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Center for Mental Health Services
Division of Service and Systems Improvement
Child, Adolescent, and Family Branch
Child and Adolescent Mental Health & Substance Abuse State Infrastructure Grants
DESCRIPTION: The grants will be provided over five years to strengthen the capacity of states, territories and American Indian tribal governments.
The state grantees are:
Arizona Child and Adolescent State Infrastructure Grant
The Arizona Vision for children is to provide accessible behavioral health services designed to aid children to achieve success in school, live with their families, avoid delinquency, and become stable and productive adults. Under the leadership of the Governor’s Office, the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS), in collaboration with Arizona child serving agencies, proposes to use grant funds to expand and sustain the activities that are taking place to promote the Arizona Vision and Principles. Grant funds will be targeted to address all major elements for the Department’s strategic plan to fulfill this Vision, including: creating and sustaining trusting partnerships with families, and with other child-serving systems; developing, teaching and implementing effective practice improvement protocols; workforce development through expanded training and coaching; community infrastructure development for child and family serving agencies, including effective venues for barrier identification and resolution; and improvements to the overall quality management system to ensure sustainability of the statewide system of reform.
Georgia’s Child and Adolescent Infrastructure Grant
Georgia will focus on building comprehensive systems of care to meet the needs of youth with serious emotional disturbance, substance abuse and co-occurring disorders and their families. Strategies addressed include: development of a trained workforce, funding strategies, policies and practice guidelines and web resource development and improved data infrastructure development. The overall purpose of the Child and Adolescent State Infrastructure Grant Project in Georgia I to provide the ability to strengthen the capacity, from a state level, to develop, expand and sustain mental health, substance abuse and co-occurring services and supports at the community-based level for youth who have serious emotion disturbances, substance abuse and co-occurring disorders and their families.
Nebraska Child and Adolescent Mental Health and substance Abuse SIG
Through this initiative, Nebraska will build on major behavioral health system reform efforts to develop individualized service models for challenging populations (children ages birth to 5, transition-aged youth, and youth with co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders), establish culturally and linguistically appropriate practices, and form a coalition of an integrated, family-centered system for children and families.
Nevada State Infrastructure Grant
The Nevada SIG will support the development of sustainable state and local level infrastructure for integrating planning, financing, work force development, accountability and quality improvement. This SIG will aid that process by funding infrastructure activities including:
- Reforming a state advisory committee for more collaborative governance functions
- Developing an integrated cross system vision and plan for behavioral health services
- Expanding system assessment to include integrated financing and science based services
- Increasing statewide family support and advocacy capacity
- Increasing the focus on developing the capacity to provide culturally proficient services and supports for children and families
- Improving interagency coordinating mechanisms
- Developing an expanded focus on science based practices at all levels
- Implementing a workforce development plan that includes a focus on science based services, effective supervision, and strengths-based professional development plans
- Implementing an integrated management system
South Carolina
Child, Adolescent and Family Services SIG
Offering Assistance, Stability and Intensive Support for families (OASIS) Family Affiliates, will provide crisis/respite services to children with serious emotional disturbances who other wise would be at-risk of out-of-home placement. Crisis/respite services will provide a link in the system of care for children up to 17 years of age.
Building on the work of previous federal grants, South Carolina proposes a project to fill in the gaps in its services for children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbances (SED). Governor Sanford, the Department of Mental Health and stakeholders recommend an infrastructure for crisis/respite services to improve our State’s system of care that offers mental health and substance abuse services in the least restrictive settings. The emphasis is on help youth stay at home, in school, and out of trouble.
- The over all goal of OASIS Family Affiliates is to develop a statewide system of crisis/respite services to care for children and adolescents who have a serious emotional disturbance, substance abuse disorder, and co-occurring disorders.
Utah’s Transformation of Child and Adolescent Network
The Utah Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health proposes to implement UT CAN (Utah Transformation of Child and Adolescent Network) that will develop a transformed child and adolescent mental health and substance abuse (MH/SA) infrastructure that delivers effective, coordinated, and accountable services. The target population of the transformed infrastructure is children, adolescents, and youth age from 0-21 and their families. Government/private entities and community members are involved in the development of project concept. They include mental health, substance abuse, education, child welfare, juvenile justice, health, ethnic/racial communities, parent organizations, and youth.
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