Funding Interests
Severe Mental Illness
Severe mental illnesses can profoundly disrupt a person’s ability to function in and relate to his or her environment. Although medical innovations have made it possible for most people with severe mental illnesses to live in the community, they cannot do so without an integrated support network to help them address their mental and physical health as well as economic, social, and vocational needs.
Through our Severe Mental Illness focus area, The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati helps build an integrated support network for people with severe mental illnesses. Providers can implement evidence-based practices that have been shown to be effective, like Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) or Supported Employment. Our grants also enable providers to offer services beyond just counseling or medication. Providers can bring physical health care, vocational support, and other resources that allow people with severe mental illnesses to live a full life in the community.
Strategies
Severe mental illness has one strategy that is being funded:
The Foundation has also funded grants in Achieving Clinical Excellence strategy, that is no longer funded.
Logic Models
Each focus area has a logic model for each strategy, to view the severe mental illness logic models, click here.
Severe Mental Illness Advisory Group
The Health Foundation convened an Advisory Group of mental health service providers, people with severe mental illnesses, and their families in 1998 to assist in understanding the status of mental health services in our region. This first Advisory Group also helped the Health Foundation develop our strategies to target funding toward the mental health services that the community needs most.
Each year, the Health Foundation convenes the Advisory Groups for each focus area to discuss what is happening in the community and the current and future funding priorities for the Health Foundation. Advisory Group members serve 2-year terms.
2008–2009 Severe Mental Illness Advisory Group:
- Liz Banks, Summit Behavioral Health
- Rita Brooks
- Jacki Byers, Scioto Paint Valley Mental Health Center
- Mag Casarez, Clermont Counseling
- Colleen Chamberlain, Brown County ADAMHS Board
- Anne Combs, Clermont Counseling
- Tony Dattilo, Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services
- Jeff Drury, Comprehend
- Gary Goetz, NorthKey Commmunity Care
- Steven Kopecky, Mental Health Recovery Services of Warren and Clinton Counties
- Diana McIntosh, Hamilton County Community Mental Health Board
- Brad McMonigle, Mental Health & Recover Center of Clinton County
- Mike Oberdoester, M.D., Talbert House
- David Olds, Mental Health America of Northern Kentucky
- Angela Ostholthoff, Recovery Center of Hamilton County
- David Ranz, NAMI-Hamilton County
- Holly Riffe, Northern Kentucky University
- Nelly Rimini, Central Clinic
- Julia Rupp, Community Mental Health Center
- Karen Scherra, Clermont County Mental Health and Recovery Board.
- Edward Shelleby, Central Community Health Board
- Don Thacker, Shawnee Mental Health Center