H79SM085201

Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion Grants - Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Hartford will establish a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic at its Instituto de la Familia Hispana (IFH). The project aims to increase access and improve the quality of community mental health, substance disorder, and co-occurring treatment for a primarily Hispanic population of children, youth, and adults in Greater Hartford.

The CCBHC will provide 24-hour/7-day access to culturally competent, community-based integrated primary and community behavioral healthcare for 350 and 400 unduplicated consumers in the project's first and second year, respectively, for a total of 750 consumers over the grant period.

IFH will target a population of Hispanic adults with any mental illness (AMI), serious mental illness (SMI), substance abuse disorder (SUD), and co-occurring disorders (COD), as well as children/adolescents with serious emotional disorders (SED) in Hartford, East Hartford, and West Hartford, CT. According to the 2019 US Census data, the area's total population ages 5 and up is 222,088, with 73,774 (35%) being Hispanic of any race. Within this group, 74% are Puerto Rican. The target group of Hispanics includes 17,610 children ages 5-17, 49,630 ages 18-64, and 6,474 ages 65+.

IFH served 1,991 consumers in 2019, including 1,632 adults ages 18-59, 155 adults ages 60+, and 204 children ages 4-17. Of these consumers, 75% were from Hartford, 22% were white, 14% were black, and 58% were other races. Among them, 81% were Hispanic (with 77% being Puerto Rican, 12% other Hispanic, 2% Mexican, 1.3% Cuban, and 6% unknown), 94% received Medicaid/Medicare, and 5% were uninsured.

Founded in 1975, IFH is one of the few mental health centers in the U.S. and the only one in Greater Hartford specializing in culturally-specific mental health and substance abuse care for Hispanics. The CCBCC goals/objectives include:

1) Increase staff capacity to deliver culturally-grounded, effective integrated health, mental health, and substance abuse treatment by hiring additional bilingual/bicultural clinical, care management, and peer staff and providing training in motivational interviewing/cognitive behavioral therapy (MI/CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT), eye movement desensitization therapy (EMDR), Seeking Safety, and Familias Unidas.

2) Reduce hospital and emergency department utilization among a target population of adults and youth by providing mobile crisis services (DCO), open access, and medication-assisted treatment.

3) Reduce high-risk behavior leading to hospitalization by linking clients to assertive community treatment (ACT) and providing targeted case management services.

4) Improve behavioral symptoms and functioning among children and adults by providing evidence-based outpatient individual and group interventions (TF-CBT, MI/CBT, DBT, EMDR, Seeking Safety, and Familias Unidas).

5) Prevent unnecessary medical hospitalizations/ER visits and chronic disease by providing health screening, on-site primary care, bilingual pharmacy services, and integrated care management.

6) Improve physical and behavioral health among adults by hosting weekly psychosocial rehabilitation/recovery groups.

7) Create a project advisory board composed of 51% consumers.

Catholic Charities, - Archdiocese Of Hartford

FUNDING TO SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT OF PROPOSALS TO PARTICIPATE IN TIME-LIMITED COMMUNITY BASED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS DESCRIBED IN SUBSECTION (D) OF SECTION 223 OF P.L. 113-93 PROTECTING ACCESS TO MEDICARE ACT OF 2014, 42 USC 1396(A) NOTE. ADDITIONAL FUNDING AS OUTLINED UNDER SECTION 11001 OF BIPARTISAN SAFER COMMUNITIES ACT OF 2022 (P.L. 117-159) TO EXPAND THE NUMBER OF STATES ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SECTION 223 CCBHC DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM. THE LEGISLATION APPROPRIATES $40 MILLION TO THE SECRETARY TO AWARD PLANNING GRANTS, PROVIDE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO STATES, AND TO SELECT UP TO TEN STATES EVERY TWO YEARS (UNTIL ALL FUNDS ARE EXPENDED), WITH THE FIRST 10 STATES LAUNCHING CCBHC DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS BEGINNING JULY 1, 2024.

93.696 - Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion Grants

Division of Grants Management [HHS - SAMHSA]

Connecticut United States

State-Wide

Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion Grants (SM-21-013)

COVID-19 $2,000,000 (55%) percent of this Project Grant was funded by COVID-19 emergency acts including the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
Amendment Since initial award the End Date has been extended from 08/30/23 to 08/30/24 and the total obligations have increased 82% from $2,000,000 to $3,640,055.