Wednesday, January 15, 2025
1/15/2025
This funding is intended to address the service gaps, increasingly unmet needs of the served/underserved communities and an infrastructure negatively impacted by COVID-19. This includes offering non-traditional clinic services including Peers, Targeted Case Management and Psych Rehab Services and CASACs for SUD/COD support. Crisis services will be enhanced to mobile services. It will allow the creation of a Patient Portal in EMR and space for virtual treatment. Outreach enhancements/services for Spanish-speaking and minority populations and prisoners ready for release. Improved diversity training and hire of a clinician to address staff BH needs as a result of the pandemic. Increasing access to community-based BH/SUD/COD services 7 days a week- the only County provider to do so. Goal 1: Decrease psychiatric and medical hospitalizations for clients with BH and/or COD by engaging them in CMHC services to address the underlying and resultant trauma, challenges to physical well-being and life conditions- including as a result of COVID-19 through the CMHC’s integrated, collaborative and multidisciplinary approach to treatment, wellness and sustained recovery. Objective 1: By the end of year 1, the CMHC will demonstrate a 25% decline in both psychiatric and medical hospitalizations and ED visits by improving early intervention and the worsening of pre-existing BH and COD conditions through the application of trauma-informed services, evidence-based practices, including MAT, and access to enhanced 24/7 Crisis Intervention including a 24-hour mobile crisis team. By the end of year 2, the CMHC will demonstrate a 50% decline in both psychiatric and medical hospitalizations and ED visits through continued trainings and engagement. Goal 2: Increase community awareness of and access to Copiague IOS and its enhanced/expanded CMHC services for individuals with BH and/or COD, especially those at risk of SMI and SED, with targeted outreach and engagement of the large Spanish speaking communities in immediate proximity to these services, inmates of prisons/detention centers preparing for community reentry and individuals negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Objective 2 : By the end of year 1, the CMHC will receive a 25% increase in new referrals that will have or be at risk of a co-occurring BH/SUD, through the development and expansion of the clinic’s service relationships with Suffolk County health departments, hospitals, BH/SUD treatment centers, community-based health, primary care and social services organizations, advocacy groups, academic institutions, cultural and religious centers, insurance providers, courts, criminal justice, law enforcement and first responders, homeless services, local municipalities and VA services. This will include a 20% increase in new referrals for individuals receiving services in Spanish. By the end of year 2, the CMHC will continue to develop and expand its community relationships and awareness, leading to a 40% increase in new referrals that will have or be at risk of a co-occurring BH/SUD as well as a 35% increase in new Spanish-speaking referrals.
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).