CYFD receives $5M grant to expand community­based mental health services in traditionally underserved communities

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The state Children, Youth and Families Department has received a $5 million federal SAMHSA grant to expand its capacity to serve youth in transition with serious emotional disturbance and serious mental illness through the Healthy Transitions Expansion Program, or HTEP.
The CYFD program expansion will serve individuals aged 16 through 25 in both Doña Ana County and San Juan County with high-fidelity wraparound services, trauma-informed care and peer and family support services. Two selected clinical programs — La Clinica de Familia in Doña Ana and Desert View Family Counseling Services in San Juan — have demonstrated histories in providing high-quality community-based mental health services to youth in transition. The grant is expected to fund screenings of 300 youth over the course of five years and enroll 200 youth in such community-based services.
CYFD will establish a memorandum of understanding with the state Behavioral Health Services Division creating policies and procedures to enable a transition from the child to adult service system. Enrolled youth will have access to a suite of evidence-based services, which will be assessed and reviewed locally to ensure high-quality delivery.
“We’re excited to get to work with our community partners,” said Secretary Brian Blalock of the Children, Youth and Families Department. “This funding will enable us to expand our offerings as part of our ongoing effort to reach into different parts of our extended New Mexico community and not only boost child and youth well-being but set our young adults on a sustainable path.”
“Wraparound is an approach that helps children and families realize their hopes and dreams by dealing with the hard things in their lives through support and targeted services,” said Bryce
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Pittenger, director of Behavioral Health Services. “Needs are the drivers of risk — if we can uncover the true needs and meet them through support from members of their family and community, hope starts feel real and lives start to heal”