Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)
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CONNECTICUT
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Grantee: CONNECTICUT ST DEPT OF MH/ADDICTION SRVS
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Hartford, CT |
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Program: Jail Diversion (2008) |
SM058805 |
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Congressional District: CT-01 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $405,161
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013 |
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The program will develop the expertise and infrastructure to sustain the CT Diversion/Trauma Recovery Program in Eastern CT (Local Pilot) community and document and generate evidence to support its replication across all 20 Jail Diversion and CIT programs across CT. The target population includes veterans with PTSD and trauma-related disorders. Recruitment efforts for the pilot will focus on veterans in Eastern Connecticut at several possible transitions: at initial point of police contact (pre-booking) or being arraigned for misdemeanors and low-level felonies (post-booking); and in lieu of probation violations. This program represents a promising attempt to provide veterans with PTSD/trauma-related disorders effective trauma-integrated services and recovery supports. These services simultaneously will help prevent arrest, re-arrest, relapse and promote long-term recovery for veterans with PTSD/trauma-related disorders.
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Grantee: CONNECTICUT ST DEPT OF CHILDREN/FAMILIES
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Hartford, CT |
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Program: Child Mental Health Initiative |
SM057066 |
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Congressional District: CT-01 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $2,000,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2011 |
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The Connecticut Department of Children and Families proposes the Building Blocks For Bright Beginnings Project with its partners, the Southeastern Mental Health System of Care (SEMHSOC), LEARN, Families United for Children's Mental Health and The Consultation Center. Building Blocks will transform mental health service delivery for our children ages birth- five and their families in southeastern Connecticut through a family driven, youth guided, culturally competent, community based system of care, committed to the promotion of social/emotional wellness and resiliency. The primary activities of this project are workforce development for caregivers and service providers, and comprehensive services to SED children and their families. The work will be guided by a community-based Governance Council and informed by an army of nationally known early childhood consultants. The two primary service subcontractors have strong histories of providing family driven, culturally competent, high quality care in the target communities.
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Grantee: CONNECTICUT ST DEPT OF MH/ADDICTION SRVS
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Hartford, CT |
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Program: State Data Infrastructure Grants |
SM058087 |
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Congressional District: CT-01 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $142,200
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Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010 |
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The Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) are allowing provider data to be used for decision-support by DMHAS managers and other stakeholders. To achieve this goal, DMHAS is modernizing its data infrastructure by redesigning its treatment database and developing advanced reporting applications. DMHAS' primary goal in this round of DIG funding is to modify its data collection system to capture all of the data needed to populate the URS tables and to calculate the NOMs.
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Grantee: CONNECTICUT ST DEPT OF MH/ADDICTION SRVS
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Hartford, CT |
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Program: Seclusion and Restraint (2007) |
SM058132 |
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Congressional District: CT-01 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $214,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010 |
The Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) seeks to leverage the CMHS Alternative to Restraint and Seclusion State Incentive Grant (ARS SIG) funds to conduct a strategic planning process to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to reduce, and ultimately eliminate, use of restraint and seclusion among young adults, ages 18-25, with serious mental illnesses.
Recognizing that CT's mental health system of care has existing gaps, barriers, and needs, as identified through the CT Comprehensive Mental Health Plan and the Young Adult Services 2007 Legislative Report, the proposed CT ARS SIG is aligned to address these gaps, barriers, and needs. Recommendations from the CT's Comprehensive Mental Health Plan, developed through CT's Mental Health Transformation State Incentive Grant (MHT SIG) have provided input in the development of the CT ARS SIG. The CT ARS SIG will be used to establish and implement a coordinated strategy to reduce, and ultimately eliminate, the use of restraint and seclusion among young adults, ages 18-25, in DMHAS' targeted psychiatric hospitals.
