Tuesday, April 29, 2025
4/29/2025
Ecker Center CMHC Project to support mental health services - Ecker Center for Behavioral Health is a comprehensive community-based nonprofit located in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL MSA that includes Kane and western Cook Counties, seeking to strengthen our service communities' response to the overwhelming request for mental health services since the COVID-19 pandemic. SAMHSA funding for the Ecker Care Project (ECP) will allow Ecker to expand service capacity by creating physical infrastructure improvements and increasing staff to meet the requests for service. The specific goals of the program are to: 1) Strengthen the infrastructure necessary to provide audio and audio-visual HIPAA compliant telehealth capabilities. 2) Provide outpatient services for individuals with SED, SMI, and COD. 3) Provide trauma informed screening, assessment, diagnosis, and patient-centered treatment planning and treatment delivery.4) Provide clinical and recovery support services. 5) Develop and provide resources to address the mental health needs of Ecker staff. 6) Expand capacity of CMHC staff to address crisis and emergency response. The project will use multiple evidence-based practices, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Wellness, Recovery Acton Plan (WRAP), Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Moral Reconation Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. The project will be rolled out in two parts. Month 1-3 will focus on ramp-up (staffing, orientation, training, infrastructure) and month 4 through year two will focus on implementation and performance assessment. The following measurable objectives will be achieved over the two-year project with services to 800 unduplicated individuals: • Provide/purchase the necessary equipment, licensing and training to deliver HIPAA compliant telehealth services. • Provide outpatient therapy services to 300 individuals with SED, SMI and/or COD (150 each year of the grant). • Provide trauma informed care training to new CMHC staff and 90% of current staff will receive a refresher course annually each year of the grant. • Provide case management, psychosocial rehabilitation and/or peer recovery support services to at least 100 individuals (50 each year of the grant). • Provide an Employee Assistance Service program for the mental health and wellness needs of all Ecker staff. • Provide infrastructure improvements, including ADA bathrooms. • Provide psychiatric emergency services to 800 individuals with SED, SMI and/or COD (400 each year of the grant).
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).