Treating Mental Illness & Co-Morbidity Development Disability—The Merakey Model

Some of the best-practices for delivering home- and community-based services include the need to create interdisciplinary teams to deliver consumer-centric, personalized services across “flexible” service locations. For more on what a “best-practice” program looks like, we had a chance to sit down with Merakey Clinical Lead Specialist Kristin Cline, and Merakey Clinical Director Kevin Kumpf, Ph.D. about Merakey’s dual diagnosis treatment services: Dual Diagnosis Treatment Teams (DDTT), which operates in Pennsylvania, and Intensive Transition Services (ITS) in California.

Merakey is a national non-profit organization that provides developmental (4,015 consumers), behavioral health (35 . . .