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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)

GEORGIA

Grantee: EMORY UNIVERSITY Atlanta, GA
Program: AIDS TCE-Service Capacity Bldg in Minority Communities SM057701
Congressional District: GA-04
FY 2009 Funding: $468,384
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
The purpose of this project is to address mental health service needs of under-served persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Atlanta, Georgia. The project will provide comprehensive, culturally competent, effective, and state-of-the-art on-site mental health services integrated within HIV/AIDS medical care settings. Both treatment services to address HIV-related mental health complications and mental health wellness services to promote psychological and emotional health and well-being will be offered. The service model is guided by a biopsychosocial, client-centered, and integrated approach to care. An array of services will be available to address the complex intertwining biomedical, psychological, and psychosocial effects of HIV/AIDS. Mental health services will be integrated into existing HIV/AIDS medical care settings to facilitate continuity of care, seamless coordination among medical and mental health service providers, and increased service access because of on-site availability of mental health services.
  
Grantee: GEORGIA MENTAL HEALTH CONSUMER NETWORK Decatur, GA
Program: Statewide Consumer Network SM056333
Congressional District: GA-04
FY 2009 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2010
Georgia Mental Health Consumer Network plans to develop a Peer Wellness Initiative. The initiative will provide peer specialties and consumers with health and wellness information that can promote self-directed wellness plans and improve health and fitness opportunities in their communities. Peer specialists will be trained in evidence based techniques to increase effectiveness in identifying health/wellness needs and building necessary supports to address wellness related actives in their communities. A curriculum and workbook will be developed for participant use and the network will provide technical assistance to other programs expressing interest in the model.
  
Grantee: GEORGIA PARENT SUPPORT NETWORK, INC. Atlanta, GA
Program: Statewide Family Networks SM057967
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2009 Funding: $60,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
Georgia Parent Support Network, Inc. (GPSN) is the Georgia arm of the Federation of Families for Children's Metnal Health. GPSN will be building on accomplishments achieved through previously funded Statewide Family network Grants. We will work with the State of Georgia on four currently funded federal grants that target youth with severe emotional disturbances and the families of these youth to maximize the opportunity for family involvement as Georgia moves forward building the infrastructure to make Systems of Care (SOC) a reality in all Georgia communities. The target population is youth with severe emotioal disturbances and their families in the state of Georgia. Georgia's service systems are in the process of transformation. The proposal will strengthen orgaizational relationships, improve collaboration, and develop closer relationships with advocacy and child-serving organizations and the newly developing local SOCs within Georgia. We believe that a strong family presence in both the planning and implementation phases of the grants is essential to the success and sustainability of the program process. GPSN is well positioned to ensure meaningful family involvement and participation at all levels. GPSN families and youth currently serve on many federal, state and local boards, committees, and task forces. Our proposed strategy is to ensure that families serve on the advisory and implementtion counceils of the four grants in Georgia and to build on our existing relationships to have a strong voice in each of the SOCs which are developing throughout Georgia.
  
Grantee: INTEGRATED HEALTH RESOURCES, LLC Atlanta, GA
Program: Suicide Prevention - Crisis Center Follow Up SM058898
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2009 Funding: $69,999
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
Behavioral Health Link will implement a follow up project to enhance support for the 15,000+ persons annually who report suicidal thoughts during or shortly before calling crisis lines managed by BHL (including the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline). BHL will provide real-time linkage to mental health or other services, and during follow up calls, it will assess the caller's status, offer support and promote treatment connection; a follow up postcard may be sent.
The project population is the subset of callers to BHL crisis lines who are suicidal at the time of, or shortly before, the call. This includes callers to the NSPL, as well as the Georgia Crisis & Access Line (GCAL). Based on the number of suicidal persons who call BHL crisis lines annually (16,476 with suicidal desire in FY 200$), BHL anticipates responding to at least 33,000 persons with suicidal desire who make an initial call to BHL crisis lines during the potential three-year project. These callers include veterans, Spanish speakers, American Indians, and homeless individuals. Inherent in BHL's service is the ability to respond in effective and culturally-sensitive ways to all crisis line callers.
  
