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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)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Grantee: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Washington, DC
Program: NTTAC-National Training & TA Assistance Ctr for CCHld and Adoles MH SM056495
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2009 Funding: $3,500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2010
The National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health in the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development was established in 1984. NTAC was established to strengthen the capacity of states, territories, tribes and communites to transform their mental health systems to meet the diverse and complex needs of children and adolescents with or at risk for serious emotional disturbances and their families. Using the blueprint for transforming mental health provided by the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, NTAC will respond to the needs of states, with a specific focus on state mental health agencies, partner child-serving agencies, statewide family organizations, and youth leaders. Individualized coaching to states and territories will focus on the following priority areas: strengthen capacity for system transformation; state planning, policy development and financing; improving systems of care and service delivery and incorporating evidence-based /promising practices; early intervention and early childhood mental health services; reducing disparities and improving cultural/linguistic competence; integrating services across child-serving systems and serving vulnerable populations; workforce and leadership development; and data management, accountability, and technology.
  
Grantee: DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA OFFICE OF THE MAYOR Washington, DC
Program: 2004 COSIGS SM056574
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2009 Funding: $99,933
Project Period: 09/01/2005 - 08/31/2010
The Districe of Columbia is using the opportunity of the COSIG program to accelerate the steps already underway to establish an integrated service delivery approach, screen all individuals that present for treatment in partner agencies, provide integrated clinical assessments, provide treatment for co-occuring disorders consistent with current science and best practices, create financial incentives and programmatic infrastructure to sustain services, and build a learning network for continuous quality improvement extending across historical service gaps. Using the Comprehensive Continuous Systems of Care model, the goal is to have "no wrong door" in the District's mental health service system by 2007. George Washington University will assist in creating pay-for-performance and value-based purchasing strategies that align financial incentives to support and sustain high quality assessment and treatment of co-occuring disorders.
  
Grantee: COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS, INC. Washington, DC
Program: AIDS TCE-Service Capacity Bldg in Minority Communities SM057654
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2009 Funding: $520,546
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
The purpose of the Isis Project is to improve the mental and physical health of African American women in the District of Columbia who are HIV positive. The project will both increase the accessibility of the needed services and provide an array of culturally competent, gender specific, HIV-informed mental health services. The project's target population includes three groups: HIV-positive women who have severe mental disorders; HIV-positive women whose mental health status has not been evaluated or who do not have a DSM-IV diagnosis and; those individuals who are part of these women's natural networks. Two of the program's primary goals are to identify mental health concerns among African American women and providers; and to provide a full range of community supports through a newly developed Wellness Intensive Case Management team.
  
Grantee: DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DEPT OF MENTAL HLTH Washington, DC
Program: State Data Infrastructure Grants SM058111
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2009 Funding: $154,700
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
The District of Columbia needs to engage in a comprehensive data cleaning that will serve to enhance quality and accuracy of data reporting. Specific areas of focus include missing data and addressing definitional matching from reporting entities. Additionally, a need exists to provide appropriate training and use of data for reporting entities. A major undertaking, as well, will include inventory of independent databases, documenting contents, and preparing them for linking of information systems across the mental health system. There will be continued exploration of additional reporting of evidence based practices. An additional DIG supplement in 2009 will provide data analyses for the PHQ-8 Module on depression prevalence in the state implemented through the CDC's BRFSS survey.
  
Grantee: COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS, INC Washington, DC
Program: Supportive Housing SM058316
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2009 Funding: $418,835
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
The proposed Creating Communities project will provide a comprehensive package of evidence-based services for chronically homeless individuals with severe mental disorders. The purpose of the project is to assist these individuals in finding and keeping stable housing by providing integrated services embedded in a residential community enriched by professional and peer support. A newly developed Residential Community Intensive Case Management team will utilize the SAMHSA-developed evidence-based service models in Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment, Illness Management, and Supported Employment.
  
Grantee: AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION Washington, DC
Program: Minority Fellowship Program SM058567
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2009 Funding: $826,765
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
The principal aim of the American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program (APA-MFP) in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services is to identify, select, and support the training of 24 doctoral level ethnic minority students and 1 postdoctoral trainee whose prior experiences and clearly stated career goals suggest they will make significant contributions to the mental health and substance abuse services needs of ethnic and racial minorities. The APA-MFP has two target populations at the center of its efforts: the members of ethnic and racial minorities in need of mental health and substance abuse services and ethnic minority doctoral students in psychology. The MFP selects individuals with promise and a commitment to careers that address mental health and substance abuse service needs of ethnic minorities. The program is designed to meet its goals and specific aims by providing stipend support, ancillary training experiences, mentoring and career guidance, and access to an outstanding network of professional contacts. An expert advisory committee provides oversight and program guidance as well as mentoring and professional leadership. The program works collaboratively with leading doctoral degree granting training institutions in psychology as well as organizations and programs that provide specialized training in substance abuse services and cultural competence. As a result, the MFP provides significant training experiences to its Fellows.
  
