Project Abstract Summary
Summary. NFusion Metro System of Care will serve Hinds County a rural medically underserved Mississippi area to support the implementation, expansion, and integration of the SOC approach by creating sustainable infrastructure and services. The SOC will improve mental health outcomes for children and youth, birth through age 21, children and youth with serious emotional disturbance (SED) and those with early signs and symptoms of serious mental illness (SMI), including first episode psychosis (FEP) and their families by focusing on mental health and related recovery support services, sustainable financing, cross-agency collaboration, evidence-based practices and programs: Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; Wraparound; Peer Support Services; Motivational Interviewing; Person Centered Planning; Supported Employment; Mental Health First Aid; Youth Mental Health First Aid; Question, Persuade, and Refer; FEP training; LGBTQ/Safe Zone training and enhanced policy and infrastructure with youth-guided and family driven leadership. Project Name: NFusion Metro System of Care. Populations served: Birth to 21 years of age; 80% African American; 2% Hispanic; 2% Multi-racial; 1% Native American; 1% Asian and 2% LGBTQ; 85% below poverty level; 5% (0-5) and 95% between ages 6-21. Strategies: The SOC expands trauma-informed, cultural and linguistically appropriate EBPs, supports and policies with a cross-agency approach of coordinated service delivery and integration of mental health services, ensuring effective cross-agency expansion and the provision of mental health and related recovery support services to participants with SED and those with early signs of SMI, including FEP to include an array of non-mental health supports, i.e. vocational counseling, financial literacy, afterschool programming, health-related services, substance abuse and suicide prevention, stable housing, independent living skills and advocacy. The cross-agency integrated infrastructure will ensure national and local evaluation and performance assessments are conducted. Goals: 1) Expand Region 9 Mental Health cross-agency collaboration to serve SED individuals and those with early signs and symptoms of SMI, including FEP; 2) Provide a broad array of accessible and coordinated services/supports; 3) Ensure individualized, managed care; Plan, deliver, and evaluate these services with the full participation of families and youth in a culturally and linguistically sensitive manner; and 4) Facilitate broad-based, sustainable systemic support for the population of focus. Objectives: Annually and over 4-years: 1) 80% will improve diagnosis; 2) 80% will improve mental illness symptomatology; 3) 80% will improve employment/education; 4) 80% will reduce criminal justice involvement; 5) 80% will housing stability; 6) 80% will reduce readmission to psychiatric hospitals; 7) 80% will improve social connectedness; and 8) 80% will report a high client perception of care. # served: 100 in Year(s) 1-4, totaling 400 in 4 years.
