2016-582-E Finance - Freedom House Recovery Center, Inc. - Outside Agency Performance Agreement

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DocuSign Envelope ID:636AFD33-DA5C-4B55-88DC-03C0863BAFE3 t A - continued Provider's Outside Agency Application MAIN APPLICATION necessary skills and connections to employment, education and housing clients will need when they reenter the community. Their recovery can diminish the societal and economic costs to their families and communities. For instance, for every $1 spent on addiction treatment, the community saves $7 in criminal justice costs and $12 in related health-care costs (Alcohol and Drug Council). d) Describe the population to be served or the area to benefit and indicate how you will identify beneficiaries. The population to be served is men and women who suffer from mental illness and/or substance use disorders, and who often have chronic medical conditions related to their mental illness, addiction or medication used to treat illness. Our programs will serve the low-income, uninsured, indigent and homeless populations in Orange County. Clients come to Freedom House most often by referral from hospitals, clinics, physicians, local social service agencies, law enforcement or the court system. Clients also come to Freedom House on their own accord, without referral. We gather necessary demographic data during the intake process. e) Who specifically will carry out the activities and in what location will they be carried out? Our caring treatment team includes physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, nurses, licensed clinical social workers, licensed clinical addiction specialists, certified substance abuse counselors and other qualified professionals. Programs will be carried out on our Chapel Hill campus. f) Describe specifically the period over which the activities will be carried out, the frequency with which the activities will be carried out, and the frequency with which services will be delivered. Include an implementation timeline. These programs are well-established, ongoing programs on which the community depends. Activities are carried out daily. Our Crisis and Detox/Behavioral Health Urgent Crisis Care services are 24/7/365 and our halfway houses are staffed 24/7/365 as well. This funding request covers activities occurring in FY 2016-2017. g) Provide a bulleted list of other agencies, if any, with which your agency coordinates/collaborates to accomplish or enhance the Projected Results in the Program(s) to be funded. For each, give specific examples of the coordinated/collaborative efforts. Freedom House partners with numerous organizations, too many to list in space allowed. However, below are a few: • Job Links and the Orange site of Durham Community College: to help individuals with their GED. • Orange Vocational Rehabilitation: to provide job trainings skills. • Orange County Health Department and Carolina Health Net: to refer indigent clients to a medical home, as well as to provide primary health care to indigent clients within our Freedom House Integrated Care Clinic. • Local police and Sheriff's departments CIT(Community Intervention Training) project: to train law officers to understand more fully how to work with individuals in our community who are chronically mentally ill or addicted. • Orange Rape Crisis: to provide the needed support for women who come to us with recent and historical sexual abuse. • Community Care of North Carolina:work closely with CCNC to become a designated Access to Care Clinic for low-income and indigent individuals and families. • Interfaith Council: to provide behavioral health care to their homeless clients. • Interfaith Food Shuttle: to provide fresh and healthy food for our residential clients. Main Application 1/25/2016 4:55:19 PM Page 9 of 24