Thursday, March 6, 2025
3/6/2025
Pesach Tikvah's Pandemic Response Project is a comprehensive behavioral health strategy, designed to help alleviate the pandemic's negative effects on adults with serious mental illness and co-occurring disorders, and youth with serious emotional disorders. Our service area of Williamsburg and Borough Park neighborhoods in Brooklyn, New York (NY) is home to approximately 200,000 people of Orthodox Jewish faith. The area has a significantly higher poverty rate than the citywide average with 28% below poverty, 47% children below poverty and 53% below 200% of poverty. Our service area is racially and ethnically diverse, with 49% of the population White alone; 13% African American; and 29% Latino. 59% of households speak a language other than English at home. Clinical characteristics include a significant increase in anxiety and depression since COVID-19, external stress caused by COVID-related job loss, isolation, homelessness, marital strain and/or family strain. Anti-Semitic incidents have increased 18% since the outbreak. Project strategies and interventions include hiring clinical staff including psychiatric, provision of evidence based practices in schools and community, marketing, outreach and cross system partnership development and provision of staff supports to address compassion fatigue. Goal 1: Restore the delivery of clinical services that were impacted by the pandemic. OBJ.1.A.: Multipronged marketing and outreach campaign to 160,000 households. OBJ.1B: Enhance referral networks generating at least 200 referrals. OBJ.1C: Conduct virtual treatment to 50 individuals.OBJ.1D: Hire psychiatric staff to treat 100 individuals OBJ.1E.: Expand access to mental health services by 20% Goal 2: Provide services to students to address behavioral health concerns OBJ.2A: Provide 4 trainings to 200 school staff on early signs of mental illness, SUD, and wellness. OBJ.2B.: Train 35 school staff to deliver early intervention and clinical treatment impacting over 10,000 students and teens in at least 20 schools. Goal 3: Provide evidence-based treatments and wraparound supports to address pandemic effects. OBJ3A: Train 80 people in the mental health and related workforce in EBPs: Motivational Interviewing (MI), Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), CBT, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). OBJ3B: Provide care management to support 50 families experiencing COVID-19 related job loss, homelessness, death, prolonged illness and/or marital or family strain. OBJ3C Hire 5 part-time providers of psych rehab and peer supports to support recovery for 50 individuals. Goal 4: To provide resources and supports to address COVID related compassion fatigue and burnout. OBJ4A: 60 clinicians attend behavioral health conference OBJ4B: Implement activities to promote self-care among the workforce. A total of 600 individuals will be served (300 in Year 1; 300 in Year 2).
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