This Project Grant award from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under the CMS Research, Demonstrations and Evaluations program (CFDA 93.779) provides $475,000 to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) - Lehman College to study substance use disorders and mental health services in the Bronx, New York. The project aims to: Convene a Bronx community taskforce to explore factors associated with the utilization of mental health and substance abuse...
This Project Grant award of $1,800,000 from the Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) aims to expand mental health, substance use disorder, and medication-assisted treatment services at the Bedford-Stuyvesant Family Health Center in Brooklyn, New York. The grant will fund the recruitment and training of additional mental health providers, including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and substance use counselors. It will also...
This $1,200,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224), will enable West County Health Centers, Inc. to significantly expand access to medication-assisted treatment (MOUD) and substance use disorder/opioid use disorder (SUD/OUD) treatment, as well as mental health counseling, for two target populations in western Sonoma County - the unsheltered population and...
The Chautauqua Center, Inc., a non-profit Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Dunkirk, New York, was awarded a $1,200,000 Project Grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to expand behavioral health services in Chautauqua County and the surrounding rural, medically underserved region. The funding will allow The Chautauqua Center to hire 1 new psychiatric provider and 4 new social workers/counselors to serve an additional 500...
This Project Grant award of $11,274,864 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) Expansion Grants program (CFDA 93.696) will support the "Health in Action Project" at the Richard Hall Community Health and Wellness Center in Somerset County, New Jersey. The project aims to reduce disparities and improve access to integrated behavioral and primary healthcare services for 1,000 individuals,...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224), provides $1,800,000 to Northern Counties Health Care, Inc. (NCHC) to expand behavioral health services in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom region. The funding will enable NCHC to enhance counseling access, expand medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder, and improve the availability of specialized behavioral...
This Project Grant award from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) provides $1,800,000 to the County of Santa Barbara Public Health Department (SBCPHD) to expand behavioral health services across its network of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and homeless shelter-based clinics. The funding will enable SBCPHD to hire an additional full-time behavioral health specialist and administrative staff, as well as contract for...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program, provides $2,068,801 to conduct a service user-informed, mixed-methods study on the implementation and impacts of Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) in New York State. The study has three key components: Assessing CCBHC implementation through qualitative interviews, clinic surveys, and administrative data to describe how clinics changed...
This Project Grant awarded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Congressional Directives program (CFDA 93.493) provides $500,000 to Nazareth University to increase access to mental health services in their region. The funding will be used to establish inter-professional mental health clinics that integrate and scale up existing behavioral/mental health services provided through the university's York Wellness & Rehabilitation Institute. The...
The Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $1,800,000 Project Grant under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to Betances Health Center (BHC) to expand behavioral health services in New York City. The funding will enable BHC to increase its capacity to address unmet behavioral health needs, including mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, among its culturally diverse, minority, and medically underserved...