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Chapter 9: Integrated Health Care Recommendations • Integrated Health Care/Mental Health/Alcohol and Other Drug recommendations are - grouped into the following topics: Outreach and Access to a Full Range of Care Prevention and Early Intervention. First Year Goals • Maintain and support existing crisis management, outreach and intervention programs which provide mobile health services and referrals at parks and homeless service sites all over the county and pays health providers to treat homeless people they -' refer. • Maintain and support the existing 24 hour, county-wide Alcohol and Drug crisis hotline and publicize its availability rnunty-wide. • Establish at least one new multidisciplinary health team for underserved parts of the county. Specific locations will be determined in the planning process. Each team will include a mental health technician, AOD specialist, health coordinator and peer - (homeless or formerly homeless) outreach worker, providing care to homeless people in an integrated "whole person" way. Ties with off-site providers will be established to provide a broader range of support services to clients than the teams themselves - provide. The teams will move from site to site on a rotating basis, although specific teams may be based at particular sites. • Expand the number of AOD pre treatment, detox, outpatient, short-term residential, and long-term residential treatment slots. Special priority should be given to increasing beds for dually diagnosed homeless people and programs that accommodate single parents with children. Access to beds should be flexible without regard to what area of the county the homeless person is coming from when possible. _ Alameda County-Wide Homeless Continuum of Care Plan: April 1997 _ 114