Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services Program for Children and Their Families

Florida

One Community Partnership—Working Together For Our Children

One Community Partnership is a county-wide initiative to evaluate and redesign the existing array of children’s mental health services in Broward County, Florida.  OCP proposes to formalize and sustain an infrastructure that supports on-going collaboration among local stakeholders by addressing long-standing systemic issues, service gaps, and barriers that have historically prevented this community from maintaining SED children within the community environment.  The governing body is comprised of local stakeholders, including representatives of the local community.  The overall grant project focuses on:

1. Providing parents with technical assistance to enhance parent/family advocacy skills and create an independent family-run organization,

2. Developing a comprehensive, integrated, non-duplicative, and strengths-based single “front door” allowing access to the “system of care” through behavioral health providers, primary healthcare providers, child welfare case workers, juvenile justice case workers and school board staff by implementing a single electronic data sharing mechanism across systems,

3. Developing a research-based model of intensive wraparound services to prevent residential placement; develop a drop-in center for older teens, enhance out-of-school child care and respite services to support local SED families,

4. Using data obtained from national evaluation and local evaluation activities to develop a system-wide continuous quality improvement initiative,

5. Assuring culturally competent service delivery by developing system-wide service delivery standards and training curriculum,

6. Utilizing social marketing strategies to promote and advertise local children’s mental health system of care and to better facilitate coordination linkage between children’s mental health and other child serving partners (child welfare, juvenile justice, primary health care and the school system).

Website(s): http://www.broward.org, http://www.usf.edu, and http://www.hendersonmhc.org. 

Susan Stromberg Grantee Project Officer 1 Choke Cherry Road, Room 6-1050 Rockville, MD 20857 Phone: 240-276-1929 Fax: 240-276-1990 E-mail: susan.stromberg@samhsa.hhs.gov	Michael Elwell, M.S.W. Principal Investigator Broward County Human Services Department 115 South Andrews Avenue, Room A360 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301 Phone: 954-357-6202 Fax: 954-468-3591 E-mail: melwell@broward.org	Sheryl Schrepf, Project Director 4630 17th Street Sarasota, FL 34235 Phone: 402 470-3785 Sheryl_Schrepf@doh.state.fl.us
Sue Zimmer Social Marketing Coordinator 200 SW 27thth Avenue Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33312 Phone: 954-797-7199 Fax: 954-797-7892 E-mail: szimmer@broward.org	David Duresky Technical Assistance/QI Coordinator 6301 NW 5th Way, Suite 2000 Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33309 Phone: 954-377-1000 Fax: 954-377-1683 E-mail: dduresky@cscbroward.org	Deborah Mulligan-Smith, MD FAAP FACEP Local Evaluation Coordinator 3200 S. University Drive Suite 1212 HPD-EXEC Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33328 Phone: 954-262-1940 Fax: 954-262-3263 E-mail: dams@ichp.nova.edu
Julie Radlauer Dorfler Clinical Coordinator 200 SW 27th Avenue Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33312 Phone: 954-649-1902 Fax: 954-941-4819 E-mail: jradlauer@comcast.net	Silvia McShan National Evaluation Director 200 SW 27th Avenue Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33312 Phone: 954-797-7199 Fax: 954-797-7892 E-mail: smcshan@fmhi.usf.edu	Vincia Gavoni Youth Involvement Coordinator 200 SW 27th Avenue Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33312 Phone: 954-797-3920 x 126 Fax: 954-585-8748 E-mail: ngavoni@hendersonmhc.org

Sarasota County Early Childhood Mental Health Partnership’

The Sarasota Early Childhood Mental Health Partnership will improve and increase mental health and non-mental health services for infants and very young children consistent with systems of care and best practices and link the mental health system with the early childhood system.

Susan Stromberg
Grantee Project Officer
1 Choke Cherry Road, Room 6-1050
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: 240-276-1929
Fax: 240-276-1990
E-mail: susan.stromberg@samhsa.hhs.gov

Charles Taylor
Principal Investigator
Sarasota County Health & Human Services
1600 Ringling Boulevard
Sarasota, FL 34236
Phone: 941-861-2575
Fax: 941-861-2573
E-mail: Charles_Taylor@doh.state.fl.us 

Amy Petrila
Project Director
Sarasota County Health & Human Services
1600 Ringling Boulevard
Sarasota, FL 34236
Phone: 941-861-2575
Fax: 941-861-2573
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