Behavioral Health and Health Facilities

Mission –
We ensure that positive meaningful opportunities are available for persons with mental illness, chemical dependency, developmental disabilities and those at risk. We provide support for individuals, families, and communities in assisting persons to achieve their potential and to gain greater control over the direction of their future.

Vision –
We envision a community that values and respects people and is responsive to their individual needs, wants and desires for the enrichment of their lives.

Values –
We believe in integrity-based leadership that is flexible enough to respond to change that is guided by individuals, families, and communities.

Office of Behavioral Health Services (OBHS)

This organization is responsible for programmatic oversight to State funded community-based services.

Office Health Facilities

Victoria Parlier Jones manages this unit and is responsible for the planning, development, funding and monitoring of the Acute Care Psychiatric Hospitals and Long Term Care Facilities.

Finance Administration

Joe Donchatz leads this organization. His team is responsible for all fiscal related duties, including:

budgeting for the Bureau and the State Hospitals
hospital oversight
grant allocations to the community behavioral health centers
monitoring compliance of grants with the community behavioral health centers
processing payments to grantees
administrative policy and support
performance measurements.

Data Integration & Security Division

Joe Donchatz leads this division which is responsible for the state-wide behavioral health data integrity and data security

Resource Planning & Development

This section of BHHF is managed by Ginny Fitzwater and is responsible for improving the allocation, configuration, and processing of Bureau human resource related activities in order to best accomplish the Bureau's Mission. These activities include monitoring, reporting and sharing of personal services information for utilization by the Bureau's Management Team. Processing and coordinating personnel actions, dissemination of changes in personnel related policy, assisting in personnel grievance monitoring, oversight, and resolution, as well as development of needed policies, procedures, and regulations are examples of these activities.

The Project Recovery Crisis Counseling Program was created in September 2001, following the severe flooding that plagued southern West Virginia in May - July of 2001. Additional flooding in May 2002 - August 2004 devastated many of the same areas and some other areas. Currently, outreach continues in several Regional offices throughout the state.

Ombudsman

This office was established to assist citizens of West Virginia in addressing concerns and grievances that they have regarding the behavioral health care delivery system and to provide for a process in which resolution of those issues can be accomplished.

The WVCCRT is a partnership among mental health, emergency medical services, law enforcement, fire, school, clergy, military, public health, and emergency management professionals.


Sunday, May 11, 2008
WV - DHHR - BHHF	Last updated: Tuesday, February 26, 2008