Featured Projects
Child FIRST
Bridgeport, CT
Child FIRST is a model program that intervenes with very young children in inner-city Bridgeport, CT to reduce children’s emotional and behavioral problems. These mental health concerns are caused by stresses in the family such as poverty, inadequate housing, domestic violence, substance abuse or maternal depression.
After a comprehensive home-based assessment, the Child FIRST team develops individualized and culturally responsive treatment plans for each child and family. These plans include mental health treatment in the home and care coordination to address family needs outside of health care such as heat or housing.
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Minnesota Community Health Workers Program
Mankato, MN
Minnesota Community Health Workers Program created a standardized college certificate program to train community health workers (CHWs) and in 2007 achieved third-party and Medicaid reimbursement for CHW’s work. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation helped launch the statewide coalition of public higher education, major payers, and rural and urban health care systems that conceived the program.
To address critical health care workforce issues, the coalition focused on recruiting New Americans and members of low-income, minority communities into the CHW training program. They have accomplished all their goals and been identified as a national model.
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In SHAPE
Keene, NH
In SHAPE attempts to reverse or remove conditions of poor physical health that can contribute to early death among people with severe mental illness. A program of Monadnock Family Services, a community mental health agency in rural, southwestern New Hampshire, In SHAPE offers a new model to combat the addictions, isolation and chronic medical conditions that often come with serious mental illness.