Grantee: HOWARD UNIVERSITY Washington, DC
Program: Campus Suicide SM058948
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2009 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
Howard University's Department of Psychiatry and the University Counseling Service has developed the Suicide Prevention Action Group (SPAG), as a response to the US Surgeon General's National Strategy for Suicide Prevention (2001). The overall goals for this proposal are: to maintain and support the increase in HU students' help seeking behavior, to decrease suicidal behavior among HU students, and to decrease the stigmatization of mental health seeking behaviors. Project objectives include: (l) to continue and maintain the training of campus wide personnel who inter-relate with HU students who may be at risk for suicide(2) to deliver effective training for all HU RAs in campus dormitories and first responders in the HU Hospital, mainly nurses and emergency room staff (3) to implement an on-line training curriculum for incoming freshmen that will be proceeded by semester long dormitory-based discussions led by the RAs (4) to improve SPAG's existing strategies of education and outreach to new and existing students, and their parents Target audience for SPAG's campus-wide program will be all incoming freshman, resident assistants, and HU Hospital Nurses and Emergency Room staff. Outcomes: SPAG anticipates that 85% to 90% of all entering freshmen will be equipped with knowledge about risks of anxiety, depression and suicide. Over the three-year grant period, SPAG will have outreached, educated, and supported the mental health education of approximately 75% of the undergraduate student population. In addition, the combination of access to an online suicide prevention curriculum, embedded within a dormitory-wide program of direct access to trained dormitory personnel will enable the early detection of student most at risk of anxiety, depression and suicide, and the swift referral of those students for sustained counseling services.
  
Grantee: DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DEPT OF MENTAL HLTH Washington, DC
Program: Youth Suicide Prevention & Early Intervention - Cooperative Agreement State-Sponsored SM059169
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2009 Funding: $490,844
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
Washington, D.C. proposes to address youth suicide through its suicide prevention initiative, Capital CARES: Comprehensive Approach to Reducing Risk for and Eliminating Suicide. Three distinct activities that extend existing successful suicide prevention efforts in the District of Columbia are proposed: 1) Gatekeeper training of special populations including police, clergy and primary care providers; 2) Screening through collaborative efforts with both public and private partners; and 3) Social Marketing to educate the community about suicide prevention and potential warning signs. The vast majority of youth ages 10-24 in D.C. are of ethnic minority decent, with approximately 82% African American and 11% Latino. Although the numbers of completed suicides for youth in D.C. is low, youth are almost twice as likely as the national sample to attempt suicide. Healthy lifestyles for thousands of D.C. children are hindered by environmental and social factors such as poverty, community violence, drugs, gangs, and child abuse. Given the risk factors and the small geographical size of the District, all youth in D.C. will be exposed to this suicide prevention program, though we will be targeting schools for screening primarily in the City's poorest neighborhoods. We plan to saturate D.C. with Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) Gatekeeper Training to "natural gatekeepers" in schools, juvenile justice, foster care services, residential treatment centers, churches, and primary care settings such as pediatrician's offices and emergency rooms to increase awareness and response to youth distress. Minigrants will be offered to local organizations who work with youth to help raise awareness about the relationship of suicide to related risk factors specific to urban youth such as violence exposure, trauma, substance abuse, and early and unprotected sex.
  
Grantee: DC DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH Washington, DC
Program: LAUNCH - Linking Actions for Unmet Needs in Children's Health SM059325
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2009 Funding: $850,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
Through Project LAUNCH, the District of Columbia (DC) Department of Health (DOH) proposes to create a system of connected programs that will increase and improve services to children ages 0-8 and their families in the city's poorest neighborhoods. The target population for this project will be children residing in Wards 7 and 8 - areas that demonstrate alarming health and economic disparities and suffer disproportionately from elevated levels of indicators of ill health. Children living in these communities are largely poor, African-American and living in single-parent households, and they have limited access to primary and mental health services compared to their counterparts through the city. During year one, Project LAUNCH will serve 1440 children and families through a variety of evidence-based programs including 1.) Incredible Years (2-8 years and parents/caregivers); 2.) Primary Project (children 5-8 years); 3.) Ages and Stages Questionnaire/ASQ; SE (children 6 months-5-years); 4.) Parents as Teachers; Born to Learn (prenatal-2 years and parents); and 5.) Strengthening Families (children 3-8 years and parents).
  

