Sunday, June 1, 2025
6/1/2025
Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending - Construction - Canopy Children’s Solutions (Canopy) mission is to help children thrive and families overcome extraordinary challenges by providing a continuum of behavioral health, educational and family support solutions. For more than 110 years, Canopy has provided life-changing, upstream solutions for Mississippi children and families to reach their full potential. We believe every child can be a success story with a solid foundation for strong brain development and access to exceptional and individualized therapeutic healthcare. Canopy’s CARES Center Trauma Recovery Center's overall project proposes to construct three new 10-bed Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (PRTF) cottages as well as construct a 20-bed Trauma Recovery Center (enhanced PRTF). This project will increase CARES Center’s total PRTF capacity from 60 to 80 beds by creating 20 single-occupancy bedrooms at the Trauma Recovery Center, safely accommodating adolescents who have exhibited seriously aggressive behavior and are a danger to themselves and others. The specific scope of this portion of the overall CARES Center Trauma Recovery Center project will focus on the construction of three new cottages, each accommodating 10 non-acute PRTF beds, so those 30 PRTF beds may be relocated to the same campus as the existing PRTF cottages providing improved and homelike setting for children at CARES Center to heal. The overall CARES Center Trauma Recovery Center project will increase the capacity for behavioral and mental services in Mississippi for children and adolescents where there is an unmet need. Canopy’s CARES Center in Jackson currently includes 60 beds for children who are suffering from various levels of mental and behavioral health needs that are not acute. The deepening children’s mental health crisis in our state means that today Canopy’s team is receiving referrals for children whose psychiatric needs are more acute than those we have historically served at the PRTF. To serve the children in Mississippi with more acute needs appropriately, Canopy must advance a clinical program/track specifically designed for more acute clinical presentations. That shift requires a specialized facility with single-bed occupancy capabilities, higher staffing ratios, increased depth of clinical training (in specialty areas such as trauma), and a clinical milieu designed for this specific population. The ultimate goal of the project, therefore, is to create a viable 80-bed CARES Center PRTF that will improve the quality of life and mental health of the children and adolescents in need of PRTF services and to safely provide enhanced care and treatment to the adolescents who have essentially “slipped through the cracks” because of their high acuity level. Canopy is Mississippi’s most comprehensive nonprofit provider of children’s behavioral health, educational and family support solutions. Founded in 1912 as an adoption agency, Canopy has served the children and families of Mississippi for over a century. Our programs developed for Mississippi’s children, youth and families continue to evolve to meet society’s changing needs. Today, Canopy serves more than 8,200 children per year throughout all 82 counties through a full range of innovative solutions.
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