H79SM085282

CCBHC Expansion - Ohel Children's Home and Family Services (Ohel) proposes to expand our current service delivery model of comprehensive, trauma-informed, and integrated care through the CCBHC Expansion Grant. This expansion aims to better serve individuals and families of all ages living with serious mental illness, substance abuse disorders (including opioid), comorbid health conditions, and complex social and economic needs in several highly diverse communities throughout Brooklyn.

While Ohel already provides the majority of required CCNHC services, this grant will allow us to further enhance that continuum. We will be building on decades of deep experience and expertise in serving children and families with complex cultural, linguistic, and religious needs, including children in foster care, individuals in the Orthodox Jewish community, and families with early childhood needs (0-5).

Our goal is to expand and enhance our services to improve access to care coordination, social services, enhanced SUD treatment (including medication-assisted treatment), and deepen our partnerships to better serve veterans and justice-involved individuals, including with the VA of NY/NJ and the Brooklyn DA's office.

Communities like Brooklyn, with large proportions of Black and Brown residents, have borne a disproportionate impact of COVID, including the health, mental health, and economic effects of the pandemic. Over the past year, Ohel has been adapting and meeting the needs of individuals suffering from the mental health effects of COVID. We were selected by NYC to provide crisis counseling services and have implemented a wide range of telehealth and telemental health options.

In addition to a wide range of evidence-based practices, Ohel provides rehabilitative and social services such as supportive housing, pre-vocational supports, personalized recovery-oriented services (PROS), peer support, mobile outreach, and much more. We have recently completed construction on a brand-new building that currently houses a licensed outpatient mental health clinic and a medical clinic and urgent care center. We have also applied for an additional license to provide substance abuse disorder (SUD) treatment, which is expected to be granted this year. This building will house our CCBHC.

With this grant, we aim to increase our total unduplicated individuals served annually from 1,000 to 1,300 by the end of year 2, with a special focus on vulnerable populations, including veterans, young children, and individuals living with trauma, including those affected by COVID. Brooklyn is home to 2.6 million people, and the populations we serve reside in some of Brooklyn's most populous neighborhoods, including Midwood, Madison, Flatbush, and Borough Park. Our population mirrors the diversity of the area residents, with 37 percent White, 30 percent Black/African American, 19 percent Hispanic/Latino, and 12 percent Asian.

Ohel will build on our experience to date to enhance and expand an integrated, coordinated network of mobile crisis, diversion, respite, and community supports proven to reduce emergency department use and divert people to more community-based alternatives. We will increase the number of individuals receiving care coordination and referrals to social services, as well as increase the connection of individuals to primary care.

Ohel Childrens Home & Family Services

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93.696 - Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion Grants

Division of Grants Management [HHS - SAMHSA]

New York United States

State-Wide

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

COVID-19 $1,982,268 (65%) 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 total obligations have increased 55% from $1,963,375 to $3,045,060.