Intensive and Sustained Engagement Teams (INSET) RFP Grant

The Intensive and Sustained Engagement Teams (INSET) RFP by the New York State Office of Mental Health aims to enhance trauma-informed and equitable mental health support for underserved individuals. By contracting with peer-run organizations, the initiative seeks to implement INSET in areas lacking this service, promoting community engagement and support for those traditionally disengaged from mental health services.

New York’s mental and behavioral health systems continue to strive toward more trauma-informed, equitable ways of meeting the needs of the community, particularly for individuals and their social supports who have not been well engaged through traditional services or programs. As such, the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) seeks to expand the availability of Intensive and Sustained Engagement Teams (INSET).
OMH is seeking proposals to contract with community-based, Peer-run organizations and/or organizations with established peer-run programs/departments to implement an Intensive and Sustained Engagement Team (INSET) in one (1) New York State location excluding counties where an INSET team currently operates. The INSET program components and the administering agency responsibilities are detailed in section 5. INSET currently operates in the following counties: Suffolk, Nassau, Kings, Westchester, Orange, Sullivan, Rockland, Putnam, and Monroe.