Rebalancing
Initiative
MISSISSIPPI
Grant Information
Name of Grantee
Mississippi
Department of Mental Health
Title of Grant
Mississippi Statewide Coordinated Transportation System
Type of Grant
Rebalancing
Initiative
Amount of Grant
$282,700
Year Original Funding
Received
2004
Contact Information
Matt Armstrong, Director
MS Department of Mental Health
Division of Community Services
601-359-1288
matt.armstrong@dmh.state.ms.us
Jake Hutchins, MSW
Division of Community Services, DMH
239 North Lamar Street, Suite 1101
Jackson, MS 39201
601-359-1288
jake.hutchins@dmh.state.ms.us
Subcontractor(s)
Community Mental Health
Centers in Region 4, Corinth,
MS (North) and Region 15, Vicksburg, MS (Central)
Jan Larsen
Global Strategies Incorporated
Target Population(s)
Adults, adolescents, and parents
of children with disabilities.
Goals
- Develop a model for a
statewide coordinated transportation system for Mississippi that will ensure
self-directed access by adults and children with a disability to
community-based services that will provide them with long-term support,
thereby reducing or eliminating their need for institutional services.
- Develop a financing
plan for the statewide coordinated transportation system that will ensure
its long-term sustainability.
- Develop a
comprehensive plan to monitor the operation of the statewide coordinated
transportation system for quality, reliability, cost effectiveness, and
stakeholder satisfaction.
- Develop a plan for the
implementation of the model for the statewide coordinated transportation
system in one or more test sites.
Activities
- Review transportation
service models currently in operation in the State to determine models or
components of these models that may be appropriate for the statewide
system.
- Identify and summarize
strengths and weaknesses of models in other states or countries that may
be appropriate for Mississippi's
system.
- Finalize a model
design for Mississippi's
system.
- Identify all funding
sources for transportation that are currently being used, as well as
funding available but not being used by the State, and any other possible
options.
- Prepare a summary
report of the financing options for a coordinated transportation system in
Mississippi,
identifying the strengths/weaknesses and benefits/disadvantages of each,
and include recommendations for optimal funding options.
- Establish performance
standards and a monitoring schedule for the system to ensure that system
stakeholders are satisfied, that the cost of the system is reasonable
compared to similar systems, and the design of the system incorporates
best practices.
- Develop criteria to
monitor health status changes in beneficiaries who access services through
the coordinated transportation system and develop cost comparison criteria
to review the cost of services provided compared to the cost of services
provided through systems of similar design and funding sources.
- Prepare a written
report establishing a monitoring and evaluation plan for the coordinated
transportation system.
- Develop criteria for
the selection of model sites and to determine the number of sites to be
established.
- Develop criteria to
establish (1) a schedule for the monitoring and evaluation of the system
at the test sites and (2) the composition of the evaluation team to
conduct the monitoring and evaluation activities.
- Develop a written plan
and schedule for the implementation of the statewide coordinated
transportation system at the test sites.
Abstract
The Mississippi Department of Mental Health, in
partnership with the Mississippi Division of Medicaid and other consumer and
stakeholder organizations, will develop a plan for the design and
implementation of a system of statewide, coordinated transportation services
for adults and children of all ages with a disability. This system will provide
accessibility by these persons to long-term support services anywhere in the
State. This comprehensive accessibility to community-based services will give
them a full range of noninstitutional options for
care based on service choices they make for themselves.