CPLC Nevada

Courtyard homeless resource center:the courtyard homeless resource center offers a full range of services to individuals experiencing homelessness; access to these resources is through an integrated continuum of care approach and available 7 days a week / 24 hours a day. These services include case management & navigation, mail distribution, personal storage, overnight stay, charging station, pet kennel, computer room access, notary service, showers, and document storage. Since 2017, the courtyard has served as a starting point to address homelessness within the corridor of hope. In fy 22-23, the courtyard served approximately 9,927 unique individuals.

Nevada community services:rapid rehousing: CPLC nv participates in operation home! This is a regional effort to house individuals and families experiencing homelessness and housing instability for 12 months and up to 24 months. Our case managers follow an evidenced based housing first approach to engage households, providing intensive case management and connecting appropriate supportive services to successfully transition households into permanent housing. Our team had 36 of the 40 household in housing by the end of the fiscal year. Latinos unidos contra el sida (luces): luces provides housing services to clients under our housing opportunities for persons with aids (hopwa) supportive housing program. Service provided includes case management. Short term rent mortgage and utility assistance, move-in assistance, permanent housing placement, and hotel vouchers. A total of 74 individuals and households were provided with housing assistance services. Emergency food and shelter program: phase 39 as part of the emergency food and shelter program, provided short term (no more than 90-days) of hotel/motel shelter services. Clients participating in this program, were provide with case management services, supportive service and assisted clients with identifying housing based on clients' identified needs. A total of 28 households were served of which 86% successfully transitioned into permanent housing. Housing assistance: our america rescue plan, housing assistance program (arpa ha) is designed to assist eligible individuals or families maintain safe, stable housing. The program provides rental assistance, eviction prevention, and move in costs to households experiencing housing instability and those facing eviction. Individuals participating in this program are provided with case management services, housing navigation and supportive services to assist clients with identifying permanent housing options. A total of 15 households were provided with housing assistance services. Homeless outreach and engagement: homeless street outreach (cnlv): CPLC nv, in partnership with the city of north las vegas, serve on the city's homeless outreach and mobile engagement (home) team. The home team addresses and mitigates issues related to homelessness and is aligned with the southern Nevada homeless continuum of care and its mission to end homelessness in southern Nevada. In its first year, the annual engagement goal was 250, the street outreach team engaged 477 individuals, exceeding the annual by 227 individuals. Covid-19 mitigation (snhd): this is a new service in collaboration with the southern Nevada health district's (snhd) acute communicable disease and control program (acdc) to support deliverables concerning the cdc's detection and mitigation of covid in homeless service sites and other congregate settings. These covid-19 mitigation efforts are at the community-based level engaging a minimum of 10 homeless services organizations in clark county to coordinate resources, develop strategies and support community based relationships to mitigate covid19 and other communicable diseases.

Housing and real estate services: housing counseling - hud approved housing counseling and education services, one-on-one credit counseling, loss mitigation, foreclosure prevention, credit counseling for first time home buyers and financial literacy education. Affordable housing - CPLC Nevada currently owns and manages 165 apartment units. These units offer rents and deposits that are manageable for low-income family. Most of the properties are newly refurbished. Some offer amenities such as free learning centers for adult learning and afterschool programming for children, expansive playgrounds and regular social activities.

Behavioral health pal and thrive:the pediatric access line (pal) has been funded with the state of Nevada department of public behavioral health (dpbh) since november 2019. The pal program is a free service that makes child and adolescent psychiatry consultation immediately available to any primary care providers (pcps) in Nevada, regardless of the patient's resources or where they live. More than 180 pcps throughout Nevada utilize pal to help their child and adolescent patients with behavioral health needs receive specialized care right from their primary care medical home. The pal program is a partnership between chicanos por la causa, Nevada Inc. (CPLC nv) and the university of Nevada, las vegas kirk kerkorian school of medicine (unlv). CPLC nv provides the care coordination services and the school of medicine contributes and coordinates all clinical care through medical and mental health professionals. Thrive are two integrated behavioral health centers located in rural/frontier Nevada. Douglas county, Nevada has a population of 48,946 with a unique dynamic where the housing crisis is continuing to rise and the school populations are decreasing due to unaffordability. Mineral county, Nevada is thrive satellite clinic hosting both pal and thrive team members. Mineral county has a population of 4,345 housing a transient population with sparse medical and mental health professionals to support the valley. Thrive was originally funded in 2021 from the substance abuse and mental health services administration to form two certified community behavioral health centers. After two years of operations and certification of a ccbhc, the centers have migrated to specialize in crisis centers for the communities. In douglas county, thrive supports the school system with risk assessments for all youth and families. The integrated services provided at thrive include risk assessment, crisis assessment, mental health and substance use assessment, psychotherapy, substance use therapy, psychoeducation, skills training, parent training, and care coordination.

Workforce and economic development:a ccbhc is a comprehensive center providing integrated behavioral health, substance use, preventive medical, social support, recovery supports and case management services to the community. The center is measured on their quality of care by approximately twenty health outcomes, centered around medication and risk assessments. The center is to utilize a pre-determined amount of evidence-based practices to ensure quality of care and positive health outcomes. There are nine required categories of care to be provided either within the center or by designated partnerships. The ccbhc has the ability to create partnerships through designated collaborative organizations (dco) through some of the categories. This is a key to success, by promoting sustainability and growth within rural and frontier communities. Services provided are as follows - - 24/7 crisis mental health services - screening and assessment for behavioral health services - outpatient mental health services - services are focused on the person and the family, including a comprehensive treatment planning approach - screening for primary care services - psychosocial education services - social supports (i.e. Club house, housing counseling, recovery supports, peer support) - targeted case management - services focused on veteran services & active duty military

Business enterprise:nv minority business development agency business center (nv mbda business center) provides both new and existing mbes (minority business enterprises) with technical assistance in the areas of access to capital and financing, access to government contracting and procurement opportunties, and access to technical assistance aimed to improve gross revenues, increase net profits and retain/create jobs. The center serves u.s. based mbes, which include businesses owned and operated by socially or economically disadvantaged individuals. These individuals encompass a diverse range of backgrounds, such as black or african american, hispanic or latino, american indian or Alaska native, asian (including south asian), native Hawaiian or other pacific islander, and hasidic jews. The following are statistics for fy 2022/2023:all numbers, amounts, and percentages mentioned below have been already documented and approved by us mbda headquarters program analyst at the closing of the fy2023.1. Nv mbda has subscribed a total of 194 new clients enrolled into to the program.2. In the area of technical assistance, nv mbda has provided 266 sessions of technical assistance to clients enrolled into the program.3. A the closing of fy 2023, 27 nv mbda business center clients have documented an increase in net profits thanks to the technical assistance provided.4. Clients that received assistance from nv mbda have received and documented a total of $6,900,903 in the combined categories of financing assistance, access to capital, bonding, gross revenues, and value of capacity investments generated.5. Nv mbda has documented 263 jobs created or retained for fiscal year 2022/2023.