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Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics Infrastructure Grant Program

Introduction - Grant Objectives: The Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) issued approximately $25,000,000 in grant funding from American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) dollars to develop capacity among non-for-profit health and human service providers related to the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) model. The grant program is now closed. 

The objective of this grant funding was to expand access for Rhode Islanders to integrated behavioral health services and supports in alignment with the CCBHC model, which in turn has been proven to improve community health outcomes, reduce health disparities, and support providers to deliver higher quality, more sustainable services. 

What is the CCBHC model? The CCBHC model is a national set of standards for comprehensive behavioral health care that is jointly supported by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). EOHHS has been directed by the General Assembly to submit a State Plan amendment to CMS to implement the federal model of CCBHCs.

Interagency Collaboration for Quality Behavioral Healthcare: Working with Medicaid, the Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities, & Hospitals (BHDDH), and the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF), EOHHS created this infrastructure grant program to help support our vision of an accessible, equitable, and sustainable behavioral health system for all. The goal of this grant funding was to expand the network of community providers who have the capacity to become a CCBHC and/or partner with a CCBHC as a Designated Collaborating Organization (DCO) to support these goals.

Grant Awardees

Here are the organizations that received Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) and Designated Collaborating Organization (DCO) Infrastructure Grants.

CCBHC Infrastructure Grant Awardee Organizations: 

  • Amos House
  • Community Care Alliance
  • East Bay Community Action Program
  • Family Service of Rhode Island
  • Gateway Healthcare
  • Newport Mental Health
  • The Providence Center
  • Thrive Behavioral Health

DCO Infrastructure Grant Awardee Organizations:

  • Adoption Rhode Island
  • Carelink
  • Center for Southeast Asians
  • Child and Family
  • Children’s Friend
  • CODAC
  • Progreso Latino
  • Project Weber/RENEW
  • Providence Community Health Centers
  • Tides Family Services
  • Trinity Healthy Living
  • VICTA
  • Women’s Resource Center of Newport and Bristol County
  • Wood River Health Services