B-safe - interborough developmental and consultation center, INC. (idcc) proposes the brooklyn ccbhc behavioral health and community safety partnership for antisemitism-related trauma (b-safe)

The Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration awarded $750,000 to Interborough Developmental & Consultation Center (IDCC) on September 30, 2026, under the Center for Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.532).

B-SAFE (Brooklyn Safety, Antisemitism Response, and Engagement) will mobilize IDCC's Certified Community Behavioral Health Center (CCBHC) infrastructure to reduce behavioral health impacts of antisemitism in Brooklyn through coordinated response, treatment and recovery support, and public safety partnership. The initiative will serve children, adolescents, transition-age youth, adults, families, witnesses, neighbors, first responders, and other Brooklyn community members experiencing trauma, distress, impaired functioning, safety concerns, substance use risk, crisis risk, or help-seeking barriers associated with antisemitic crime, violence, threats, harassment, intimidation, disorder, or related instability. B-SAFE will establish a Brooklyn Behavioral Health and Community Safety Coalition, coordinate with schools, houses of worship, community institutions, victim-serving organizations, and public safety partners as coalition members and referral partners, and execute memoranda of understanding with approximately 100 participating organizations. Service participation will be based on exposure, risk, and need without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, or impermissible preference. Performance accountability will include quarterly reporting.

Implementation occurs at IDCC's site located at 1670–78 East 17th Street, Brooklyn, New York 11229. The period of performance extends through September 29, 2031.

B-safe, brooklyn safety, antisemitism response, and engagement, will mobilize idcc's ccbhc infrastructure to reduce the behavioral health impacts of antisemitism in brooklyn through coordinated response, treatment & recovery support, and public safety partnership, addressing community-wide fractures and intensifying community trauma. Implemented from idcc's 1670-78 east 17TH ST., brooklyn, N.Y. 11229 site, b-safe will serve children, adolescents, transition-age youth, adults, families, witnesses, neighbors, first responders, and other brooklyn community members experiencing trauma, distress, impaired functioning, safety concerns, substance use risk, crisis risk, or help-seeking barriers associated with antisemitic crime, violence, threats, harassment, intimidation, disorder, or related instability. Schools, houses of worship, community institutions, victim-serving organizations, public safety partners, and local stakeholders will serve as coalition members, trusted access points, referral partners, and post-trauma response partners. Participation in services will be based on exposure, risk, and need, not race, ethnicity, religion, or any impermissible preference. Idcc operates brooklyn's largest ccbhc network and brings the scale, clinical capacity, and performance-management discipline needed to lead a complex, multi-partner behavioral health and community safety initiative spanning all brooklyn communities. Community safety initiative spanning all brooklyn communities. Idcc's ccbhc-led model will strengthen coordinated response, prevention, early intervention, treatment access, recovery support, crisis and post-trauma capacity, and quarterly performance accountability. B-safe will establish one brooklyn behavioral health and community safety coalition, execute mous with 100% of members, complete one cnra, implement one community strategic plan, and deliver coordinated behavioral health, prevention, workforce training, post-trauma response, and engagement activities. Annually, b-safe will contact 250 individuals, link 80 to mental health services, provide recovery and resilience supports to 100, and train 50 partner staff, reaching five-year totals of 1,250 contacts, 400 linkages, 500 supports, and 250 trained staff while monitoring referrals, access, barriers, corrective actions, and outcomes.