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OVHC reports growing service volume and pushes to expand mobile crisis coverage
Summary
OVHC told commissioners it served more than 21,100 unduplicated individuals last fiscal year, is recruiting clinical staff and aims to expand mobile crisis response toward 24/7 community coverage while producing an annual report and strategic-plan executive summary.
OVHC CEO David McClam reported to the commissioners that the organization served over 21,100 unduplicated individuals in the last fiscal year and provided more than 32,000 services countywide. He said OVHC has added two new board members and is actively recruiting a psychiatric prescriber and two master's-level therapists.
McClam described plans to expand mobile crisis capacity so teams of two can respond in the community during evening and overnight hours, and explained a phased approach: focus first on full-time mobile crisis coverage, then evaluate a separate children's mobile crisis model. He also described housing-related services, including the Shiloh House program funded in part by county sales tax dollars and the effort to open step-down beds for people discharged from 24/7 facilities.
Commissioners, OVHC board and staff discussed transparency and reporting; OVHC will create an annual report and circulate an executive summary of its strategic plan to stakeholders. McClam asked the board for continued advocacy to preserve state funding streams given reported state budget pressures.
The board thanked OVHC for the update. No direct funding action was taken in this meeting, but commissioners noted opioid settlement application timing and future RFPs that may intersect with behavioral-health funding priorities.
