Mental and Behavioral Health Grant Program (New York)

Mental and Behavioral Health Grant Program (New York) is sponsored by Mother Cabrini Health Foundation. This program aims to enhance mental health services across New York State, supporting programs that provide affordable, culturally appropriate care, especially for marginalized communities. It prioritizes direct services, education, and capacity building.

Mental and Behavioral Health - Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Mental and Behavioral Health Mother Cabrini Health Foundation envisions a future where all New Yorkers can thrive and lead fulfilling lives with sound mental and behavioral health.

Mental health includes an individual’s emotional, psychological, psychiatric, and social well-being, while behavioral health includes substance use, addictions, and other behavioral issues that impact health.

We want to ensure that individuals directly or indirectly affected by mental and behavioral health conditions will receive affordable, high-quality, culturally appropriate support, services, or treatment within nurturing communities. We know that mental and behavioral health needs are particularly acute in historically marginalized communities and for populations that have been adversely affected by socioeconomic inequities.

We also understand that mental and behavioral health services are embedded in many systems and will consider system-specific and collaborative efforts across those systems to build communities where every person has the opportunity to thrive.

We support programs that span the continuum of prevention, treatment, and recovery, including, but not limited to, the following: Education, Awareness, and Prevention: Increasing education, awareness, and prevention, including suicide prevention; improving engagement, reducing stigma and other barriers to services and treatment; and involving impacted communities into the design and implementation of responsive solutions.

Services and Treatment: Improving the quality of care and services in clinical and non-clinical settings, including supporting the delivery of trauma-informed, culturally responsive, person-centered or family-centered care targeting specific populations. It could also include crisis response services or integrating and coordinating mental and behavioral health with other medical providers, social services, or systems.

Capacity, Access, and Workforce Development: Building the capacity of the sector to increase the timely availability of and access to affordable, high-quality mental and behavioral healthcare in clinical or community-based settings.

This could include building and diversifying the workforce, introducing services in traditional or non-traditional settings, supporting technological innovations and increasing the capacity of providers, professionals, peers, and other supports.