Project Grant H79SM089697

This $6,000,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances (CFDA 93.104) program will enable the Nevada Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS) to enhance the state's children's behavioral health system of care.

The key goals of this four-year grant project are to: 1) Assemble a statewide leadership committee to address systemic barriers and build sustainable infrastructure for serving the target population; 2) Develop a program of accessible, equitable, and evidence-based community-based services for children and youth with serious emotional disturbances and intellectual/developmental disabilities; and 3) Implement a statewide training plan to enhance the skills of child-serving entities in utilizing non-clinical, evidence-based interventions. DCFS plans to partner with community-based providers to deliver these services and estimates that 275 children/youth and their families will be served by the end of the grant period. This project aims to improve cross-system collaboration, increase the availability of evidence-based practices, and enhance the skills of child-serving entities statewide in order to provide more effective services to the target population in Nevada.