Jared Sanford is the President and CEO of Valley Behavioral Health in Utah. Before Valley, Sanford was President and CEO of Lifeline Connections, a substance use and mental health treatment facility in Vancouver, WA.
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February 17, 2021
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has announced Grant Blackford Mental Health Center (GBMH) has received a two-year, $4M grant to expand and enhance behavioral health services in Grant and Blackford Counties. This grant, funded in part by the CARES Act, enables GBMH and 10 other Indiana CMHCs to operate as Certified Community Behavioral Health Centers (CCBHCs).
GBMH will utilize the additional funding to improve the behavioral health care services available in Grant and Blackford Counties through an increase in provision of community-based mental and substance use disorder services; advancing integration of behavioral and physical health care; assimilation and utilization of evidence-based practices more consistently; and improving access to high-quality care. Created by the National Excellence in Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Expansion Act, the purpose of the CCBHC program is to increase access to more comprehensiv