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)

Grantee: SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK, INC. Washington, DC
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP013276
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2009 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
Sasha Bruce Youthwork, Inc. (SBY) in Washington, DC has received a 5 year Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) grant to provide substance abuse prevention and HIV and Hepatitis prevention services to minority populations and minority reentry populations. Targeting African American re-entry populations 21 years of age and younger, SPY will collaborate with the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL) to provide comprehensive, culturally competent outreach, prevention and referral services to promote positive attitude and behavioral changes in the areas of substance abuse, HIV and Hepatitis. Youth will be accessed through SBY's shelter and transitional living programs, under DC's juvenile justice rehabilitation network, as well as through street- and venue-based outreach. Counseling, testing and referral (CTR) services will also be provided.
  
Grantee: LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER, INC. Washington, DC
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP013391
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2009 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The Latin American Youth Center in Washington, DC has received a 5 year Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) grant to provide substance abuse prevention and HIV and Hepatitis prevention services to minority populations and minority reentry populations. The grantee will deliver integrated prevention services for substance abuse, HIV, Hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections as well as counseling, testing and referral services to African American and Latino youth and young adults, ages 13 - 24 years, in DC Wards 1 and 4, and to DC youth exiting the juvenile justice system. Services will be provided in both school-based and community-based settings. The evidence-based, group-level, multi-session curriculum will focus on building resiliency.
  
Grantee: BRIDGING RESOURCES IN COMMUNITIES, INC. Washington, DC
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014459
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2009 Funding: $100,000
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: HOWARD UNIVERSITY Washington, DC
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014723
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2009 Funding: $124,758
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: WASHINGTON AREA CONSORTIUM/HIV INFEC YTH Washington, DC
Program: Minority HIV Prevention SP015004
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2009 Funding: $335,333
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
Washington Area Consortium

With the implementation of Making Proud Choices, Metro Teen Aids (MTA) responds to increase numbers of HIV infection and substance abuse by providing integrated substance abuse and HIV prevention services to minorities at risk ages 12through 17.

Over a five-year period, the project goals are to reduce HIV rates among youth by 20 percent and reduce substance abuse rates by 10 percent. Metro Teen AIDS will provide Making Proud Choices to 3500 youth annualy with a projected total of 17,500 participants during the span of the program.
  
Grantee: COMMUNITY EDUCATION GROUP, INC. Washington, DC
Program: Minority HIV Prevention SP015132
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2009 Funding: $335,333
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
Community Education Group is proposing Prevention Resources Offered Through Environmental Change in the Community. The program will increase capacity to provide SA/HIV services to ex-offending (reentry population). African American men and women betwen the ages of 18-64 who live in Wards 7 and 8 of the District of Columbia.
  
Grantee: DC DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH Washington, DC
Program: Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants SP015590
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2009 Funding: $2,135,724
Project Period: 07/01/2009 - 06/30/2013
The District of Columbia project aims to develop a comprehensive Substance abuse prevention delivery system that is culturally competent, uses evidence-based programs, policies, and practices and makes decisions based on data, allowing resources to be allocated where they are most needed.
  
Grantee: NATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN DRUG POLI COAL Washington, DC
Program: Drug Free Communities SP015753
Congressional District: DC-00
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: BRIDGING RESOURCES IN COMMUNITIES, INC. Washington, DC
Program: Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act Grants SP016173
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2009 Funding: $48,296
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2013
The Ward 8 Drug Free Coalition was awarded a $48,296 Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act (STOP Act) grant by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The Coalition services Barry Farm, Park Chester and Hillsdale of the District of Columbia, urban areas with a population of 43,000.
The goal for the STOP ACT activities is to reach and impact at least 10% to 15% of the neighborhood youth population and their parents to begin to create a momentum of cultural change in our community in an effort to reduce the primary and secondary effects of the existing serious underage drinking public health and safety problem which is intricately tied to the youth crime, youth violence and other drug use that exists in the community. In partnership with the National Capitol Coalition to Prevent Underage Drinking, CADCA, the Alcoholic Beverage Regulatory Administration and DC Metro police department activities include: youth leadership developement via youth ambassador training, comprehensive alcohol, tobacco, drug paraphernalia laws and regulations vendor training and follow-up compliance checks; assessment of the prevalence of alcohol ads and other pro-alcohol messages in highly visible, youth frequented areas in the community, combined with the youth-led creation and placement of pro-alcohol-free messages in areas of equal visibility and popularity.
  

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)

Grantee: COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS, INC Washington, DC
Program: Treatment for Homeless - Homeless TI017912
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2009 Funding: $399,986
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
The Options Plus project will provide a comprehensive package of evidence-based services for homeless individuals with severe mental disorders who are part of a postbooking jail diversion program in the District of Columbia. The purpose of Options Plus is to assist these individuals find and keep stable housing by providing integrated services that simultaneously address co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, unemployment, and trauma.
  
