Maryland Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Grant is sponsored by Maryland Department of Health. Strengthens mental health and substance abuse treatment capacity in Maryland, improving access to evidence-based care and recovery support services.

Maryland Department of Health grantee_behavioral health Accessibility Information Increasing access to integrated behavioral health services (94 ​grants) Grantee Organization: Pride Center of Maryland​ Jurisdiction Served: Multiple Counties Grant and Amount: 23-17 ($875,000) The program will increase access to behavioral health care and somatic health care, improve mental health, decrease substance use, increase employment, increase housing stability, and decrease rates of overdose morbidity and mortality.

Pride Center's client population is diverse sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals affected by adverse Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), with emphasis on African American SGM who face high rates of health disparities as well as adverse and disproportionate impacts from COVID-19.

Grantee Organization: Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center Jurisdiction Served: Multiple Counties Grant and Amount: 23-16 ($500,000) The program will add 24-hour behavioral health urgent care services to Grassroots' existing SUD crisis stabilization services in Central Maryland, focusing on individuals who are low-income, African American, and/or women.

Grant funding will allow Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center to reduce barriers to accessing affordable, quality urgent behavioral health care; decrease the acuity of behavioral health symptoms; and decrease hospital emergency department visits for behavioral health patients.

Grantee Organization: Lighthouse, Inc. Jurisdiction Served: Multiple Counties Grant and Amount: 23-15 ($115,000) The program will expand counseling and other services for families in Central Maryland affected by a loved one's substance use.

The program seeks to help Lighthouse clients improve their mental health and increase their life satisfaction; strengthen family bonds; increase knowledge about addiction; improve coping strategies and stress management skills within families, schools, workplaces, and the community; decrease substance use by children served by the project; and increase awareness of and treatment options for families affected by opioid use.

Grantee Organization: LifeStyles Foundation of Maryland Jurisdiction Served: Southern Maryland Grant and Amount: 23-14 ($275,000) The program will improve access to mental health and SUD services for homeless and low-income populations in Southern Maryland. LifeStyles will offer healthcare services through a partner and will provide harm reduction information (i.e., Narcan) to its clients.

Grantee Organization: Choptank Community Health Jurisdiction Served: Kent County Grant and Amount: 23-13 ($215,000) The program will increase access to substance use disorder (SUD) and mental health treatment in Kent County by using the existing mobile integrated behavioral health program, ensuring access to care for individuals with transportation barriers.

Grantee Organization: Frederick Health Hospital Jurisdiction Served: Frederick County Grant and Amount: 23-12 ($600,000) The program will close gaps and reduce disparities in behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment, including during transitions in care such as hospital discharge, as well as through referrals from schools, focusing on low-income and minority populations.

Grant funding will allow Frederick Health Hospital to expand care, reduce fatal overdoses, increase clinician use of evidence based behavioral health treatment modalities including services to address adverse childhood experiences and substance use disorder, improve timely follow-up after discharge, reduce avoidable emergency room visits and hospitalizations, and decrease the total cost of care for the population served.

Grantee Organization: Medstar Franklin Square Hospital Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore County Grant and Amount: 23-01 ($360,000) The program seeks to address disparities in chronic disease and food access, as well as other disparities faced by African American residents in Baltimore City and Baltimore County.

MedStar Franklin Square Hospital will provide healthy food for patients to prepare nutritious meals for their families, connect patients to a dietician and Community Health Advocate, and provide 20 hours of health education. Through the Primary Care Center and Family Health Center, patients will have access to primary care, specialty care, prevention services, and behavioral health assistance.

Grantee Organization: Sinai Hospital Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore City Grant and Amount: 22-01 ($360,000) The project seeks to address disproportionately high rates of diabetes, heart disease, and hypertension, and the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 among Black residents in northwest Baltimore.

Two Community Health Workers (CHWs) will be hired to work at the LifeBridge Center for Hope and the Sinai Hospital Addictions Recovery Program (SHARP) and support the mobile health unit. CHWs and peer recovery specialists will screen individuals for somatic and behavioral conditions, provide linkages to care and wraparound services, and deliver case management including one-on-one wellness planning.