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Grantee: CONNECTICUT ST DEPT OF MH/ADDICTION SRVS
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Hartford, CT |
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Program: Mental Health Transformation State Incentive Grants |
SM057456 |
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Congressional District: CT-01 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $2,730,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010 |
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The Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell, in leading development of CT's response to the MHT SIG, has charged 14 key state agencies and the Judicial Branch to successfully transform mental health and other systems to offer CT's citizens an array of accessible services and supports that are culturally responsive and person- and family-centered and have as their primary aim promotion of the person/family's resilience, recovery, and inclusion in community life. CT envisions a recovery-oriented system of mental health care that will offer all of the State's citizens, across the lifespan, an array of accessible services and recovery supports from which they will be able to choose those, which are effective in addressing their particular mental health condition or combination of conditions. Services and recovery supports will be provided in an integrated and coordinated fashion within the context of a locally managed system of care in collaboration with the surrounding community, thereby ensuring continuity of care both over time and across agency boundaries, thus maximizing the person's opportunities for establishing, or reestablishing, a safe, dignified, and meaningful life in the communities of his or her choice. CT seeks to leverage the MHT SIG funds to consolidate the gains we have made and gather momentum from our important successes to tackle the major challenges inherent in the recommendations of the President's New Freedom Commission. The MHT SIG would offer the impetus and resources needed to achieve this vision; one in which state and local systems work together seamlessly to prevent mental illness and promote resilience and recovery for all of CT citizens.
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Grantee: ADVOCACY UNLIMITED, INC.
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Wethersfield, CT |
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Program: Statewide Consumer Network |
SM057934 |
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Congressional District: CT-01 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $70,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010 |
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Advocacy Unlimited, Incorporated proposes to promote empowerment, well-being and employability for consumers by expanding English and Spanish language internet resources; computer skills training and web-based networks across the state. The project will expand capacity of communications infrastructure and facilitate consumer involvement in the state's mental health system. The organization will be linked to key initiatives for system transformation planning with the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and with other communications infrastructure used by other state and regional consumer and family networks.
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Grantee: PRIME TIME HOUSE, INC.
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Torrington, CT |
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Program: CMHS 2008 EARMARKS |
SM058576 |
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Congressional District: CT-01 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $118,886
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Project Period: 09/01/2008 - 08/31/2009 |
Prime Time House intends to provide a comprehensive array of recovery oriented mental health services to adults with a Diagnistic and Statistical Manual (DSM IV) Axis I diagnosis of a severe and persistent mental illness. Services range from prevocational training to transitional and supported employment.
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Grantee: CONNECTICUT ST DEPT OF MH/ADDICTION SRVS
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Hartford, CT |
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Program: 2004 COSIGS |
SM056579 |
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Congressional District: CT-01 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $550,000
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Project Period: 09/01/2005 - 08/31/2010 |
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The Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services is improving services to individuals with co-occurring disorders through standardized screening and assessment regardless of entry point, service coordination and network building, and developing an infrastructure that allows information sharing to all stakeholders and promotes the use of data in a quality improvement framework. Two service pilots are being conducted. The Enhancing Psychiatric Services Pilot develops, implements, and evaluates effective, integrated and culturally responsive care Latinos/as with COD. The Addiction Services Pilot is developing an integrated system of services for individuals with COD that uses systems change technology with clinical practice technology at the systems, program and clinical competency levels to create system change. The pilots are establishing an intebrated system of care for persons with CODs to ensure there is "no wrong door" when seeking care.
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Grantee: CONNECTICUT ST DEPT OF MH/ADDICTION SRVS
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Hartford, CT |
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Program: Youth Suicide Prevention & Early Intervention - Cooperative Agreement State-Sponsored |
SM057391 |
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Congressional District: CT-01 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $400,000
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Project Period: 06/01/2006 - 05/31/2009 |
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The CT Departments of Mental Health and Addiction Services, Children and Families, Public Health, Education, and the Judicial Branch and the CT Universities (CU) are collaborating with the University of CT Health Center (UCHC) to develop, implement, evaluate, and sustain statewide suicide prevention and early intervention programs in conjunction with the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act. Through CTÂ’s existing youth suicide infrastructure, including the Youth Suicide Advisory Board (YSAB), the Connecticut Youth Suicide Prevention and Early Intervention Initiative (CT Suicide Prevention Initiative) will support: (1) the implementation of the Signs of Suicide (SOS) Program, an evidence-based practice, in CT middle/high schools and in selected CT Universities; (2) an expansion of a DCF-sponsored training program in recognizing the signs and symptoms of suicidality and depression targeting foster and adoptive parents, school nurses, parent/teacher organizations, youth service bureaus, and juvenile justice personnel; and (3) design and pilot implementation of a model program to increase the availability, accessibility, and linkages to mental health treatment by embedding services in school-based health and community-based hospital clinics. UCHC will serve as the Evaluation Team for the proposed interventions.
