- NOFOs
- Awards
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SM062450-01 | LOCAL MANAGEMENT BOARD OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY | ANNAPOLIS | MD | $4,000,000 | 2015 | SM-15-009 | |||
Title: SOC-Expansion and Sustainability
Project Period: 2015/09/30 - 2019/09/29
Resources for Emergency Departments, Schools and Police to Improve Outcomes, Engagement and Diversion (RESPOND), submitted by the Anne Arundel (AA) County Partnership for Children, Youth and Families in partnership with the AA County Mental Health Agency, will strengthen AA County's system of care (SOC) by developing, testing, and taking to scale a crisis response and stabilization system (CRSS) for children and youth with serious emotional disturbance (SED) and their families.
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SM062451-01 | CITY OF SAINT LOUIS MENTAL HEALTH BOARD | ST. LOUIS | MO | $924,610 | 2015 | SM-15-009 | |||
Title: SOC-Expansion and Sustainability
Project Period: 2015/09/30 - 2019/09/29
The St. Louis Regional System of Care is a collaborative effort to build meaningful partnerships with families, youth and public/private child serving agencies, and community based organizations to provide culturally competent services and supports for all children from birth to age 21 with or at risk of developing an SED to enable them to function successfully in their homes, schools, communities, and throughout life. STL-SOC is committed to a paradigm shift in children's mental health service delivery that institutionalizes a collaborative approach and fundamentally changes the way we do business.
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SM062452-01 | SEMINOLE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE | SANFORD | FL | $1,000,000 | 2015 | SM-15-009 | |||
Title: SOC-Expansion and Sustainability
Project Period: 2015/09/30 - 2019/09/29
The Seminole County System of Care (SCSOC) Expansion is a four-year project to expand the system of care on behalf of transition-aged youth (14-21) with mental health and/or co-occurring disorders (mental health/substance abuse), improving the bridge between child and adult-serving systems. SCSOC utilizes the evidence-based/evidence-emerging practices of Wraparound, Achieve My Plan! and Wellness Recovery Action Plan to engage youth in their path to recovery. Priority populations include: 1) those with current or former involvement in foster care, juvenile justice, criminal justice or special education; 2) LGBTQI2-S; 3) physical disabilities and/or chronic illness; 4) runaway; 5) homelessness; 6) human trafficking. SCSOC will serve approximately 41 youth in each of years 1-2, and 50 youth in each of years 3-4 (total 182 in project period) with grant funding. As additional funding is identified, the number of youth served will increase.
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SM062453-01 | COUNTY OF ORANGE | ORLANDO | FL | $1,000,000 | 2015 | SM-15-009 | |||
Title: SOC-Expansion and Sustainability
Project Period: 2015/09/30 - 2019/09/29
The Orange County, Florida system of care initiative, Wraparound Orange, will expand and sustain a plan for comprehensive community mental health services for youth ages 14-21 that are experiencing a serious emotional disturbance and their families. Orange County and its partnering agencies are committed to working together to optimize outcomes, serve as a catalyst for broad-based sustainable systematic change, facilitate policy reform and develop further infrastructure for long-term sustainment of system of care principles and values. The project will serve one hundred youth and families per year for a total of four hundred over the life of the project. The project will continue to provide integrated home and community based services and supports in the community including care coordination and management utilizing a high-fidelity wraparound model. Additionally, mobile crisis response, respite, and workforce development will be added to the current service array.
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SM062454-01 | BROWARD COUNTY BOARD/CNTY COMMISSIONERS | FORT LAUDERDALE | FL | $1,000,000 | 2015 | SM-15-009 | |||
Title: SOC-Expansion and Sustainability
Project Period: 2015/09/30 - 2019/09/29
One Community Partnership 2 (OCP2) is an initiative to enhance the delivery of youth and family driven care to 200 youth (14-21) who experience mental health challenges and may also have co-occurring substance use or other complex issues such as trauma. This initiative is facilitating Broward’s System of Care implementation of effective transitional supports for youth entering adulthood on their way towards resiliency, recovery, and wellness. The target population of this project is youth and young adults (ages 14-21) with primary mental health disorders who may also have substance use, trauma, and other complex challenges This includes youth with Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED).The original OCP1 project (2002-2008) in Broward created the infrastructure to provide clinical and social support services to children ages 10-18 and their families utilizing the Wraparound Planning Process through centralized case management services. OCP2 will strengthen and supplement this initiative by embedding age-appropriate, recovery-oriented evidence-based practices for emerging adults and ensure youth "voice and choice".
