Saturday, May 10, 2025
5/10/2025
The Bridge's Treatment for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness Program - The Bridge's Treatment for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness (TIEH) Program is designed to serve marginalized youth and adults living in Manhattan, the Bronx, and Brooklyn who are experiencing homelessness, coupled with mental health and/or substance use disorders, or co-occurring disorders. The specific populations to be served include youth and adults, including people of color (POC), low to no-income individuals, people experiencing homelessness (PEH), and people with complete mental health (MH), serious emotional disturbances (SED), substance use disorders (SUD), and co-occurring disorders (COD). The project's overall purpose is to assist these individuals by helping them enroll in mainstream benefits, appropriate treatment, and recovery programs so they will succeed in sustainable permanent housing accessed through a coordinated approach by The Bridge. Project goals include 1) improving access and decreasing barriers to integrated behavioral health (BH) care among high-need individuals through a comprehensive range of outreach, screening, assessment, treatment, care coordination, and recovery supports; 2) improving efforts to engage and connect clients to enrollment resources for health insurance, Medicaid, and mainstream assistance; and 3) improving access and decreasing barriers to housing and services that support sustainable permanent housing amount high-need individuals through a coordinated approach. Project objectives include 1) increasing response time to less than 3 hours for 85% of those in need of BH care by developing and implementing a 24/7 crisis intervention, risk assessment, and treatment response system for high-need individuals. 1.2) increase utilization of BH services by strengthening social supports amount 85% of high-need individuals by utilizing peer support. 2.1) increase response time to less than seven days to enroll 85% of clients in mainstream assistance programs by collaborating with such programs and developing relationships that allow for faster enrollment for clients. 2.1) increase utilization of mainstream assistance programs and The Bridge programs for BH, SUD, and housing services by 50%. 3.1) Increase advocacy for PEH seeking sustainable permanent housing by coordinating with housing authorities and 20 other landlords on how to best interact with residents with MH conditions or co-occurring conditions. 3.2) increase utilization of a landlord list that PEH can contact to locate sustainable permanent housing. 4.1) review and improve diversity, equity, and inclusion policies and practices to address the disparities in MH outcomes. 4.2) hire a Training Specialist to build the capacity of a least 100 employees to deliver culturally responsive, evidence-based care to 150 individuals each year. The number of people to be served annually is approximately 150 for a total of 712 through the full five-year grant period. Interventions that will be used during this project include Motivational Interviewing, peer support, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, medication-assisted treatment typically used for SUD, supported employment, and Integrated Dual Disorder treatment. These interventions are designed to assist PEH with MH/ SED and/or SUD who want treatment and seek housing.
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).