Saturday, December 21, 2024
12/21/2024
Tessie Cleveland Community Services Corporation (TCCSC) is a 501(c)3 non-profit behavioral health agency and has been providing services to children, adolescents, adults, and families since 2005. TCCSC’s CCBHC-PDI project will serve the Southeast Los Angeles area, designated by LA County as Service Planning Area 7. SPA 7 includes multi-generational poverty, unemployment/under-employment, limited English proficiency, illiteracy, low-to-no self-efficacy, and geographic deprivation of services and resources readily available in more affluent neighborhoods (job opportunities, safer parks and recreation, quality stores, and choices). The specific focal population will be Latino men and women (18+), adolescents (12-17), children (0-11), and LGBTQIA with SMI, SED, co-occurring mental and physical health problems, SUDs, experiencing homelessness, and living at or below 100% of the FPL. Through this grant, TCCSC will provide services to 75 clients annually and 300 throughout the lifetime of the project. TCCSC provides services that are individualized based on the unique dynamics of each client and family and tailored to address their strengths, needs, and desired outcomes. In addition to our clinic services, TCCSC utilizes in-home services including psychotherapy; counseling; crisis response; case management; linkage; and parenting education to increase child safety in the home and prevent child abuse, maltreatment, and neglect. TCCSC provides clients and families with exposure therapy to increase their comfort level in seeking resources outside the community. TCCSC’s service delivery plan includes programs and events that incorporate strengthening a family’s protective framework. In addition to these services, TCCSC uses a myriad of Evidence-Based Practices (EBP’s) enabling our clinicians to become self-directed, problem-based, treatment providers who can integrate the results with their clinical expertise. TCCSC selected EBP’s proven to be effective with our focal population such as Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and Seeking Safety (SS). physical health problems, SUDs, experiencing homelessness, and living at or below 100% of the FPL. The grant will allow TCCSC to address behavioral health disparities for Southeast LA (SPA 7) including: 1) lack of access to care; by a) opening a center in an area designated as health, mental health and primary care professionals shortage areas by HRSA; b) providing services in Spanish where 38.5% of the population are monolingual Spanish speaking (LA County KIH, 2017); c) providing services regardless of ability to pay, especially for undocumented individuals, with 44% representing the total population in Southeast LA (SELA Nonprofit Needs Assessment: Landscape Analysis, 2019); 2) higher rates of chronic diseases by offering primary care screenings to address significantly higher rates of diabetes (5% higher than the LA County rate at 28%) and obesity (39% of the population); 3) lack of educational attainment by offering information using written, verbal or other alternative methods of communication, including visual aids, audio recordings, and hosting community forums; and 4) lack of coordinated care by hiring five bilingual FTE providers (therapists, care coordinators, nurse practitioner, psychiatrist, SUDs counselor, and peer specialist) to manage care for individuals.
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).