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SM062455-01 | CITY OF WEST POINT | WEST POINT | MS | $3,462,330 | 2015 | SM-15-009 | |||
Title: SOC-Expansion and Sustainability
Project Period: 2015/09/30 - 2019/09/29
The City of West Point, in collaboration with the Region VII Mental Health/Mental Retardation commission (d.b.a. Community Counseling Services) and partners will expand, integrate and sustain the Golden Triangle Region System of Care (SOC) for Clay, Lowndes, Oktibbeha, and Noxubee Counties in Mississippi to further improve mental health outcomes for children and youth (ages 0-21) with serious emotional disturbance (SED) and their families.
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SM062456-01 | LOWER ELWHA KLALLAM TRIBAL COUNCIL | PORT ANGELES | WA | $573,410 | 2015 | SM-15-009 | |||
Title: SOC-Expansion and Sustainability
Project Period: 2015/09/30 - 2019/09/29
The .a.nsx.i (pronounced eah-n-shway) in the Native Klallam language, and in English translated as "You are My Very Breath" Systems of Care is a culturally responsive, family driven, youth guided System of Care (SOC) for the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribal community on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. The goal of our project is to screen approximately 200 children and youth from birth to age 21 and provide wrap-around mental health treatment and support services to approximately 120 children, youth and their families. Our Systems of Care Expansion Team (comprised of child-serving agencies, youth, parents, Tribal Elders, and other community members) have developed an SOC strategic plan, and help many youth-serving programs and support into a collaborative resource for our youth and families. Our program goals are to: provide a broad array of accessible, clinically effective, and fiscally accountable services, treatments and supports; create care management teams to develop, implement and enhance an individualized service plan for each child; incorporate a systems of care approach across child-serving agencies and deliver culturally competent services that address disparities; encourage and facilitate the full participation of children, youth, and families in service planning, in the development and evaluation and sustainability of local services and supports; and in overall system change activities.
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SM062460-01 | CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY DEPT OF MENTAL HYGIENE | MAYVILLE | NY | $1,000,000 | 2015 | SM-15-009 | |||
Title: SOC-Expansion and Sustainability
Project Period: 2015/09/30 - 2019/09/29
The Chautauqua Tapestry System of Care Expansion will engage children, youth and transition age/emerging adults ages 4-21 with serious emotional disturbance, early onset psychosis and/or a trauma history residing in Chautauqua County, New York reflective of the demographic characteristics of the County. The initiative will expand and enhance the quality and scope of current services, building models of excellence that can be replicated throughout New York State. The Chautauqua Tapestry System of Care Expansion work will be conducted in full partnership with NYS child-serving agencies. Strategies and interventions will include High Fidelity Wraparound; Transitions to Independence Program; Coordinated Specialty Care/Recovery After Initial Schizophrenic Episode; Early Recognition Screening; the Open Table; Trauma Informed Care; and Innovate, Educate, Collaborate. Full Scale Evaluation including National and Local methods and financial mapping and modeling will be conducted throughout the expansion initiative.
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SM062461-01 | ONONDAGA COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT | SYRACUSE | NY | $1,000,000 | 2015 | SM-15-009 | |||
Title: SOC-Expansion and Sustainability
Project Period: 2015/09/30 - 2019/09/29
The OnCare Juvenile Justice Project (Onondaga County, NY) will develop a coordinated system of behavioral health services and community supports so youth involved in the juvenile/criminal justice system are successful in home, school, and community settings. The project will serve 285 youth ages 12-18 years old that have serious emotional and behavioral needs. The project participants will be identified through universal screening of all youth in the justice system. In addition, the project will achieve these system-level objectives: a) Implement universal screening for behavioral health needs, trauma history, and suicidality for youth with any level of juvenile/criminal justice system involvement; b) Expedite access to behavioral health services; c) Expand local capacity to provide high quality therapeutic foster care as an alternative to detention and residential placement; d) Realign services to support the transition of 16 and 17 year old delinquents from the adult justice system to the juvenile justice system. e)Reduce juvenile justice disparities and disparities in behavioral health outcomes; f) Maximize the opportunities that will be available through the new Children's Health Homes to meet the behavioral health needs of youth in the juvenile/criminal justice system. g) Implement a strategic financing plan that maximizes local, state and federal funds to create a sustainable network of behavioral health services for high risk youth.
