Friday, May 2, 2025
5/2/2025
Ocean Mental Health Services, Inc. Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion Grant - Ocean Mental Health Services (OceanMHS) proposes to establish Ocean Integrated Services (OIS) in response to Ocean County’s Opioid Crisis and the limited treatment capacity for persons with Substance Use Disorders and Co-Occurring Disorders. OceanMHS also proposes to integrate Behavioral Health and Physical Health Care and reduce health disparities within this population. Children impacted by parental substance use will also be served. Persons with Substance Use Disorders, as well as Co–Occurring Disorders, are frequent users of Ocean County Emergency Departments and are likely represented in Ocean County’s high number of deaths from Opioid use, rates of death by suicide, and early death to poor mental and physical health. Ocean Integrated Services (OIS) proposes to expand Crisis Stabilization Services into Ocean County Emergency Departments to reach the population at risk. OceanMHS will expand current efforts to identify, assess and treat, persons at risk, who are incarcerated and those who are homeless. Returning Veterans, who may also be homeless are often struggling with Co-Occurring Disorders and are a special project focus. OIS will serve 3000 adults, and 400 children, in the first year of the project. In year two, the number served will increase to 3836 adults and children. Persons identified and assessed by Crisis Stabilization as having an SUD or Co-Occurring Disorder will be referred to existing services, or to new/expanded services that OceanMHS will establish with the expansion grant. Proposed expansion services include ambulatory detox (873 persons) and an expanded Intensive Outpatient Program for persons with Co- Occurring Disorders (1000 persons). One thousand (1000) persons with SMI, SUD and Co- Occurring Disorders will be served in OIS’ Primary Care/Behavioral Health Clinic. OIS will also identify and assess 400 children with SED who have been impacted by Parental Substance Use. OceanMHS, through the efforts of OIS, expects to measure the impact of expansion services on Emergency Department BH Use Rates, the gap between unmet and met need for treatment among people with SMI, SUD, and Co-Occurring Disorders. OceanMHS, expects to reduce health disparities in the population served, which includes returning Veterans who may be homeless and who have Co-Occurring Disorders. Finally, in reaching children with SED, who are impacted by Parental Substance Use, positive outcomes, related to better school performance and reduced difficulties with authorities will be measured. Within, four months of an award, Ocean MHS expects to meet all criteria to become a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC).
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).