The CRSC will provide behavioral health crisis and detox services to stabilize individuals under the Crisis Now Model and connect them to ongoing community treatment services. This will be a regional facility for Prince William, Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax, and Loudoun. Full adult and youth services will be added as ongoing funding is identified. Phase 1 will provide 8, 23-hour observation and 8 short-term CSU beds for adults. This project would help establish a Crisis Receiving and Stabilization Center (CRSC) in Prince William County that will provide 23-hour crisis observation and short-term crisis residential services for up to 32 Adults (16, 23-hour observation and 16, crisis stabilization unit (CSU) beds) and up to 16 youth (8, 23-hour observation and 8, CSU beds). In FY 2020, our region had 855 individuals that had to be placed outside of our region because there were no available inpatient psychiatric beds. Northern Virginia has approximately 21 inpatient psychiatric beds per 100K population, which includes private psychiatric hospital providers. The Treatment Advocacy Center, a nationally recognized non-profit dedicated to advocacy of timely and efficient treatment of the serious mentally ill, recommends a minimum of 50 inpatient psychiatric beds for 100K population. Individuals meeting criteria for inpatient psychiatric hospitalization have frequently had to wait an extensive period for a bed to become available and in Prince William County, many must go outside of the region to find a bed. Recipient: Prince William County Governmentīackground: For someone experiencing a mental health or substance abuse crisis, the main place to go for an individual to go 24/7 to get assistance has typically been the emergency department of a hospital. Project: Prince William County (PWC) Crisis Receiving and Stabilization Center (CRSC) The project’s focus on culturally sensitive assessments will also contribute to decreases in disparities in access to high quality behavioral healthcare for diverse and lowest income youth and families. This project will (a) train clinicians working with Community Service Boards in Northern Virginia who serve diverse low-income youth and families, and their clinical supervisors, using low to no-cost culturally sensitive evidence-based assessments that can be readily employed in community mental health settings and (b) help administrators effectively implement use of these assessments across their organizations so that all clients may benefit from their use. Without proper assessment, mental health conditions can be misdiagnosed or even overlooked, leading to increased suffering, a need for longer and more intensive treatments, increased emergency services and hospitalizations, and even the loss of life to suicide. Project: Saving Lives and Decreasing Health Disparitiesīackground: Accurate assessment and identification of youth mental health difficulties is essential for reducing mental health problems. There are more than 200 vacant positions at the CSB and not enough qualified candidates to meet the current workforce needs. This program will help to address the unprecedented workforce issues being faced by the CSB and would be targeted towards hard-to-fill positions that require either certificates or Associate Degrees, including positions such as registered nurses (RNs) and licensed practical nurses (LPNs). This program will allow for a variety of behavioral health and developmental disability students and practitioners to receive financial assistance for education from Fairfax County in exchange for providing service to the CSB. Recipients must agree to employment in a provider position for a minimum of three years at the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board (CSB). Projects: Project: Behavioral Health Care Provider Incentive Programīackground: This program will provide eligible students and behavioral health care providers with financial assistance for education. Members will be required to certify that neither they nor their immediate family have a financial interest in the CPF requests made. More information can be found here.Īll CPF requests submitted to the Appropriations Committee by Congressman Connolly will be posted below. Each Member is limited to no more than 15 Community Project Funding requests across all subcommittees for Fiscal Year 2023 and there is no guarantee that all requested projects will be funded. This is in addition to the standard programmatic and language-based requests. Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro announced that the House Committee on Appropriations will be accepting Community Project Funding (CPF) requests from Members for Fiscal Year 2023.
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