Monday, November 25, 2024
11/25/2024
Broward County Human Services Department, Broward Behavioral Health Coalition, Broward County Public Schools, Child Welfare Lead Agency (ChildNet), South Florida Wellness Network, and the Children’s Services Council of Broward continue longstanding collaboration for the One Community Partnership 3 (OCP3) Initiative. OCP3 will expand and enhance the delivery of school and child welfare services to youth ages 12-21 with serious emotional disturbance (SED) and those with early signs and symptoms of serious mental illness (SMI), including first episode psychosis, and their families. OCP3 will transform the existing System of Care (SOC) by creating a youth and family driven and recovery-oriented community to best enable youth with complex needs to remain in the least restrictive setting, achieve wellness and recovery, and successfully transition to adulthood. The OCP1 and OCP2 initiatives created sustained transformation throughout Broward’s behavioral health system. OCP3 will further transform Broward’s overarching SOC by creating sustainable infrastructure and evidence-based practice (EBP) mental health service capacity within Broward’s school and child welfare systems. OCP3 will serve 25 youth in year one, 58 youth in year 2, 58 in year three, and 59 in year four, with a total of 200 unduplicated youth and their families (biological/foster) served through OCP3’s four years. School and child welfare Youth Navigation services will be created, and staff will be trained in the Wraparound model (for youth ages 12 to 13) and the Transition to Independence Process (TIP) Model, (for youth ages 14-21), both evidence-supported practices recognized as age-appropriate models. The Wraparound and TIP trained staff in both systems will also be trained to implement Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT), a cognitive-behavioral EBP that leads to enhanced moral reasoning, better decision making, decreased disciplinary infractions, and beneficial changes to personality traits. In creating a workforce trained in Wraparound, TIP, and MRT, the school and child welfare systems will be equipped to effectively engage youth and their families in evidence-based, strength-based, and recovery-oriented approaches that put the youth and family needs at the center of service planning and will achieve positive outcomes. OCP3’s overarching goals and objectives are to transform Broward’s school and child welfare systems by building and institutionalizing EBP mental health service capacity within both systems, increase youth and family engagement in services and recovery supports, and increase youth functioning in daily life. The OCP3 initiative will provide Broward with the opportunity to expand and enhance the existing System of Care into a new population of focus and to enhance service capacity throughout Broward’s school and child welfare systems with the goal of improved mental health outcomes for youth and families, by supporting systems level change.
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).