Grantee: EMORY UNIVERSITY Atlanta, GA
Program: Campus Suicide SM058941
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2009 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
This application builds on Emory's strengths: Crisis Management Team, Student Health and Counseling Services, AFSP sponsored College Screening Project, videos for students and gatekeepers, Presidential Task Force on Mental Health, Mental Health and Counseling fee, Crisis Intervention Training for police officers, courses, and scholarly expertise. To enhance these efforts, Emory CARES, a universal and selective suicide prevention effort, will be collaboratively designed and implemented through community engagement. The prevention strategies will be culturally competent, evidence-and strength-based. At-risk groups for selective efforts will be students who are: male, international, Asian descent, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/questioning, college seniors, and graduate/professional. Specific goals are to: (1) ensure that a diverse group of students, staff, faculty, and administrators receive gatekeeper training and design and implement gatekeeper programs targeted to Emory; (2) strengthen Emory's infrastructure through enhancing orientation activities, creating a suicide response and prevention plan and a formal suicide tracking and surveillance system, accounting for students who seek services related to suicidal behavior, and expanding the screening efforts; (3) create and provide innovative, culturally relevant videos, community presentations, skills training seminars, and courses for undergraduate and graduate/professional students throughout their tenure; (4) have a suicide prevention hotline available 24/7/365 and enhanced helpline volunteer training; (5) develop and disseminate comprehensive, culturally sensitive, and easily accessible informational materials through innovative technologies on the web and brochures; and (6) create and disseminate educational materials (e-newsletters, brochures, website) for students' families and friends related to suicide prevention.
  
Grantee: FAMILIES FIRST, INC. Atlanta, GA
Program: Supportive Housing SM059088
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
Families First, Inc. works to ensure the success of children by empowering families through education, advocacy and intervention. Families First's Shelter-A-Family provides community-based housing and supportive services for homeless individuals with mental health, substance abuse and co-occurring disorders. The goals of the program is to:
1) strengthen services for mental health and co-occurring disorders; 2) introduce on-site substance abuse treatment services for families; 3) enhance and intensify case management services; and 4) increase access to services. Shelter-A-Family will serve a total of seventy-eight individuals.
  
Grantee: GEORGIA STATE DEPT OF HUMAN RESOURCES Atlanta, GA
Program: Healthy Transitions Initiative SM059427
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2009 Funding: $480,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
The purpose of the Georgia Health Transitions Initiatve Youth to Adult (YTA) Project is to improve outcomes for youth and young adults ages 16 through 24 with serious mental health conditions and transition them to adulthood in areas such as education, employement, housing, and accessing mental health services. The YTA Project will provide individuals services planning where "coaches" are paired with each participating young person. The coaches, along with other project staff members (Project Coordinator, clinical supervisor, family liaison), will support each young person in identifying his or her transition goals and coordinating community supports and resources needed to meet their needs. Examples of activities include improving social skills through social activities, securing a drivers' license, securing and maintaining a job, etc. A family liaision will help support family members in understanding the transition process and assist them in obtainining other needed services to support the family (i.e. substance abuse services, employment).
  
Grantee: GEORGIA/BEHAVIORAL/HLTH/DEVELOP/DISABILI Atlanta, GA
Program: Youth Suicide Prevention & Early Intervention - Cooperative Agreement State-Sponsored SM059434
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2009 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 07/01/2009 - 09/29/2011
  
Grantee: GEORGIA/BEHAVIORAL/HLTH/DEVELOP/DISABILI Atlanta, GA
Program: Jail Diversion SM059469
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2009 Funding: $412,500
Project Period: 07/01/2009 - 09/29/2013
  
Grantee: GEORGIA/BEHAVIORAL/HLTH/DEVELOP/DISABILI Atlanta, GA
Program: State Data Infrastructure Grants SM059524
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2009 Funding: $142,200
Project Period: 07/01/2009 - 09/29/2010
Georgia's mental health authority's first goal is to develop and assure Georgia's capacity to accurately report all 21 URS tables and NOMs. A second goal is to develop a data-driven quality management program to shape incentives at the provider level in favor of the delivery of high quality care and supports. Georgia will reach these goals through achievement of the following objectives: (1) continued use of the consumer survey process; (2) improvement in the quality of data collected; (3) regular analysis of behavioral health services funded by Medicaid but not managed by DMHDDAD; and (4) development and implementation of a quality/performance management program.
  