Grantee Organization: Care for Your Health Jurisdiction Served: Prince George's, Howard, and Montgomery Counties Grant and Amount: 22-07 ($225,000) This project will expand access to culturally and linguistically competent grief counseling among low income and elderly communities of color. Key interventions include the integration of bilingual grief counseling into the applicant's primary care services.

Grant funds will be used for salaries for a Grief Counselor, Program Manager, and Primary Care Physician. Grantee Organization: Mobile Medical Care Jurisdiction Served: Montgomery County Grant and Amount: 22-08 ($500,000) This project will expand access to behavioral health, primary care, and chronic disease management services for African diaspora residents of east Montgomery County.

Key interventions include conducting outreach at community events and through peer advocates, training peer advocates in Mental Health First Aid, and case management. MobileMed will facilitate connections to services to address SDOH including food insecurity and vocational skills. Partners will provide referrals and manage CHWs.

Grantee Organization: Helping Up Mission Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore City Grant and Amount: 22-09 ($285,000) This project seeks to expand access to Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and mental health services among individuals experiencing homelessness in Baltimore City and surrounding areas.

Key interventions include use of a converted school bus and intake van to conduct street outreach for residential SUD programs, casework, and other referrals.

Grantee Organization: Baltimore Medical Systems Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore City & Baltimore County Grant and Amount: 22-10 ($500,000) This project will expand access to SUD treatment with an emphasis on opioid treatment for residents of Baltimore City and Baltimore County, particularly among the Black population.

Key interventions include: referral programs for obstetric patients and emergency department utilizers experiencing SUD or at elevated risk of relapse, enhanced capacity for SUD treatment, expanded SDOH screenings and interventions using the PRAPARE tool, and the provision of harm reduction trainings and materials.

Grantee Organization: Park West Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore City Grant and Amount: 22-11 ($395,000) This project seeks to expand access to behavioral health care and address adverse childhood experiences (ACES) among predominantly African American youth and adolescents in the Park Heights neighborhood of northwest Baltimore.

Key interventions include launching a Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program (PRP), expanding current SUD services to include prevention and intervention outpatient services targeting youth and adolescents, and training staff on trauma informed health care delivery.

Grantee Organization: Harford County Health Department Jurisdiction Served: Harford County Grant and Amount: 22-13 ($650,000) This project will deliver primary, dental, and mental health services to low-income and uninsured individuals (pregnant women, mothers, children), with a particular emphasis on undocumented, Latino populations.

Grant funds will support salaries for key personnel (bilingual care navigator, medical assistant, billing specialist, nurse practitioner, mental health provider, and dental services staff), supplies, and support for patient laboratory testing and medication costs.

Grantee Organization: Baltimore Healthy Start Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore City Grant and Amount: PW-22-03 ($875,000) This project will address disparities in hypertension, Substance Use Disorder (SUD), Low Birth Weight, and Severe Maternal Morbidity for pregnant and postpartum women and their infants in the Druid Heights and Walbrook areas of Baltimore City (zip codes 21216 and 21217).

The project will expand existing service coordination and home-visiting projects and facilitate access to primary care and substance use treatment through referrals. Interventions include hypertension education administered by trained CHWs, home BP monitoring and tracking, peer support groups, and care coordination addressing clients' acute stressors and SDOH needs. Grantee Organization: St.

Mary's County Health Department Jurisdiction Served: St. Mary's County Grant and Amount: PW-22-01 ($1,600,000) This project will address disparities in Behavioral Health (mental health and SUD) and heart disease in the Lexington Park area (zip codes 20634, 20653, 20667).

Key interventions include the opening of a new facility to provide primary care, counseling, and other Behavioral Health services; law enforcement referrals and ED diversions; case management to connect clients to partner organizations addressing SDOH; and respite care post-hospital discharge.

Target outcomes include a reduction in ED admissions for chronic conditions and mental health and substance use disorders, increased access to primary and preventative care, decreased recidivism in the criminal justice system, and a reduction in overdoses.

Grantee Organization: Horizon Goodwill Industries Jurisdiction Served: Washington County Grant and Amount: PW-22-07 ($925,000) This project will address health disparities in diabetes and mental health in the Hagerstown area (zip code 21740).

