Community Mental Health Centers

The State of Arkansas is seeking bids for Community Mental Health Centers to provide crisis services for the uninsured, engage difficult-to-serve adult populations, and provide services to those who live in hard-to-serve areas of the state. The contractor will be responsible for providing a well-coordinated array of programmatic and treatment services, including crisis screenings and stabilization services, Forensic Outpatient Restoration Program services, and the enhanced use of a paraprofessional workforce. The contractor must be enrolled as a Medicaid provider of professional services and Home and Community-Based Services, have a current Behavioral Health Agency or Community Support Service Provider certification level, and be licensed by the Department of Human Services to provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment Services. • The contractor will provide services in one of the twelve designated state regions. • The contractor will be responsible for providing crisis intervention and stabilization services, as well as other services, to meet the client's behavioral health needs and prevent further deterioration or hospitalization. • The contractor will maintain a local behavioral health and community resource directory to ensure public information and education is widely available. • The contractor will provide services to difficult-to-serve adult populations, including those with Serious Mental Illness, in jail, involved in the forensic system, and those who are unlikely to voluntarily participate in behavioral health services. • The contractor will provide periodic crisis intervention and stabilization, and extra support to live as independently as possible in the community.