Higher Logic Learning Series: A Kick-Ass Community Manager Round Table
Second Round Funding Cycle Grantees – Kick Off Event
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Preservation ParkMarch 16, 2012
Second Round Funding Cycle Grantees – Kick Off Event
Philanthropic Ventures Foundation
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“Leading An Innovative Process…” Outreach & technical assistance to the broad
community, faith based institutions, and non-traditional providers
Partnership with local grant-making organization Use of technology
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Innovation Process• Review & Recommendations by diverse, representative
stakeholder group, the Innovation Review Panel, MHSA On-Going Planning Council
• Received 41 applications, $7.49 Mil. in requests• Resulted in 15 Round Two Grantees• Total Innovations Round Two Awards: $1.8 Mil.
Innovations Round Two
Address system-wide issues emerging from the African American Utilization Report
Improve the quality of care to African American population and produce more positive client/consumer outcomes.
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Innovations Round Two
PartnershipsPhilanthropic Ventures Foundation (PVF):
Fiscal Agent
Health & Human Resources Education Center (HHREC)
Technical Assistance Consultant
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LEARNING QUESTION 1Cultural Practices
“What are the cultural and spiritual nuances, beliefs, practices and norms specific to the African American community that should be incorporated into the planning, delivery, and outcomes of mental health and co-occurring conditions services for this community?”
Desired Outcome: Age-based, culturally-informed provider training CURRICULUM
designed to improve effectiveness of behavioral health care services to African American Behavioral Health Care Services (BHCS) clients/consumers and their families that has been ‘field tested’ and evaluated by BHCS clients/consumers, family members and County and contracted community-based providers.
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INN Round 2 Grantee: Children’s Hospital Oakland
Understanding the Impact of Trauma on the Understanding the Impact of Trauma on the Wellbeing of Young African American Children Wellbeing of Young African American Children
& Their Families& Their FamiliesField testing target population: Behavioral Health consumers, pediatricians,
early childhood mental health providers and child welfare workers
Dr. Kimberly Bradley, Dr. Allison Briscoe Smith, Dr. Jill MillerAyannakai Nalo, LCSW, Rashawnda Lee, Certified Mental Health Family Partner
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INN Round 2 Grantee:Institute for the Advanced Study
of Black Family Life & Culture, Inc.
The Saku Project: Incorporating the Illumination of Culturally Congruent
Well-being and Wholeness
Lawford Goddard, Amara Benjamin-Bullock, Wade Nobles
Field testing target population: African American adults
INN Round 2 Grantee:Fremont Unified School District
Why Try Intervention for African-American Transition Aged Youth in
Fremont Unified School District
Rickey Jones
Field testing target population: self-identifying African American youth 16-21 years old in two Fremont high schools
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INN Round 2 Grantee:St. Mary’s Center
Co-Occurring Healing
Field testing target population: African American seniors aged 55+ who are either frail and living in isolation, surviving on SSI (Supplemental Security Income of $830/month) or, at-risk seniors currently housed and in treatment for mental health and substance abuse issues.
Carol Johnson, Executive Director
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INN Round 2 Grantee:AC Public Health Dept.
Office of Urban Male Health
His Health: Gender Responsive & Culturally Appropriate Counseling with African-American
Urban Male YouthField testing target population: BHCS providers will be trained to work more effectively with low-income African American male youth within urban Alameda County middle schools, including clients from mainstream education who have been referred for counseling because of social, emotional, and behavioral issues.
Jon Gilgoff, Brothers on the Rise Director, & David Frick,
Program Graduate
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Learning Question 2 Partnerships with Faith based Communities
“How can the mission, services and purpose of BHCS be enhanced through partnerships with African American faith-based and spiritual communities as cultural institutions and natural places for BHCS clients/consumers and families to receive supports in their community?”
“What are effective ways for the African American faith-based and spiritual communities to welcome and integrate mental health clients/consumers into their community and to support social inclusion, decrease stigma and discrimination and provide a safe place for people to receive services and support, outside of the behavioral health care system?”
Desired Outcome: A program design that includes a set of specific STRATEGIES for the
development of an effective partnership between the African American faith-based and spiritual communities and BHCS, capitalizing on the role of these communities as cultural institutions and a natural support for BHCS clients/consumers and their families.
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INN Round 2 Grantee:Healthy Communities, Inc.
