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1. Thrives Priority Area:
Behavioral Health
Andrea Pavlik, M.S., LPC
Kristen Martin, M.A., CPS

2. Behavioral Health
Priority Area
What is Behavioral Health?
Behavioral health includes the
emotions and behaviors that affect
your overall well-being. It generally
refers to mental health and substance
use disorders, life stressors and crises,
and stress-related physical symptoms.
Behavioral health care refers to the
prevention, diagnosis and treatment of
those conditions.
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3. Chesapeake
Integrated
Behavioral
Healthcare
What do we do?

4. CIBH Programs
• Same Day Access Clinic – Same day appointments for
registration/intake to begin services at CIBH or to provide
linkage to resources if CIBH does not have services
individual is seeking
• Outpatient Counseling – for both mental health and
substance use
• Substance Use Groups
• Psychiatric Services for medication management
• Case Management – mental health, substance use,
intellectual and developmental disabilities
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5. CIBH Programs
• Office Based Addiction Treatment (OBAT) - Medication
assisted therapy for treating opioid dependence
• Emergency Services – 24/7 emergency call line and
prescreening services, also assist with linkage to inpatient
hospitalization
• Forensic Services – to assist individuals enrolled in Drug
Court, individuals discharging from jail and individuals
discharging from state psychiatric hospitals with linkage to
services and discharge planning
• Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) – long-term treatment
for those with serious mental illness
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6. CIBH Programs
• Prevention Services – provides outreach and training to the
community
• Peer Recovery Services – utilizes their lived experience to help others
in their own recovery process
• Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services – community day program
• Intellectual Disability Services – Respite resources, intermediate care
facility, supportive living program, community options group day
program, voucher program
• Infant and Toddler Connection of Chesapeake – early intervention
services
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7. Priority Area Objective #1:
Strengthen, expand, and diversify
behavioral health prevention-
oriented programming

8. Where we’ve been
• Prevention provides a multitude of trainings/presentations that
are offered to community members, providers and city
employees.
• Prevention hosts resource tables at events, leads the CWPC,
is involved in Chesapeake Thrives Initiative, distributes rack
cards, engages in marketing and awareness strategies and
attends relevant trainings and conferences to stay abreast of
hot topics, developing problem areas and new resources
available.
• CIBH Peer Services have also been filming a "Recovery Life"
series where they discuss behavioral health and interventions
and treatment available in efforts to decrease the stigma of
behavioral health conditions
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9. Where we’re going
• Prevention has been taking steps to get more involved in
the public school system/youth and faith-based
communities
• CIBH will be partnering with a digital platform called
Healthier 757 that will allow for free, online access to a
wide variety of informative resources targeting
prevention and treatment for behavioral health.
• CIBH was recently awarded a grant for a mobile harm
reduction unit that will be promoting community
awareness prevention, mental health, substance use
and wellness resources that are available.
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10. Priority Area Objective #2:
Strengthen, expand and
diversify behavioral health
intervention services

11. Where we’ve been
• CIBH has multiple representatives that are part of the
Chesapeake Thrives Initiative, allowing for collaboration
with a multitude of other providers.
• CIBH provides regular updates to local providers on
services that CIBH offers to increase awareness of
intervention resources.
• CIBH also provides resources for local outside providers to
community members who come to CIBH seeking services
that CIBH does not offer.
• Prevention utilizes multiple media platforms to promote
awareness of treatment interventions available to the
community.
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12. Where we’re going
• The mobile harm reduction unit and the partnership with
the Healthier 757 digital platform (mentioned on slide 9)
will allow for increased collaboration, awareness of
available resources and informative resources to help
decrease stigma associated with behavioral health.
• CIBH is in discussion with Virginia Health Department
and Healthy Chesapeake about potential partnerships
for the mobile harm reduction unit.
• The mobile harm reduction unit will be peer ran, allowing
for individuals with lived experience to work with
community members and help normalize and
destigmatize behavioral health and treatment available
to support recovery.
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13. Priority Area Objective #3:
Strengthen, expand, diversify
treatment services to improve
the behavioral health and well-
being of residents

14. Where we’ve been
• CIBH offers bus passes, interpretur services, diverse staff,
sliding scale fee for uninsured individuals and some services
both in-person and virtually and assistance with Medicaid
Application process
• Expanded hours in Same Day Acccess clinic and Outpatient
Services extended with evening hours
• Case Manager staffed at We Care Resource Center several
days a week to assist with linkage to services
• Prevention services hosts resource tables at events to
promote awareness of available resources
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15. Where we’re going
• Mobile Harm Reduction Unit will be community based
and will be able to "meet people where they are at" both
literally and figuratively
• CIBH is opening a 23-hour Crisis Receiving Center
• CIBH will be offering inductions in the OBAT program
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16. Chesapeake
Prevention &
Wellness
Coalition

17. History
• The coalition was originally two separate
coalitions – SUPAC and MHW
• CIBH Prevention recognized common goals and
combined them into one!
• Dual citizenship purpose – Thrives priority area
workgroup and CIBH Prevention funding
requirement!
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18. • Various CIBH departments
• Faith-based community
• NAMI
• Private behavioral health
clinic
• Health Department
• Various Human Services
departments
• Optima Health
• Family in Focus
• City HR department
• FACE
• Kempsville Center
• Chesapeake Regional
• CHKD
• Chesapeake Public Schools
• Chesapeake Parks and
Recreation
• Kin and Kids
• VB Strong Center
• Chesapeake Police Department
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Member Make-Up

19. Goals and Initiatives
• Overall Goals:
• To collaborate on common interests
• Partner for projects throughout the year
• Support each other's own initiatives
• Identify the needs of the citizens of Chesapeake and develop a
response.
• Goals specific for Spring 2024:
• Partner to host 2 conferences:
• 1 for seniors
• 1 for both youth and their families to increase attendance and provide
information to both groups at one time
• Increase membership by recruiting stakeholders from local
businesses and citizens
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20. How to get
involved?

21. What you can do!
• Join the coalition
• Support the objectives by
sharing the resources we
offer
• Attend trainings and events
hosted by CIBH Prevention
Team
• Break the stigma
• Spread the word
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22. thank you
Andrea Pavlik
Apavlik@chesapeakeibh.net
757-409-5753
Kristen Martin
kmartin@chesapeakeibh.net
757-536-6045