Sunday, May 11, 2025
5/11/2025
Swope Health Services: CMHC Program - Swope Health Services, a Federally Qualified Health Center, delivers integrated primary health care services to residents of the greater Kansas City metropolitan area. Our Behavioral Health Services is a Certified Community Behavioral Health Organization (CCBHO) and a Community Mental Health Center (CHMC) through the Missouri Department of Mental Health. Our Children’s Services area within Behavioral Health Services- the grant program location - delivers psychiatry, outpatient therapy, a Children’s Community Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program (C-CPRP) for psychosocial rehabilitation and case management and an adolescent substance use disorder program. Segments of our Children’s Services patients ages 10 to 19 will be the population of focus for our CMHC grant program. Specifically, our program will focus on 1) children and youth with serious mental illness (SMI) and serious emotional disturbance (SED) with or without co-occurring disorders that enter services after September 2021, 2) high-risk youth with chronic SMI and SED currently receiving services at Swope Health; and 3) children and youth referred for services from youth-serving organizations in the community. In 2020, Children’s Services patients were 62% Black, 27% White, 2% all other racial minorities, with 9% not reporting a race. Nearly 5% reported Hispanic ethnicity. Over 70% resided in households with incomes below 200% federal poverty level. Our first project goal is to increase the capacity of Children’s Services staff to provide high quality, trauma informed services that increase access to care and follow through in receiving services (i.e. patient navigation and coordinated care) for youth with SMI/SED with or without co-occurring disorders by August 2022. We will accomplish these goals by our Children’s Services Therapists’ completion of evidence-based trainings to improve intervention services. Our second project goal is to enhance our capacity to screen for and prevent suicide among youth receiving behavioral health services at Swope Health as well as unserved youth in the community by August 2022. We will accomplish this goal by hiring a fulltime, grant-funded position to conduct intake screenings for services at youth-serving organizations in the community and to provide suicide prevention trainings for youth-serving organization staff and constituent youth. We propose to deliver services to 200 youth during the life 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).