Thursday, November 21, 2024
11/21/2024
Puerto Rico's SSA "PUEDO" HT Project will serve 400 Hispanic youth of 16-18 years with SED and 19-25 years with SMI over 5 years to expand access to Evidence Based treatment and recovery services, in the Caguas and Guayama municipalities and surrounding Southeastern Region, where there is 46% poverty, violence prevalence related to drug trafficking and easy access to fire arms, and high suicide incidence. Project goals are to: Expand culturally competent treatment using Wraparound, WRAP, and Supportive Employment EBPs; Improve cross-system service capacity and expertise related to transition-aged youth with SED and SMI through infrastructure/ organizational improvements; and Plan and implement public awareness to increase knowledge, reduce stigma and develop support for transitional SED/SMI youth. In YR 01, 40 youth will be served, with 90 youth per year to be served in each of the last 4 years. The Mental Health and Anti-Addiction Services Administration (MHAASA) is the applicant agency through its Division for Treatment of Children and Youth and Their Families, which has carried out a successful prior PUEDO (meaning I Can in Spanish) Healthy Transitions Project in the San Juan/Ponce region. Objectives include: 1. Integrate EBP's into policies and procedures of MH services providers; Achieve Wraparound goals for 85% of youth; Use standardized evaluation tools to assess risks of suicide and improve safety planning for 80% of transitional youth served; Reduce risky and unhealthy substance use and sexual practices in transitional youth'; Integrate WRAP Model in the 4 targeted MH Treatment Centers, achieving outcomes in at least 3 of the 5 domains; Expand the established Multisector Advisory Council with new catchment area representatives for planning, oversight, problem identification and solution; Expand formal collaborative agreements with CW, JJ and other systems for expansion of MH screening, referrals of transitional youth/families, and provision of support services; Implement at least one suicide prevention/intervention approach in the catchment area; develop and implement a culturally and linguistically appropriate social marketing/communications strategic plan to identify and engage SED/SMI youth, including suicide awareness and 988 lifeline; Capacitate youth/families to use multi-agency support services; and Increase youth-serving agency representatives on the MH Council of the MHAASA. Key project personnel include an experienced Project Director, Youth and Young Adult Coordinator and Lead Evaluator. GPRA, SPARS and other required data will be collected and reported quarterly.
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