H79SM087574

Cultivating Action, Resiliency and Empowerment (CARE): Expanding the Resilient Jacksonville System of Care

Jacksonville has a long history of segregation, oppression, racism, and police brutality—leading to the demonstrations involving more than 3,000 people in May 2021 and the Quench the Violence protest marches in May 2022.

Cultivating Action, Resilience and Empowerment (CARE): Expanding the Resilient Jacksonville System of Care will utilize a rights-based framework to create an ecosystem of care. The aim is to solidify, sustain, and build upon community-based participatory efforts, meet the needs of high-risk youth and their families, and promote well-being, resiliency, and community healing.

CARE will serve more than 15,000 unduplicated individuals in Jacksonville's Health Zone 4. This area has been plagued with a string of violence stemming from multiple murders of young men. Additionally, it has the highest rate of drug overdoses, infant mortality, and domestic violence homicides among the six Duval County health zones.

By building on the City of Jacksonville's existing SAMHSA System of Care (SOC), we will integrate, restructure, and expand the foundational components of the SOC. These include cultural and linguistic competency, family-driven and youth-guided approaches, and evidence-based practices. We will also recast trauma-responsive training, evidence-based interventions, violence prevention strategies, and community engagement strategies.

These components have been successfully implemented through our prior and current SAMHSA grants. The goal is to establish a trauma-informed Jacksonville that will focus on training first responders, community stakeholders, providers, educators, law enforcement, clergy, and parents in trauma-informed care and practices. We aim to serve more than 15,000 community stakeholders, providers, high-risk children, youth, their families, and community residents residing in Jacksonville's West Side corridor. This area consists of violence-prone communities that experience high rates of stress and trauma.

CARE will be under the leadership and guidance of the SOC Community Advisory Board. This diverse leadership consortium comprises community stakeholders, providers, and families and youth in the community. Their role is to ensure transparency in systemic and programmatic intervention implementation.

The project goals include:

1. Building a foundation to promote well-being, resiliency, and community healing and change through community-based, participatory approaches. These approaches will promote community and youth engagement, leadership development, improved governance, and capacity building.

2. Creating more equitable access to trauma-informed community behavioral health resources.

3. Strengthening the integration of behavioral health services and other community systems to address the social determinants of health. This recognizes that factors such as law enforcement practices, transportation, employment, and housing policies can contribute to health outcomes.

4. Ensuring that program services are culturally responsive and developmentally appropriate.

Managed Access To Child Health

SAMHSA WAS GIVEN THE AUTHORITY TO ADDRESS PRIORITY SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT, PREVENTION AND MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS OF REGIONAL AND NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE THROUGH ASSISTANCE (GRANTS AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS) TO STATES, POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS OF STATES, INDIAN TRIBES AND TRIBAL ORGANIZATIONS, AND OTHER PUBLIC OR NONPROFIT PRIVATE ENTITIES. UNDER THESE SECTIONS, CSAT, CMHS AND CSAP SEEK TO EXPAND THE AVAILABILITY OF EFFECTIVE SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT AND RECOVERY SERVICES AVAILABLE TO AMERICANS TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF THOSE AFFECTED BY ALCOHOL AND DRUG ADDITIONS, AND TO REDUCE THE IMPACT OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE ON INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, COMMUNITIES AND SOCIETIES AND TO ADDRESS PRIORITY MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS OF REGIONAL AND NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE AND ASSIST CHILDREN IN DEALING WITH VIOLENCE AND TRAUMATIC EVENTS THROUGH BY FUNDING GRANT AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT PROJECTS. GRANTS AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS MAY BE FOR (1) KNOWLEDGE AND DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION PROJECTS FOR TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION AND THE CONDUCT OR SUPPORT OF EVALUATIONS OF SUCH PROJECTS, (2) TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, (3) TARGETED CAPACITY RESPONSE PROGRAMS (4) SYSTEMS CHANGE GRANTS INCLUDING STATEWIDE FAMILY NETWORK GRANTS AND CLIENT-ORIENTED AND CONSUMER RUN SELF-HELP ACTIVITIES AND (5) PROGRAMS TO FOSTER HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN, (6) COORDINATION AND INTEGRATION OF PRIMARY CARE SERVICES INTO PUBLICLY-FUNDED COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS AND OTHER COMMUNITY-BASED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SETTINGS

93.243 - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance

Division of Grants Management [HHS - SAMHSA]

Jacksonville, Florida 322096810 United States

Single Zip Code

Resiliency in Communities After Stress and Trauma (SM-22-019)

Amendment Since initial award the End Date has been shortened from 12/30/26 to 09/29/26 and the total obligations have increased 100% from $2,000,000 to $4,000,000.