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Texas Integrated Funding Initiative
The Llano Estacado Alliance for Families was one of four sites in Texas selected to be a Texas Integrated Funding Initiative (TIFI) site. Family Connections is the name of LEAF’s TIFI project. The four original TIFI communities were awarded in June 2000, after a competitive request for proposal process; those original communities were funded from 2000 through 2006. READ MORE
Mental Health Transformation Initiative The Llano Estacado Alliance for Families was one of eight community collaboratives selected to partner with Texas in their Mental Health Transformation efforts.
Texas Health Institute InitiativeTexas Health Institute was a 2005 co-applicant with the Texas Department of State Health Services, in partnership with the Office of the Governor, for the SAMHSA Mental Health Transformation State Incentive Grants. Texas was selected as one of the original seven states to be awarded a 5 year Mental Health Transformation grant. The Texas Health Institute contracts with the Department. of State Health Services to develop mental health transformation collaboratives in eight communities. READ MORE Stigma Reduction Mental illness – people whisper the words behind closed doors. Those with diseases in this category often feel ashamed, guilty and ostracized. Yet, more than 20 percent of all people in the United States experience symptoms of a mental illness each year. In 14 percent of those cases, people suffer moderate or severe symptoms that can be helped through treatment. Yet, less than 50 percent of those who need mental health care receive it. Those individuals who do receive the care often have waited years after the onset of symptoms before seeking help. READ MORE
LEAF's Vision of a Transformed System:- Texans will understand that persons living with mental illness are productive citizens who contribute richly to their communities.
- Children and adolescents will live with their families and families will receive needed supports.
- Texans will understand and support the prevention, early intervention and appropriate treatment of mental illness is as an investment rather than a cost to improve the quality of life for all Texans.
- Texans having, or living with, mental illnesses and their families will have a strong voice in system design, implementation and resource allocation and will have choice, self determination and hope related to the services that are available.
- Texans will have quick, easy access to the services that they need.
- Texans will be able to access appropriate services through a multiplicity of agencies so that there is no “wrong door” and be able to get the right set of services regardless of where they access the system.
- The mental health system will incorporate “recovery” values related to choice, self-determination, hope and dignity.
- The service delivery system will have an adequate and competent workforce trained in state-of-the-art services.
- Data and information will be shared across agencies at both state and local levels to optimize care for individuals.
- Mental health, like physical health, will be an integral component of the well being of Texans, contributing to positive outcomes related to performance in schools, employment, housing and quality of life.
- Partnerships will be forged among state agencies and local communities so that interventions related to behavioral health mutually support and reinforce the goals of individuals and the goals of individual agencies.
Future Plans & GoalsReaping from the seeds we have sown as a Texas Integrated Funding Initiative site, and as a Community Collaborative of the Texas Mental Health Transformation Grant, LEAF stakeholders are in the process of completing a federal application. We are responding to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services call for applicants for fiscal year 2008 for Cooperative Agreements for Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families (CMHI). READ MORE
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