{"id":4991,"date":"2018-12-17T16:17:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T21:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/psych\/cecmh\/?p=4991"},"modified":"2019-01-02T07:27:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T12:27:49","slug":"a-2-4-million-samhsa-grant-will-boost-center-efforts-to-address-housing-and-comprehensive-behavioral-health-care-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/psych\/cecmh\/a-2-4-million-samhsa-grant-will-boost-center-efforts-to-address-housing-and-comprehensive-behavioral-health-care-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Center receives $2.4 million SAMHSA grant to address homelessness and provide comprehensive behavioral (mental health) care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health has received a $2.4 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to address homelessness and provide comprehensive behavioral (mental health) care and other services for individuals living with serious mental illnesses who are experiencing or who are at risk for homelessness. One of five homeless individuals has serious mental illness.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4995\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 143px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4995\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/psych\/cecmh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/880\/2018\/12\/Thava-small-from-WEB.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Thava Mahadevan, MS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Project \u201cHomelink\u201d will serve individuals in Orange and Chatham counties. Thava Mahadevan, MS, director of operations at the Center and the recovery programs at the UNC Farm at Penny Lane, is principal investigator for the five-year grant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndividuals with serious mental illness need assistance in managing both their physical and mental health care and day-to-day living,\u201d said Mahadevan. \u201cAlong with securing and maintaining housing, there is a tremendous need for them to receive evidence-based (latest scientific practices) behavioral (mental health and substance abuse) and physical health care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Homelink team will focus on individuals who are: chronically homeless; living in assisted living facilities who are at risk of becoming homeless; transitioning from institutional settings; receiving assertive community treatment or outpatient services; or who are at risk of homelessness. They anticipate serving 120 individuals annually and 600 persons during the entire project.<\/p>\n<p>The team is comprised of a social worker, a housing\/employment specialist, a peer support specialist and an occupational therapist. They will assist participants in finding stable and affordable housing and will teach them independent living skills that are necessary to maintain housing as well as manage health care needs.\u00a0 They will also link participants to other resources for health care, insurance, Medicaid, and mainstream benefits from programs such as Supplemental Social Security Income, Social Security Disability Insurance, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that stable housing and other social and community factors are key drivers of health care costs as well as health outcomes and quality of life,&#8221; said John Gilmore, MD, director of the Center, vice chair, Research and Scientific Affairs and Eure Professor of Psychiatry, UNC Department of Psychiatry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am excited that the Center is working with UNC\u2019s School of Social Work, the Department of Allied Health, and our community partners to help address this problem and make a real difference in people\u2019s lives,\u201d Gilmore continues. \u201cThe Center and its treatment and rehabilitation programs will provide critical support to the program and the individuals served by it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The team, led by Janice Bainbridge, MSW, LSW, team lead for the Center\u2019s Case Management program, will collaborate with local mental health providers including, Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness;\u00a0 Chatham County Department of Social Services; Cardinal Innovations Healthcare plus the Center\u2019s Community Resource Court of Orange and Chatham counties.<\/p>\n<p>Antoine Bailliard, PhD, associate professor, Division of Occupational Therapy in the Department of Allied Health, will integrate occupational therapy into the comprehensive services provided. Gary Cuddeback, PhD, MPH, MSW, director of the Center\u2019s Community Outcomes Research and Evaluation (COREC), associate professor, UNC\u00a0 School of Social Work and Psychiatry will direct evaluation and data collection for the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to providing \u00a0direct services for those in need, the grant will provide training (internships) opportunities for UNC\u2019s nursing, social work, clinical rehabilitation, counseling and rehabilitation, occupational therapy and psychology students,\u201d said Mahadevan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health has received a $2.4 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to address homelessness and provide comprehensive behavioral (mental health) care and other services for individuals living with serious mental illnesses who are experiencing or who are at risk for homelessness. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/psych\/cecmh\/a-2-4-million-samhsa-grant-will-boost-center-efforts-to-address-housing-and-comprehensive-behavioral-health-care-issues\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Center receives $2.4 million SAMHSA grant to address homelessness and provide comprehensive behavioral (mental health) care\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20017,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-4991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-winter-2018-2019-newsletter","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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