Breaking: OMH Announces Priorities for Federal Block Grant $
黑料正能量 Summary July 1, 2021
黑料正能量 Note: The NYS Office of Mental Health is in the鈥 initial stages of planning and programming鈥 of the $46.3 million supplemental CMHS Block Grant award. Toward those ends, they have announced today their intentions to immediately spend about $14 million of those dollars, along with articulated priorities for spending of the rest of the $46.3 million initial Block Grant allocation and, hopefully, the $80 million to follow. We also look to Medicaid and commercial insurance $ to make the programs sustainable
We鈥檙e especially very pleased to see a number of out top requests included below: startup funding for 9-8-8, crisis stabilization and residence programs, living room, crisis respites and support lines, peer recovery centers, and peer-bridger programs, and for 鈥渆xpansion for peer workforce across ambulatory programming鈥 and residential programs; a broad complement of peer models and peer specialist expansions, workforce and telehealth investments. We鈥檝e also been advocating for initial investments in the emerging Community Oriented Recovery and Empowerment (CORE) service initiative.
Look for more details about these and the federal Medicaid Enhancement (FMAP) dollars in the coming days, with hopefully some a strong focus on workforce support.
See our summary below and the attached official announcement.
Over all Priority Categories
鈥 Statewide Crisis Services
鈥 Child, Youth, and Family services
鈥 Adult Ambulatory Services
Initial Investments $14 million
Crisis Services: Jail Diversion Program Expansion $2,000,000
Crisis Services: Crisis Intervention Team Program Expansion $500,000
Crisis Services: Law Enforcement Mobile Access Program Expansion $100,000
Child, Youth, and Family Services: Youth Assertive Community Treatment Program Expansion $5,950,000 look for details later this month
OnTrackNY First Episode Psychosis Program Expansion $4,633,929 look for this model to potentially go statewide
Priority Areas of Investment for Block Grants I ($46 million) and II (upwards of $80 million)
鈥淥MH will continue to take a 铿俥xible approach to the development and re铿乶ement of applicable priorities and allocations as the process to program these funds moves forward and the secondary $80 million supplemental CMHS Block Grant award becomes available鈥 to cover the following overall priorities:
鈥&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; Crisis Services: 988 Call Center Preparation Support, Regional Mobile Crisis Teams, Crisis Residential and Stabilization start up and Law Enforcement and Diversion
鈥&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; Criminal Justice: Crisis Intervention Teams, Law Enforcement Mobile Access Program, Diversion Services (assessed, provided with any needed prescriptions, and released from custody to a care coordinator; jail diversion drop-of center for individuals with mental illness at the pre-booking, post-booking, and pre-sentencing intercept points, a parole diversion program A pretrial services screening and supervision release pilot program; Law Enforcement Mobile Access Program
鈥&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; Children, Youth and Families: coordinated system of care for children and families, youth-speci铿乧 mental health training across systems, additional crisis residential services, Screening and early identi铿乧ation of children and youth who could bene铿乼 from evidence-based assessment and mental health treatment; Youth Assertive Community Treatment programs and home- based/mobile outreach and treatment services; Expanding and enhancing clinical services Expanding school-based and college-based mental health capacity
鈥&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; Adult Ambulatory Services Priorities; Telehealth services expansion and support; Programmatic and 铿乶ancial support to encourage expansion of mobile clinic services; additional peer-delivered and rehabilitative services including crisis programs (living room, crisis respites, support lines), recovery centers, and peer-bridger programs and for 鈥渆xpansion for peer workforce across ambulatory programming鈥; Assertive Community Treatment enhancements, Support for Certi铿乪d Community Behavioral Health Clinics; Fostering closer linkages among ambulatory, housing, and inpatient care providers with the comprehensive crisis system currently in development and by implementing Critical Time Intervention models and First Episode Psychosis Team expansion to supplement existing OnTrackNY 铿乺st episode psychosis capacity, targeted to young adults experiencing their symptoms of psychosis, further expanding programmatic reach across 黑料正能量 State.
鈥&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; Workforce Investment/System Capacity Building Priorities: investing in recruitment and retention of culturally competent mental health service system employees; Expanding and supporting certi铿乪d peer capacity across OMH programming; Addressing training and implementation support for evidence-based assessment and treatment; Collaborate with institutions of higher education to foster development of potential mental health workforce
Regarding the CMHS Block Grant funding awarded under the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, OMH has requested the following waivers:
鈥&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; Waiver from the exclusion of capital expenditures as an allowable expense of MHBG funds, consistent with the SAMHSA recommendation that supplemental funds can be used on crisis phone line infrastructure.
鈥&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; Waiver of the prohibition of funding a for-pro铿乼 entity in order to facilitate the purchase of hardware and software and/or training needed to develop and implement a fully functional crisis line and/or crisis services consistent with the NYS comprehensive crisis system plan.
鈥&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; Waiver of the target population in order to fund preventative, intervention, treatment and recovery services to at-risk children, youth and families prior to a diagnosis of serious emotional disturbance. Such services are necessary to address the emotional and behavioral needs of children who have had adverse childhood experiences as a result of the pandemic which could lead to future behavioral health care needs.