Thursday, April 18, 2024
4/18/2024
The Washington State Healthcare Authority (HCA), Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery (DBHR), Healthy Transitions Project (HTP) is designed improve emotional and behavioral health functioning for transition age youth and young adults, age 16-25 (referred to as TAY hereafter), to increase self-efficacy and maximize their potential to lead full and productive lives. The goal is to support targeted, effective services statewide through infrastructure development. Washington has identified two communities to serve as local laboratories for the development and evaluation of TAY engagement and services. These communities will organize and develop their regional ecosystems to equip and empower TAY to assume adult roles and responsibilities. Communities will do so by creating non-stigmatizing, trauma-informed opportunities in the community, developing regional expertise in working with TAY, utilizing local youth and family voice to inform program development, collaborating with businesses, faith-based, and other local organizations, etc., and enhancing the capacity of local agencies to provide relevant and effective services. Communities identified targeted interventions that are evidence-based for their regional population. Each will implement appealing supports and services in the transition domains, including: employment, education, living situation, personal effectiveness, wellbeing, legal, and community- life functioning. The objective of these interventions is to increase the number of outreach and engagement contacts, facilitate participation in community-based interventions, and to increase access to behavioral health services. Over the five years of the project, we will have 675 outreach and engagement contacts, 440 individuals engaged in community-based interventions, and 360 individuals that access behavioral health treatment. In year one, 155 individuals will be impacted by project interventions. In consecutive years, this will increase to 330 individuals. DBHR will learn from these local communities and develop the partnerships and infrastructure to implement TAY services statewide. DBHR will improve cross-system collaboration to develop the appropriate programmatic and financial infrastructure to ensure that there is a sustainable continuum of care between youth and adult services across systems. HTP will also increase system expertise and capacity related to engaging and serving TAY. The overall objective of this project is to develop and refine an innovative, community-based, recovery oriented model of engaging TAY who experience serious emotional disturbance or serious mental illness and equipping them for their transition to adulthood. Washington is positioned well to develop and implement TAY infrastructure as it moves toward full integration of behavioral and physical healthcare. This model will be used to further Washington's effort to expand, integrate, and sustain culturally relevant and developmentally appropriate services and supports statewide.
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).
