The New York State Office of Mental Health announces the availability of funds for the expansion of the Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) for children and adolescents throughout New York State. The goal of this award is to expand access to services for children with serious emotional disturbance (SED) and their families at a critical time in their lives which they need to thrive and remain engaged in the community. OMH intends to issue 20 awards, statewide. Of these awards, 8 will be earmarked for providers proposing serve areas with critical need due to the absence of this program type and its affiliated services. These critical need areas include the following Economic Development Regions and specific Boroughs of New York City: Central New York, Mohawk Valley, North Country, Southern Tier, Western New York, Staten Island, Bronx and Brooklyn.

The New York State Office of Mental Health is pleased to announce the availability of funds for one organization or agency with statewide capacity to implement a Farmers Supporting Farmers program to offer peer support and promote the financial and mental wellbeing of farmers and their families.

The RFP was developed in response to the well-documented link between economic crises and stress putting farmworkers and families at an increased risk for poor behavioral health outcomes. Farmers and agribusinesses often navigate economic challenges and emotional stress. This funding will provide farmworkers and families with technical assistance to address their business and financial needs, along with wellness supports to promote improved behavioral health outcomes.

Eligible applicants must have demonstrated expertise working with rural communities and missions that include providing outreach and support to farmers and their families.

Agencies interested in responding to this Request for Proposal are strongly encouraged to submit a Letter of Intent to Bid to the OMH Issuing Officer by February 20, 2025. The Letter of Intent to Bid shall be non-binding.

The Request for Proposal can be accessed on the OMH website under Procurement Opportunities at: https://omh.ny.gov/omhweb/rfp/2025/fsf/index.html

All applications must be completed in and submitted through the Statewide Financial System.

The New York State Office of Mental Health announces the availability of funds, through a competitive Request for Proposal process, for developing six new Home-Based Crisis Intervention programs that will solely serve those dually diagnosed with mental health and intellectual or developmental delays. The goal of the funding is to support a statewide effort to strengthen children’s mental health and crisis resources.

HBCI is a community-based, short term, intensive crisis program designed to avert psychiatric hospitalizations and placements for youth ages 5 years to 20 years, 11 months experiencing an acute mental health crisis.

Applicants should have demonstrated expertise working in the community with intellectually and developmentally delayed children and youth experiencing a mental health crisis.

The awardees will help ensure that children and youth in acute mental health crisis can remain safe at home, avoid an unnecessary psychiatric hospitalizations or residential treatment, and that they and their families can learn strategies for ongoing stability.

The Requests for Proposal can be accessed on the OMH’s website: Home Based Crisis Intervention (HBCI) Mental Health and Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities (MH/IDD) Statewide – Round Three

All applications must be completed in and submitted through SFS, Statewide Financial System.

The New York State Office of Mental Health announces the availability of funds to develop five Adult Critical Time Intervention Teams, including:

• One Rural CTI Team in the Western Region for hospitals in Chautauqua County.
• One Rural CTI Team in the Western Region for hospitals in Cattaraugus County, also serving Allegany County.
• One CTI Team in the Western Region for hospitals in Erie County, also serving Genesee, Niagara, Orleans, and Wyoming counties.
• One Rural CTI Team in the North Country Region for hospitals in St. Lawrence County, also serving Franklin County.
• One Rural CTI Team in the North Country Region for hospitals in Clinton County or Warren County, also serving Clinton, Essex, Warren, and Washington counties.

These CTI Teams will serve individuals during a critical transition time who have mental illness and who have not been successfully engaged in services during or after critical times in transition.

The CTI model is an evidence-based approach that is a time-limited, phase-based care management service designed to help vulnerable individuals during critical times of transition in their lives. CTI promotes community integration, self-advocacy, and access to ongoing support by helping individuals develop and utilize strong ties to their professional and non-professional support systems during and after these transition periods.

CTI includes assertive outreach and engagement with individuals in higher-level of care settings as well as in the community with a focus on addressing key social care needs at the individual level. CTI places emphasis on helping individuals build skills and strengthen linkages to ongoing sources of support that will remain in place after the time-limited CTI intervention ends.

The Requests for Proposal can be accessed on the OMH website under Procurement Opportunities https://omh.ny.gov/omhweb/rfp/2025/adult-cti-teams-round3/index.html.

All applications must be completed in and submitted through the Statewide Financial System.

The New York State Office of Mental Health announces the availability of funds, through a competitive Request for Proposal process, for developing four new Critical Time Transition Programs for Children, Youth, and Families that will serve youth with mental health challenges and complex needs boarding in hospital settings. This funding will support a statewide effort to strengthen children’s mental health and crisis resources. The CTTPs will be located in the Mohawk Valley, Western New York, Long Island, and New York City.

CTTP is comprised of a Critical Time Intervention team and a Transitional Residential Setting with allowance for up to a 120-day stay. The goal of CTTP is to facilitate the critical transition to the community for youth ages 11 to 17 languishing in an Emergency Department or boarding in a hospital. These youth and their caregivers require immediate access to a variety of services, such as critical time transitional supports, mental health/behavioral treatment and support, interpersonal and rehabilitative skills training, maintenance and continuity of their educational setting/program, intensive family/caregiver education/support/advocacy to facilitate engagement, coordination of all stakeholders and service providers, and, as needed, a transitional home-like environment to stay and access to supportive, temporary educational programming.

Applicants should have demonstrated experience providing inpatient or residential services to children/youth and their families, and care management and/or behavioral health services to youth and their caregivers. The awardees will help ensure that youth can remain safe in the community, avoid unnecessary psychiatric hospitalizations, Emergency Department visits, and/or residential treatment, and that they and their caregivers can learn strategies for ongoing stability.

The Requests for Proposal can be accessed on the OMH website under Procurement Opportunities at https://omh.ny.gov/omhweb/rfp/2025/cttp-round-two/index.html

All applications must be completed in and submitted through the Statewide Financial System.