The History of Red Rock
1967-1973
The Oklahoma Mental Health Council (OMHC) is formed
and chartered as a non-profit organization.
OMHC becomes an Advisory Board to the University of
Oklahoma Medical School’s Department of Child Psychiatry and agrees to
provide them a free building. In
return, the Department of Psychiatry agrees to provide some free mental
health service to underserved children and families in Northeast
Oklahoma City who do not qualify as “training cases”.
1974-1979
OMHC hires a consultant
from the University of Oklahoma School of Social Work to determine what
model will best benefit the indigent youth of Northeast Oklahoma City in
need of mental health treatment.
OMHC separates from the
University to establish its own organization
A grant application is
submitted and funded under the Children/Family Section of the Federal
Community Mental Health Act. This
leads to the establishment of the Parent-Child Development Center (PCDC)
in September of 1974.
An expanded grant under the
revised Community Mental Health Act is submitted to the US Department of
Health and Human services. It
is approved and funded in May 1979.
June 1, 1979 the
Parent-Child Development Center becomes federally approved as a full
Comprehensive Community Mental Health Center.
The new name is Red Rock. Existing
programs are expanded and new ones created to provide a full range of
services for all ages and severity of behavioral health problems.
The staff grows from 20 to 80.
1980-1982
By the end of 1980 eleven
of the twelve federally mandated service programs are fully in place.
The twelfth, specialized residential services for the seriously
mentally ill, opens the next year and becomes one of the first such
programs in the state.
During 1982, separate
Advisory Boards are established in Lincoln and Pottawatomie counties as
well as for Parkview Place, Red Rock’s transitional living facility.
An integrated management
information system is purchased and installed.
Al client information is converted to the computerized system as
well as staff payroll. Program
monitoring and evaluation capabilities are greatly enhanced.
Red Rock is one of the first CMHC’s in the state to do this.
1983-1990
Federal Block Grant Funds
are transferred to the State Department of Mental Health.
A series of state budget cuts begins which will continue over
several years.
As dictated by the state, a
period of dramatic transition begins shifting emphasis from the federal
priority of prevention and services to children and families to a
primary focus of serving the seriously mentally ill population.
New specialized offices
designed for day hospital activities open in both Shawnee and Chandler.
A Fairweather Lodge program
is begun to provide housing for seriously mentally ill persons being
released from state hospitals.
Parkview Place increases
from 12 – 24 residential beds.
A unique new program, the
only one of its kind offered by a mental health center in Oklahoma,
opens for persons affected by HIV/AIDS.
Counseling, support, crisis intervention, and employment
coordination are made available. Its
employment component is highlighted in a national publication as one of
the thirteen most progressive HIV/AIDS programs in the country
Highly successful one-year
foundation grant for the HIV/AIDS employment program expires and is not
funded by the state. The
program ends.
1991-1995
1991 is a year of
significant accomplishments. Red
Rock is named one of the twelve best mental health centers in America in
the National Publication “Care of the Seriously Mentally Ill:
A Rating of State Programs”.
It is the only facility in the entire Southwestern USA to make
this list.
Revenue from Medicaid and
sources other than the Department of Mental Health becomes the largest
percentage of the total budget.
Two new contracts are
funded by the Department of Human Services which allow for significant
expansion of services to children at risk of out-of-home placement.
In April 1992 Red Rock
becomes the first mental health center in Oklahoma to receive a full
three-year accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of
Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF). Accreditation
is received in three program categories:
community mental health, psychosocial rehabilitation, and
supported employment.
Red Rock’s vocational
training and placement program for the mentally disabled is the largest
of its kind in the state. It
receives State and Regional awards.
More than thirty grants and
contracts are in place enabling expansion of client services to selected
target populations.
An office opens in Seminole
to serve children and adolescents in an underserved area.
Red Rock’s Mobile Crisis
Team is at work within an hour of the April 19th bombing of
the Federal Building. Over
a thousand hours of voluntary services to those affected is given by
staff over the following month.
Red Rock joins with three
health care organizations to market and provide services to meet new
state managed care standards. The
result is Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH, which offers a complete
continuum of mental health service for individuals of all ages.
The State cuts the
reimbursement rates of Medicaid, the largest funding source of community
mental health centers, by 30%. This
results in staff and service reductions.
Home-based family services are seriously cut. An intensive
treatment program for disturbed preschool children is eliminated after
20 years of operation.
Fee-for-service Medicaid is
replaced with a Managed Care System in the Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and
Lawton areas.
In 1995, Red Rock receives
its second three-year accreditation from CARF.
The number of programs certified increases from three to eight.
1996 – 1999
Creekside, a residential
treatment center for the seriously mentally ill, opens in Chandler.
Parkview Place expands from
24 to 36 beds available for residential treatment.
A full three-year
accreditation is again received in 1998 from CARF for nine separate
programs.
Dacotah Village, a
thirty-two-unit apartment complex, opens to provide housing for those
affected by HIV most of whom also suffer from behavioral
health/substance abuse problems.
In 1998, New Horizons, a
comprehensive mental health center founded in 1980 and serving eight
counties in Western Oklahoma, merges with Red Rock.
On September 1, 1998 New Horizons becomes Red Rock West.
Achievement House, the
Clubhouse Program in Oklahoma City, receives a full three-year
certification from the International Center for Clubhouse Development on
November 15, 1999. It is
one of the very small number in Oklahoma to ever attain this.
2000 – 2003
Red Rock staff provide
post-disaster services in virtually every school in Lincoln County
following the devastating tornadoes of May 1999.
Red Rock is awarded a
contract to establish a Program for Assertive Community Treatment (PACT)
in Tulsa for intensive treatment of the most severely mentally ill.
This program, one of the first two in Oklahoma, is to be a model
for other areas of the state in future years.
Wrap Around Services for
children and families are initiated in Red Rock West.
This program involves both the provision and coordination of a
full range of services needed by at-risk youth.
Once again, this is intended as a model program for other
facilities to follow.
Red Rock again receives a
three-year accreditation from CARF in 2001, this time for 14 separate
programs in 19 different offices and residential facilities.
Four new programs are accredited:
Intensive Family-Based Services, Prevention, Crisis
Stabilization, and Detoxification.
Affiliate agreements are in
place with over 70 mental health and related service providers.
The Systems of Care Best
Practice Model (as developed by SAMHSA through the National Technical
Assistance Center for Children’s Mental Health) is established by Red
Rock West.
Red Rock North is awarded a
special contract for the provision of substance abuse services to the
gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered population in the greater
Oklahoma City area.
Specialized accreditation
is awarded by CARF, the Rehabilitation Accreditation Commission, to the
PACT program in Tulsa.
Red Rock merges its
pharmacy and medication clinic with North Care and Community Counseling
Center. The new medication clinic is called North Rock and is located
in Red Rock’s main facility. During
the first six months of operation, an average of 1,800 med clinic visits
and 180 med evaluations per month are provided.
Chisholm Trail Counseling
Center, with offices in El Reno, Yukon, Norman, and Chickasha becomes a
subsidiary corporation of Red Rock, with the intent to be fully merged
with Red Rock on July 1, 2003.
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