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City to submit letter of interest for behavioral-health ‘one-stop shop’ grant
Summary
City staff will send a letter of interest to the Maine Health Access Foundation seeking $50,000 per year for two years to fund an advisory committee and planning for a one-stop shop focused on behavioral health and substance-use services; if invited, the city will return for formal approval to apply.
City staff told the council they will submit a letter of interest to the Maine Health Access Foundation for funding to support planning and an advisory group for a behavioral-health one-stop shop. The staff presentation described the proposed grant as "$50,000 for 2 years each" that would fund stipends for advisory committee members, staff time to coordinate the group and to implement and evaluate the one-stop model.
Staff said the one-stop shop currently hosts a nurse-staffed clinic three days a week and that the advisory committee would help determine additional needs—such as oral health, dental care, hepatitis C treatment and PrEP—and how to make services more robust. Staff emphasized the grant would support advisory planning and implementation of an evidence-based model rather than direct case management.
Next steps: the submission at this stage is a letter of interest; if the foundation invites a full application, staff will return to the council for formal approval to file the application. No formal commitment or matching-funds requirement was approved at the workshop.