The project will provide on-site access to dietary and diabetic educators, healthcare navigation, wrap-around case management, and job training services; walk-in testing for diabetes (HgA1c) and retinal neuropathy; and referrals to mental health services. The goal is to decrease the rate of ED utilization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions, improve management of diabetes, and help reduce the rate of new diabetes diagnoses.

​ Grantee Organization: Pressley Ridge Jurisdiction Served: Washington County Grant and Amount: 21-023 ($390,000) Grant Project Description: Funding supports the expansion of the HOMEBUILDERS® family preservation model into Washington County. The HOMEBUILDERS program works with families and parents facing addiction and promotes family preservation. This program has proven successful in Allegany, Garrett, and Baltimore Counties.

Funding covers the salary of two new Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSWs) and partial program oversight staff. Organization Contact Information: https://www. pressleyridge.

org/ Grantee Organization: City of Frederick, Department of Health & Human Services, (dba Frederick Community Action Agency) Jurisdiction Served: City of Frederick Grant and Amount: 21-027 ($175,000) Grant Project Description: Funding supports a new "Integrated Behavioral Health services program" that embeds a new behavioral health specialist/Licensed Clinical Social Worker at Frederick Community Action Agency (FCAA) with the stated goal of reducing ER visits for non-emergent needs.

Organization Contact Information: https://www. cityoffrederickmd.

gov/183/Housing-and-Human-Services Grantee Organization : Mosaic Jurisdiction Served : Baltimore City, Baltimore, Harford & Carroll Counties Grant and Amount: 21-032 ($80,000) Grant Project Description: This program provides internet-enabled tablets to facilitate psychiatric rehabilitative services for 200 adults with serious and persistent mental illness who are enrolled solely in Mosaic’s six Psychiatric Rehabilitation Programs.

It also supports the development of additional online psychiatric rehabilitation content and curriculum. Tablets provide clients with virtual access to: daily psychiatric rehabilitation services; primary care and other healthcare services via telehealth; other virtual rehabilitative services such as music therapy; a Google Classroom with mental health rehabilitation resources and content; and the Sheppard Pratt YouTube platform.

Clients also are provided with basic case management services, such as assistance in securing entitlements, coordination of services, and liaison with external somatic and mental health services. Organization Contact Information: https://www. sheppardpratt.

org/mosaic/​​ Grantee Organization: Pressley Ridge Jurisdiction Served: Washington County Grant and Amount: 21-023 ($390,500) Grant Project Description: Funding will support the expansion of the HOMEBUILDERS® family preservation model into Washington County. The HOMEBUILDERS program works with families and parents facing addiction and promotes family preservation.

This program has proven successful in in Allegany, Garrett, and Baltimore Counties. Funding will cover the salary of two new Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSWs) and partial program oversight staff. Organization Contact Information: https://www.

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org/ Grantee Organization: City of Frederick, Department of Housing & Human Services (dba Frederick Community Action Agency)​ Jurisdiction Served: Frederick County Grant and Amount: 21-027 ($175,000) Grant Project Description: Funding will support a new "Integrated Behavioral Health services program" that will: (1) embed a new behavioral health specialist/Licensed Clinical Social Worker at Frederick Community Action Agency (FCAA) with the stated goal of reducing ER visits for non-emergent needs.

​ Organization Contact Information: City of Frederick, Department of Housing & Human Services Grantee Organization: Choptank Community Health System Jurisdiction Served: Caroline County Grant and Amount: 20-011 ($295,000) Grant Project Description: This program will fund the initiation of mental health services for vulnerable adults and children at the new Choptank dental practice, in an underserved area, for mental health services and substance use treatment.

The Denton location currently provides integrated somatic and dental care to adults and children. The program will help promote integration of somatic and behavioral health services on-site rather than through a contractual partnership with an existing mental health provider.

Choptank currently provides MAT at one other primary care practice and this grant will support provision of SUD treatment at the Denton location in subsequent years. Organization Contact Information: www. choptankhealth.

org​ Grantee Organization: Pressley Ridge Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore County Grant and Amount: 20-012 ($420,000) Grant Project Description: This program will support the HOMEBUILDERS model, which is an evidence-based family preservation program that serves impacted by the opioid crisis who are referred by Child Protective Services, with specific focus on infants and children at serious risk for removal from the home.

The program provides intensive in-home services to vulnerable families with complex health and social service needs over a 28-day period, and referrals for specialized addiction services outside the home.