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Grantee: CONNECTICUT ST DEPT OF MH/ADDICTION SRVS
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Hartford, CT |
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Program: TCE Jail Diversion |
SM057292 |
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Congressional District: CT-01 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $400,000
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Project Period: 04/30/2006 - 04/29/2009 |
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The Women's Jail Diversion Program will provide post-booking diversion services to women in Hartford with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders with a history of trauma and trauma-related psychiatric disorders. The program will build upon an existing jail diversion program for women in Hartford by providing Assertive Community Treatment, integrated mental health and substance abuse treatment, medication management, and gender-based trauma treatment using the Trauma Adaptive Recovery Group Education and Training (TARGET) model to 180 women over the three year project.
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Grantee: CONNECTICUT COLLEGE
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New London, CT |
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Program: Campus Suicide |
SM057853 |
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Congressional District: CT-02 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $75,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009 |
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The purpose of this grant is to enhance services for students with mental and behavioral health problems by providing a comprehensive array of services within the campus community, using a public health approach, to enhance the ability to identify and assess students at risk and to raise the skill level of the various campus helpers to make appropriate referrals of students whose behavior indicates they are at risk for mental and behavioral health problems, including suicide. This project will utilize funding to implement an education/public health approach to suicide prevention by promoting enhanced knowledge and awareness of suicide prevention throughout the campus and by enhancing and expanding existing networking infrastructure of campus support services for students.
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Grantee: FAMILIES UNITED/CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH
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Colchester, CT |
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Program: Statewide Family Networks |
SM057959 |
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Congressional District: CT-02 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $70,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010 |
Families United for Children's Mental Health is a Connecticut support and advocacy group, run by and for famiies of children and youth with emotional, behavioral or mental health needs. The goal of this project is to strengthen our infrastructure and expand our capacity to better support family and youth, and their efforts to transform serivces and systems.
PROJECT NAME: Strengthening Family and Youth Networks in Connecticut
TARGET POPULATION: Connecticut families of children and youth aged 0-25 with significant emotional challenges, as well as such youth themselves.
CATCHMENT AREA: State of Connecticut
Our project recognizes that we need a three-pronged strategy to increase network capacity to support effective substance abuse and mental health services for our children and youth in Connecticut. We need to build strong relationships with a vriety of stakeholders, including family and consumer groups, to build consensus and support for best practices; we also need to provide significant assistance to youth and families trying to find their voice. None of this will be sustaniable, however, unless we simultaneously develop strong and informed statweide and community family organizations to build on progrss made and continue to support effective service delivery that is consumer and family driven.
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Grantee: MASHANTUCKET PEQUOT TRIBAL NATION
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Mashantucket, CT |
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Program: Circles of Care American Indian & Alaskan Native Children |
SM058819 |
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Congressional District: CT-02 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $305,875
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011 |
The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation (MPTN) in collaboration with the Clifford Beers Clinic proposes this Circle of Care project in response to the Federal "Circle of Care" initiative. Our service area will include the Greater New London area. New London County has a total area of 772 square miles and a population of 259,088 and a Native American population of 4,966. MPTN will serve as the lead agency for the project. Other partners include consumer representatives, the primary mental health provider agencies in the local area, other mental health providers in the area, and primary care providers in the area. The purpose of the request is to plan, design, and assess the feasibility of implementing a culturally appropriate mental health service model for MPTN Native American youth, children and adolescents with SED and their families in the Greater New London area.
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Grantee: YALE UNIVERSITY
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New Haven, CT |
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Program: National Child Traumati Stress Initiative-Treatment and Service Adapation Centers |
SM054318 |
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Congressional District: CT-03 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $599,987
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Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 09/29/2009 |
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The Childhood Violent Trauma Center (CVTC) develops, evaluates and disseminates secondary prevention models for children exposed to potentially traumatic events. The CVTC has developed three secondary preventions: 1) The CDCP Police-Mental Health Acute Response Intervention, 2) The Domestic Violence Home Visiting Intervention, 3) The Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention. These interventions provide a collaborative Acute Response protocol implemented by mental health providers and police officers for children and families who have been exposed to violence; safety and access to services for children exposed to domestic violence; and assistance to children who are traumatized by violence, injury or other traumatic events.
