The Children’s Crisis Continuum Pilot Program provides a framework for a highly integrated continuum of care for foster youth with high acuity needs to be modeled across California.
Donor Name: California Department of Social Services
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/01/2022
Size of the Grant: $61.3 million
Details:
The pilot program builds upon a theory of change that involves a provider having the ability to direct the entire continuum of service from the highest levels of care to a family-based home and having the capacity to provide services throughout the continuum.
The purpose of the Children’s Crisis Continuum is to fully integrate the system of care for foster youth enabling a seamless transition between service settings and to provide stabilization and treatment to foster youth with high acuity needs within the least restrictive setting possible.
Goals of the pilot
- To develop a trauma-focused system of care through which intensive care, qualified supervision and behavioral health services are provided in the home environment including on-site crisis response to respond to and de-escalate circumstances in which individual(s) are experiencing behavioral health symptoms/conditions causing distress, with the goal of preventing hospitalizations and unnecessary interactions with law enforcement; and,
- To implement a network of services so that when a youth requires a higher or lower level of intervention, the movement within the levels of services and between levels of care is not disrupted or delayed by the need to arrange for provision of services and care or locate appropriate placements that include or can accommodate the provision of services and care.
Funding Information
The maximum amount available for all participants in the Children’s Crisis Continuum Pilot Program is $61.3 million.
Eligibility Criteria
- In order to qualify to participate in the Children’s Crisis Continuum Pilot Program, the Applicant must be an individual county or a regional collaborative of counties. For individual counties applying, the lead county Applicant will be the county itself. For regional collaboratives of counties, the collaborative must designate a single county to be the lead county Applicant.
- The lead county Applicant shall be responsible for designating a county entity to lead the application and implementation process from one of the following entities: the county child welfare department, the county behavioral health department and/or the county mental health plan, or the probation department.
- The Applicant must provide a letter of support from their county’s Interagency Leadership Team (ILT). If the Applicant is a regional collaborative of counties, they must provide a letter of support from the ILT of each county that composes the regional collaborative.
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