Initiatives
Thriving Mind South Florida partners with a number of local, state and federal organizations in order to provide a full range of services to adults, children and youth. These include schools, law enforcement, the judicial system, as well as partnerships with other non-profits like Sesame Street in Communities.
Sesame Street in Communities
Sesame Street in Communities builds on an almost 50-year commitment to addressing kids’ developmental, physical, and emotional needs. The time-tested research model and thorough testing with families and providers ensures that these resources have a measurable impact in the lives of parents and children.
Thriving Mind South Florida has partnered with Sesame Street in Communities to foster healthy development in families with children ages 0-5 in the Thriving Mind’s network who have been affected by substance use and mental health problems. Tips for families and professionals are found on our Sesame page.
Trauma Recovery
Thriving Mind South Florida’s Trauma Recovery Network offers a number of free services for adult and child victims of violent crime.
Family members of victims can also receive services at no cost. All services are free to victims and their families thanks in part to a Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) grant from the Florida Attorney General’s Office. The VOCA Fund was created by Congress in 1984 to provide federal support to state and local community-based programs to serve victims of crime.
Miami Center for Mental Health and Recovery
A center providing comprehensive behavioral and primary healthcare to our community’s most vulnerable individuals.
The 208-bed Center will serve individuals with mental health and substance use disorders. The Center will offer a comprehensive continuum of mental health, substance use, and primary healthcare services targeting high-cost, high-need individuals who are most often underserved by the public health system.
Housing Initiatives
Thriving Mind and local police TEAM UP to transform the lives of the chronically homeless while saving taxpayer dollars.
A unique partnership between Thriving Mind and local police departments in Miami and Miami Beach has changed the way the police are viewed in the community and dramatically transformed the lives of individuals engaged in the new program. The program helps those who are chronically homeless and suffering from substance abuse to get treatment and find housing.
Importantly, this innovative program is not a drain on tax dollars. Just the opposite, getting these individuals needed health care and housing is now saving hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
Threat Management Section Partnership
An innovative collaborative approach offers care coordination services as well as outreach and case management.
The Threat Management Section of the Miami-Dade Police Department developed a process to identify the high utilizers for callers to 911 for crisis-related issues along with those individuals that pose a threat to public safety; where no crime has been committed. These individuals are referred to Thriving Mind South Florida and are linked to community services based on individual needs. Many of these individuals are identified as new to the mental health system.
Recovery-Oriented System of Care
A Recovery-Oriented System of Care (ROSC) is a person-centered and wellness-focused framework of care. It builds on the strengths and resources of the individual, their family, and community to promote overall improvements in functioning.
Improving outcomes among priority populations through care coordination
Thriving Mind South Florida also offers system-level Care Coordination to reduce readmission of high-utilizers by ensuring appropriate treatment that supports recovery, including behavioral health care, housing, primary care, transportation, work programs, and access to benefits (insurance, disability). Our system identifies individual high-utilizers, leads a team to ensure appropriate treatment, tracks individuals across services, and compiles data to measure success. The goal is to reduce re-admissions from deep-end costly services and inappropriate settings such as jails, emergency rooms, crisis stabilization units/detox facilities, and reduce out-of-home care for children. This program complies with DCF’s goal to reduce by 20% the number of people in crisis by June 30, 2021.
State Opioid Response
The State Opioid Response grant is a two-year Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration funded medication-assisted treatment service for the treatment of opioid use disorder. The grant also funds prevention programs and strategies with evidence of effectiveness at preventing opioid misuse, opioid dependence, or opioid deaths.
Florida Assertive Community Treatment
In an effort to promote independent, integrated living for individuals with serious psychiatric disabilities, Florida Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) teams provide a 24-hour-a-day, seven-days-a-week, multidisciplinary approach to deliver comprehensive care to people where they live, work or go to school, and spend their leisure time. The programmatic goals are to prevent recurrent hospitalization and incarceration and improve community involvement and overall quality of life for program participants.