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Grantee: CLIFFORD W. BEERS GUIDANCE CLINIC
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New Haven, CT |
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Program: Community TX & Service Ctrs of the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative |
SM057151 |
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Congressional District: CT-03 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $400,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2009 |
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Clifford Beers Clinic, the oldest outpatient clinic in Connecticut, has been a lead agency in providing trauma-informed treatment to the most economically challenged families in the New Haven area. Because of its leadership in the community, Clifford Beers Clinic is in an excellent position to create a community-based clinical center for excellence for the treatment of children and families who have been exposed to trauma, called the Child and Family Trauma Center (CFTC). The purpose of the CFTC is to improve the quality of the treatment services available to those families within the greater New Haven Region by assisting other human service agencies to take root and implement evidence-based practices. By creating such a center in the Greater New Haven region, the quality of life will improve for those children exposed to trauma, who will have improved school performance; parents, who will have a greater sense of empowerment; and the numerous families under stress in New Haven, who will see their stresses alleviated. In addition, the increase in advocacy and community education will lead to a decrease in the number of traumas perpetrated upon our children in the community.
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Grantee: FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER WATERBURY
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Waterbury, CT |
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Program: CMHS 2008 EARMARKS |
SM058554 |
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Congressional District: CT-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $118,886
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Project Period: 09/15/2008 - 09/14/2009 |
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Grantee provides services, community collaboration and social advocacy on behalf of families, children, and individuals who are economically disadvantaged and who have mental health needs, family violence issues, substance abuse issues and other issues. Services include a crisis nursery, enrichment activities, and therapeutic interventions for children from infancy to age 5, including parent counselling and referrals to community resources; the family center which provides supervised visitation and therapeutic supports for families whose children have been placed in out of home care to help them prepare for reunification or termination of parental rights; short term residential services for children ages 3-12 who have been removed from their homes due to abuse and neglect; and internsive in-home services, inlcuding parental education, case management, housing, etc. for families and children who are ready to be reunified. Grantee services target the needs of uninsured or underinsured members of the community.
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Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
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Grantee: CAPITAL AREA SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNCIL
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Bloomfield, CT |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP011299 |
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Congressional District: CT-01 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $100,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2009 |
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The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
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Grantee: ERASE, INC.
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East Hartford, CT |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP014376 |
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Congressional District: CT-01 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $100,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2009 |
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The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
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Grantee: EAST OF THE RIVER ACTION/SUBSTANCE ABUSE
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East Hartford, CT |
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Program: Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act Grants |
SP015380 |
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Congressional District: CT-01 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $50,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2012 |
The purpose of the Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking (STOP) Act grant program is to prevent and reduce alcohol use among youth in communities throughout the United States. The STOP Act grant program will encourage existing local community coalitions to develop, assess, and implement effective strategies to prevent and reduce underage drinking. Strategoies may include: changing local attitudes and norms, and re-evaluating existing laws and policies.
(1) Grantee must participate in national evaluation activities of the STOP grant program.
(2) STOP Grantees must use the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF), a five step evidence based process for community planning and decision-making. The five step rocess includes: needs assessment, capacity building, planning, implementation and evaluation.
(3) STOP grantees must plan and implement a comprehensive approach inclusive of multiple strategies as emphasized in the 2007 Surgeon General's Call to Action to prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking located online at: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/underage drinking/calltoaction.pdf Emphasis should be given to environmental strategies that incorporate prevention efforts aimed at changing or influencing community conditions, standards, institutions, structures, systems and policies. In addition, grantees must select strategies that lead to long term outcomes.
(4) STOP grantees must enhance, not supplant, effective local community initiatives for preventing and reducing alcohol use among youth. For current Drug Free Community grantees, STOP ACT foods can not be used to supplant or replace activities that are presently being supported by Drug Free Comunity funds, and , separate DFC and STOP ACT accouting systems must be maintained for the purposes of reporting.
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Grantee: CITY OF HARTFORD
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Hartford, CT |
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Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework |
SP013397 |
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Congressional District: CT-01 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $254,320
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010 |
The proposed project will provide funding for the MetroHartford Prevention Coalition (MPC), a collaborative effort to provide substance abuse, HIV, and hepatitis prevention services within the Connecticut communities of Hartford, East Hartford, West Hartford, and Bloomfield. The proposed MPC project will join two health departments and one health district representing the four contiguous municipalities in a cooperative effort aimed at reducing the incidence and prevalence of substance abuse, HIV, and hepatitis among people of color and the minority reentry population.