Organization Contact Information: Pressley Ridge​ ​ Grantee Organization: Worcester Youth and Family Counseling Services Jurisdiction Served: Worcester County Grant ​and Amount: 20-013 ($120,000) Grant Project Description: The program will expand existing service capacity and accelerate access to mental health services on the Eastern Shore by helping to reduce a current two-month waiting list.

Grant funds will be used to support a licensed clinical supervisor and a master’s level social work graduate during completion of their required 3,000 hours of supervised clinical social work required for LCSW licensure. The program seeks to serve vulnerable, at-risk low-income residents in Worcester County. Organization Contact Information: gowoyo.

org/​ Grantee Organization: Garrett County Lighthouse, Inc. Grant and Amount: 20-014 ($350,000) Jurisdiction Served: Garrett County Grant Project Description: Garrett County Lighthouse currently serves individuals with serious and persistent mental illness.

This program will support an array of services to individuals with SUD treatment needs in this rural and underserved area of the State, including case management, individual and group therapy, assessment and skills development.

The proposal indicates that over the last five years in Garrett County, 47% of children with a parent having an SUD issue have been removed from the home, and the Garrett County Health Department has reported approximately 49 new diagnoses each year.

Organization Contact Information: Garrett County Lighthouse, Inc. Grantee Organization: Tuerk House Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore City Grant and Amount: 20-015 ($180,000) Grant Project Description: This program will support the opening of an 'urgent' care center at the current Tuerk House location in Baltimore City.

The new center will offer greater access to a range of behavioral health services including substance use and medication-assisted treatment. The program will also help connect clients to community resources from ongoing healthcare to housing assistance and workforce development opportunities which contribute to successful recovery.

Grant funding will be used primarily to support the hiring of clinical professional and peer recover staff for the new center.

Organization Contact Information: Tuerk House Grantee Organization: Baltimore City Health Department Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore City Grant and Amount: 20-016 ($220,000) Grant Project Description: This program will fund expansion of the current mobile health clinic program called Healthcare on the Spot (The Spot).

The Spot currently offers integrated medical services and co-locates with substance use programs, drop-in centers and a syringe exchange program run by the Baltimore City Health Department. This proposal will help The Spot engage individuals that use drugs for expanded HCV testing and treatment. Organization Contact Information: health.

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gov​ Grantee Organization: Behavioral Health Leadership Institute Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore City Grant and Amount: 20-017 ($220,000) Grant Project Description: This program will expand the Behavioral Health Leadership Institute's 'pop up' clinic program that uses a mobile van to provide access to low-threshold medication for opioid use disorder to vulnerable residents at two new sites in Baltimore City that have requested these services.

The target population includes justice-involved residents who are shunned from traditional SUD programs and homeless individuals impacted by multiple barriers to accessing health care services. The program currently provides services a half-day per week per site, at three sites in Baltimore City.

Organization Contact Information: Behavioral Health Leadership Institute ​ ​​ Grantee Organization: Meritus Medical Center Jurisdiction Served: Washington County Grant and Amount: 20-018 ($220,000) Organization Contact Information: Meritus Medical Center​ Grantee Organization: Baltimore County Public Schools Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore County Grant and Amount: 19-012 ($275,000) Grant Project Description: This project would expand access to screening and substance use treatment services in schools throughout Baltimore County.

The project would develop and implement a systematic prevention, early detection, and referral program to prevent substance use. CHRC grant funds would support a contract with the Center for School Mental Health at University of Maryland School of Medicine and mini-grants to substance use treatment agencies selected via RFP to provide Certified Addiction Counselors at participating schools at least one day per week.

The program is designed to be implemented in all high schools, and other support services staff (school counselors and social workers) would be trained on the use of the CRAFFT 2 screening tool and the brief negotiated interview. The project would also establish community partnerships between each high school and alternative programs in BCPS. Organization Contact Information: http://www.

bcps. org/ Grantee Organization: Helping Up Mission Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore City Grant and Amount: 19-013 ($385,000) Grant Project Description: This project would provide an array of residential, support, vocational, and health care services for vulnerable women who are low-income, experiencing homelessness, and have substance use disorder.

