Maryland To Grant $55M In American Rescue Plan Funding To Behavioral Health Services, Patients

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The Maryland Department of Health connected Monday announced $55 cardinal successful grants for alleviation to behavioral wellness patients and work providers impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.

The backing comes from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration arsenic portion of the American Rescue Plan Act.

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The grants volition make and grow much than 20 initiatives. According to the MDH, the grants volition enactment programs to code the effects of the pandemic connected children and adults with superior intelligence unwellness and substance usage disorders

“The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted Marylanders with superior intelligence unwellness and substance usage disorders, including the youngest among us, successful ways we volition proceed to recognize implicit time,” said MDH Secretary Dennis Schrader. “Concentrating present connected the needs of these populations and ensuring that accessible enactment is disposable is indispensable to our state’s recovery.”

The section volition grant astir fractional of the funding, $27.8 million, done the Mental Health Service Block Grant. The remaining $27.5 cardinal volition beryllium awarded done the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant.

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The caller intelligence wellness programs supported include:

• Caring Contacts termination prevention involution successful Maryland’s exigency departments

• Expansion of Operation Roll Call

• Workforce grooming for Peer Recovery Specialists to assistance individuals successful crisis

• Early puerility intelligence wellness and acquisition services for families with high-risk children

• Maryland Essentials for Childhood, a statewide corporate inaugural focused connected preventing and mitigating adverse puerility experiences

• Involuntary committedness consultation

• Workforce improvement for residential rehabilitation providers

• Ask the Question training

• National Suicide Prevention Hotline modulation to “988”

• Impact of COVID-19 Systemic Changes successful Child Mental Health Services connected Retention of Vulnerable Youth successful Care, a programme to analyse however the modulation to telepsychiatry affects disparities successful intelligence healthcare retention for younker successful Medicaid

The caller substance maltreatment programs include:

• Child attraction and betterment lodging for large women and women with children during withdrawal management

• Training for medication-assisted attraction and trauma-informed care

• Early puerility intelligence wellness and parenting programs that enactment the statewide enlargement of targeted opioid consciousness and prevention activities

“We scope each country of Maryland’s nationalist behavioral wellness strategy to recognize and capable the gaps for each intelligence wellness and substance usage upset needs—including for our young people, large women and veterans,” said BHA Deputy Secretary Dr. Aliya Jones. “Through our extended outreach and conversations with assemblage partners and stakeholders, we volition proceed to place however we tin pb Maryland’s betterment by leaving nary 1 behind.”

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CBS Baltimore Staff