Over the past decade, Connecticut's Capital Region (which includes the targeted communities) has experienced a tremendous increase in population mobility that has resulted in greater diversity among all its municipalities. At the same time, a surge of releases from correctional institutions to the region's communities - estimated at 4,500 individuals over the past year - has resulted in increased stress on these communities. The prevalence of substance abuse, HIV and hepatitis has been and remains high in this area, with a 2002 AIDS case rate of 62.6 per 100,000 minority residents in the Hartford MSA. Faced with multiple public health issues complicated by population mobility between towns, the MPC is conceived as an important strategic alliance for purposes of improved data collection and epidemiological services, joint program development using evidence-based interventions, collective staff development opportunities, and improved effectiveness and efficiency of programs and services provided to residents of each municipality through both municipal and community-based services. The MPC will enable development, implementation and strengthening of a regional infrastructure to promote enhanced health literacy about HIV/AIDS, SA/mental health, and hepatitis, as well as early intervention and prevention in the target populations. Using a regional public health systems approach, this strategic collaboratio
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Grantee: LATINO COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC.
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Hartford, CT |
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Program: Minority HIV Prevention |
SP015126 |
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Congressional District: CT-01 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $335,333
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013 |
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The program Project REACH will serve older adults 50+ living in the Greater Hartford area. Project REACH will connect service providers to older minority adults, HIV and substance abuse professionals, and other key stakeholders building a solid foundation for delivering and sustaining quality substance abuse and HIV prevention services. The target areas for the project are Hartford, East Hartford, West Hartford, Bloomfield, and Windsor, Connecticut. The program projects that over the course of 5-years it will serve 2,700 clients.
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Grantee: CONNECTICUT ST DEPT OF MH/ADDICTION SRVS
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Hartford, CT |
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Program: Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants |
SP011198 |
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Congressional District: CT-01 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $2,350,965
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Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009 |
The Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants are used to advance community-based programs for substance abuse prevention, mental health promotion, and mental illness prevention. The SPF SIG implements a five-step process known to promote youth development, reduce risk-taking behaviors, build on assets, and prevent problem behaviors. The five steps are: (1) conduct needs assessments; (2) build state and local capacity; (3) develop a comprehensive strategic plan; (4) implement evidence-based prevention policies, programs and practices; and (5) monitor and evaluate program effectiveness, sustaining what has worked well.
These grants will allow the programs to provide leadership, technical support and monitoring to ensure that participating communities are successful. The success of the grants will be measured by specific measurable outcomes, among them: abstinence from drug use and alcohol abuse, reduction in substance abuse-related crime, attainment of employment or enrollment in school, increased stability in family and living conditions, increased access to services, and increased social connectedness.
In Connecticut, the Strategic Prevention Framework Initiative will develop a comprehensive prevention strategy for delivering and implementing effective substance abuse prevention and mental health promotion services that will serve as a blueprint for state and community partners.
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Grantee: SOUTHEASTERN REG ACTION CNCL SUB ABUSE
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Uncasville, CT |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP014269 |
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Congressional District: CT-02 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $99,830
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Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012 |
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The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
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Grantee: LEDGE LIGHT HEALTH DISTRICT
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Groton, CT |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP012152 |
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Congressional District: CT-02 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $100,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2011 |
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The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
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Grantee: TOWN OF OLD SAYBROOK
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Old Saybrook, CT |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP012073 |
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Congressional District: CT-02 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $100,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2011 |
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The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
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Grantee: NORTHEAST COMMUNITIES AGAINST SUB ABUSE
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Dayville, CT |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP012991 |
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Congressional District: CT-02 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $100,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010 |
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The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
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Grantee: TOWN OF MADISON
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Madison, CT |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP014868 |
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Congressional District: CT-02 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $125,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013 |
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The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
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Grantee: TOWN OF PUTNAM
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Putnam, CT |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP013753 |
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Congressional District: CT-02 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $43,579
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Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011 |
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The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
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Grantee: TOWN OF WINDHAM
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Willimantic, CT |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP014739 |
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Congressional District: CT-02 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $125,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013 |
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The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
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Grantee: TOWN OF WATERFORD
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Waterford, CT |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP014809 |
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Congressional District: CT-02 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $125,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013 |
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The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
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Grantee: NORTHEAST COMMUNITIES AGAINST SUB ABUSE
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Dayville, CT |
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Program: Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act Grants |
SP015338 |
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Congressional District: CT-02 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $50,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2012 |
The purpose of the Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking (STOP) Act grant program is to prevent and reduce alcohol use among youth in communities throughout the United States. The STOP Act grant program will encourage existing local community coalitions to develop, assess, and implement effective strategies to prevent and reduce underage drinking. Strategoies may include: changing local attitudes and norms, and re-evaluating existing laws and policies.
(1) Grantee must participate in national evaluation activities of the STOP grant program.
