INITIATIVES / WELLNESS / MENTAL HEALTH

SI PPS

BHIP - Strengthening the Behavioral Health Infrastructure
This group focuses on establishing and sustaining resources and partnerships to improve access to mental health & substance use disorder services and care for the community.
  • Improving linkages to behavioral health services
  • Providing integrative care
  • Reducing stigma and raising awareness about behavioral health wellness

Behavioral Health Care Continuum 
  • Working to ensure Behavioral Health providers are available 24./7

SI Connect
‘Staten Island Connect’ is a 24/7 call center built to help connect people to behavioral health and substance use treatment. Professionals use this line to make referrals and appointments.​

PEDIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH SCREENING PILOT
(Child Mind Institute)

Borough Hall has been working with Child Mind Institute (CMI) on a mental health integration pilot. Over the last 5 months, 4 Staten Island pediatric practices (5th practice just joined) have participated in this pilot and over 200 patients completed screening
  • Through this pilot mental health screenings are administered via an i-Pad app at pediatric well-visits
    • Phase 1 of pilot looked at eating behaviors (EB), hyperactivity, anxiety, bullying and suicide
    • Phase 2 of pilot (recently launched) looks at substance abuse and trauma
    • Initial results show statistically significant correlations between depression with suicide, bullying and eating behaviors (EB), suicide with bullying and EB, and BMI with EB

STANFORD HARMONY
​(Social Emotional Learning curriculum)

The goal of Harmony is to incorporate specialized teaching strategies into classroom activities (Preschool – 6th grade) in an effort to reduce bullying, and help develop the youth of today into tolerant, compassionate, and caring adults for the future.
  • Programs have been implemented in many Staten Island public schools. Most of the SI schools signed up a year ago.

SI ALLIANCE FOR NORTH SHORE CHILDREN & FAMILIES

This coalition has a goal to ‘by 2022, improve the overall wellbeing of all children from birth to eight years old on the North Shore of Staten Island’.
  • 1,000 days of Medicaid (working group of coalition)
    ​Goal: to develop a ten-point plan by November 2017 which will focus on improving outcomes and access to services for children in their first 1000 days: the most crucial years of their development.  Goal is broad population level improvement in child health and development.