The New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) has announced an award of $30 million over five years to Coordinated Behavioral Care (CBC) to operate eight treatment teams that work with vulnerable New Yorkers living with mental illness. The teams focus on people transitioning back to the community from psychiatric inpatient care and on long-term homeless people living on the streets and in the subway system.

With this funding, CBC will employ its signature care transition model, Pathway Home™, to operationalize and manage eight Care Transition and Support Teams (CTSTs) across four boroughs. The eight teams will serve a diverse array of high-risk populations, including the homeless, justice-involved and service recipients transitioning from State Psychiatric Centers back to the community.

VP of Program Services Mark Graham recognizes that this award validates many years of hard work at CBC building effective partnerships to assemble multi-disciplinary teams that are resolute in their dedication to serving our community’s most vulnerable:

“The Pathway Home model has proven repeatedly, both anecdotally and empirically, that with the right level of personalized community care New Yorkers can successfully return home and have fulfilling meaningful lives. At CBC, we are privileged to be part of the Pathway Home solution through partnership with our member organizations, government agencies and state and community hospital systems.”

The funds will ensure the program continues to build on this rich history by expanding its reach to new institutional locales, including Brooklyn’s Kingsboro Psychiatric Center, and affirms Pathway Home™’s status as NY’s leading transitional care services paradigm for the foreseeable future!