(2) STOP Grantees must use the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF), a five step evidence based process for community planning and decision-making. The five step rocess includes: needs assessment, capacity building, planning, implementation and evaluation.
(3) STOP grantees must plan and implement a comprehensive approach inclusive of multiple strategies as emphasized in the 2007 Surgeon General's Call to Action to prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking located online at: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/underage drinking/calltoaction.pdf Emphasis should be given to environmental strategies that incorporate prevention efforts aimed at changing or influencing community conditions, standards, institutions, structures, systems and policies. In addition, grantees must select strategies that lead to long term outcomes.
(4) STOP grantees must enhance, not supplant, effective local community initiatives for preventing and reducing alcohol use among youth. For current Drug Free Community grantees, STOP ACT foods can not be used to supplant or replace activities that are presently being supported by Drug Free Comunity funds, and , separate DFC and STOP ACT accouting systems must be maintained for the purposes of reporting.
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Grantee: BIRMINGHAM GROUP HEALTH SERVICES
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Ansonia, CT |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP011239 |
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Congressional District: CT-03 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $87,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2009 |
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The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
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Grantee: BUSINESS/INDUSTRY FDN OF MIDDLESEX CNTY
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Middletown, CT |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP011448 |
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Congressional District: CT-03 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $95,435
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2009 |
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The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
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Grantee: BIRMINGHAM GROUP HEALTH SERVICES
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Ansonia, CT |
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Program: Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act Grants |
SP015413 |
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Congressional District: CT-03 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $49,973
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2012 |
The purpose of the Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking (STOP) Act grant program is to prevent and reduce alcohol use among youth in communities throughout the United States. The STOP Act grant program will encourage existing local community coalitions to develop, assess, and implement effective strategies to prevent and reduce underage drinking. Strategoies may include: changing local attitudes and norms, and re-evaluating existing laws and policies.
(1) Grantee must participate in national evaluation activities of the STOP grant program.
(2) STOP Grantees must use the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF), a five step evidence based process for community planning and decision-making. The five step rocess includes: needs assessment, capacity building, planning, implementation and evaluation.
(3) STOP grantees must plan and implement a comprehensive approach inclusive of multiple strategies as emphasized in the 2007 Surgeon General's Call to Action to prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking located online at: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/underage drinking/calltoaction.pdf Emphasis should be given to environmental strategies that incorporate prevention efforts aimed at changing or influencing community conditions, standards, institutions, structures, systems and policies. In addition, grantees must select strategies that lead to long term outcomes.
(4) STOP grantees must enhance, not supplant, effective local community initiatives for preventing and reducing alcohol use among youth. For current Drug Free Community grantees, STOP ACT foods can not be used to supplant or replace activities that are presently being supported by Drug Free Comunity funds, and , separate DFC and STOP ACT accouting systems must be maintained for the purposes of reporting.
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Grantee: CLIFFORD W. BEERS GUIDANCE CLINIC
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New Haven, CT |
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Program: Minority HIV Prevention |
SP015057 |
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Congressional District: CT-03 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $335,333
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013 |
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Our program seeks to implement a community based prevention intervention to reduce the onset of substance abuse and the transmission of HIV among traumatized minority adolescents living in New Haven Connecticut. Through the Healthy Experiences Relationships Program. The program will provide peer-to-peer outreach, family and adolescent risk reduction. Serving minority youth, those who have been exposed to multiple traumatic life experiences. The program will reach over 3000 participants during the lifespan of the grant.
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Grantee: COMMUNITY FDN FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN
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New Haven, CT |
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Program: CSAP 2008 EARMARKS |
SP014605 |
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Congressional District: CT-03 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $478,492
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Project Period: 09/01/2008 - 08/31/2009 |
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This grant will: (1) support the NCCEV's Acute Response service and complementary CD-CP activities in New Haven; (2) support refinement of the Acute Response Protocol in New Haven withthe aim of disseminating the protocol to developing CD-CP sites and other jurisdictions engaged in mental health/law enforcement partnership responses to children exposed to violent trauma; (3) support the NCCEV's Domenstic Violence Home Visit Intervention ("DV-HVI") program within the local New Haven community; (4) support refinement of DV-HVI in New Haven with the aim of disseminating the protocol to developing CD-CP sites and other jurisdictions engaged in mental health/law enforcement partnership responses to children exposed to domestic violence; (5) support the ongoing development of the NCCEV's Family Intervention Project (FIP); (6) expand NCCEV's briefing, consultation, training and technical assistance, and public education capacity to respond to an array of first responders; mental health providers; child welfare providers; educators; federal, state and local government leaders; professional organizations, and crime victims/prevention associations; and (7) increase the dissemination of training materials relating to collaborative responses to children exposed to violence to a variety of public and private entities, including national first responders.
