H79SM086482

Integrated Behavioral Healthcare for Nassau County, NY's Communities of Color - Project Summary:

Family & Children’s Association (FCA) is a leader in providing mental health (MH) and substance use disorder (SUD) services on Long Island, NY, with 138 years’ experience serving at-risk populations. FCA’s proposed CCBHC will address the growing behavioral health treatment disparities facing our region’s underserved communities of color.

By integrating MH, SUD, and primary care services, this CCBHC will provide high-quality comprehensive, coordinated behavioral healthcare at 2 Nassau County locations, Hempstead and Hicksville, NY. FCA’s CCBHC population of focus (POF) will be adults and youth, ages 5-21, with mental health and substance use disorders, particularly low-income communities of color, who lack access to comprehensive, coordinated behavioral healthcare.

FCA believes that integrated outpatient services are a necessity to address the full scope of patient needs, providing a no-wrong-door policy offering a holistic, person-centered approach to engaging and retaining individuals in quality behavioral healthcare.

FCA seeks this funding on behalf of local residents in need of MH/SUD treatment, especially our communities of color, centered in/near Hempstead, who lack integrated services and desperately need an immediate response to address the growing numbers suffering from anxiety, depression, serious mental illness (SMI), serious emotional disturbance (SED), and SUD within a national mental health crisis.

FCA’s proposed services will provide this population with evidence-based interventions and treatment for co-occurring disorders to ensure individuals do not get overlooked, turned away or confused by service navigation and can receive dependable recovery-oriented and trauma-informed treatment under one roof.

The goals of this planning, development and implementation project are to: (A) establish internal systems and processes to effectively implement and sustain the CCBHC model; (B) identify additional revenue-generating services to sustain required CCBHC activities; (C) increase FCA’s capacity to collect, analyze and utilize data; and (D) provide our population of focus with integrated services to treat SUD/MH and reduce poor behavioral outcomes.

Over the course of the four years of funding, we project that we will serve 1,250 people (Year 1: 200; Year 2: 300; Year 3: 350; Year 4: 400).

The planning, development and implementation of this CCBHC project will take place in coordination with our local government partners at the Nassau County Office of Mental Health, Chemical Dependency, and Developmental Disabilities Services, and also in consultation with the New York State Office of Addiction Supports and Services (OASAS) and the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH).

Such government partners will be invited to participate in the visioning sessions established during this grant’s implementation, and will also be regularly engaged via phone, email, or Zoom as needed to assure maximum community awareness of this program’s services/benefits as well as strong coordination between our local government and nonprofit sectors during the delivery of this grant’s services.

Family & Children's Association

THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROGRAM IS TO INCREASE ACCESS TO AND IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF COMMUNITY MENTAL AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER TREATMENT SERVICES THROUGH THE EXPANSION OF CCBHCS. CCBHCS PROVIDE PERSON- AND FAMILY-CENTERED INTEGRATED SERVICES.

93.696 - Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion Grants

Division of Grants Management [HHS - SAMHSA]

Garden City, New York 115306553 United States

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Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion Grants (SM-22-002)

Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 300% from $1,000,000 to $4,000,000.