Grantee: DC DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH Washington, DC
Program: Access to Recovery TI019445
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2009 Funding: $3,476,167
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
The District of Columbia (DC) Access to Recovery program plans to provide culturally-sensitive substance abuse treatment and recovery support services (RSS) over the three-year federal grant period. The key target population is the estimated 20,000 substance abusers who annually exit jail or prison and return to the District's streets. Three additional special populations will be targeted over the life of the grant: women, women with dependent children, and methamphetamine users. The ATR voucher program will provide a unique and valuable compliment ot the District's existing voucher program that currently provides client choice among substance abuse clinical treatment services only. These two concurrent voucher programs will provide CSAT with superior data to demonstrate the efficacy of adding recovery support services to a clinical treatmetn services continuum. The District plans to establish a special Voucher Program Office (VPO) that will be responsible for ensuring that the ATR Voucher program achieves its projected target number of cleints served through aggressive outreach to the community, education of eligible and potential providers, and collaboration with federal and local agencies that now manage many of the persons who are returning to the community after being incarcerated. The VPO will also vigilantly ensure non-supplantation of program funds and oversee performance measurement.
  
Grantee: NATIONAL ASSN OF STATE ALC & DRUG ABUSE Washington, DC
Program: National Outcome Measures Collaborative Support TI019551
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2009 Funding: $630,089
Project Period: 06/06/2008 - 06/05/2011
The NOMs Collaborative Support Initiative Grant is a program to facilitate collaborative activities in the development and implementation of NOMs between the Substance Abuse and Metal Health and Services Administration (SAMHSA) and its Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) and State Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Agencies as States transition to managing the SAPT Block Grant using a performance and outcomes focus. NASADAD is seeking grant support to continue, expand, and refine joint federal/state partnerships and to make recommendations to SAMHSA on NOMs and related performance measurement and management issues.
  
Grantee: SAFE HAVEN OUTREACH MINISTRY, INC. Washington, DC
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI019750
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2009 Funding: $450,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
Safe Haven Outreach Ministry, Inc. (SHOM), will increase access and availability of culturally sensitive and age, gender, and developmentally specific Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment (IDDT) to women living with HIV/AIDS with co-occuring substance abuse and mental illness (SAMI). SHOM will use the evidence-based Modified Therapeutic Community (MTC) Modallity and the Cognitive Behavioral Approach to provide pre-treatment and certified Level III residential treatment services to District residents. The primary goal is to reduce the incidence of addiction and HIV/AIDS infection and tranmission among African-American SAMI women by improving the treatment outcomes of 60 new clients each year for a total of 300 unduplicated clients in 5 years.
  
Grantee: COMMUNITY EDUCATION GROUP, INC. Washington, DC
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI019890
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2009 Funding: $343,538
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
Community Education Group, Inc. (CEG) will provide Substance Intervention Prevention Services (SIPS) and HIV/CTR program enhancements to 1500 African American women ages 14-84 who congregate or reside in Wards 7 and 9 of Washington, DC. CEG will provide site-specific and mobile outreach, rapid HIV counseling and testing, assistance in obtaining confirmatory testing if positive, referrals to HIV/AIDS support services, educational and resource materials, and appropriate referrals to substance abuse treatment, primary medical and mental health care, case management, housing, transportation, emergency assistance, and other services, as identified. Through outreach, SIPS will draw upon existing social, sexual, substance abuse, and familial networks within these Wards to provide HIV/CTR services.
  
Grantee: LA CLINICA DEL PUEBLO, INC. Washington, DC
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI019897
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2009 Funding: $441,882
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
La Clinica del Pueblo (Town Clinic) will provide integrated, and holistic, culturally-competent substance abuse treatment and HIV prevention education to adult Latino males and females residing in the Washington, DC and who have been released from prisons and jails within the last two years. Under the grant La Clinica's proposed project, Voviendeo a Vivir (Returning to Life), will enhance the following services: 1) the addition of an outeach component; 2) implementation of the Matrix treatment model; 3) implementation of improved HIV counseling and testing; and 4) additional case managment. Over the life of the project, 295 ex-offenders will receive services. HIV testing services will include on-site testing, including pre and post counseling and immediate referral to the clinic's Clinical Services Department for those that test positive.
  
Grantee: HOWARD UNIVERSITY Washington, DC
Program: SBIRT-Medical Residency Program TI020245
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2009 Funding: $374,660
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
The Howard University (HU) College of Medicine (HUCM) and Howard University Hospital (HUH) will develop, implement and assess SBIRT curricula in its medical residency program. The SBIRT program will be a standard training component for medical residents at HU in primary care settings and become incorporated into regular practice. The University will implement a culturally competent curriculum to increase knowledge; develop and assess resident expertise in SBIRT; and develop a training, dissemination and implementation plan to institutionalize SBIRT practice. It is expected that 560 residents will be trained over the life of the program.
  

Last Update: 10/29/2009