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Grantee: REGIONAL YOUTH/ADULT SUBSTANCE ABUSE PRG
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Bridgeport, CT |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP011517 |
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Congressional District: CT-04 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $100,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2009 |
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The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
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Grantee: LIBRATION PROGRAMS, INC.
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Norwalk, CT |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP013144 |
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Congressional District: CT-04 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $67,822
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010 |
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The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
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Grantee: REGIONAL YOUTH/ADULT SUBSTANCE ABUSE PRG
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Bridgeport, CT |
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Program: Drug Free Communities Support Program - Mentoring |
SP015165 |
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Congressional District: CT-04 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $75,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2010 |
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The grantee will: (1) support and encourage the development of new or the expansion of existing community anti-drug coalitions that are focused on the prevention and treatment of substance abuse; (2) assist one or more communities in efforts to begin coalition operations or to expand the operations of community coalitions that want to receive assistance.
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Grantee: COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH AFFILIATES, INC.
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Bristol, CT |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP012412 |
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Congressional District: CT-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $125,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2013 |
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The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
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Grantee: NEWTOWN YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES, INC.
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Newtown, CT |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP015565 |
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Congressional District: CT-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $100,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2009 |
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The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
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Grantee: HOUSATONIC/VLLY/COALIT/AGNST/SUBST/ABUSE
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Bethel, CT |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP014789 |
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Congressional District: CT-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $125,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013 |
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The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
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Grantee: PLYMOUTH BOARD OF EDUCATION
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Terryville, CT |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP014732 |
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Congressional District: CT-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $100,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013 |
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The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
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Grantee: COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH AFFILIATES, INC.
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Bristol, CT |
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Program: Drug Free Communities Support Program - Mentoring |
SP014529 |
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Congressional District: CT-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $75,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2009 |
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The grantee will: (1) support and encourage the development of new or the expansion of existing community anti-drug coalitions that are focused on the prevention and treatment of substance abuse; (2) assist one or more communities in efforts to begin coalition operations or to expand the operations of community coalitions that want to receive assistance.
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Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)
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Grantee: CONNECTICUT ST DEPT OF MH/ADDICTION SRVS
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Hartford, CT |
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Program: Access to Recovery |
TI019506 |
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Congressional District: CT-01 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $4,830,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010 |
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The Connecticut ATR Program provides the opportunity for genuine individual choice among a comprehensive array of clinical treatment and recovery service providers, including a full continuum of recovery-oriented services. With a demonstrated voucher infrastructure in place, including expertise in all phases of a voucher program, CT is now positioned to make maximal use of lessons learned to reframe and transform CT's larger treatment system. The new CT ATR Program will further strengthen CT's ability to support and sustain a statewide, comprehensive clinical and recovery system at the local community and state levels. The Program is a public/private partnership among numerous state and community- and faith-based agencies, and the Administrative Service Organization. The Program will target adults ages 18 and older with substance use disorders, focusing on populations documented to have significant barriers in access to care, retention, and successful treatment outcomes, such as young adults, ages 18-29, and adults involved with the criminal justice and child welfare systems. CT's existing clinical and recovery service system includes over 117 providers, and CT plans to expand the service array to close gaps in its continuum of care.
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Grantee: HISPANIC HEALTH COUNCIL
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Hartford, CT |
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Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS |
TI018843 |
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Congressional District: CT-01 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $485,489
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Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012 |
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ProjectConnect, located in Hartford (CT), is a collaborative effort of the Hispanic Health Council (HHC) and Community Health Services (CHS), serving primarily minority women (Hispanic and African-American), not in active treatment, who use and abuse substances and have, or are at risk for, HIV/AIDS. To address the problems of substance abuse and HIV risk, Project Connect proposes a sophisticated model of treatment integrating havavioral health (substance abuse and mental health) treatment with primary medical care, health education, non-traditional outreach services, and intensive case management. The model is based on SAMHSA's Substance Abuse Treatment for Persons with HIV/AIDS (TIP 37) and the Chronic Care Model developed by the Institute of Healthcare. Specific goals and objectives include: a) increase the number of ProjectConnect women - receiving medical treatment/management for HIV/AIDS; b) increase the number of women receiving substance abuse and mental health treatment (as appropriate); c) reduce substance use among project's clients; d) increase social functioning; and e) improve medical compliance.
