Wednesday, February 5, 2025
2/5/2025
Texas Panhandle Centers (TPC) will use this grant to improve trauma-informed and evidence-based services for our population of focus (POF) of adults, children, youth, and families with serious mental illness (SMI), serious emotional disturbance (SED), substance use disorders (SUD), or co-occurring disorders (COD) in our 21-county service area. We (TPC) will dedicate project resources primarily to accessibility of services for children, youth, and their families. We have been certified as a CCBHC by Texas since 2022 and continue to operate in compliance with CCBHC certification criteria as described in Attachment 11. We directly provide all nine core required services. The CCBHC-IA grant will allow us to build on our CCBHC-E accomplishments and continue improving the quality of CCBHC services and expanding access to additional populations in our service area. Our particular focus will be on improving compliance with the updated CCBHC criteria; improving access to crisis and ongoing services to children, youth, and families; expanding access to integrated care; improving our capacity to capture quality measures for performance improvement; improving accessibility and acceptability of services to our LBGTQIA+ population; and addressing our critical need for additional licensed clinicians to provide EBPs. TPC will serve approximately 6,000 children, youth, and adults during each project year and a total of 7,000 unduplicated people across the four-year project. The grant will achieve the following goals: 1) Maintain compliance with all CCBHC requirements: improve consumer and family engagement in CCBHC planning, implementation, services, and evaluation activities and advance data capabilities for CCBHC quality measure reporting; 2) expand integration of behavioral and physical health care to meet the needs of individuals and families who receive treatment for SED, SMI, SUD, or COD and who lack primary care and/or screen positive for diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or other health risks; 3) establish a crisis diversion program for youth and families who are experiencing emotional or behavioral health crises in the service area; 4) improve CCBHC services and supports for the LGBTQIA + population by training staff to provide population-specific services; 5) recruit and retain more licensed professionals of the healing arts (LPHA) at TPC by increasing the number of credentialed supervisors (LPC-S and LCSW-S) and building our capacity to provide licensing opportunities to aspiring LPHAs.
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).