H79SM085501

Enhanced Treatment and Recovery (ENTRY) Program - Sunset Park Mental Health Center, part of the Sunset Park Health Council, Inc., dba The Family Health Centers at NYU Langone (FHC) Behavioral Health Program (BHP), is a NYS Office of Mental Health certified CMHC. SAMHSA funding will serve children, adolescents, and adults with SED, SMI, and COD through the Enhanced Treatment and Recovery (ENTRY) Program, led by Dr. W. Gordon Frankle, Principal Investigator.

Community residents are predominantly minority (Hispanic/Latino, African American, and Asian immigrants) facing socioeconomic and sociocultural barriers to care.

The ENTRY program will have the following goals:

Goal 1: Strengthen trauma-informed screening, assessment, diagnosis, patient-centered treatment planning, and treatment delivery.

- Objective 1.1: Identify and hire 12 clinical and administrative staff by month 3.
- Objective 1.2: Conduct initial training in trauma-informed care, stigma reduction, confidentiality, and cultural competency to all staff supporting program implementation by month 3.
- Objective 1.3: Identify staff to lead participant outreach and recruitment activities by month 3.
- Objective 1.4: Optimize rapport and sustain procedures with referring organizations by month 4.
- Objective 1.5: Conduct new patient outreach to 1000 unduplicated community members within the service area by month 12 annually.
- Objective 1.6: Screen, assess, diagnose, and treat 500 unduplicated patients by month 12 annually.

Goal 2: Strengthen the implementation of outpatient services and ongoing patient monitoring.

- Objective 2.1: Establish dedicated pathways of treatment for those with SED/SMI/COD, and/or trauma exposure to reduce barriers to outpatient care by month 4.
- Objective 2.2: Provide individualized psychoeducation to the participant on diagnosis, early intervention, adherence to treatment, and recovery by month 4.
- Objective 2.3: Provide clinical and recovery support facilitated by 2 peer navigators by month 4.
- Objective 2.4: Conduct ongoing didactic staff training in evidence-based practices relevant to SED/SMI/COD/trauma beginning in month 4.
- Objective 2.5: Sustain and expand the existing technical infrastructure to provide audio and audio-visual HIPAA compliant telehealth via a community-based mobile telehealth team by month 6.
- Objective 2.6: Establish a LAI and clozapine clinic by month 6.

Goal 3: Address staff mental health needs through evidence-informed protocols and resources.

- Objective 3.1: 30 FHC BHP staff per month will complete training on evidence-based self-care practices for healthcare providers by month 4, from the SAMHSA funded Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Network - Provider Well-Being Initiative.
- Objective 3.2: Monthly staff wellness and resiliency programming along with a consultant for staff support and wellness will be implemented by month 6.
- Objective 3.3: Implement a campaign to increase awareness of provider burnout and identify remedies on how to reduce burnout/improve well-being by month 4.

The program will serve 500 unduplicated persons annually for a total of 1,000 persons (years 1-2).

Sunset Park Health Council

TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO STATES AND TERRITORIES TO ENABLE THEM TO CARRY OUT THE STATE'S PLAN FOR PROVIDING COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES TO ADULTS WITH A SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS AND TO CHILDREN WITH A SERIOUS EMOTIONAL DISTURBANCE, MONITOR THE PROGRESS IN IMPLEMENTING A COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY BASED MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM, PROVIDE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO STATES AND THE MENTAL HEALTH PLANNING COUNCIL THAT WILL ASSIST THE STATES IN PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING A COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY BASED MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM.

93.958 - Block Grants for Community Mental Health Services

Division of Grants Management [HHS - SAMHSA]

New York United States

State-Wide

Community Mental Health Centers Grant Program (SM-21-014)

Amendment Since initial award the End Date has been extended from 09/29/23 to 09/29/24.