second round funding cycle grantees – kick off event

Preservation ParkMarch 16, 2012

Second Round Funding Cycle Grantees – Kick Off Event

Philanthropic Ventures Foundation

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“Leading An Innovative Process…” Outreach & technical assistance to the broad

community, faith based institutions, and non-traditional providers

Partnership with local grant-making organization Use of technology

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Philanthropic VenturesFoundation

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Innovation Process• Review & Recommendations by diverse, representative

stakeholder group, the Innovation Review Panel, MHSA On-Going Planning Council

• Received 41 applications, $7.49 Mil. in requests• Resulted in 15 Round Two Grantees• Total Innovations Round Two Awards: $1.8 Mil.

Innovations Round Two

Address system-wide issues emerging from the African American Utilization Report

Improve the quality of care to African American population and produce more positive client/consumer outcomes.


Innovations Round Two

PartnershipsPhilanthropic Ventures Foundation (PVF):

Fiscal Agent

Health & Human Resources Education Center (HHREC)

Technical Assistance Consultant


LEARNING QUESTION 1Cultural Practices

“What are the cultural and spiritual nuances, beliefs, practices and norms specific to the African American community that should be incorporated into the planning, delivery, and outcomes of mental health and co-occurring conditions services for this community?”

Desired Outcome: Age-based, culturally-informed provider training CURRICULUM

designed to improve effectiveness of behavioral health care services to African American Behavioral Health Care Services (BHCS) clients/consumers and their families that has been ‘field tested’ and evaluated by BHCS clients/consumers, family members and County and contracted community-based providers.


INN Round 2 Grantee: Children’s Hospital Oakland

Understanding the Impact of Trauma on the Understanding the Impact of Trauma on the Wellbeing of Young African American Children Wellbeing of Young African American Children

& Their Families& Their FamiliesField testing target population: Behavioral Health consumers, pediatricians,

early childhood mental health providers and child welfare workers

Dr. Kimberly Bradley, Dr. Allison Briscoe Smith, Dr. Jill MillerAyannakai Nalo, LCSW, Rashawnda Lee, Certified Mental Health Family Partner



INN Round 2 Grantee:Institute for the Advanced Study

of Black Family Life & Culture, Inc.

The Saku Project: Incorporating the Illumination of Culturally Congruent

Well-being and Wholeness

Lawford Goddard, Amara Benjamin-Bullock, Wade Nobles

Field testing target population: African American adults

INN Round 2 Grantee:Fremont Unified School District

Why Try Intervention for African-American Transition Aged Youth in

Fremont Unified School District

Rickey Jones

Field testing target population: self-identifying African American youth 16-21 years old in two Fremont high schools


INN Round 2 Grantee:St. Mary’s Center

Co-Occurring Healing

Field testing target population: African American seniors aged 55+ who are either frail and living in isolation, surviving on SSI (Supplemental Security Income of $830/month) or, at-risk seniors currently housed and in treatment for mental health and substance abuse issues.

Carol Johnson, Executive Director


INN Round 2 Grantee:AC Public Health Dept.

Office of Urban Male Health

His Health: Gender Responsive & Culturally Appropriate Counseling with African-American

Urban Male YouthField testing target population: BHCS providers will be trained to work more effectively with low-income African American male youth within urban Alameda County middle schools, including clients from mainstream education who have been referred for counseling because of social, emotional, and behavioral issues.

Jon Gilgoff, Brothers on the Rise Director, & David Frick,

Program Graduate


Learning Question 2 Partnerships with Faith based Communities

“How can the mission, services and purpose of BHCS be enhanced through partnerships with African American faith-based and spiritual communities as cultural institutions and natural places for BHCS clients/consumers and families to receive supports in their community?”

“What are effective ways for the African American faith-based and spiritual communities to welcome and integrate mental health clients/consumers into their community and to support social inclusion, decrease stigma and discrimination and provide a safe place for people to receive services and support, outside of the behavioral health care system?”

Desired Outcome: A program design that includes a set of specific STRATEGIES for the

development of an effective partnership between the African American faith-based and spiritual communities and BHCS, capitalizing on the role of these communities as cultural institutions and a natural support for BHCS clients/consumers and their families.


INN Round 2 Grantee:Healthy Communities, Inc.

African American Faith Mental Health Anti-Stigma Campaign


Field testing target population: adult African Americans (18-59), primarily re-entry from jail or prison, who are isolated from advancing in employment, education, and/or society because of mental health issues.

