H79SM085034

Grants for Expansion and Sustainability of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances

Fruition System of Care - The proposed Fruition System of Care will serve 7 rural underserved northeastern Mississippi counties (Benton, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc, and Union) to support the implementation, expansion, and integration of the SOC approach by creating sustainable infrastructure and services. The SOC will improve mental health outcomes for children and youth, birth through age 21, children and youth with serious emotional disturbance and those with early signs and symptoms of serious mental illness, including first episode psychosis and their families.

By focusing on mental health and related recovery support services, sustainable financing, cross-agency collaboration, and evidence-based practices such as TF-CBT, Wraparound, youth-guided/family driven-peer/family supports, FEP, person-centered planning, active parenting, first episode of psychosis: mental health first aid, youth mental health first aid, QPR, ASIST, safe zone-LGBTQ, and enhanced policy and infrastructure with youth-guided and family driven leadership, the Fruition System of Care aims to improve the overall well-being of the target population.

Project Name: Fruition System of Care
Populations Served: Birth to 21 age; 45% African American; 1% Hispanic; 2% multi-racial; 1% Native American; 1% Asian and 1% LGBTQ; 85% at or below poverty level; 10% between (0-5); 90% 6-21 age; 50% child welfare involved.

Strategies: Fruition System of Care seeks to expand trauma-informed, cultural and linguistically appropriate evidence-based practices, supports, and policies with a cross-agency approach of coordinated service delivery and integration of mental health services. This includes ensuring effective cross-agency expansion and the provision of mental health and related recovery support services to participants with serious emotional disturbance and those with early signs of serious mental illness, including first episode psychosis. The array of non-mental health supports will include vocational counseling, afterschool programming, health-related services, substance abuse prevention, stable housing, independent living skills, and advocacy. Each participant will work with a care team that facilitates the identification and implementation of an individualized service plan in partnership with the child/youth, family, natural supports, and professional supports to achieve their personal goals. Fruition System of Care will develop a cross-agency infrastructure through an integrated system of care and ensure national and local evaluation and performance assessments are conducted.

Goals:
1) Expand Region 3 mental health cross-agency collaboration to serve individuals with serious emotional disturbance and those with early signs and symptoms of serious mental illness, including first episode psychosis.
2) Provide a broad array of accessible and coordinated services/supports.
3) Ensure individualized, managed care; plan, deliver, and evaluate these services with the full participation of families and youth in a culturally and linguistically sensitive manner.
4) Facilitate broad-based, sustainable systemic support for the population of focus.

Objectives (annually and over 4 years):
1) 80% of participants will improve diagnosis.
2) 80% of participants will improve mental illness symptomatology.
3) 80% of participants will improve employment/education.
4) 80% of participants will reduce criminal justice involvement.
5) 80% of participants will improve stability in housing.
6) 80% of participants will reduce readmission to psychiatric hospitals.
7) 80% of participants will improve social support/social connectedness.
8) 85% of participants will report a high client perception of care.

Number served: 100 in year(s) 1-4, totaling 400 in 4 years.

Northeast Mental Health-Mental Retardation Commission

TO PROVIDE COMMUNITY-BASED SYSTEMS OF CARE FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH A SERIOUS EMOTIONAL DISTURBANCE AND THEIR FAMILIES. THE PROGRAM WILL ENSURE THAT SERVICES ARE PROVIDED COLLABORATIVELY ACROSS CHILD-SERVING SYSTEMS, THAT EACH CHILD OR ADOLESCENT SERVED THROUGH THE PROGRAM RECEIVES AN INDIVIDUALIZED SERVICE PLAN DEVELOPED WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF THE FAMILY (AND, WHERE APPROPRIATE, THE CHILD), THAT EACH INDIVIDUALIZED PLAN DESIGNATES A CASE MANAGER TO ASSIST THE CHILD AND FAMILY, AND THAT FUNDING IS PROVIDED FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES REQUIRED TO MEET THE NEEDS OF YOUNGSTERS IN THESE SYSTEMS.

93.104 - Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances (SED)

Division of Grants Management [HHS - SAMHSA]

Tupelo, Mississippi 388046942 United States

Single Zip Code

Grants for Expansion and Sustainability of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances (SM-21-004)

Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 100% from $2,000,000 to $4,000,000.