This project involves two new programs: (1) a 14-bed Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations accredited transitional recovery housing program in partnership with Johns Hopkins Hospital Broadway Center for Addictions; and (2) a 16-bed long-term Spiritual Recovery Program that focuses on integrated modalities of care, focusing on hope, health, housing, and a sense of purpose and community.

Both of these programs are modeled after success in serving adult males. Organization Contact Information: https://helpingupmission. org/ Grantee Organization: Shepherd’s Clinic Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore City Grant and Amount: 19-014 ($260,000) Grant Project Description: This project would expand the clinical service offerings in its existing behavioral health program to include treatment for substance use disorder.

The project would integrate a primary care opioid treatment program as part of the existing Behavioral Health Program, expanding services to include Medication-Assisted Therapy (MAT) for opioid use disorders, routine and special diagnostic procedures and toxicology tests, psychiatric/psychological assessments and treatment through the clinic’s Behavioral Health Program.

The current Behavioral Health Program provides psychotherapy, psychiatry services, case management resources, and psychoeducation sessions. Organization Contact Information: \ http://shepherdsclinic.

org/ Grantee Organization: Associated Catholic Charities Jurisdiction Served: Multiple Grant and Amount: 19-015 ($510,000) Grant Project Description: This project would enhance and expand Catholic Charities’ substance use treatment program to provide Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment (IDDT).

The project would enable the organization to become IDDT certified and would support policy, procedure, and system of care changes, capacity building, and staff training. The ability to provide expanded, integrated substance use treatment could enhance the service offerings for as many as 1,500 clients of Catholic Charities programs and the Villa Maria Community Resources Clinics per year.

These 12 clinics are located in Baltimore City and seven jurisdictions in rural, urban, and suburban settings. Organization Contact Information: https://www. catholiccharities-md.

org/ Grantee Organization: Cecil County health Department Jurisdiction Served: Cecil County Grant and Amount: 19-016 ($600,000) Grant Project Description: This project would provide services to low-income pretrial detainees involved with the Office of the Public Defender on misdemeanor or nonviolent felony charges who have a substance use disorder and lack access to appropriate treatment services in the community.

The project would screen detainees and connect/serve them with treatment, support with a peer recovery specialist, and referral to other services as needed. Organization Contact Information: http://cecilcountyhealth.

org/ Grantee Organization: Cornerstone Montgomery Jurisdiction Served: Montgomery County Grant and Amount: 19-017 ($325,000) Grant Project Description: This project would expand access to somatic and preventative care services to an estimated 565 individuals who are living in poverty, medically frail, experience comorbid health and behavioral health disorders, and are senior citizens.

The applicant would collaborate with Nexus Montgomery, a consortium of six hospitals in Montgomery County, to review data quarterly and identify individuals in need of services. The hospitals would work with the applicant to collect and track hospital utilization data. Organization Contact Information: https://www.

cornerstonemontgomery. org/ Grantee Organization: University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health Jurisdiction Served: Harford County Grant and Amount: 19-018 ($325,000) Grant Project Description: This project would start both a new 24-hour Walk-in/Urgent Care Center and an Assertive Care Treatment Program in Harford County. The new Walk-in/Urgent Care Center would provide 24-hour access to behavioral, mental, and addiction services.

The project would provide an array of services, including a 24-hour crisis hotline; outpatient mental health; SUD treatment and MAT services; residential crisis beds; a mobile crisis team; and an ACT team for individuals with serious mental illness, including referrals to community providers. Organization Contact Information: https://www. umms.

org/uch Grantee Organization: Queen Anne’s County Department of Health Jurisdiction Served: Queen Anne’s County Grant and Amount: 19-019 ($275,000) Grant Project Description: This project would promote screening and access to behavioral health services for patients in the existing Mobile Integrated Health (MIH) program in Queen Anne's County.

Individuals would be able to access a Peer Recovery Specialist who would perform an in-person follow-up visit. The project would also provide telehealth services, which would provide Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for disadvantaged populations in Queen Anne’s County. Organization Contact Information: https://health.

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aspx Grantee Organization: Anne Arundel Medical Center Jurisdiction Served: Anne Arundel County Grant and Amount: 19-024 ($322,000) Grant Project Description: This project supports Wellness Connections, a collaborative, integrated care program for individuals seen at Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) with untreated/undertreated mental health needs and substance use disorders in partnership with Arundel Lodge.

