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County health department presents Comprehensive Local Plan work session; board signals support for systemwide behavioral health transformation
Summary
The Multnomah County Health Department presented a work-session update on the Comprehensive Local Plan (CLP) and CLP-plus, focusing on three goals: build system capacity, strengthen service delivery and address social determinants like housing. Commissioners emphasized urgency, system coordination and moving from plan to implementation.
Health Department leaders briefed the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners on the county’s Comprehensive Local Plan (CLP) work session and the CLP-plus framework, describing an action-oriented plan to build behavioral-health system infrastructure, improve data and analytics, expand workforce capacity, and address basic needs such as housing that drive behavioral-health outcomes.
Senior managers framed the plan around three goals: (1) build capacity for behavioral-health system transformation (governance, staffing, cross-sector coordination and shared metrics); (2) strengthen service delivery and fill workforce gaps (with a focus on recruiting and retaining BIPOC providers and tracking real-time service availability); and (3) address upstream social determinants by bolstering housing and…
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