Friday, April 25, 2025
4/25/2025
FY 2021 Community Mental Health Centers - ABSTRACT CMHC SM-21-014 Creative Health Services has been a leading CMHC since the inception of the model 60 plus years ago. Recent, pre-pandemic, examples of our community support and leadership beyond the core services of a CMHC include developing in-plan primary care integrated services, a multiagency Trauma Informed Community Coalition, and a Community Health Council. Our main facilities have won awards for their design and focus on client care and were developed to bring together agencies and support services our consumers need. As such, we are well-situated to support and restore the delivery of clinical services that were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and effectively address the needs of individuals with serious emotional disturbance (SED), serious and persistent mental illness (SPMI), and individuals with SPMI or SED and substance use disorders, referred to as co-occurring disorder (COD). We will provide multi-disciplinary services for individuals with SED, SPMI, and COD in our service area; provide trauma informed screening, assessment, diagnosis, and patient-centered treatment planning and treatment delivery; and provide clinical and recovery support services (e.g., psychosocial rehabilitation, case management services, peer support); to: 500 unduplicated new clients by 9/2022; and to 500 unduplicated new clients by 9/2023, totaling 1000 unduplicated new clients by project end in 9/2023. During this timeframe, we will serve well over 5000 community members. We have continuously enhanced our community’s ability to manage complicated public health problems by outreaching to, engaging with and treating individuals with SPMI, SED and COD, and community partners that also play a role in their recovery. We propose to continue that work, summarized around the following 6 “Focus Areas”; ones that consistently expand and improve our ability to meet our community’s needs: Focus Area 1: Whole agency quality improvement Focus Area 2: Case Management Reengagement and Enhanced Engagement Focus Area 3: Community Incident/Victim Engagement/Trauma services Focus Area 4: Outpatient Care Engagement/Reengagement Focus Area 5: SPMI Specific Client Engagement/Reengagement Focus Area 6: Primary D&A and Secondary SED Engagement/Reengagement Our 300+ FTE staff provide services in Montgomery, Chester and Berks Counties, and operate numerous programs serving thousands of individuals with SPMI, SED, and COD. The agency utilizes a multi-disciplinary approach to service delivery, including social workers, psychologists, mental health counselors, medical doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, care navigators, peer specialists, career specialists, and case managers, amongst others. Providing treatment to address the mental health impacts of the pandemic and the worsening of pre-existing mental health conditions is of highest priority. Despite entering more people into treatment during the pandemic than years prior, the operating realities have created massive clinical and financial challenges that this grant can significantly ameliorate. Among our areas of focus, this grant will allow us to explore more advanced ways to recruit and retain staff at a time of extraordinary demand and need. This will also increase our investments in caring for staff as they care for those in need.
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).