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SAMHSA Grant Awards By State FY 2009
Discretionary Funds in Detail

Table 1 - FY 2009 Discretionary Funding for states

Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)

CONNECTICUT

Grantee: CONNECTICUT ST DEPT OF MH/ADDICTION SRVS Hartford, CT
Program: 2004 COSIGS SM056579
Congressional District: CT-01
FY 2009 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/01/2005 - 08/31/2010
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.
  
Grantee: CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT CHILDREN/FAMILIES Hartford, CT
Program: Child Mental Health Initiative SM057066
Congressional District: CT-01
FY 2009 Funding: $1,500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2011
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.
  
Grantee: CONNECTICUT ST DEPT OF MH/ADDICTION SRVS Hartford, CT
Program: Mental Health Transformation State Incentive Grants SM057456
Congressional District: CT-01
FY 2009 Funding: $2,730,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
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.
  
Grantee: CONNECTICUT ST DEPT OF MH/ADDICTION SRVS Hartford, CT
Program: State Data Infrastructure Grants SM058087
Congressional District: CT-01
FY 2009 Funding: $142,200
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
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.
  
Grantee: CONNECTICUT ST DEPT OF MH/ADDICTION SRVS Hartford, CT
Program: Seclusion and Restraint (2007) SM058132
Congressional District: CT-01
FY 2009 Funding: $214,000
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.
  
Grantee: CONNECTICUT ST DEPT OF MH/ADDICTION SRVS Hartford, CT
Program: Jail Diversion SM058805
Congressional District: CT-01
FY 2009 Funding: $412,500
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
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.
  
Grantee: ADVOCACY UNLIMITED, INC. Wethersfield, CT
Program: Statewide Consumer Network SM057934
Congressional District: CT-01
FY 2009 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
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.
  
Grantee: MASHANTUCKET PEQUOT TRIBAL NATION Mashantucket, CT
Program: Circles of Care American Indian & Alaskan Native Children SM058819
Congressional District: CT-02
FY 2009 Funding: $305,875
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.

  
Grantee: FAMILIES UNITED/CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH Middletown, CT
Program: Statewide Family Networks SM057959
Congressional District: CT-02
FY 2009 Funding: $70,000
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.
  
Grantee: FOCUS ON RECOVERY-UNITED, INC. Middletown, CT
Program: Statewide Consumer Network SM059414
Congressional District: CT-03
FY 2009 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
Grantee proposes to build a statewide peer network and develop capacity for leadership and ownership. The project plans engage young adults and youth-guided organizations in leadership development and cross mentoring for systems change while promoting strategic planning to support economic development of consumer-run businesses. The project will also focus on under served groups including veterans, people of color, young adults, and members of the LGBTQI2S communities. Project efforts will be supported by collaborative work with an existing consumer network program, build on mental health systems transformation efforts, collaborate with Yales' Program of Recovery and Community Health, and consult with other peer-run organizations.
  
Grantee: BRIDGES, A COMMUNITY SUPPORT SYSTEM, INC Milford, CT
Program: Primary Care & Behavioral Health Integration SM059509
Congressional District: CT-03
FY 2009 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2013
Bridges, A Community Support System, Inc., will implement a program embedding on-site primary care services in three community behavioral health centers, which will provide treatment, wellness education, prevention planning, nutrition counseling and intensive case management. Bridges will use Health Management Strategies for Recovery (HMSR), a model combining several promising practices with evidence-based treatment approaches which have been adapted to address the needs of the target population. Behavioral health and primary care staff will work in collaboration through outreach and engagement, co-facilitation of the HMSR curriculum and the development of Wellness Plans. An integrated Health Care Team will meet weekly for case conferences and treatment planning.
  
