Whole Person Care

About the Program

Category: Health (Best in Category)

Year: 2018

Placer County Whole Person Care (WPC) is a pilot project that provides intensive case management to high-risk individuals who need support from multiple government and community partners. Clients are typically homeless and frequent users of multiple services, including emergency departments, probation, mental health and substance use programs, and social services. Through WPC these clients receive help to meet their individual needs. One important goal of the program is to increase collaborative partnerships across multiple agencies and WPC has been able to form strong partnerships, complete MOUs and implement contracts with various entities including: local hospitals, mental health providers, law enforcement, managed health care plans, housing agencies, local homeless shelters and others. As a pilot program, WPC is also tasked to provide meaningful outcomes; therefore data collection and reporting is a core component of the program.