African American Faith Mental Health Anti-Stigma Campaign
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Field testing target population: adult African Americans (18-59), primarily re-entry from jail or prison, who are isolated from advancing in employment, education, and/or society because of mental health issues.
Pastor Raymond E. Lankford, MSW Rev. Dr. Jasper Lowery Glenda McComb, MBA
INN Round 2 Grantee:EC Reems Community Services
Girls Far Above Rubies
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Field testing target population: girls between the ages of 8-18 years old whose mothers display signs of mental illness.
EC & Maria Reems
INN Round 2 Grantee:Tri-Cities Community Development Center
Mental Health Friendly Churches
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Field testing target population: African American Consumers and families who either attend or are members of Predominantly African American Multi-Denominational Christian congregations
Pastor Horacio Jones
Learning Question 3 Supporting Trauma
“How might strategies of trauma-informed care for African American BHCS clients/consumers and families address the African American community’s historical trauma and trauma related to social issues, like stigma, discrimination, violence and poverty?” One or more of the following age-groups should be specifically addressed.
Desired Outcome
Development of an age-based provider training CURRICULUM designed to increase BHCS capacity and expertise on trauma informed care for BHCS African American clients/consumers and families that has been ‘field tested’ and evaluated by BHCS clients/consumers, family members and County and contracted community-based providers.
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INN Round 2 Grantee:Conscious Voice
Conscious Voices
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Field testing target population: African Americans student in the Peralta Community College District who are Alameda County CalWORKs recipients (parents of at least one child under the age of 18 years and at risk due to poverty); African Americans who are recovering from substance abuse; African American men who were formerly incarcerated.
Cheryl Cranshaw
INN Round 2 Grantee:Youth Alive!
Developing Trauma Informed Practices for Young People Caught in the Crossfire
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Field testing target population: African American transition age youth and young adults (16-24) treated at Highland and Eden hospitals for violent injuries
Anne Marks, Executive Director John Torres, Deputy Director
INN Round 2 Grantee:East Bay Agency for Children
Healing Trauma through Support and Care
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Field testing target population: African American high risk youth 13-18 years old, who are either referred to Probation Mental Health by the Juvenile Justice Center or referred by Dewey, Rudsdale or Ralph Bunche Continuation High Schools in Oakland
Pictured: Jill Reed, Claudia Vierra Allen, Kimberly Whitaker, Kristin
Wagner, James Thompson, Anh Ta - Not Pictured: George Anderson,
Matthew Reddam
INN Round 2 Grantee:Center for Family Counseling
Trauma Informed Care: Using HealingMemory Narratives & Mindfulness Based Meditation Practices
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Field testing target population: Older African American adults in East Oakland
Dr. Veronique Thompson, Clinical Dir.Paula Barber, Executive Dir.
Dr. James F. Mensing, Project Director
Dr. Cheryl L. Johnson, Project Director
INN Round 2 Grantee:Bay Area Black United Fund
Community Healing Circle: For African-American Men and Adolescents on Probation
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Field testing target population: transitional age African American youth selected by Alameda County Probation Department who are at high risk of re-offending and recidivism in the County.
Woody Carter, Executive Director
Learning Question 4 Engaging Males in Behavioral Health and Primary Care
What are effective strategies and supports for medically underserved African American adult males with serious mental illness, including those with co-occurring conditions, which will improve their engagement in behavioral health and primary care services?”
Desired Outcome
Development of a set of specific STRATEGIES, SUPPORTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS that will improve the engagement of African American adult males in behavioral health and primary care services that have been ‘field tested’ with BHCS African-American clients/consumers and County and contracted community-based providers and primary care providers.
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INN Round 2 Grantee:Centerforce
Safe Transitions
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Field testing target population: African American males over the age of 18 in San Quentin State Prison and California Medical Facility who are preparing to be released and return to Alameda County
Carol F. Burton, LMSWExecutive Director
Julie Lifshay, PhDHealth and Special Projects Manager
INN Round 2 Grantee:New Dynamics Hope
Color of Change Project
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Field testing target population: At risk low to medium income (LMI) Black male adults with serious mental challenges residing in Alameda County
DeWitt Buckingham, Executive Director
Next StepsNext Steps
Innovations Round Two New Grantee Working Meeting
March 21, 20122p.m. – 4p.m.
Finalize Grant Agreement with Signatures
Location: BHCS Office
2000 Embarcadero Cove, Ste. 400, Oakland
BHCS Contact: Linda Leung Flores
(510)567-8133
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