Wednesday, February 5, 2025
2/5/2025
The Texas Panhandle Centers CMHC grant will help to restore services significantly impacted by the COVID pandemic, and to sustain operations as TPC continues to adapt our services to effectively meet the mental health needs of the individuals we serve for the next two years. This includes improvements to our telehealth systems, sustaining our crisis response capacity and facilitating access to comprehensive outpatient services, particularly to those living in rural areas. TPC's CMHC Grant funding will target a POF of adults with serious mental illnesses (SMI) and co-occurring disorders (COD) in the entire 21-county catchment area, but will primarily dedicate project resources to accessibility of services for those living in the more rural and frontier 19 counties of TPC's geographic catchment area, who currently have little or no access to treatment services, including a significant Spanish-speaking population. During the two project years, we will serve 300 each year for a total of 600 unduplicated individuals and achieve the following goals: (1) Strengthen the infrastructure required to provide audio and audio-visual telehealth services using HIPAA compliant applications; (2) Sustain the capacity of the crisis respite and recovery program to serve as a diversion from emergency departments and incarceration and increase clinical and recovery support services provided in that setting; (3) Develop transportation services to facilitate access to the crisis respite center from remote regions of the service area; (4) Assess the most effective service delivery for outpatient and intensive services using in-person and/or telehealth methods; and (5) Increase access to an enhanced Employee Assistance Program and implement an agency-wide Work and Well-Being Community of Practice.
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).