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SM062463-01 | PHILADELPHIA DEPT BEHAVIORAL HLTH/MR SRV | PHILADELPHIA | PA | $1,000,000 | 2015 | SM-15-009 | |||
Title: SOC-Expansion and Sustainability
Project Period: 2015/09/30 - 2019/09/29
The Philadelphia Integrated System of Care Expansion (PISCE) will reorganize the system of care for young people who would otherwise spend protracted periods of time in Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTF). PISCE will increase the capacity of High Fidelity Wraparound (HFW), a home based planning strategy, provide wide scale clinical education and reduce disparities in use of restrictive placements. Populations to be served: the eligible populations will be youth ages 10 -17 who are placed in PRTF and youth who can be diverted from PRTF through use of HFW as the planning strategy for home and community based services. These young people are likely to have complex needs and the majority will also be known to the Philadelphia Department of Human Services, the local child welfare agency, because of their dependency needs or delinquency.
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SM062464-01 | RIVERSIDE COUNTY DEPARTMENT/ MENTAL HLTH | RIVERSIDE | CA | $959,108 | 2015 | SM-15-009 | |||
Title: SOC-Expansion and Sustainability
Project Period: 2015/09/30 - 2019/09/29
The Riverside County Department of Mental Health's Youth Hospital Intervention Program will provide a team approach to evidence based treatment for youth at risk for psychiatric hospitalization. The program seeks to assist the nearly 2,800 children who are hospitalized annually in the tenth largest populated county in the United States. Targeting children with MediCal, the program will serve these children living in both urban and rural settings stem from communities of color with severe and emerging psychiatric needs. Teams of mental health professionals will partner with parents who have lived the experience of raising a child with specialized mental health needs. This team will work to divert children from psychiatric hospitalization, assist while in the emergency room, and link to community based behavioral health programs. Mental health professionals will be trained in evidence based practices grounded in theories of trauma treatment. As the project moves forward, collaborations with community and agency partners will enhance the overall efficacy of this effort to support the decrease of children detained from emergency room in the child welfare system.
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SM062466-01 | DESOTO COUNTY, MS BOARD OF SUPERVISORS | HERNANDO | MS | $983,474 | 2015 | SM-15-009 | |||
Title: SOC-Expansion and Sustainability
Project Period: 2015/09/30 - 2019/09/29
The NFusion Desoto project will serve an average 100 participants annually over the 4-year implementation period, or a total of 400 youth and young adults, ages 12-21, with a serious emotional disturbance (SED) who have a transition need including but not limited to; transitioning from child mental health services to adult mental health services and/or from an institutional setting to the community. Desoto County will administer the project, develop a cross-agency infrastructure and integrated system of care, and ensure national and local evaluation of performance is conducted. The project goals are to: 1) Expand community capacity to serve transitional age youth; 2) Provide a broad array of accessible and coordinated services/- supports; 3) Ensure individualized, managed care; 4) Plan, deliver, and evaluate these services with the full participation of families and youth in a culturally and linguistically sensitive manner; and 5) Facilitate broad-based, sustainable systemic support for the target population.
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SM062467-01 | BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION | BOSTON | MA | $1,000,000 | 2015 | SM-15-009 | |||
Title: SOC-Expansion and Sustainability
Project Period: 2015/09/30 - 2019/09/29
The Massachusetts Multi-City Young Children's Mental Health System of Care (SOC) Project brings together the state’s three largest cities (Boston, Worcester and Springfield) and several state agencies to implement the strategic plan developed through our SAMHSA-funded SOC Planning Project. The lead agency is the Boston Public Health Commission, the city's health department. The project has a two-fold purpose. (a) In the three cities, to expand and strengthen the system of care to better engage the primarily local institutions which already serve young children, ensure early detection and appropriate intervention for children up to age 6, better serve the families of young children with serious emotional disturbances and provide a detailed roadmap for integrating efforts across the multiple sectors that engage young children and families. (b) Statewide, to demonstrate a replicable and sustainable model for local mental health service delivery that is integrated with the existing state system, and use lessons learned from the project to influence major statewide improvements in the system of care for young children with serious emotional disturbances and their families.
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SM062468-01 | CMSU BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES | DANVILLE | PA | $1,000,000 | 2015 | SM-15-009 | |||
Title: SOC-Expansion and Sustainability
Project Period: 2015/09/30 - 2019/09/29
The Behavioral Health Alliance of Rural Pennsylvania (BHARP) System of Care (SOC) Project will improve behavioral health outcomes for children and youth by creating/enhancing family driven and youth driven cultures within all child serving systems, developing county leadership teams at the local county level with an emphasis on strong youth and family leadership, and creating a trauma informed system of care. The population to be served is children and youth from birth to 21 years of age who have an emotional, behavioral or mental disorder diagnosis, with multi system involvement, and who are struggling to function in their home, school, or community. The 23 BHARP member Counties will be divided into 2 groups for the purposes of implementation. Tier 1 counties will participate at the highest level and will function in leadership roles, while Tier 2 counties will be part of a learning community that will help them prepare to become system of care counties
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SM062469-01 | NJ STATE DEPT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES | TRENTON | NJ | $12,000,000 | 2015 | SM-15-009 | |||
Title: SOC-Expansion and Sustainability
Project Period: 2015/09/30 - 2019/09/29
Promising Path to Success, the New Jersey Department of Children and Families' Division of Children's System of Care (CSOC) proposes to introduce two trauma informed interventions, Six Core Strategies for Reducing Seclusion and Restraint Use (an evidenced based practice) and the Nurtured Heart Approach, across the Children's System of Care, in three pilot counties: Middlesex, Morris and Sussex. The Children's System of Care provides treatment to youth under 21 years of age with a seriously emotional disturbance or seriously mentall illness.
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SM062470-01 | PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY | UPPER MARLBORO | MD | $3,990,825 | 2015 | SM-15-009 | |||
Title: SOC-Expansion and Sustainability
Project Period: 2015/09/30 - 2019/09/29
The Prince George's County Collaborating across Organizations and Networks Necessary for Engaging Youth and Families and providing Community-based Treatment and Supports (PGC-CONNECTS), submitted by the Prince George's County Health Department (PGCHD) continues Maryland's local/state partnership and documented success in moving system of care (SOC) planning into policy and practice with sustainable funding mechanisms for statewide implementation and mechanisms for continuous quality improvement. PGCCONNECTS will focus on SOC redesign efforts that have been confirmed as vital and necessary through PGC's current SOC Expansion Planning Grant and include leveraging existing state and county resources to enhance a community-based service array to improve outcomes for children and youth (ages 0-21) with serious emotional disturbance (SED) and their families. PGC-CONNECTS will partner with Anne Arundel County and the State in the development of an expanded crisis response and stabilization system (CRSS) model.
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SM062471-01 | COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF CHARLES COUNTY | LA PLATA | MD | $3,988,685 | 2015 | SM-15-009 | |||
Title: SOC-Expansion and Sustainability
Project Period: 2015/09/30 - 2019/09/29
Building Resiliency from Infancy through Development, Growth, & Empowerment (BRIDGE), submitted by Charles County Advocacy Council for Children, Youth & Families on behalf of Calvert, Charles and St. Mary's Counties, will strengthen the Southern Maryland early childhood System Of Care (SOC) by developing, financing, testing, and taking to scale a tiered, evidence-based service array for young children 0-5 with behavioral health problems.BRIDGE will augment the current early childhood SOC in Southern Maryland by implementing a tiered model of trauma-informed, evidence-based practices (EBPs) and interventions that align with the established medical necessity criteria for the CCO, supporting integration within the larger SOC efforts in Maryland. Services to be funded by this proposal include intensive care coordination through the CCO for commercially-insured children whose insurance does not cover the CCO; bridge funds to cover the gap between the cost of providing specific EBPs (Parent-Child Interaction Therapy [PCIT] and Child Parent Psychotherapy [CPP]) and what is covered by Maryland Medical Assistance and commercial insurance providers; enhanced Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (E-MHC) services; and additional early childhood EBPs, including Circle of Security-Parenting (COS-P) and Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC); and, discretionary funds to cover the costs of an identified service or support in the plan of care that is attached to a particular need and goal but for which there is no source of funding. BRIDGE anticipates serving up to 100 children and families annually and over 350 over the 4 years of the cooperative agreement.
