Tuesday, May 6, 2025
5/6/2025
PROJECT TAPESTRY: WEAVING SOLUTIONS FOR CHILD MENTAL HEALTH - Project TAPESTRY enhances Cuyahoga County's current systems of care efforts by increasing mental health service access and capacity. This project merges a premiere mental health case wraparound model (the PEP - Positive Education Program Connections) with a pioneering child welfare reform initiative (the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Family-to-Family initiative). The welfare initiative mobilizes families at a neighborhood level to work with professionals in order to improve child outcomes. Four high-poverty neighborhoods will be demonstration sites with increased access to an expanded array of high quality mental health services. Connections will provide the vehicle to link children and families to these services, including a menu of evidence-based treatments that will be developed as a direct result of this project. Both the schools and neighborhood partners will serve as primary referral sources for youth with SED, linking the education and child welfare systems for mental health services. The Cuyahoga County Family and Children's First Council (FCFC) is the organizing entity behind systems of care development. FCFC is spearheading the Strengthening Communities Youth (SCY) project through SAMHSA' s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, which concentrates systems of care development through the substance abuse and juvenile justice systems. TAPESTRY expands and complements SCY by adding resources to the child welfare and education systems. Each system's reform efforts are linked together via their connection to the FCFC's system coordination plan. TAPESTRY has been designed to extend the influence of two other federal initiatives, Project SYNERGY!; a Safe Schools/Healthy Students initiative whose funding concludes in October 2003, and TDM Connect, a child welfare initiative currently under consideration for funding. Finally, the 6,400 youth with SED and their families currently being served will receive more effective services.
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).