Key projects and programs
This list provides a short summary of some of the projects, programs and grants that exemplify the strategy of the Vulnerable Populations Team.
Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth
To establish school-connected mental health services for students, with emphasis on overcoming cultural and language barriers of children in immigrant and refugee families.
Cash & Counseling
To expand a proven model of consumer-directed supportive services to more states, allowing thousands more older adults and people with disabilities to have choice and control over the care they receive.
National Demonstration of Early Detection, Intervention and Prevention of Psychosis in Adolescents and Young Adults
To replicate the Portland Identification and Early Referral (PIER) Program that uses evidence-based psychosocial and pharmacologic interventions in the early identification and treatment of adolescents and young adults with severe mental illness.
National Expansion of Playworks: A Program that Promotes Physical Activity and Play at Schools -- 2008-12
To support the second phase of a national expansion of Playworks, an innovative program that uses play to promote physical activity and youth development in schools.
Reclaiming Futures: Communities Helping Teens Overcome Drugs, Alcohol and Crime®
To develop service-delivery models that integrate comprehensive services into the juvenile justice system and promote the creation of community-based systems of care for substance-abusing youthful offenders.
Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships
To fund a national effort to develop and implement effective strategies to prevent relationship violence among youth.
Investing in youth-led social change in vulnerable communities
Replicating and sustaining the Nurse-Family Partnership nationwide
Technical assistance and dissemination of the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention model