop our Attestation document and provided us with support, suggestions and help along the way. If you work with GBA, follow their roadmap and put the work in, you will be successful with your CCBHC. They are a pleasure to work with. GBA and their staff have been the best decision I’ve made through our entire CCBHC journey and my staff feel the same way!”

- Tommy Wright, Chief Executive Officer at SCAMHC

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