SBH Community Service Network, Inc.

SBH Community Service Network, Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides behavioral health services to refugees and immigrants in Kings County, New York. Through a recent $6 million prime federal grant award from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, SBH Community Service Network will provide screening, assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, outpatient mental health and substance use services, targeted case management, psychiatric rehabilitation, peer support, crisis intervention, and other core community behavioral health center services. SBH Community Service Network has also received subawards from the Non-Profit Security Grant Program of the New York State Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Services.

SBH Community Service Network's recent $6 million federal award will fund efforts to increase access to culturally competent, trauma-informed behavioral health services for 1st and 2nd generation refugees and immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa in Kings County. Services will target those suffering from serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, substance use disorders, and co-occurring disorders. Specific services provided will include mobile crisis teams, emergency crisis intervention, screening and assessment, treatment planning, outpatient clinic primary care screening, psychiatric rehabilitation, peer support programs for consumers and families, upgraded psychiatric rehabilitation and mobile crisis services, and coordination of care with partners. Goals include increasing access to care, decreasing behavioral health emergencies and hospitalizations, improving cultural competence and crisis services, and enhancing operational and clinical efficiency. Over the four-year project period, the program aims to serve 800 individuals. SBH Community Service Network's previous subawards from the Non-Profit Security Grant Program have likely supported security enhancements.