The Pinellas Integrated Care Alliance will lead and support the PIC Team in assisting individuals referred by the PCMHU (Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office) by providing an array of services to prevent further contact with law enforcement, crisis stabilization units, and emergency rooms.
Alliance Funder:
The Pinellas Integrated Care Alliance created the PIC Team with the goal to create system change. The PIC Team is a collaborative effort of the following agencies: Personal Enrichment through Mental Health Services, Inc. (PEMHS), Suncoast Center, and Baycare, Inc. The PIC Team provides System Coordination Services for individuals with complex needs, following the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office screening and referral.
The PIC Team will identify and resolve inefficiencies, barriers, gaps, and overlaps within the behavioral health system of care. The PIC Team is a diverse, well-educated, highly experienced group of professionals that will help the citizens of Pinellas County experience true access to seamless services. The Pinellas Integrated Care Team (PIC Team) can serve up to 120 clients, ages 18 and older.
PIC is a prevention initiative focusing on providing clients the right service, at the right time, for the right need. The initiative provides support and wrap-around services to meet the client’s basic needs and helps to empower them to become self-sufficient.
The goal of PIC services is to provide quality care and support during a time of need. The focus is to assist the client in reducing barriers they may face, in an intensive wraparound model; to help achieve overall strengthened sustainability.
Front line direct care staff, System Coordinators, are empowered to utilize and access Pinellas County resources on a client by client basis; all services are individual in scope and reflect the uniqueness of each client and their presenting circumstances.
The service duration of Service Coordination is brief, generally up to 6 months. Linkages to community resources, services with increased community resource knowledge, and successful sustainability on behalf of the clients served.
The Client completes a self-sufficiency matrix with their System Coordinator and together develops an individualized Service Plan, identifying and prioritizing the most pressing barriers preventing the client’s stability. The System Coordinator then works collaboratively with the client and any identified support system to educate on and link to community services, resources, and supports, to alleviate the identified needs and barriers.
PIC TEAM SUPERVISOR:
PIC Team includes:
