Friday, May 10, 2024
5/10/2024
Abstract (1 page) Circle of Life Behavioral Health Network (COLBHN) serves the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council (ENIPC) communities of: 1) Nambe, 2) Ohkay Owingeh, 3) Picuris, 4) Pojoaque, 5) San Ildefonso, 6) Santa Clara, 7) Taos, and 8) Tesuque and surrounding urban areas of: 1) Albuquerque, 2) Espanola, 3) Santa Fe, and 4) Taos with all Native American / American Indian (NA/AI) mental health, substance use, and suicide prevention needs. COLBHN established itself as a leader in NA/AI mental health care coordination over 15+ years with 4 outpatient offices serving 920 clients and its 2 residential treatment centers and 5 Tribal community offices in: 1) Ohkay Owingeh, 2) Pojoaque, 3) Picaris, 4) San Ildefonso, and 5) Tesuque serving both adult and youth NA/AI clients annually with over 28 licensed providers and 38 certified para-professionals. COLBHN developed a community outreach program, Healing Hearts (HH), after 4 years of successful participation in SAMHSA’s Circles of Care Grant (CoC) from 2016 to 2021 to establish a community Youth Advisory Board (YAB) and Adult Advisory Board (AAB) fostering peer support and community engagement. HH and the YAB and AAB established community youth and adult: leadership summits, taskforces, community forums, mental health trainings, asset mapping, needs assessments, readiness assessments, focus groups, logic models, collaborating MOUs, and community policies to engage community in public and mental health and substance abuse topics including depression and suicide prevention (2016-2021). COLBHN, HH, YAB, and AAB’s 2022 SPIP grant project is to build upon previous infrastructure development and network establishment successes to address the issue of suicide screening, prevention, intervention, and post-intervention after seeing the global COVID-19 pandemic impacts on NA/AI youth and adults’ mental health by: 1) expanding care coordination via increase suicide screening and referral to outpatient and inpatient service delivery to aftercare and peer support follow up utilizing ASQ and ASIST models; 2) expanding COLBHN and HH behavioral health and prevention service delivery for suicide prevention and intervention by incorporating cultural appropriate evidence and practice based strategies of: 1) Act & Adapt, 2) ASIST, 3) ASQ, 4) CBT-SP, 5) MHFA, 6) MI, 7) QPR with professional, para-professional, and community levels; and 3) expanding HH and the YAB and AAB early intervention work with youth to focus on suicide screening, prevention, and resiliency building in the community. COLBHN propose to perform all 22 SPIP objective activities over a period of 5 years and has plans to maintain sustainability of increase suicide screening, prevention, early intervention, referral to behavioral health, and aftercare. COLBHN proposes 11 SPIP objective activities within year one, 5 activities within year two, 3 activities within year three, 2 activities within year four, and 1 final activity within year five. The project narrative will present SPIP project year 1 and subsequent timeline activities will be presented in subsequent attachments, all activities have been planned out in year, quarter, month, and calendar year to show current capacity and potential to expand COLBHN and HH program success to expand community wide youth mental health initiations into the focus of suicide screening, prevention, intervention, and post-vention.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
