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11/22/2024
Project Abstract Summary Project Name: NW Iowa Family Support Center Services Applicant: Northwest Iowa Mental Health Center dba Seasons Center for Behavioral Health Project Summary: The project is designed to enhance partnerships in rural northwest Iowa with local child-serving agencies to increase access to specialized, trauma-informed, and evidence-based mental health services for foster and adoptive children and their families. Target Population to be served: Children and families with children from a variety of placement settings, including return to biological family, relative placement, fictive kin placement, foster care, and adoptive children, with a focus on infants and young children. Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Target Population: The geographic service area for the proposed project includes nine counties in rural northwest Iowa: Buena Vista, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Lyon, O’Brien, Osceola, Palo Alto, and Sioux. The area supports a total population of 137,309 residents (US Census 2019 Estimates). Strategies and Interventions: Outpatient Behavioral Health Therapy, Care Coordination, Clinical Care Team Model, Family Support Services, and Training and Education. Evidence-Based Strategies and Interventions: Motivational Interviewing, Parent Child Interaction Therapy, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing, Theraplay, Seeking Safety, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, WISE-UP!, National Adoption Competency Training, and Mental Health First Aid. Project Goals: Goal I: To create the organizational capacity to implement grant activities, ensuring the required elements of the grant are delivered on time and as intended, and develop and advance interventions through collaboration with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSI). Goal II: To equip mental health professionals with skills, knowledge, and resources to provide high quality, evidence-based, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive services for foster and adoptive youth/families. Goal III: To ensure families are able to easily access trauma-informed behavioral health services, resources, and supports along a continuum of prevention, early intervention, and treatment. Goal IV: To collaborate with other child/family serving systems, such as child welfare, law enforcement, juvenile justice, and other community agencies to raise awareness on trauma-informed practices and program services, enroll and serve children, and enhance program services. Number to be Served Annually and Over Five Year Project: Year 1-342, Year 2-141, Year 3-174, Year 4-164, Year 5-184, Total-1,005. (Unduplicated Count)
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