Evidence Step:
Strong Evidence
Priority Area:
Strong Families and Communities
Program Demographic:
Adolescents / Young Adults
Multisystemic Therapy (MST) is an intensive treatment for troubled youth delivered in multiple settings. This program aims to promote pro-social behavior and reduce criminal activity, mental health symptomology, out-of-home placements, and illicit substance use in 12- to 17-year-old youth. Specifically, the aim is to eliminate or significantly reduce the frequency and severity of the youth’s referral behavior(s); empower parents with the skills and resources needed to independently address the inevitable difficulties that arise in raising children/adolescents; empower youth to cope with family, peer, school, and neighborhood problems, and enable youth to develop pro-social behaviors. The MST program addresses the core causes of delinquent and antisocial conduct by identifying key drivers of the behaviors through an ecological assessment of the youth, his or her family, and school community. Intervention strategies are personalized to address the identified drivers. The program is delivered for an average of three to five months, and services are available 24/7, which enables timely crisis management and allows families to choose which times will work best for them.
Evidence Step:
Outputs
Priority Area:
Strong Families and Communities
Program Demographic:
Aging Adults
The National Family Caregiver Support Program (NFCSP) helps families provide care for older adults with chronic illness or disabilities in their homes. Services include counseling and support groups, caregiver training, respite care, personal care, homemaker services, and adult day care.
Evidence Step:
Strong Evidence
Priority Area:
Workforce Development and Employment
Program Demographic:
Adolescents / Young Adults
The Ned McWherter Scholars Program is designed to encourage academically superior Tennessee high school graduates to attend college in Tennessee by awarding successful applicants scholarship funds.
Evidence Step:
Evidence
Program Demographic:
Adults, Justice-involved
The New Freedom: Cognitive Behavioral Intervention Program is a curriculum set in prisons to focus on changing how offenders respond to stress in their environments. The curriculum focuses on Conflict Resolution/Anger Management, Risk Factors, and Recidivism/Relapse prevention. There may be addition components for female offenders that can include: Abuse, Victimization, Trauma, and Relationships. CBIP is a common type of psychoeducation.
Evidence Step:
Evidence
Priority Area:
Strong Families and Communities
Program Demographic:
Infancy / Early Childhood
All babies born in Tennessee are required to be screened for metabolic conditions, hearing, and critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) by the birthing facility. All abnormal or unsatisfactory newborn screening test results are sent to the follow-up program staff for action. Providers are contacted and referrals are made to tertiary centers across the state for confirmation testing, counseling, and long-term follow-up. If these disorders are not detected and treated early, they can cause severe disabilities and even death. Over the years, the program has grown to screen for 71 disorders.
Evidence Step:
Outcomes
Priority Area:
Rural Development and Conservation
Program Demographic:
Adults, Rural Focus
The Nonpoint Source Grant Program works to reduce water pollution from nonpoint sources (e.g., polluted runoff) by funding restoration projects in watersheds impaired by nonpoint sources. It also funds educational initiatives that raise awareness and knowledge about nonpoint sources of pollution. Grantees can include local and state governments, higher education institutions, and nongovernmental organizations.
Economic and Community Development
Evidence Step:
Outputs
Priority Area:
Workforce Development and Employment
Program Demographic:
Adults, Businesses / Entrepreneurs, Communities
This grant program provides funding for universities and research institutions to develop new and further existing nuclear education programs, for site development efforts for new nuclear projects, and for incentive grants to nuclear energy-related businesses.
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
Evidence Step:
Outputs
Priority Area:
Strong Families and Communities
Program Demographic:
Adults, Aging Adults
The Older Adults Program (OAP) provides care management that can include several strategies, some of which are evidence-based, such as individual/group therapy, behavioral health assessment, medication management, referrals to mental health services and supports, and aging-related health education. The OAP is offered to individuals aged 50+ with behavioral health conditions (and their families/caregivers), needing person-centered care coordination, but who are not eligible for TennCare or the Behavioral Health Safety Net.
Labor and Workforce Development
Evidence Step:
Outcomes
Priority Area:
Workforce Development and Employment
Program Demographic:
Adolescents / Young Adults, Adults
On-the-Job/Incumbent Worker/Customized Skills Training Services provides, among other services, training for employees when employers need to recruit a large number of workers to stand up or expand operations within Tennessee. In doing so, this program helps support the state’s economic development recruitment strategy. It is administered by TDLWD and implemented through local workforce development areas/boards and organizations.
Evidence Step:
Outputs
Priority Area:
Strong Families and Communities
Program Demographic:
Aging Adults, Persons with Disability
The OPTIONS for Community Living program provides aging adults, and adults with disabilities, with homemaker services, personal care, home delivered meals, and other personal assistance. The program helps people live independently in their homes and communities without the need for long-term care facilities.
Evidence Step:
Outcomes
Priority Area:
Strong Families and Communities
Program Demographic:
Adolescents / Young Adults, Adults, Communities, Justice-involved
Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) within TDH’s Overdose Response Coordination Office is a CDC-funded grant program that supports Tennessee jurisdictions in implementing drug overdose prevention activities, in collecting accurate, comprehensive, and timely data on nonfatal and fatal overdoses, and in using those data to enhance programmatic and surveillance efforts. The program focuses on understanding and tracking the complex and changing nature of the drug overdose crisis by integrating data and evidence-based prevention strategies. Those evidence-based strategies include navigation to services, medication for opioid use disorders in correctional facilities, and harm reduction services.
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
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Evidence Step:
Mixed Effects
Priority Area:
Strong Families and Communities
Program Demographic:
Adults
The Oxford House Housing Program (OHHP) offers supportive self-help housing for individuals recovering from substance use disorder. Oxford Houses are safe, supportive housing options for adults at least 18 years old who are in recovery from alcohol abuse and/or drug abuse. Individuals must be motivated to live in a disciplined, supportive, alcohol- and drug-free living environment and able to gain employment or receive some type of legitimate financial assistance. Residents pay a weekly fee that includes rent, utilities, cable, and internet connection.
