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24 <br />As mentioned earlier, OPC is fortunate to have a comprehensive provider <br />community. OPC relies upon these providers to serve the LME's catchment <br />area, and recognizes the .need for a mechanism to assure the opportunity for <br />meaningful involvement by community providers in the OPC LME consumer <br />service delivery system. <br />We envision that the goal of the Provider Council will be to work in partnership <br />with the LME through system reform to promote a strong system of high quality <br />services for consumers with MH/DD/SA needs. Through,eollaboration with OPC, <br />the Council will foster practices that support consumer" access with appropriate <br />choices and high quality outcomes, ar~d within.!available resources, in a <br />community-based system of care. ' <br />~_- <br />• Expand provider training programs to include service specific trainings on <br />enhanced benefit services and on Evidence-Based Practices; Additionally, <br />the LME will offer specialized trainings based on community .identified <br />needs. <br />Target Date: On-going ~' <br />Responsible Parties and Stakeholders: QI/PR Department, Human Resources <br />Department, CFAC, Provider~Community <br />Since implementing OPC's Training`,,;Pi~ogram, it has become readily apparent <br />that our provider community is`~~nterested in .and willing to seek specialized <br />trainings. Through our provider ;;monitoring process, it has become equally <br />apparent that this training is greatly `reetled. We would like to expand our current <br />training program to be able to offer service specific trainings and host Evidence- <br />Based Practices training so that providershave local access to these resources. <br />By offering these trainings, we will also ~be better able to monitor the quality of the <br />training .received by the staff who will actually be providing the services. <br />• Participate in the on-going evaluation of the IPRS contracting process to <br />assure that state funds are allocated to quality providers that. are achieving <br />positive outcomes for consumers. <br />Target Date: On-going <br />Responsible Parties and Stakeholders: OPC Utilization Management (UM) <br />Committee, Area Quality Management Committee (AQMC), Senior Management, <br />CFAC, Area Board <br />As part of our comprehensive financial management plan, OPC's UM Committee <br />has identified criteria for resource allocation through the IPRS contracting <br />process. The criteria are as follows: <br />Are there funds available? <br />Does the new or increased service fit with DMH's priorities of <br />serving the most severely impaired individuals first? <br />24 <br />