LSF Health Systems

WHO ARE WE? LSF Health Systems (LSFHS) is the not-for-profit behavioral health Managing Entity contracted by the Florida Department of Children and Families to serve a 23-county region in Northeast and North Central Florida. The role of the Managing Entity is to bring together community stakeholders and assess, plan, allocate and monitor the use of state and federal funds, to leverage local resources and to bring additional resources to the system to effectively meet the unique and specific behavioral health needs of our 23-county service area. LSFHS promotes and supports the development of holistic, innovative and evidence-based programs within a strength-based, recovery-oriented system of care.

LSFHS serves a diverse area that encompasses rural, suburban and urban communities. Counties served include Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Duval, Flagler, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Hernando, Lake, Lafayette, Levy, Marion, Nassau, Putnam, St. Johns, Sumter, Suwannee, Union and Volusia counties.

OUR VISION: We envision communities where each child, adult and family has access to the behavioral health services they need to live well and be well.

OUR MISSION: Our mission is to develop and sustain an integrated system of behavioral health care through a network of services built on integrity, innovation and collaboration.

Chief Executive Officer

Our Network Service Providers

Ability Housing of Northeast Florida	Fresh Ministries	NAMI Hernando
Alachua County Board of County Commissioners	Gainesville Opportunity Center	NAMI of Marion County
BayCare Behavioral Health	Gainesville Peer Respite	Northwest Behavioral Health Services
Camelot Community Care	Gateway Community Services	Operation PAR
Cathedral Foundation dba Aging True	Gulf Coast Jewish Family & Children’s Services	Orange Park Medical Center
CDS Family & Behavioral Health Services	Halifax Medical Center	Phoenix Houses of Florida
Child Guidance Center	Hanley Center Foundation	River Region Human Services
Children’s Home Society	Healthy Start Coalition of Flagler & Volusia	School Board of Clay County
Clay Behavioral Health Center	Hernando County Anti-Drug Coalition	Sinfonia Family Services of Florida
Community Coalition Alliance	I.M. Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless	SMA Healthcare
Community Rehabilitation Center	LifeStream	St. Augustine Youth Services
Daniel Memorial	Marlyn Behavioral Health System	Starting Point Behavioral Healthcare
Dayspring Village	Mental Health America of East Central Florida	The Centers
Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center	Mental Health America of Northeast Florida	The House Next Door
Eckerd Youth Alternatives	Mental Health Resource Center	United Way of Suwannee Valley
EPIC Community Services	Meridian Behavioral Healthcare	Urban Jax dba Aging True
Flagler Hospital	Metro Treatment Center	Vincent House
Florida Recovery Schools	Mid Florida Homeless Coalition
Florida United Methodist Children’s Home	NAMI Gainesville

Services and Programs

24-hour Access to Care Line	FACT – Florida Assertive Treatment Team	Peer Workforce Training and Development
Assessment	First Episode Psychosis	Pregnant & Post-partum Women SUD Treatment
Case Management/Intensive Case Management	FIT – Family Intensive Treatment	Psychiatric Medication Management
Care Coordination	HIV Services	Respite
CAT – Community Action Treatment	Hospital Bridge Programs for SUD treatment	Specialty Court Diversion
Central Receiving System	Indigent Psychiatric Medication Program	State Hospital Diversion
Crisis Stabilization	Information & Referral/Outreach	Housing Resources/Supported Housing
Crisis Counseling Program (Disaster)	Medication Assisted Treatment	Supported Employment
Crisis Support/Emergency	Mobile Response Teams	Telehealth
Day Treatment	Outpatient Mental Health – Individual & Group	Training Institute
Inpatient Detox	Outpatient Substance Abuse- Individual & Group	Wraparound
Drop In Center/ Mental Health Clubhouse	Peer Recovery Support	TASC – Treatment Alternatives for Safer Communities

Our Accomplishments

• LSFHS Administrative Rate is 2.8% of the $152M dollar annual budget.
• Through our robust care coordination efforts at both the ME and the provider level, recidivism rates for high utilizers of acute care services (crisis units, detox and jail) enrolled in our program have averaged 3-5%, far below industry standards.
• Co-located a family care coordination specialist in the children’s crisis unit, which dramatically reduced the number of readmissions to the crisis unit. Children with 10-20 admissions per year have now been stabilized in the community with no new admissions.
• Established a toll-free, 24/7 ACCESS to CARE line, manned by our clinical team to assist with referral information.
• All CAT and FIT Teams have been trained in the evidence-based, nationally recognized High-Fidelity Wraparound model.
• ROSC Peer Training Initiative – LSF Health Systems secured a 4-year competitive HRSA grant. The grant award of $1,148,296 provides an enhanced, two-tiered recovery Certified Recovery Peer Specialist (CRPS) training program for up to 70 individuals per year who will serve rural and medically underserved areas throughout LSF Health Systems’ 23-countyregion. The 2017 grant award is an expansion and enhancement of the CRPS training partnership with Jacksonville University that began in the fall of 2016. The new program uses a two-phase hybrid curriculum that can be completed in eight to sixteen weeks. The first phase includes required trainings, while the second phase provides additional optional trainings based on individual needs. LSFHS is first in the state to provide certification training for Recovery Peer Specialists.
• Project Save Lives – LSFHS has been a partner in Project Save Lives, one of the first and most successful hospital bridge programs to address substance use disorder by bringing peer specialists into the emergency department to intervene when individuals present with an overdose. Reduced numbers of overdose deaths, EMT responses, emergency room admissions and endocarditis related to opioid use have resulted in hundreds of thousands of system cost savings.
• Established a Housing and SOAR Division to identify and secure housing options for consumers in our network of care.
• LSFHS has brought an additional $7.2M in grant resources to serve the individuals in need in our service area serving as the lead applicant or a partner in grant applications including Criminal Justice Reinvestment Grants, SAMHSA and HRSA federal grants as well as private foundation grants such as Florida Blue Foundation.
• Established the LSF Training Institute that provides a robust catalogue of trainings on evidence-based practices, peer specialist certification and trauma-informed care. The Institute provides CEUS for most disciplines.
• In 2019 hosted the inaugural Innovation in Behavioral Health Summit at the Guidewell Innovation Center in Orlando.
• LSFHS has piloted a co-responder program with Meridian Behavioral Health and Gainesville Police Department that pairs a licensed clinician with a specially trained officer to respond to calls related to behavioral health. The program has resulted in 91% of individuals who could have been arrested being diverted and 79% of potential Baker Acts being diverted to outpatient or voluntary admission. The program is being replicated in other jurisdictions.
• LSFHS one of three Managing Entities selected by Florida Council to implement the Florida Linking Individuals Needing Care (LINC) project, a suicide prevention initiative that includes Care coordination and Suicide Prevention trainings.

LSF Health Systems 9428 Baymeadows Rd. Jacksonville, FL 32216 904-900-1075