Wednesday, January 15, 2025
1/15/2025
The Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County d/b/a Eskenazi Health (EH) is applying for SAMHSA funds through the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative-Category III: Community Treatment and Service Centers (NCTSI III CTS Center) grant to facilitate expansion of the Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center (SEMHC) Children's and School-based Services to increase awareness and access to effective trauma-focused services for children and their families in underserved/under-resourced communities. The newly created SEMHC NCTSI III CTS Center consists of two parts: 1) a dedicated community outreach and training facilitator focused on trauma and utilizing Mental Health First Aid (specifically for children and adolescents); and 2) a dedicated intensive outpatient team comprised of a clinician and a care coordinator that will provide intensive outpatient services in both clinic and school-based environments to those at high-need and identified with trauma history. SEMHC NCTSI CTS Center will serve a total of 2,520 unduplicated individuals during the five-year period. SEMHC, a division of the healthcare safety net system EH, is a Certified Community Mental Health Center per the Family and Social Services Administration of Indiana (FSSA) Division of Mental Health and Addiction (DMHA) and provides treatment for the underserved in Marion County with severe emotional disturbance, serious mental illness, and/or substance use disorder. As a community mental health center, Indiana DMHA requires SEMHC to serve individuals with the highest resource needs and most functional impairment from substance use disorder, mental illness, and severe emotion disturbance. Goal 1: SEMHC's Intensive Children's Outpatient Team (ICOT) will ensure that those in the ICOT program receive evidence-based mental health related services including therapy and skills building. Objective: The trauma-focused ICOT will have provided evidence-based trauma-focused intensive outpatient services to at least 30 children annually, and at least 210 children over the five years of the grant. Goal 2: SEMHC will screen children and adolescents seeking treatment for trauma-related experiences annually, and at least 1,800 children will be screened over five years. Objective: At least 300 children will be screened for trauma-related experiences annually, and at least 1,800 children will be screened over five years. Goal 3: SEMHC will refer screened youth found to have trauma for trauma-informed care services provided through the grant-funded ICOT. Objective: At least 40 children will be referred for intensive outpatient services through the team annually, and at least 315 will be referred over five years. Goal 4: SEMHC 1.0 FTE training facilitator will train organizations, schools, health fairs, and families in Mental Health First Aid, and will provide information regarding mental health, trauma, and how to access mental health services. Objective: At least 60 individuals will be trained in Mental Health First Aid annually through the grant, and at least 510 will be trained over five years. Goal 5: The 1.0 training facilitator will provide outreach to child-serving organizations, conferences, health fairs, and schools regarding services available in the Marion County/Indianapolis area. Objective: The training facilitator will attend at least 10 health or school fairs annually, providing information about trauma-related treatment services, and will attend at least 80 events over five years.
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).