Sunday, December 8, 2024
12/8/2024
Serving Children and Adults in Need Inc. (SCAN), is proposing to implement the Border Reentry and Community Integration Program which will serve adult males and females 18 years of age and older from Webb County, Texas returning to the community following incarceration in state and local facilities and who meet the criteria for a substance use disorder and/or co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders. The project proposes to serve 350 unduplicated participants for the five years of the project (70 per year). The project will expand and enhance substance use disorder treatment and recovery and reentry services for sentenced adult offenders and ex-offenders with a substance use disorder and/or co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders. Webb County residents have greater substance abuse treatment needs than other populations in Texas and are exposed to adverse environmental factors that place them at higher risk of criminal behaviors and incarceration. The proposed project will address existing service gaps in Webb County that will provide the support needed for participants to successfully reenter their communities and families. Treatment services available will include outpatient, intensive outpatient and intensive and supportive residential treatment services that will be delivered according to the participants’ unique substance use and criminogenic needs. The project will provide outreach, pre-treatment, continuing and recovery components to ensure ongoing engagement and linkages to community peer support after successful discharge. SCAN envisions a project that meets the unique needs of each participant, utilizing evidence-based practices and infrastructure development activities. The evidence based practices selected are: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), Seeking Safety, and the Matrix Model for Criminal Justice Settings. These interventions will address concurrently the participants’ substance use, mental health, criminogenic and trauma needs, while case management and wrap around activities will address the participant’s comprehensive needs through community linkages. The project will include COPSD (Co-occurring Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorder) case management services to closely link participants with co-occurring disorders to psychiatric assessment and treatment. The project will foster services coordination and integration for reentry individuals by creating a stakeholder group composed of institutional and community corrections, treatment providers and community agencies. The project will also help reentry individuals access employment and stable housing. The project will also meet the cultural and linguistic needs of participants by ensuring that clinical intervention and services are sensitive to needs of the population by making cultural adaptations providing services in Spanish. The project will engage families and significant others by developing family component that will focus on strengthening the participant’s recovery and successful reintegration to families and communities.
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).
