Tuesday, April 29, 2025
4/29/2025
Community Medical Wellness Centers USA's FY 2021 Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion Grant Application - The Community Medical Wellness Centers USA CCBHC Expansion Project will increase access to behavioral health and substance use disorder services, as part of their comprehensive integrated primary care model, to the minority low-income Black/African American, Cambodian, and Latinx refugee and undocumented populations of southern Los Angeles County specifically in the city of Long Beach and the surrounding areas. Community Medical Wellness Centers (CMWC) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) Federally Qualified Health Center providing quality health care services to more than 6,107 patients in southern Los Angeles County. Long Beach (Pop. 468,883) is the second largest city in Los Angeles County and home to the largest Cambodian population outside of Cambodia. Los Angeles County has 2.56 million Latinx residents making up 48.6% of the total population. There is a desperate need for healthcare service providers that can provide services in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner and accept low-income uninsured and underinsured patients. The CCBHC Expansion will allow CMWC to provide expanded behavioral health and substance use disorder services to 1,060 low-income, uninsured, and underinsured minority residents in Year 1 and 1,590 patients in Year 2 for a total of 2,650 during the lifetime of the project. CMWC is requesting funds primarily to support additional behavioral health staff to increase access to behavioral healthcare by continuing to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services. Some of the behavioral health services that will be added or amplified include individual, group, and family therapy, increased screenings for behavioral health services, patient-centered treatment plans, crisis care, SUD services including Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT), Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), HIV and viral hepatitis screenings, psychiatric rehabilitation services, and wrap-around intensive case management. Community Medical Wellness Centers USA will become a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic before December 31, 2021. The primary goals for the CCBHC expansion funding are to increase access to affordable behavioral health care, to increase the rate of successful participation in behavioral health treatment programs and decrease the rate of recidivism for hospitalizations and emergency room visits for emergency behavioral health care and SUD services, and to truly integrate behavioral health and SUD services into the CMWC’s primary care model.
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).