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Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative Evidence-Based and Community-Defined Evidence Practices Round Five: Early Intervention Programs and Practices

Grantor:
Department of Health Care Services
Portal ID:
46058
Status:
Closed
Opportunity Type:
  • Grant
Last Updated:
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Details

Purpose:

As part of the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative (CYBHI), the CA Dept. of Health Care Services (DHCS), in partnership with the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission (Commission), released a Request for Application (RFA) on Sept 13, 2023, seeking proposals for the fifth round of grant funding totaling up to $80 million to scale early intervention programs available to children, youth, parents, and caregivers.

Description:

Authorized as part of the 2021 Budget Act, the CYBHI is a multi-year, multi-department package of investments that reimagines the systems that support behavioral health (BH) and wellness for all California’s children, youth, and their families. Efforts focus on promoting social and emotional well-being, preventing behavioral health challenges, and providing equitable, appropriate, timely, and accessible services for emerging and existing BH needs for children and youth ages 0-25. The $4.7 billion investment of state General Funds for the CYBHI will improve access to, and the quality of, BH services for all children and youth in California, regardless of payer.

In Round Five, DHCS seeks to scale early intervention programs and practices that provide mental health and wellness services to children, youth, parents, and caregivers in California. These programs will be equipped to meet the needs of youth, including mental and behavioral health needs, housing, education and employment support, and linkage to other services.

Specifically, this grant funding round aims to:

a.    Create and expand early intervention programs and practices that reduce stigma, embrace mental wellness, increase community connection and provide access to culturally responsive services.

b.    Provide a safe space for children and youth to find community, support, and advice.

c.    Increase early intervention so children and youth with or at high risk for BH conditions can access services before conditions escalate and require higher level care.

d.    Reduce health disparities by improving equitable access to services for parents, caregivers, and children in California that are culturally and linguistically responsive to the needs of the populations of focus.

e.    Reduce utilization of higher acuity setting through early intervention.

Through a Third-Party Administrator, the Commission, DHCS will award grants, totaling up to $80 million to scale early intervention programs and practices to provide children and youth access to mental health services throughout California. For Round Five, the following EBPs and/or CDEPs will be scaled through competitive grant awards:

a.    Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) for First Episode of Psychosis (Appendix 1),

b.    Other early intervention programs and practices, which include but are not limited to:

       o   Blues Program

       o   Culturally Informed and Flexible Family-Based Treatment for Adolescents (CIFFTA)

       o   Familias Unidas 

       o   Residential Student Assistance Program (RSAP)

       o   Resourceful Adolescent Program-Adolescent (RAP-A)

       o   Youth Mobile Crisis Response

DHCS recognizes that the short-listed evidence-based practices may not have been developed or normalized for populations of focus. Additional early intervention programs that are designed with, by, and for youth may be considered eligible for grant funding with the submission of supplementary material.

The RFA for Round Five: Early Intervention Programs and Practices Grants is located on the Commission’s website. 

Eligibility Requirements

Eligible Applicants:

  • Individual
  • Nonprofit
  • Public Agency
  • Tribal Government

Important Dates

The date (and time, where applicable) by which all applications must be submitted to the grantmaker. Time listed as “00:00” equates to midnight.
The date on which the grantor expects to announce the recipient(s) of the grant.
December 13, 2023
The length of time during which the grant money must be utilized.
2 years

Funding Details

The total projected dollar amount of the grant.
$80,000,000
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Dependent
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Dependent
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No
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No
The funding source allocated to fund the grant. It may be either State or Federal (or a combination of both), and be tied to a specific piece of legislation, a proposition, or a bond number.
  • State
The manner in which the grant funding will be delivered to the awardee. Funding methods include reimbursements (where the recipient spends out-of-pocket and is reimbursed by the grantor) and advances (where the recipient spends received grant funds directly).
  • Advances & Reimbursement(s)

How to Apply

State agencies/departments recommend you read the full grant guidelines before applying.

Resources

For questions about this grant, contact:
1-916-475-6031, procurements@mhsoac.ca.gov

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