Pastor Raymond E. Lankford, MSW Rev. Dr. Jasper Lowery Glenda McComb, MBA

INN Round 2 Grantee:EC Reems Community Services

Girls Far Above Rubies


Field testing target population: girls between the ages of 8-18 years old whose mothers display signs of mental illness.

EC & Maria Reems

INN Round 2 Grantee:Tri-Cities Community Development Center

Mental Health Friendly Churches


Field testing target population: African American Consumers and families who either attend or are members of Predominantly African American Multi-Denominational Christian congregations

Pastor Horacio Jones

Learning Question 3 Supporting Trauma

“How might strategies of trauma-informed care for African American BHCS clients/consumers and families address the African American community’s historical trauma and trauma related to social issues, like stigma, discrimination, violence and poverty?” One or more of the following age-groups should be specifically addressed.

Desired Outcome

Development of an age-based provider training CURRICULUM designed to increase BHCS capacity and expertise on trauma informed care for BHCS African American clients/consumers and families that has been ‘field tested’ and evaluated by BHCS clients/consumers, family members and County and contracted community-based providers.


INN Round 2 Grantee:Conscious Voice

Conscious Voices


Field testing target population: African Americans student in the Peralta Community College District who are Alameda County CalWORKs recipients (parents of at least one child under the age of 18 years and at risk due to poverty); African Americans who are recovering from substance abuse; African American men who were formerly incarcerated.

Cheryl Cranshaw

INN Round 2 Grantee:Youth Alive!

Developing Trauma Informed Practices for Young People Caught in the Crossfire


Field testing target population: African American transition age youth and young adults (16-24) treated at Highland and Eden hospitals for violent injuries

Anne Marks, Executive Director John Torres, Deputy Director

INN Round 2 Grantee:East Bay Agency for Children

Healing Trauma through Support and Care


Field testing target population: African American high risk youth 13-18 years old, who are either referred to Probation Mental Health by the Juvenile Justice Center or referred by Dewey, Rudsdale or Ralph Bunche Continuation High Schools in Oakland

Pictured: Jill Reed, Claudia Vierra Allen, Kimberly Whitaker, Kristin

Wagner, James Thompson, Anh Ta - Not Pictured: George Anderson,

Matthew Reddam

INN Round 2 Grantee:Center for Family Counseling

Trauma Informed Care: Using HealingMemory Narratives & Mindfulness Based Meditation Practices


Field testing target population: Older African American adults in East Oakland

Dr. Veronique Thompson, Clinical Dir.Paula Barber, Executive Dir.

Dr. James F. Mensing, Project Director

Dr. Cheryl L. Johnson, Project Director

INN Round 2 Grantee:Bay Area Black United Fund

Community Healing Circle: For African-American Men and Adolescents on Probation


Field testing target population: transitional age African American youth selected by Alameda County Probation Department who are at high risk of re-offending and recidivism in the County.

Woody Carter, Executive Director

Learning Question 4 Engaging Males in Behavioral Health and Primary Care

What are effective strategies and supports for medically underserved African American adult males with serious mental illness, including those with co-occurring conditions, which will improve their engagement in behavioral health and primary care services?”

Desired Outcome

Development of a set of specific STRATEGIES, SUPPORTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS that will improve the engagement of African American adult males in behavioral health and primary care services that have been ‘field tested’ with BHCS African-American clients/consumers and County and contracted community-based providers and primary care providers.


INN Round 2 Grantee:Centerforce

Safe Transitions


Field testing target population: African American males over the age of 18 in San Quentin State Prison and California Medical Facility who are preparing to be released and return to Alameda County

Carol F. Burton, LMSWExecutive Director

Julie Lifshay, PhDHealth and Special Projects Manager

INN Round 2 Grantee:New Dynamics Hope

Color of Change Project


Field testing target population: At risk low to medium income (LMI) Black male adults with serious mental challenges residing in Alameda County

DeWitt Buckingham, Executive Director

Next StepsNext Steps

Innovations Round Two New Grantee Working Meeting

March 21, 20122p.m. – 4p.m.

Finalize Grant Agreement with Signatures

Location: BHCS Office

2000 Embarcadero Cove, Ste. 400, Oakland

BHCS Contact: Linda Leung Flores

[email protected]

(510)567-8133


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second round funding cycle grantees – kick off event

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african american community

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outcomes of mental health

behavioral health consumers

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