Thursday, November 21, 2024
11/21/2024
The Nevada Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS) has spent the last decade building a children's behavioral health system of care in Nevada. Despite many successes, Nevada has faced challenges in providing accessible, effective, evidence-based treatment to children with complex, multi-agency needs. Nevada has identified children and youth ages 0-21 with a designation of serious emotional disturbance (SED) and intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (ID/DD) statewide as the population of focus for this project, including diverse and underserved populations. Nevada lacks the coordination, training, evidence-based practices, and provider network to meet the needs of the population of focus and will use this grant to address these deficiencies. This project has three goals: (1) Assemble a statewide Leadership Committee to oversee the grant goals and outcomes and more broadly to address systemic barriers and build a sustainable infrastructure to provide services to the population of focus; (2) Develop a program of services to provide accessible, equitable, and quality community-based evidence-based practices for children and youth in the population of focus; and (3) Implement a Statewide Training Plan to enhance the knowledge and skills of government and community organizations who work with children, youth, and families to utilize evidence-based, non-clinical interventions (e.g., supportive, consistent environments, teaching replacement behaviors, praise and positive statements) to support the population of focus to remain in their homes/communities reducing the need for residential intervention. DCFS will partner with community-based providers to execute Goal 2, building sustainability in Nevada’s service array. DCFS estimates that 275 children/youth and their families will be served by the end of the four-year grant. Through these goals and objectives, DCFS will enhance statewide, cross-system collaboration and coordination with respect to Nevada’s children’s behavioral health system of care, increase the availability of evidence-based practices provided by current community-based providers in Nevada, and enhance the skills of child-serving entities statewide, all with the ultimate goal of providing effective services to children, youth, and families in Nevada.
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).
