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Mental health department details $8.53 million Families First grant to expand post‑crisis supports for children
Summary
Deputy Commissioner Matt Yancey said the Department of Mental Health will use an $8.53 million Families First grant to expand community‑based family empowerment services, contract with four youth mobile crisis providers, and serve more than 1,300 children per year; officials said no new state positions will be requested.
Deputy Commissioner Matt Yancey told the Finance committee the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services received an $8,528,866 grant through Families First to support the Family Empowerment Initiative, which will expand community‑based care coordination, wraparound services and family peer support for children and families after engagement with a mental health crisis service.
"This grant will support the family empowerment initiative, which will provide 2 generation community based support for families and children after they engage in a mental health crisis service," Yancey said, and added the department expects grant providers to serve more than 1,300 children and 1,800 adult caregivers a year. He said the grant runs two years with a first‑year amount of $4,264,400 and that no new state positions are requested; services will be delivered through contracts with existing mobile crisis providers including Youth Villages, Mental Health Cooperative, the McNabb Center and Frontier Health.
Vice Chairman Gillespie asked whether salary dollars in the grant would create new state positions or be used to outsource services; Yancey answered the funds support existing staff and that service delivery itself will be contracted to the named providers.
