Staten Island counseling center wins grant to become certified behavioral health clinic with 24-hour crisis support

New York’s Staten Island — The New York State Office of Mental Health awarded 13 service providers a portion of approximately $3.5 million in conditional start-up money, including Jewish Board, a non-profit organization on Staten Island, to increase access to mental health and drug use care throughout the state.

With the addition of six clinics in upstate counties, four in New York City, and two on Long Island, the funds will assist create new Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics throughout the state, tripling the current number.

According to Office of Mental Health Commissioner Dr. Ann Sullivan, Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics offer New Yorkers integrated mental health, physical health, and substance use care in a single, convenient location. We can close gaps in our care system and significantly increase access to these services by extending these clinics throughout the state.

Staten Island s mental health clinic expansion

The Jewish Board, a nonprofit organization that offers social and mental health services throughout the five boroughs of New York City, plans to expand its Morris Black/Staten Island Counseling Center, located at 1765 South Ave. in Travis, by becoming a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic on Staten Island with state funding.

Presently, the center runs an outpatient mental health clinic on the South Shore that provides integrated programs for people of all ages, including individual, family, and group therapy as well as psychiatric examinations.

Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics across the state

As part of her historic $1 billion initiative to fortify the mental health care system in New York State, Governor Kathy Hochul has invested $181.6 million to increase outpatient services, including the establishment of Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics.

Governor Hochul initially created 13 locations in 2017 and increased financing for these clinics throughout the state by $14.7 million in the previous year’s budget. Thirteen more clinics were certified in July, bringing the total number of clinics in the state to nearly double.

According to the New York State Office of Mental Health, these clinics currently offer walk-in, integrated mental health and drug use services to almost 130,000 people, irrespective of their age, residence, or financial situation.

The first-year conditional start-up money for the 13 newly approved service providers was $265,000 each, increasing the total number of these clinics in New York State to 39.

The funds were used in Long Island and New York City for:

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  Jewish Board (Staten Island)
  
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  Federation of Organizations (Suffolk County)
  
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  The Child Center of New York (Queens)
  
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  Pesach Tikvah Hope Development (Brooklyn)
  
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  Metropolitan Center for Mental Health (Manhattan)
  
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  Family & Children s Association (Nassau and Suffolk counties)
  

The money was given upstate to:

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  Family Counseling Services of Cortland (Cortland County)
  
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  CASA Trinity (Livingston County)
  
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  FLACRA (Yates County)
  
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  Access Supports for Living (Ulster County)
  
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  Family Counseling Center of Fulton County (Fulton County)
  
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  Credo Community Center for Addiction Treatment/Thrive Wellness and Recovery (Jefferson County)
  
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  Horizon Health Services (Niagara County)
  

Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics offer emergency intervention, stabilization, and mobile crisis teams around-the-clock. In addition, they provide outpatient mental health and drug use services, screenings, evaluations, and patient-centered treatment planning. These clinics link people to primary care and other specialized services, including acute mental health care for veterans and active military personnel, psychiatric rehabilitation, case management, and peer and family support.

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