On April 5th, the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) released a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the procurement of pilot Home Based Crisis Intervention (HBCI) teams serving youth with co-occurring mental health and intellectual and/or developmental disorders (I/DD). HBCI teams will serve children/youth ages 5 to 21 years who are either at risk of entering or returning home from inpatient settings or residential services. The HBCI team is comprised of mental health interventionists and a clinical supervisor, and may include a consulting psychiatric prescriber and/or program assistant.
This RFP will provide funding to one HBCI team upstate and one HBCI team downstate (New York City/Long Island). HBCI teams will be funded via state aid contracts. The available annual funding per team, inclusive of one full-time supervisor and three full-time interventionists, will be $518,271. Eligible applicants are not-for-profit 501(c)(3) agencies with experience providing mental health services to individuals with serious emotional disturbance.
The full RFP is available here and SPG’s summary of the opportunity is attached. Applications are due on June 13th.
OMH also released an RFP (available here) that seeks to procure 11 new HBCI teams in eight economic development regions upstate. These HBCI teams will target individuals only with behavioral health challenges rather than individuals with co-occurring mental health and I/DD conditions.