Grantee: ALSO-CORNERSTONE, INC. New Haven, CT
Program: Supportive Housing SM059098
Congressional District: CT-03
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
This proposal seeks to address the needs of individuals who are chronically homeless or at risk for homelessness, and who are diagnosed with a chronic mental illness, substance abuse, or a co-occurring disorder of chronic mental illness and substance abuse. Annually the unduplicated count for this project will be approximately 30 individuals. The unduplicated count over the entire project will be approximately 50 individuals.
  
Grantee: LIBERTY COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC. New Haven, CT
Program: Supportive Housing SM059161
Congressional District: CT-03
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014

Safe and Secure (S&S) provides crisis stabilization and access to immediate, more effective, integrated treatment for chronically homeless individuals with co-occurring disorders to bring into treatment these individuals who would typically otherwise frequent emergency departments and jails/prisons. S&S will be offered through Safe Haven, a permanent supportive housing program of Liberty Community Services (LCS) in New Haven, CT. The main goals of S&S are to address gaps in mental health and substance abuse services by integrating housing, medical, and wrap-around services. S&S will provide services to 75 clients annually.
  
Grantee: COMMUNITY FDN FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN New Haven, CT
Program: 2009 CMHS EARMARKS SM059365
Congressional District: CT-03
FY 2009 Funding: $190,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2010
This grant maintains the New Haven Child Development-Community Policing program; further develops components of this program for training and expansion purposes; and enables NCCEV to continue providing consultation, briefing, and technical assistance services relating to children exposed to violence and trauma.
  
Grantee: COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH AFFILIATES, INC. New Britain, CT
Program: Supportive Housing SM059084
Congressional District: CT-05
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014


Community Mental Health Affiliates (CMHA) proposes a Modified Assertive Community Treatment Team to serve chronically homeless persons living in Permanent Supportive Housing who suffers from Mental Illness, Substance Abuse and/or Co-Occurring disorders whose symptoms continue and jeopardize their housing stability. The program will provide motivationally appropriate, gender specific, trauma sensitive and culturally informed services in supportive housing settings. CMHA will contact, screen and identify 112 persons in the first year. In subsequent years, will screen 80 people each year, perform significant engagement activities with 60, and serve a minimum of 40 additional unduplicated people each year for a minimum total of 432 people screened over five years.
  

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)

Grantee: EAST OF THE RIVER ACTION/SUBSTANCE ABUSE East Hartford, CT
Program: Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act Grants SP015380
Congressional District: CT-01
FY 2009 Funding: $50,000
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.
  
Grantee: ERASE, INC. East Hartford, CT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP015974
Congressional District: CT-01
FY 2009 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
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.
  
Grantee: CITY OF HARTFORD Hartford, CT
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP013397
Congressional District: CT-01
FY 2009 Funding: $254,320
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
  
Grantee: LATINO COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC. Hartford, CT
Program: Minority HIV Prevention SP015126
Congressional District: CT-01
FY 2009 Funding: $335,333
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
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.
  
Grantee: HARTFORD BEHAVIORAL HEALTH Hartford, CT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP015678
Congressional District: CT-01
FY 2009 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
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.
  
Grantee: CONNECTICUT ST DEPT OF MH/ADDICTION SRVS Hartford, CT
Program: SCPI-Partnership for Success SP016262
Congressional District: CT-01
FY 2009 Funding: $2,300,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
The Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS), as the Single State Agency (SSA) for substance abuse and mental health services, has been designated by the Governor's Office to lead the Connecticut Partnerships for Success (CT PFS) initiative. This initiative seeks to: 1) achieve a quantifiable decline in Statewide substance abuse rates, and 2) demonstrate a capacity to reduce substance abuse problems and 3) achieve specific performance targets and program level outcomes.
  
Grantee: SOUTHINGTON BOARD EDUCATION Southington, CT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP015686
Congressional District: CT-01
FY 2009 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
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.
  
Grantee: TOWN OF CLINTON Clinton, CT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP015833
Congressional District: CT-02
FY 2009 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2010
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.
  