The project will serve individuals with co-occuring disorders who are best served through integrated treatment which allows practitioners to address mental and substance use disorders at the same time, often lowering costs and creating better outcomes.

Vulnerable patients with both medical and mental health needs will see greater continuity of care at AAMC and the community as they will be receiving tailored services with the right level of care.

Organization Contact Information: AAMC​ Grantee Organization: Lighthouse, Inc. Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore County Grant and Amount: 19-025 ($59,000) Grant Project Description: This project supports the TOGETHER Project which provides counseling and continuing care services to children and adults affected by the opioid crisis. The project seeks to keep families intact and encourage self-efficacy and resilience.

In addition to specialized group therapy, participants receive wraparound social services through the partnership with Catonsville Emergency Assistance to supply links and resources to clients facing eviction, foreclosure, utility cut-offs, and food security. The project will increase knowledge about addiction among affected family members and awareness of the opioid crisis in the general public.

Organization Contact Information: Lighthouse, Inc. ​ Grantee Organization: Potomac Healthcare Foundation Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore City Grant and Amount: 18-009 ($210,000) Grant Project Description: This project would establish a 16-bed specialty recovery house in West Baltimore for underserved, low-income young adults with opioid addiction to provide a supervised, developmentally appropriate recovery environment with support for outpatient treatment.

The project would provide an immediate linkage to care from the ED or hospitalization with a 'warm handoff' and rapid initiation of treatment, including residential recovery support and buprenorphine as needed. While at the center, patients would benefit from an on-campus community treatment facility which would provide a full spectrum of behavioral health treatment for opioid addiction and co-occurring disorders.

The project would expand access to integrated services in Baltimore City, an area of the state that is particularly in need of these services. Organization Contact Information: http://www. mountainmanor.

org​​ Grantee Organization: Wells House Jurisdiction Served: Washington Grant and Amount: 18-010 ($103,615) Grant Project Description: This project would add somatic care services at two addiction treatment facilities in Western Maryland.

Many of the patients at Wells House have complex medical needs, and providing integrated behavioral and somatic care could lead to a reduction in avoidable hospital utilization for this vulnerable population. The project would utilize a nurse practitioner and medical assistant to perform health assessments, provide necessary health education, and address other somatic health issues.

This program is replicable at other addiction facilities in the state and would help improve health outcomes for individuals needing substance use treatment services. Organization Contact Information: www. wellshouse.

org Grantee Organization: Atlantic General Hospital Jurisdiction Served: Lower Shore Grant and Amount: 18-011 ($175,000) Grant Project Description: This project would develop a new interdisciplinary chronic pain management center that would provide access to somatic health, behavioral health, and therapy services to help patients relieve chronic pain without the use of opioid medications.

For those with Substance Use Disorders, the intervention offers a concentrated outpatient program using a multi-disciplinary approach to reduce or discontinue the use of opioids for pain management. This program is innovative and could be replicable in other areas of the state. Organization Contact Information: www.

atlanticgeneral. org/ Grantee Organization: Upper Bay Counseling and Support Services Jurisdiction Served: Cecil Grant and Amount: 18-012 ($300,000) Grant Project Description: This project would provide integration of behavioral health and somatic care in Cecil County by placing psychotherapists in the offices of Union Primary Care, the largest primary care provider in Cecil County.

The project implements the Screenings, Brief Interventions, and Referrals to Treatment (SBIRT Model), and the target population would be those who have substance use issues. This project would expand access to integrated behavioral health services in a rural and underserved area of the state. Organization Contact Information: http://www.

upperbay. org/ Grantee Organization: Anne Arundel County Mental Health Agency Jurisdiction Served: Anne Arundel Grant and Amount: 18-013 ($500,000) Grant Project Description: This project would expand the existing, innovative “Safe Stations” initiative through the addition of another mobile crisis team in Anne Arundel County to serve more individuals.

The Safe Stations Initiative allows any individual with Substance Use Disorders seeking treatment to walk into any County police or fire station to seek assistance. The new mobile crisis team would link those seeking treatment to recovery services, care coordination, and peer support. Organization Contact Information: www.

aamentalhealth. org / Grantee Organization: Worcester County Health Department Jurisdiction Served: Worcester Grant and Amount: 18-019 ($175,000) Grant Project Description: This project involves the enhancement of an existing Medication Assisted Therapy program through the addition of Naltrexone.

