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Contracted Services
From 2013 to the present, Fluellen Associates has been providing Practice Management Services (PMS) to Fifth Avenue Medical Associates, LLC (FAMA). FAMA is a medical group practice licensed to practice medicine in New York State. It provides mental health and substance abuse services using Telehealth Technology. As the contracted practice manager, Fluellen Associates provides administrative and management oversight to FAMA's Telehealth Platform and to the coding, billing, credentialing and electronic medical record services provided by FAMA's non-clinical staff.
From 2015 to 2016, Fluellen Associates was contracted by the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice (MOCJ) in New York City to support a planning grant the City received from the MacArthur Foundation’s Safety & Justice Challenge. The aim of the grant was to develop effective ways to safely reduce New York City’s jail population. Fluellen Associates was tasked with coordinating the work of justice professionals enlisted to develop a comprehensive set of alternative to incarceration strategies designed to reduces unnecessary incarceration, while keeping communities safe. Our collective work resulted in a $4 million proposal to the MacArthur Foundation that would shrink New York City’s jail population by 21%. On April 13, 2016, the MacArthur Foundation announced that New York City was one of 11 cities awarded a Safety & Justice Challenge grant to pursue its strategies to reduce New York City’s jail population.
From 2010 to 2011, Fluellen Associates was contracted by the Addiction Research and Treatment Corporation (ARTC) to negotiate the takeover of a $2.3 million contract Hope Care Medical Counseling Services held with the New York City Division of Youth and Family Justice Services (DYFJS). This contract provided mental health services to youth confined in two New York City detention facilities and eighteen non-secure group homes. In 2011, Fluellen Associates successfully negotiated the takeover of Hope Care’s contract and the assignment to ARTC.
With a $75,000 grant from the Open Society Institute, Fluellen Associates was hired in 2009 by the National Justice Initiative, Inc. (NJI) to conduct a series of information gathering and mobilization seminars on the implementation of the 2009 Rockefeller Drug Law Reform in the following cities: New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany. The seminar held in New York City is captured in the following report: Implementing Rockefeller Reform: A Treatment Provider's Perspective.
From 2006 to 2009, Fluellen Associates was contracted by the New York City Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) to provide coordination and support services to an oversight advisory panel of leaders in Child Welfare and AIDS and to the Vera Institute of Justice that was looking into the appropriateness of AIDS clinical trials conducted on foster care children in the late 1980’s and 1990’s.
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