Grantee: NORTHEAST COMMUNITIES AGAINST SUB ABUSE Dayville, CT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012991
Congressional District: CT-02
FY 2009 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
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.
  
Grantee: NORTHEAST COMMUNITIES AGAINST SUB ABUSE Dayville, CT
Program: Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act Grants SP015338
Congressional District: CT-02
FY 2009 Funding: $50,000
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.
  
Grantee: LEDGE LIGHT HEALTH DISTRICT Groton, CT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012152
Congressional District: CT-02
FY 2009 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2011
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.
  
Grantee: YOUTH/FAMILY SVC OF HADDAM KILLINGWORTH Higganum, CT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP015956
Congressional District: CT-02
FY 2009 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
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.
  
Grantee: TOWN OF MADISON Madison, CT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014868
Congressional District: CT-02
FY 2009 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
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.
  
Grantee: TOWN OF OLD SAYBROOK Old Saybrook, CT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012073
Congressional District: CT-02
FY 2009 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2011
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.
  
Grantee: TOWN OF PUTNAM Putnam, CT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013753
Congressional District: CT-02
FY 2009 Funding: $44,886
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
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.
  
Grantee: SOUTHEASTERN REG ACTION CNCL SUB ABUSE Uncasville, CT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014269
Congressional District: CT-02
FY 2009 Funding: $99,980
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
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.
  
Grantee: TOWN OF WATERFORD Waterford, CT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014809
Congressional District: CT-02
FY 2009 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
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.
  
Grantee: TOWN OF WINDHAM Willimantic, CT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014739
Congressional District: CT-02
FY 2009 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
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.
  
Grantee: BIRMINGHAM GROUP HEALTH SERVICES Ansonia, CT
Program: Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act Grants SP015413
Congressional District: CT-03
FY 2009 Funding: $50,000
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.
  
Grantee: CLIFFORD W. BEERS GUIDANCE CLINIC New Haven, CT
Program: Minority HIV Prevention SP015057
Congressional District: CT-03
FY 2009 Funding: $335,333
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
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.
  
Grantee: LIBRATION PROGRAMS, INC. Norwalk, CT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013144
Congressional District: CT-04
FY 2009 Funding: $74,605
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
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.
  
Grantee: HOUSATONIC/VLLY/COALIT/AGNST/SUBST/ABUSE Bethel, CT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014789
Congressional District: CT-05
FY 2009 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
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.
  
Grantee: COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH AFFILIATES, INC. Bristol, CT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012412
Congressional District: CT-05
FY 2009 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2013
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.
  
Grantee: PLYMOUTH BOARD OF EDUCATION Terryville, CT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014732
Congressional District: CT-05
FY 2009 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
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.
  

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)

Grantee: LATINO COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC. Hartford, CT
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI018814
Congressional District: CT-01
FY 2009 Funding: $495,252
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
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.
  
Grantee: HISPANIC HEALTH COUNCIL Hartford, CT
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI018843
Congressional District: CT-01
FY 2009 Funding: $499,649
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
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.
  
Grantee: CONNECTICUT ST DEPT OF MH/ADDICTION SRVS Hartford, CT
Program: Access to Recovery TI019506
Congressional District: CT-01
FY 2009 Funding: $5,248,835
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
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.
  
Grantee: COLUMBUS HOUSE, INC. New Haven, CT
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment TI016498
Congressional District: CT-03
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2010
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.
  
Grantee: YALE UNIVERSITY New Haven, CT
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI019806
Congressional District: CT-03
FY 2009 Funding: $450,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
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.
  
Grantee: YALE UNIVERSITY New Haven, CT
Program: SBIRT-Medical Residency Program TI020253
Congressional District: CT-03
FY 2009 Funding: $372,421
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
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.
  
Grantee: GREATER BRIDGEPORT ADOL/ PREGNANCY/PROG Bridgeport, CT
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI018735
Congressional District: CT-04
FY 2009 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
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.
  

Last Update: 10/29/2009