The target population to be served includes: (1) Individuals released from inpatient addictions treatment programs; (2) inmates leaving Worcester County Detention Center with opioid addiction; and (3) individuals involved in Drug Court.. Organization Contact Information: http://www. worcesterhealth.

org/ Grantee Organization: Way Station Jurisdiction Served: Statewide Grant and Amount: 17-004 ($75,000) Grant Project Description: This two-year grant supports a program to pilot the use promote the use of the “Care-at-Hand” technology for individuals with Serious Mental Illness at community behavioral health providers to help improve client health outcomes.

The project has a particular emphasis on clients who are high utilizers of hospital resources and is designed to be sustainable after the CHRC grant ends. Grant funds will be used for technology fees and salary costs for the project director. Organization Contact Information: www.

waystationinc. org​​ Grantee Organization: Worcester Youth and Family Counseling Services Jurisdiction Served: Worcester Grant and Amount: 17-005 ($125,000) Grant Project Description: This two-year grant supports a program to increase access to behavioral health services in a rural and underserved area of the state by expanding the capacity of the organization to hire additional clinical staff.

The program will address a current three-month waiting list for clients seeking services. Grant funds will be utilized to pay for the salary of a new clinical psychologist. Organization Contact Information: gowoyo.

org Grantee Organization: Robert A. Pascal Youth and Family Services Jurisdiction Served: Anne Arundel Grant and Amount: 17-006 ($225,000) Grant Project Description: This two-year grant supports the establishment of a new stabilization center located on the grounds of the former state psychiatric hospital in Crownsville.

The project will emphasize serving individuals who are identified by EMS or law enforcement; this program does not currently exist in Anne Arundel County. Stabilization services will be co-located with Gaudenzia Addiction and Recovery Services, one of the larger behavioral health service providers in the state, and the project will increase access to substance use treatment services.

Grant funds will be used for salaries of clinicians who will staff the center. Organization Contact Information: www. pascalfamily.

org Grantee Organization: Cornerstone Montgomery Jurisdiction Served: Statewide Grant and Amount: 17-007 ($100,000) Grant Project Description: This two-year grant supports the creation of a data warehouse developed by the Community Behavioral Health Association and will assist community behavioral health providers across the state to collect patient clinical outcome data.

The data warehouse would be utilized to assess provider capacity and to support practice transformation through benchmarking and is designed to be sustainable after the initial CHRC grant funds are utilized. Organization Contact Information: www. cornerstonemontgomery.

org Grantee Organization: Calvert County Health Department Jurisdiction Served: Calvert Grant and Amount: 17-008 ($550,000) Grant Project Description: This two-year grant supports an innovative re-entry program led by the Calvert County Health Department, the sole safety net provider of behavioral health services in Calvert County.

The project addresses the social determinants of health impacting formerly incarcerated individuals and looks to develop concrete measurable outcomes to track/demonstrate the performance of re-entry programs at the local level. The program has the potential to serve as a model for local re-entry efforts in other areas of the state.

Grant funds will be utilized for staff salaries and the provision of social service supports for program participants. Organization Contact Information: www. calverthealth.

org Grantee Organization: Muslim Community Medical Center Jurisdiction Served: Montgomery Grant and Amount: 17-009 ($150,000) Grant Project Description: This two-year grant supports expanded access to integrated behavioral health and substance use treatment services in the community and remove the stigma of seeking behavioral services among the minority population served at the Center.

The organization currently offers part-time behavioral health services to Montgomery Cares patients, and this project will expand the capacity of the Center to serve additional patients who are not Montgomery Cares patients, i.e., Medicaid, private insurance, and Medicare. Grant funds will be utilized for clinical staff salaries. Organization Contact Information: www.

mccclinic. org Grantee Organization: Youth Ranch Jurisdiction Served: Frederick Grant and Amount: 17-018 ($10,000) Grant Project Description: This planning grant supports the Maryland Sherriff's Youth Ranch, a drug and alcohol treatment facility for adolescent males 12 to 17 years of age and adult men 18 years