Winnebago County Mental Health Board announces funding for 41 programs

April 10, 2024|By Kevin Haas|In Local, Rockford, Trending
Rock River Current
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ROCKFORD — The Winnebago County Mental Health Board announced on Wednesday nearly $52 million in funding for 41 mental health and substance abuse programs over the next three years.

That amount could rise to $60 million because several one-year funding awards have renewal options. The money for the programs comes from the half-cent sales tax for mental health that voters approved in March 2020.

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The board awarded 13 proposals one year of funding totaling $3,722,364. An additional 28 programs were awarded three years of funding totaling $48,039,852.

Among the new recipients is Marshmallow’s Hope, a nonprofit dedicated to preventing youth, veteran and first responder suicide. Another is Brooke Road United Methodist Church, which will run a family and community wellness response program.

The board said its top funding priorities include mental health treatment, case management, crisis response services, family and community support, housing and client outreach.

Here are the recipients:

One year awards

Organization | Project name | Funding amount

  • Boys & Girls Club of Rockford | social emotional skill building and severe emotional disturbance services | $411,537.10
  • City of Rockford Health & Human Services Department | IMPACT (Integrated Mobile Partners Action Crisis Team) | $605,993.00
  • Lifescape | Senior Mental Health Program (SMHP) | $168,811.00
  • Marshmallow’s Hope Nonprofit Organization | Suicide Prevention: Empowering Youth Through Psychotherapy for Mental Wellness | $315,245.00
  • Prairie State Legal Services | Legal services for Winnebago County residents with mental illness | $33,696.00
  • Shelter Care Ministries | Jubilee Community Outreach and Housing Stability Program | $82,600.00
  • University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford | CLEAN: Clinical Learning and Education in Addiction | $448,300.00
  • University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford MERIT (Medical Evaluation Response Initiative Team) | enhanced services and community prevention education | $229,482.67
  • Winnebago County Juvenile Detention Center | reducing isolation through expanded behavioral health | $452,481.81
  • Winnebago County Juvenile Resource Intervention Center (JRIC) | behavioral health | $192,404.02
  • Winnebago County Resource Intervention Center (RIC) | behavioral health| $192,404.05
  • Winnebago County Health Department | Trauma Informed Community Care Coordination | $160,569.43
  • Youth Services Network Inc | Mental Health for Homeless Youth (MH4Y) | $428,839.99

Three year awards

  • Alignment Rockford | How are the Children? Systems Change through Community Data | $942,205.00
  • Boys & Girls Club – Rockford Barbell | Youth Self-Regulation Programs | $775,354.00
  • Brightpoint | Doula | $778,812.00
  • Brightpoint | EPIC | $1,227,609.00
  • Brooke Road United Methodist Church | Southeast Rockford Children, Family and Community Wellness Response Program | $198,980.00
  • City of Rockford | Crisis Co-Response Team | $6,368,235.74
  • City of Rockford | Crisis Co-Response Team (CCRT) Expansion | $627,550.36
  • City of Rockford | Mobile Integrated Health – Mental Health Program | $4,864,321.16
  • City of Rockford | Inclusive Wellness Programming at the Family Peace Center | $882,700.00
  • Crusader Community Health | Behavioral Health Services | $3,133,338.00
  • Family Counseling Services | Service Expansion 3.0 | $809,713.00
  • NAMI Northern Illinois | Support, Education, and Mental Health Advocacy | $771,353.65
  • NAMI Northern Illinois | Recovery/Family Support Specialists | $186,740.40
  • NICNE | Rockford Area Case Management Training and Community of Practice | $337,897.35
  • RAMP | Mental Health Services and Training | $1,020,421.00
  • Remedies Renewing Lives | Domestic Violence Therapy & Advocacy Project | $325,347.22
  • Rockford Park District Foundation | Perks Family Equine Center at Lockwood Park | $1,355,496.19
  • Rockford Sexual Assault Counseling | outreach therapists | $529,620.00
  • Rockford Sexual Assault Counseling | group therapy for older adults | $17,500.00
  • Rosecrance | Access to Care | $7,665,176.59
  • Rosecrance | Winnebago System of Care | $5,269,719.00
  • Summit Academy | Summit Academy – transition counselor and mental health curriculum | $231,708.00
  • Tommy Corral Memorial Foundation | MHFA training | $98,421.00
  • University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford | CARE Program – Compassionate Appreciation for Recovery in Everyone | $846,648.66
  • Winnebago County | assistant state’s attorney – mental health | $368,247.19
  • Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office | Winnebago County Jail Behavioral Health Program – Enhanced | $5,967,023.06
  • YMCA of Rock River Valley | Protecting Youth Mental Wellness YMCA year two | $558,542.44
  • Youth Services Network Inc | Youth Trauma Clinic (YTC) | $1,881,172.76