Saturday, May 18, 2024
5/18/2024
Camino Real Community Services (CRCS) has developed an application for addressing the interruptions of services to children and adult with Severe Mental Illness (SMI), Severe Emotional Disorders (SED), or Co-Occurring Disorder (COD) to address the 9 county region that includes Atascosa, Dimmit, Frio, Karnes, La Salle, Maverick, McMullen, Wilson and Zavala counties. The Project reaches the current Congressional Districts of TX-023, TX-021, TX-028, TX-015, and TX-034. The pandemic has already shown an increase of 16% in adults seeking mental health services during the pandemic compared to the year before the pandemic. However, services to children and youth have not increased due to lack of access to adults outside the home, schools not fully operational or allowing in service providers who help provide referrals to services for children and youth. The Project has two goals towards addressing the mental health needs of residents in the targeted 9 county area: Goal 1: Increase access to evidence-based mental health services for residents in the target area experiencing SMI, SED, and/or COD by utilizing the Local Crisis Screening/Assessment, Mobile Crisis Outreach Team (MCOT) Services, and Crisis Residential Unit (CRU) Services to establish access mechanisms for children and adults. Goal 2: Deliver evidence-based mental health services for residents in the target area experiencing SMI, SED, and/or COD by utilizing the Local Crisis Screening/Assessment, Mobile Crisis Outreach Team (MCOT) Services and Crisis Residential Unit (CRU) Services. At a minimum the project will serve 300 unduplicated adults and 200 unduplicated children annually for two years beginning September 30, 2021, if funding is awarded. The Project has selected evidence-based programs for the delivery of services. A full-time Project Director serves as the key staff member and 6 new qualified credentialed counselors will be hired for crisis response and counseling, screening, assessment and referral, and outreach and training for schools to increase access to services. The Project will provide access for rural patients to see a psychiatrist utilizing video conferencing and hire 5 new registered nurses to work directly with patients who are in need or who may be in need of psychotropic medications to monitor health and communicate with the psychiatrists with the patient. The Project will provide access to community-based residential care for those in acute need greater care. Services are designed to be trauma informed and services utilize EBPs that have been found effective with trauma instances that include witnessing domestic violence, maltreatment, neglect, and abuse. As social isolation ends due to vaccines are reduced restrictions the CRCS wants to ensure that those in need of SMI, SED, and COD services have rapid access and that crisis response is able to respond and prevent acts of self-harm and/or suicide.
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).
