Seneca county mobile crisis partnership - seneca county mobile crisis program partnership samhsa SM-26-029 behavioral health mobile crisis team partnerships seneca county mental health department…

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awarded the County of Seneca, New York $750,000 on September 30, 2026, under the Center for Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.532) to strengthen and expand the Seneca County Mobile Crisis Partnership.

The funding supports a 24/7 county-operated mobile crisis team serving Seneca County, a rural county encompassing all municipalities. The project delivers workforce development and recruitment activities, evidence-based crisis response training for children, youth, adults, and older adults, specialized training in youth and older adult crisis intervention and co-occurring disorder management, enhanced peer support integration, improved data collection and performance monitoring systems, and formalized cross-system partnerships. Work focuses on improving coordination with the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, emergency medical services, hospitals, law enforcement, and community behavioral health providers to increase access to recovery-oriented services, reduce unnecessary emergency department utilization and law enforcement involvement, and create clinically led community-based crisis response.

The award is a Project Grant with a period of performance extending from September 30, 2026, through September 29, 2030. Place of performance is Waterloo, New York. The project addresses capacity-building needs within the Seneca County Mental Health Department and targets children, youth, adults, and older adults experiencing mental health and substance use crises, including individuals with co-occurring disorders, and community partners supporting crisis response.

Seneca county mobile crisis partnership - seneca county mobile crisis program partnership samhsa SM-26-029 behavioral health mobile crisis team partnerships seneca county mental health department proposes the seneca county mobile crisis partnership to strengthen an established 24/7 county-operated mobile crisis team through workforce development, specialized training, enhanced peer services, improved data infrastructure, and expanded partnerships across the behavioral health crisis continuum. The project will enhance timely, clinically led, community-based crisis response, improve coordination with 988, EMS, hospitals, law enforcement, and community providers, and reduce unnecessary emergency department utilization and law enforcement involvement while increasing access to recovery-oriented services. Project name: seneca county mobile crisis partnership geographic area: seneca county, new york (rural county serving all municipalities). Capacity development need: expand organizational capacity to meet increasing behavioral health and substance use crisis needs through workforce development, advanced training, peer support enhancement, interoperable data systems, quality improvement, and strengthened community partnerships. Population of focus and population served: children, youth, adults, and older adults experiencing mental health and/or substance use crises, including individuals with CO-occurring disorders, and the community partners supporting crisis response. Capacity-building strategies: recruit and retain staff; provide evidence-based crisis, youth, older adult, and CO-occurring disorder training; strengthen peer integration; enhance data collection and performance monitoring; formalize cross-system partnerships; improve coordination with 988 and emergency response systems. Project goals: increase organizational capacity, strengthen clinically led mobile crisis response, improve coordination across the crisis continuum, expand access to high-quality crisis services, enhance data-driven quality improvement, and improve outcomes for individuals experiencing behavioral health crises. Measurable objectives: implement all workforce and training activities; strengthen peer support services; improve response coordination with key partners; achieve project performance indicators for response timeliness, follow-up engagement, staff competency, partnership participation, and quality improvement measures consistent.