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o Supporting our clinicians with advanced training to enhance their skills $32,500 x3 years. <br />o Supporting our residents financially impacted by COVID to reimburse for therapy and/or <br />psychiatry $34,074 per year x3 years. <br />Operational Funding- $280;722 <br />o Intensive Outpatient Program. Currently a public/private partnership is in development <br />to develop an Adolescent IOP Program. To accelerate the development and expansion <br />of this program to include children and adults $27,000 per year x3 years. <br />o Mental Health Collaborative <br />■ Operational dollars to support increased program development and support <br />$32,500 per year x3 years. <br />■ Operations Manager to support the operation of the Collaborative and create <br />Clinical Training Institute $34,074 per year x3 years." <br />Infant Mortality /Child Abuse Prevention: <br />Families continue to face stressors brought on or exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and we know <br />they will have to grapple with the collateral consequences of the coronavirus — loss of employment, <br />housing, food security and so much more — as our state recovers. In these times of extreme stress and <br />uncertainty, we cannot ignore the risk of children experiencing abuse and neglect. That's why experts <br />say it is important to foster support for families and encourage stress -reducing behaviors. In order to <br />prevent child abuse and neglect, we must recognize past trauma, support caregivers, and come together <br />as a community to provide the resources necessary for families to thrive. Prevention professionals are <br />still working to understand the pandemic's repercussions for incidents of child abuse and neglect, but <br />we do know calls to the abuse hotlines are lower than normal. <br />Indian River County has witnessed a rise in infant mortality after economic downturns in the past. Most <br />notably, in 2011, after the 2008; 2009 crisis, IRC saw the highest rate of infant mortality in Indian River <br />County's history, 12.5 per 1000. That year there were only four counties in the State with a higher infant <br />mortality rate.than Indian River County. The State average at that time was 6.4,per 1000. Since that <br />time, the community, has added and expanded programs and pursued initiatives that were meaningful <br />in lowering infant mortality. These are proven practices that can be.expanded to prepare moms and <br />families for the risk factors associated with infant mortality — specifically toxic stress. <br />• Fund child abuse & infant mortality prevention initiatives and programs and expand existing <br />strategies to meet the increase incidence of child abuse $100,000 per year x 3 years- $300,000 <br />4.14.21 UWIRC <br />