Sunday, November 24, 2024
11/24/2024
Wyckoff proposes a continuation and expansion of our highly successful IMPACT (Improving Access to Comprehensive Treatment) program, a community-based collaborative effort established in 2017 to expand and enhance Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and Co-occurring Substance Use and Mental Disorder (COD) services for racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual minorities at risk for or living with HIV and/or Hepatitis B/C (HCV/HBV) in Brooklyn, New York City (NYC). IMPACT will serve 75 unique clients annually for a total of 375 unique clients during the 5-year anticipated funding period. IMPACT will focus on the following populations: Black and Hispanic young men and women (ages 18-35); Black and Hispanic men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender individuals of any age; and Black and Hispanic older adults aged 50+ who have experienced significant isolation and disruption to healthcare and behavioral health services, especially in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. These clients will be actively experiencing or at risk for developing substance use disorders (SUD), including at risk of or previously survived opioid overdose, and may be living with or at risk for infectious diseases (HIV, sexually transmitted infections, viral Hepatitis). As with most of the clients Wyckoff serves, many will be living in poverty. Funding will support direct services to these clients, such as routine SUD, COD and mental health screenings and referrals to on-site counseling and evidence-based treatment modalities and off-site more intensive treatments; navigation, case management and support for all program clients to address both health and social service needs such as housing and nutrition; referrals and on-site linkage to HIV, viral Hepatitis and STI testing, treatment and biomedical prevention services such as PrEP and PEP, available to everyone regardless of insurance status; and ongoing client education and support related to harm reduction, overdose prevention and reversal through distribution of tangible life-saving tools such as Naloxone and crisis intervention counseling. Some of the program funding will be used to provide ongoing trainings and capacity building to Wyckoff medical providers, residents, nursing and frontline staff on local epidemiologic data impacting our patients and best practices in screening and recommended treatments for SUD, CODs, mental health, HIV and Viral Hepatitis. Wyckoff will also use funding from this grant program to coordinate and submit required HIV and viral Hepatitis reporting to the state and local health agencies, NYC DOHMH and NYS DOH.
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).