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SM062472-01 | NETWORK180 | GRAND RAPIDS | MI | $1,000,000 | 2015 | SM-15-009 | |||
Title: SOC-Expansion and Sustainability
Project Period: 2015/09/30 - 2019/09/29
The Expanding & Sustaining the Community Family Partnership for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances in Kent County, Michigan, Project is focused on dissemination, implementation and full-scale adoption of an integrated, culturally competent, evidence-based system of care for seriously emotionally disturbed children 0-17 years old in Kent County, MI, particularly those with multi-system involvement within the child welfare and/or juvenile justice systems and/or special education programs with significant gender and racial/ethnic disparities.
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SM062473-01 | CENTRAL PLAINS CENTER | PLAINVIEW | TX | $1,000,000 | 2015 | SM-15-009 | |||
Title: SOC-Expansion and Sustainability
Project Period: 2015/09/30 - 2019/09/29
The Rural Counties' Initiative (RCI), for Resiliency and Recovery in Systems of Care will enhance and expand the systems of care approach in the chiefly rural, 30 county region of the Texas Panhandle. RCI's local and regional SOC accomplishments will have a much broader statewide impact by providing an effective framework that can serve as a prototype for the other 168-rural/frontier counties in Texas, ensuring the widespread adoption of systems of care. RCI is a collaborative endeavor of The Panhandle-plains Partnership for Children and Families. Key leadership roles are being provided by Central Plains Center (CPC), Texas Panhandle Centers (TPC), and the Llano Estacado Alliance for Families (LEAF). CPC and TPC are community behavioral health centers. CPC's central office is in Plainview and provides behavioral health services to 9 rural and frontier counties; TPC's main office is in Amarillo and serves 21 counties "19 rural/frontier and 2 urban. The Texas Panhandle faces cultural and geographical challenges common in rural jurisdictions including poverty, isolated communities, inadequate access to care, and significant stigma associated with mental health care. Our initiative will serve young people, ages 13 to 21experiencing serious emotional disturbance and their families.
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SM062474-01 | DIVISION OF CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES | CARSON CITY | NV | $2,787,640 | 2015 | SM-15-009 | |||
Title: SOC-Expansion and Sustainability
Project Period: 2015/09/30 - 2019/09/29
The State of Nevada's Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS), as part of the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), provides a wide range of services for children, youth and families in Nevada. Program areas include Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice, as well as Youth Behavioral Health Services, DCFS also provides children direct services as well as oversight for the programs administered at the state and county level. In recognizing the important role the State has to protect and provide services to Nevada's vulnerable children, the Governor and Legislator passed Nevada Revised Statute (NRS) 433B to provide additional provisions related to children. This mandated that any county, whose population is 100,000 or more, establish a Mental Health Consortia. Nevada's vast geographic area required that one be created in Washoe County (Reno/Tahoe), Clark County (Las Vegas and area), and Rural Nevada (15 counties in rural/frontier Nevada). The consortium is mandated to include partners from the local, county and regional level including school districts chamber of commerce and business community, state agencies, juvenile probation, mental health care, foster care provider, a parent or guardian of a child with emotional disturbance, substance abuse agencies, advocates and provider organizations. DCFS serves as Nevada's Mental Health System of Care (SOC) expert and manages Nevada's Children's Mental Health System of Care Subcommittee as part of the Governor's Wellness and Behavioral Health Council. As evidenced by the letters of Commitment (attachments), Nevada is committed to statewide implementation to create sustainable infrastructure and services as part of the Children's Mental Health Initiative (CHMI). Nevada’s focus on SOC Expansion and sustainability is to improve mental health outcomes for children and youth (birth to 21 years of age) with a serious emotional disturbances (SED) and their families.
