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...
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...
This Project Grant award from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) provides $1,100,000 ($600,000 in Year 1 and $500,000 in Year 2) to Refuah Health Center, Inc., a federally qualified health center (FQHC) in New York, to expand access to mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) services, including medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder, for low-income and marginalized populations in Rockland and...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $1,800,000 project grant under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to The Institute for Family Health, a prominent Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) network in New York. The project will expand access to behavioral health and substance use disorder (SUD) services in high-need communities across New York City and the Mid-Hudson Valley. Key services include: Expanding same-day behavioral health consultation and...
This federal Project Grant award for $1,800,000.00 was provided by the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224). The grant will fund Family Health Services, a non-profit community health center in Twin Falls, Idaho, to expand access to mental health and substance use disorder services. Specifically, the funding will support the addition of 6 new staff positions, including 3 counselors, 1 substance...
This Project Grant award of $1,800,000 from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) aims to expand mental health, substance use disorder, and medication-assisted treatment (MOUD) services in the Partnership Health Center's (PHC) service area in Western Montana. The award will fund the hiring of 7.0 FTE new staff, including 4 behavioral health clinicians, 1 psychiatric-mental health advanced practice registered nurse, and 2 enabling...
This Project Grant award of $600,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Mental and Behavioral Health Education and Training Grants program (CFDA 93.732). The funding supports the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in developing and expanding the behavioral health workforce, with a focus on increasing access to mental health services, addressing substance use disorders, and promoting integrated,...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $1,200,000 Project Grant under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to Apicha Community Health Center (Apicha CHC) to expand mental health and substance use disorder services at their Jackson Heights satellite site in Queens, New York. The funding will be used to hire bilingual staff, including a psychiatric nurse practitioner, medical assistant, licensed clinical social worker, and behavioral health case managers, to provide...
This Project Grant award of $1,639,086 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 support the Brownsville Community Development Corporation (BCDC) in Brooklyn, New York to expand behavioral health services. Specifically, the funding will allow BCDC to increase the number of patients receiving mental health services by expanding provision to adolescents aged 12-17. BCDC plans to hire...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $1,800,000 FY 2024 Behavioral Health Service Expansion project grant (CFDA 93.224 - Health Center Program) to Family Health Care Centers of Greater Los Angeles, Inc. (FHCCGLA), a federally qualified health center (FQHC) in California. The grant will enable FHCCGLA to increase the number of patients receiving mental health and substance use disorder services, including...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,100,000 was provided by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224). The funding will support Settlement Health, a non-profit community health clinic in New York City, in expanding their mental health and substance use disorder services over a two-year period from September 2024 to August 2025.
Key strategies include hiring additional behavioral health staff, increasing access to medication management, conducting community outreach and education to reduce stigma, and developing partnerships with local substance use organizations. The goal is to improve access to critical mental health and substance use treatment services for the predominantly low-income, Latino, and African American populations served by Settlement Health in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx.