Suncoast Center Inc

Family integrated services provides children under 18 and their family members with crucial services that respond to mental health and substance abuse challenges. These services include both medical and non-medical services. Provided on an outpatient model, services include mental health assessment, psychiatric evaluation, medication management, individual counseling, group therapy programs, family support therapy, and resource assistance. Clinical services utilize evidence based models that are family-centered and solution focus, and built upon the child's strengths and needed resources. During 2023-2024, of the children receiving services, 63% demonstrated improvement overall functioning within the first 6 months of treatment.suncoast center provides community based family therapy support programs including school based services, home based services, and early childhood services. There supportive services focus on short term therapy for long term solutions by supporting interventions that effect change for the entire support system of children. The programming builds upon families helping families, and increases social supports and confidence within the families.

Suncoast center provides a broad range of psychiatric and individual, family, and group therapy services designed to develop support resources, and to resolve emotional and behavioral problems. Services can be office or home-based. Suncoast center's goal is to provide solutions for life's stressors to families and individuals in our community. With a staff of more than 200 highly qualified professionals, including medical doctors, psychiatrists, registered nurses, licensed therapists, case managers, support staff and volunteers, suncoast center is dedicated to helping clients meet the challenges they face on a daily basis. This dedication is demonstrated in the excellent outcomes we've achieved. During 2023-2024, suncoast center provided 264,463 services to over 17,458 individuals throughout pinellas county. Suncoast center was awarded a substance abuse and mental health service administration (samhsa) certified community behavioral health clinic (ccbhc) grant. This grant is designed to assist in the transformation of behavioral health services nationwide. In november of 2023 we received notification that our certification was approved, documenting that suncoast center is completing all required elements of a ccbhc. Suncoast center continues to utilize this national model of care, build upon the evidence based practices, and build the data reporting processes of a ccbhc.suncoast center continues to be recognized as a leader in our community for our collaboration with partners in the community. Suncoast center has lead the pinellas behavioral health system of care, a network of more than 50 community agencies, individuals, and stakeholders interested in improving care for our community. The workgroup convenes in order to analyze gaps in the coordination of care and implement improvements to our system of care. Suncoast center is also recognized for organizing and facilitation the zero suicide partners of pinellas, a collaborative approach to suicide prevention which promotes integrated care and organized outreach into the community.suncoast center received a samhsa zero suicide grant addressing the implementation of a suicide prevention care pathway that is collaborative with our community partners, and has completed extensive training and outreach within our community. Taking on the action message of "be kind, be curious, and be connected" we have expanded our outreach messaging to reach populations at risk with specific actions everyone can do to assist with prevention.

Suncoast center is pinellas county's only certified sexual assault services provider certified through the florida council against sexual violence. Services provided include a 24-hour sexual assault hotline, sexual assault victim examinations (save), forensic evidence collection, counseling, support groups, education, awareness and preventive services. During 2023-2024, sexual assault services responded to 808 rape crisis calls, conducted 201 sexual assault exams and provided advocacy services to 257 victims of sexual assault. We serve victims of trauma, regardless of whether they have experienced recent or past trauma. We have special connections to the local schools and universities in order to best connect our education and awareness campaigns.suncoast center is one of the largest utilizers of long-acting injectable antipsychotic medication in the state of florida. Long-acting injectable antipsychotic medications can be more efficient and effective for some clients. They can increase medication compliance, improve daily functioning and stability, and improve long-term outcomes for severely and persistently mentally ill clients. We have repeatedly seen positive life changing impacts on individuals' lives and societal integration through the use of this and other interventions.while services may appear to be traditional outpatient therapy or medication management, they are actually embedded with the very effective culture of feedback informed treatment which assists both client and staff in working together to ensure good engagement, connection and positive outcomes. Trauma informed care and culture is also embedded in all our services because we know how recognizing the impact of, and treating trauma improves the outcomes for our clients. Beyond our office walls, at our many sites throughout pinellas, we bring the care to our clients in a variety of ways. Thirty percent (30%) of our services are in community locations such as jails, client homes, schools, or embedded into other community locations. We have therapists housed in ten elementary schools and in the health clinics of seven high schools. Suncoast center is a leadership member of "the wellness connection" which seeks to collaboratively build a centralized access point for behavioral wellbeing assistance with 11 primary partners and linkages to behavioral health services in pinellas.the agency is accredited by the commission on accreditation of rehabilitation facilities (carf) and holds a substance abuse license from the department of children and families.