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SM062446-01 | CITY OF JACKSONVILLE | JACKSONVILLE | FL | $1,000,000 | 2015 | SM-15-009 | |||
Title: SOC-Expansion and Sustainability
Project Period: 2015/09/30 - 2019/09/29
The High-Fidelity Wraparound Services and Integrated care coordination for children and youth grant will serve approximately 650 annually ages 10-17, and represent our most vulnerable children. We propose to: 1) Identify all children ages 10-17 who are admitted for crisis stabilization in NE Florida (Baker Act); 2) Refer them upon discharge to a new Center for Children with Complex Mental Health Conditions (pediatrician, psychiatrist, psychologist; social work: 3) Respond to their immediate health and mental health needs, 4) Refer all at-risk patients, regardless of insurance status, to the level of mental health services required, e.g., psychiatry, high fidelity wraparound, care coordination; 5) provide comprehensive nurse care coordination to optimize outcomes, 6) engage the child’s community pediatrician in the care of the child or establish a medical-behavioral health home for the child in the Center; and 7) expand our Collaborative Care system to prepare increasing numbers of community pediatricians to provide medical behavioral health homes for vulnerable children and youth. 8) Engage the child’s community pediatrician in the care of the child or establish a medical-behavioral health home for the child in the Center; and 9) expand our Collaborative Care system to prepare increasing numbers of community pediatricians to provide medical-behavioral health homes for vulnerable children and youth. Our intent is to significantly decrease the number of admissions into the CSU and recidivism rates, and to increase the number of children and counties served.
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SM062447-01 | COMMONWEALTH HEALTHCARE CORPORATION | SAIPAN | MP | $1,000,000 | 2015 | SM-15-009 | |||
Title: SOC-Expansion and Sustainability
Project Period: 2015/09/30 - 2019/09/29
The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation (CHCC) System of Care (SOC) Project will engage key stakeholders to collaboratively implement an efficient, consumer-friendly system of care that promotes integrated health, social, and support services for children and youth with Serious Emotional Disturbances and their families/caregivers. The CNMI SOC project and its goals are grounded on core SOC principles and values in a partnership of care for all CNMI children and youth, age birth to 21, with serious emotional disturbances and their families. The SOC model is multi-dimensional and an interdisciplinary linking of services of care with families as partners in a child and youth focused, family driven, community based, and culturally competent service delivery system.
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SM062448-01 | KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES | KALAMAZOO | MI | $1,000,000 | 2015 | SM-15-009 | |||
Title: SOC-Expansion and Sustainability
Project Period: 2015/09/30 - 2019/09/29
Kalamazoo Wraps will move toward further implementation and widescale adoption of System of Care (SOC) practices and principles across youth and families, child service sectors and community based leaders to assure that youth with a Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED) receive exemplary services early into onset, and in accordance with their mental and physical health needs. Youth with SED/experiencing early on-set SED/SMI, aged 0-21, residing in Kalamazoo County, MI, in need of services not covered by their non-Medicaid health plans, youth in foster care, and Medicaid receiving youth in need of services. The project will serve 25 youth in year one, 50 youth in year 2, and 75 youth in years 3 and 4 for a total of 225 unduplicated youth served throughout the project.
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SM062449-01 | MADISON SCHOOL DISTRICT 321 | REXBURG | ID | $999,140 | 2015 | SM-15-009 | |||
Title: SOC-Expansion and Sustainability
Project Period: 2015/09/30 - 2019/09/29
Madison Cares located in Madison County, Idaho has established a system of care serving youth from birth to age 21 who are experiencing severe emotional difficulties. In grant year one we project providing interventions to 150 youth and their families; year two, 200; year three, 250 and year four, 300 for a total of 900 served. The goals of Madison Cares are: 1) Build an infrastructure to expand systems of care in our community; 2) Assure an adequate and accessible service network to support expanding our system of care; 3) Gain wide support for implementation and expansion of the system of care values and principles. The strategies include implementing policy and regulatory changes, strategic financing, expanding services and supports based on the system of care philosophy and approach, training, technical assistance and workforce development, and the use of social marketing and strategic communication. The Madison Cares measurement system will focus on continuous quality improvement as an integral feature. Measures will relate to infrastructure objectives, client services and functioning and completion of implementation activities.
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