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The Family Success Partnership
Marlborough, MA

In MetroWest Massachusetts the schools, state and social service agencies, policy experts and families are working together to care for children whose mental health needs are beyond the scope of the school but do not fit the criteria for state services. By overcoming fragmented systems of care, the partners have expanded their capacity to offer a range of support including individualized and family therapy and transportation to appointments. Preventive efforts promote success in school and deter delinquency, including a peer education program to help parents advocate for appropriate mental health services.

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Breaking the Cycle
Boston, MA

Breaking the Cycle is an intensive intervention for gunshot and stabbing victims at Boston Medical Center, which treats two-third of victims citywide. By intervening within 48 hours of emergency room admission, the program seeks to lower rates of re-injury and retaliation for gang-related assaults. This project creates four Violence Intervention Advocate (VIA) positions-two employed by the hospital as accepted members of the ER and two who work at the full-service social services agency directly across the street. With this strong hospital/community team, clients will receive ongoing case management including health care, job training and employment.

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Tempo Young Adult Resource Center
Framingham, MA

At-risk youth transitioning to adulthood from the streets, the criminal justice system or foster care often face a fragmented system of services. To help youth 17-24 attain self-sufficiency, the Tempo Young Adult Resource Center co-locates existing community services in a single downtown building. Using one primary intake system, coalition agencies will provide outreach, case management, substance abuse counseling, legal advocacy and health, housing and employment services. The center fosters skills of independent living and peer leadership, employs young adult consumers and shares governance with a young adult advisory council.

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Connecting With Care
Boston, MA

In a neighborhood of crime, poverty and active gang violence, a new collaboration of the public schools, a child mental health agency and a hospital psychiatry department will integrate trauma therapy into school-based services. Up to 80 percent of the cost of additional counseling staff may be covered through third-party reimbursement for individual student therapy sessions. This model also substantially increases the number of fulltime school-based clinicians who work with teachers and parents. Beginning at one middle school, the project plans to expand to 10 schools that have the highest rates of violence and disciplinary incidents reflecting children's stress and untreated mental health problems.

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Community Care for Depression
Falmouth, MA

Four primary care health centers will collaborate to provide depression screening and care for the uninsured and for the emerging immigrant population on Cape Cod, MA. These clinics aim to integrate primary and mental health care and to better address high rates of alcoholism in the area. Adults and teens will complete an assessment survey at each site to identify patients who would benefit from a referral for mental health services. This project will increase capacity by developing a volunteer network of psychologists and social workers and will work to reduce the stigma associated with anxiety and depression.

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Brookline Resilient Youth Team (BRYT)
Brookline, MA

Based in a large urban high school this program serves adolescents and their families during critical periods of re-entry into school after psychiatric or medical hospitalization, incidents of substance abuse or incarceration. Providing case management, outreach, support, and a specialized home-base classroom, the program works to prevent relapse and school failure. In this model of cost-effective program delivery, mental health coordinators counsel the teens in school and help their families negotiate the network of available community services.

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Children's Wellness Initiative
Brighton, MA

As in many urban, low-income communities where immigrant families from many countries make their homes, children in Boston's Allston-Brighton neighborhood suffer from untreated mental health issues. A local hospital has begun a partnership with a diverse group of public elementary schools to provide comprehensive mental health screening and counseling services to more than 1,000 vulnerable minority children. Multi-disciplinary, culturally and linguistically appropriate teams will offer mental health care, primary care coordination and case management services in each school during the day and at after-school programs. Parenting classes and other prevention-based activities and mental health screenings will further enhance the program as it takes root.

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Streetworker Program
Lowell, MA

Utilizing the popular meeting ground of basketball and volleyball courts, street outreach workers will connect with at-risk Cambodian, Latino and other gang-involved youth to promote healthier lifestyle choices, increase utilization of health insurance and health care services, and reduce violence. Lowell, MA is home to the second largest Cambodian population in the U.S. This community suffers from poverty, post-war stress and intergenerational conflicts evidenced in high school dropout rates, teen pregnancy and gang membership. The teen center will expand its Streetworker program, building on its successful record of gang mediation.

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Urban Youth Sports Health Connection
Boston, MA

The Center for the Study of Sports in Society partnering with local youth sports teams and community health centers will promote healthy youth development, increase enrollment in health insurance, and increase utilization of primary care services by youth and their families.

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Community Health Advocates: A Population-based & Neighborhood-focused Outreach Program
Springfield, MA

This is an initiative to train workers to become community health advocates and address neighborhood-level healthcare issues.

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Drug Diversion Court Program
Boston, MA

To decrease the rate of recidivism for those involved with Drug Diversion Court. To increase the available jail/prison space for more violent offenders.

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