Sunday, December 22, 2024
12/22/2024
As a CCBHC Expansion Grant awardee, ICL ((Institute for Community Living, Inc.) will expand and enhance outreach, engagement, and integrated behavioral health treatment for 1,000 at-risk children, adolescents, transitional age youth (0-25), and their families through a Whole Family Health Model (WFHM), with a focus on monolingual Spanish-speaking populations and veteran families living in Brooklyn, NY. ICL’s Health Hub, located in East New York, Brooklyn, delivers integrated, holistic care in a single site in partnership with our co-located FQHC partner, Community Healthcare Network, Inc. (CHN); services include primary care, family support, MH outpatient programs, recovery programs, and care coordination to address behavioral and physical health concerns of the highly diverse, underserved local population. CCBHC funding will enable us to address significant health disparities experienced by Latino families with children, especially those who are mono-lingual in Spanish, lack health insurance, and experience other barriers to quality care. The project’s goals are to: (1) improve outreach, engagement, and public education to increase program utilization by the population of focus; (2) implement relevant Evidence Based Practices (EBPs); (3) increase availability of family-based care through the WFHM; and (4) monitor WFHM performance and outcomes through the use of targeted standardized screening, assessment, and measurement tools. To encourage outreach and engagement, we will build a bilingual community collaboration council, develop a comprehensive Spanish outreach initiative, and conduct 36 presentations in the first year of the grant to local child- and youth-serving providers and agencies to streamline referrals into the CCBHC. We will enhance our capacity to serve our Spanish-speaking clients by hiring bilingual outreach, peer, and clinical staff. As a part of our WFHM, we will develop a Family Care Plan in our EHR and hire a bilingual Family Peer Support Partner and Family Therapist certified in Functional Family Therapy (FFT). In addition, we will design and implement a service model for veteran families. We will collaborate with CHN to provide primary care screening, monitoring, and services to our clients as well as with Interfaith Medical Center for ambulatory and medical detoxification services. Finally, we will enhance the training of our staff to offer three new EBPs focused on our target population: FFT, Integrative Treatment of Complex Trauma (ITCA-A), and Young Adult Work Opportunities for Rewarding Careers (YAWORC). Using these EBPs, we will seek to improve PRAPARE, COM-A and CDI scores by 10% in Year 1 and 20% over baseline in Year 2. The project will serve 360 unduplicated individuals in the first year of the project and 1,000 individuals over the course of the project.
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).