Friday, April 26, 2024
4/26/2024
The Services for Transition Age Youth at Urban Peak (STAY-UP) Colorado Project will provide trauma-informed, evidence-based, integrated services to transition age youth (TAY), ages 16-25, with a serious mental illness (SMI), serious emotional disturbance (SED) or co-occurring intellectual disability (IDD) experiencing homelessness in the Denver Metro and Colorado Springs communities. STAY-UP Colorado will achieve this through street outreach, mental health treatment, benefits enrollment, permanent supportive housing, and continued tenancy services and case management. The goals of the STAY-UP Colorado Project are to identify and engage TAY who may be suffering from SMI/SED/IDD through coordinated outreach; increase the number of TAY accessing and retaining mental health treatment and first episode psychosis (FEP) services; connect TAY to public benefits and health coverage; increase engagement activities and strengths-based case management to prevent program dropout; and provide recovery support services to include employment, education and life skills training. Throughout the STAY-UP Colorado Project, case managers will connect the target population to meaningful public benefits and community partners to coordinate and wrap services for this population. As a Medicaid expansion state, the STAY-UP program will help eligible and enrolled homeless TAY access health insurance and comprehensive services. The community partners in STAY-UP Colorado include the Colorado Department of Human Services-Office of Behavioral Health, Urban Peak Denver (UPD), Urban Peak Colorado Springs (UPCS), Mental Health Center of Denver (MHCD) and AspenPointe. OBH will administer the grant and ensure all services are completed and integrated within the state strategy of increasing access to quality mental healthcare, public benefits, social services and affordable housing. Urban Peak Denver and Colorado Springs exclusively serve TAY and is the largest provider of homeless services for youth in SAMHSA’s Region 8. The success of STAY-UP Colorado is founded in the trust UPD/UPCS has built with homeless youth over 30 years of specialized services and the agencies’ ability to engage hard to reach and underserved individuals. UPD/UPCS employ teams of bachelor’s and master’s level street outreach case managers, all of whom are trained in trauma-informed care, de-escalation strategies, harm reduction, signs and symptoms of behavioral health issues, and effective intervention strategies. The mental health providers, MHCD and AspenPointe, are safety net providers of affordable, evidence-based behavioral health services such as Coordinated Specialty Care and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Identified STAY-UP Colorado partners have collaborated in providing homeless and high need youth with mental health clinical services, access to shelter/housing, outreach, employment and benefits through onsite case management. Measurable objectives include serving a total of 1,925 TAY though outreach across both locations throughout the five year grant cycle, connecting 560 TAY to developmentally and culturally appropriate mental health treatment and 950 youth and young adults with strengths-based case management and benefits enrollment. STAY-UP Colorado will also track and report client-level data at intake, six month follow-up and at discharge and measure treatment retention and housing stability for outcome-based performance indicators.
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).