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Grantee: LATINO COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC.
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Hartford, CT |
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Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS |
TI018814 |
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Congressional District: CT-01 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $488,245
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Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012 |
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Latino Community Services, Inc. (LCS-formerly Latinos/as Contra SIDA) proposes to implement the Latino Faith Partnership for Prevention and Treatment, an initiative focused on enhancing and expanding substance abuse outreach, pretreatment and treatment services in conjunction with HIV/AIDS services in the Latino/Hispanic community in Connecticut. Through a partnership with a core group of Latino pastors who are deeply rooted in the culture of the Hispanic community and committed to addressing HIV and substance abuse issues, the project will activate an untapped resource for reaching Latino substance abusers and engaging them in a recovery-oriented system of care. The program projects that over the course of the 5-year funding period it will serve a total of 2,500 unduplicated clients. Evidence-based practices for community outreach, screening, HIV/STD testing, substance abuse treatment and HIV prevention intervention will be integrated into the delivery model, which includes 1) establishing faithfBased outreach fites, 2) providing clinical pastoral counseling training for Latino faith leaders and their community support teams/peer leaders, 3) outreach and pre-treatment services, 4) counseling, testing and referral, 5) outpatient substance abuse treatment and recovery support services, 6) HIV prevention and care and 7) linkage to medical care, behavioral health and wwrap around services.
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Grantee: COLUMBUS HOUSE, INC.
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New Haven, CT |
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Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment |
TI016498 |
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Congressional District: CT-03 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $400,000
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Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2010 |
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The New Haven community seeks to implement The Community Living Room, an interagency collaboration that will provide peer-based engagement, street- and clinic-based treatment, and rehabilitative and social services for adult women who are homeless, have substance abuse or dual substance abuse and psychiatric disorders, and who are unengaged with existing treatment and other services.
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Grantee: YALE UNIVERSITY
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New Haven, CT |
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Program: SBIRT-Medical Residency Program |
TI020253 |
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Congressional District: CT-03 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $373,924
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013 |
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The SBIRT Training in Yale Residency Programs: Implementation and Dissemination Program leverages the expertise of the faculty to develop SBIRT curriculum and clinical programs. The goal is to promote the adoption of SBIRT among all primary care specialty residents of Yale University for internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN, psychiatry and emergency medicine. Yale will train 254 residents to have hands on SBIRT practice with over 92,000 patients.
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Grantee: YALE UNIVERSITY
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New Haven, CT |
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Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS |
TI019806 |
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Congressional District: CT-03 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $450,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013 |
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Project CHOICES is a collaborative effort between the Connecticut Department of Corrections and the well established Community Health Van Care (CHCV) at Yale University that will provide expansion of buprenorphine (BPN) treatment and enhancement of CHCV services to develop a treatment on demand, walk-in center where mental health/psychiatric care, case management, and money management services will be coordinated into a prison release program. The staff is multicultural and includes 8 proficient Spanish-speaking members. Infrastructure will also be developed to maintain research efforts for dissemination at academic meetings and peer reviewed journals. Project CHOICES will enroll 100 unique individuals annually. HIV rapid testing is a rountine part of CHCV's clinical and mobile unit operations. Only individuals that opt-out of testing will not receive an on-site immediate test.
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Grantee: GREATER BRIDGEPORT ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY
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Bridgeport, CT |
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Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS |
TI018735 |
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Congressional District: CT-04 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $500,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012 |
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The Bridgeport Partners for Teens, to be implemented by the Greater Bridgeport Adolescent Pregnancy Program (GBAPP) will enhance comprehensive substance abuse and HIV serivces to 2,500 minoity and re-entry youth, ages 12-17, over the life of project through an extensive collaborative effort in the city of Bridgeport. Partnerships with key stakeholders will be developed or enhanced and include agreements with the following: local and State health departments, correction and probation systems, hospitals and community health centers, substance abuse and mental health facilities, faith-based organizations, community programs and minority ex-offencers to assist in planning, implementing, and evaluating the proposed intervention. Connecticut Renaissance will partner with GBAPP to provide substance abuse motivational enhancement therapy/treatment. GBAPP will build on current outreach/pretreatment services by incorporating gender-specific HIV risk redutction education, HIV counseling and testing, and subustance abuse treatment and recovery services.
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