Grantee: DEKALB COUNTY GEORGIA Decatur, GA
Program: Jail Diversion SM058056
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2009 Funding: $318,918
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
The DeKalb County Treatment Diversion Court (DDTC) proposes to expand local mental health services available to the non-violent offenders with serious mental illness to divert more individuals from the jail to a court supervised community-based treatment program. DDTC will continue to build on existing relations between the criminal justice system, mental health providers, and a wide array of community service organizations. The DDTC TEAM employs a comprehensive and culturally competent system of care that includes Assertive Community Treatment, intensive ease management, integrated mental health and substance abuse treatment, medication management and access, psychiatric rehabilitation, and gender-based trauma services. DDTC has documented success with high retention (71%) and low recidivism (8%) in 2006. One of the key expansion objectives of DDTC is to enhance outreach to refugees and immigrants and assertively reach out to ethnic-minority individuals.
  
Grantee: CARINGWORKS, INC Decatur, GA
Program: Supportive Housing SM059078
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2009 Funding: $357,730
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
Caring Works Supportive Services (CWSS) will employ a Housing First model for serving chronic homeless individuals in Atlanta, Georgia. This project will expand CWSS permanent supportive housing capacity to include 121 units. These units and the accompanying services will help fill a gap in Atlanta, and help the region and state reach their goals for reducing homelessness. CWSS will serve 585 annually; over the lifetime of the grant, 1,000 unduplicated clients will be served. The goals of the project are to 1) increase housing opportunities for chronically homeless by working with property owners 2) assist clients in achieving housing stability 3) help participants sustain successful treatment outcomes and 4) expand agency capacity and effectiveness by securing funding, reducing client-staff ratios, strengthening evaluation, ensuring staff participate in continuing education, and linking staff to learning materials.
  
Grantee: STATE UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA Carrollton, GA
Program: Campus Suicide SM059004
Congressional District: GA-08
FY 2009 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
The Program foR Education, InterVention Education aNd Treatment at the University of West Georgia (PREVENT@UWG) project is a comprehensive program for suicide prevention and promoting help-seeking behavior. It is based on two assumptions: 1. that individuals who have recurring contact with a student have the best opportunity to observe and talk about factors that may may but the student at risk for suicide; and, 2. that they are in the best position to make informed referrals and the best position to break down barriers to help seeking and encourage students to seek the help they need. Following these assumptions PREVENT@UWG proposes to target RAs, leaders of student organizations and faculty and staff for training to help them identify students at risk for suicide, make effective referrals and break down barriers to help-seeking. These cohorts will be trained to response to risk factors such as low self-esteem, student stress, depression, loneliness, hopelessness, academic problems, relationship and family issues, financial concerns and adjustment to college, before suicidal ideation is observable. Additionally, the Outreach component will deliver educational seminars, numerous attractive events and a media campaign to make all student more aware of the issues surrounding suicide and break down barriers to help-seeking. The strong Crisis Response team already in place at UWG and the model of preparing graduate students as the primary trainers assure the sustainability of this program.
  
Grantee: RIVER EDGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER Macon, GA
Program: Supportive Housing SM058271
Congressional District: GA-08
FY 2009 Funding: $375,000
Project Period: 05/01/2008 - 04/30/2013
Dynamic, nationally recognized River Edge Behavioral Health Center - Georgia's largest Shelter Plus Care provider and site of another $3.1 M public/private housing partnership for its clients only - will deliver a Services & Supports for Success": outreach, assessment, case management, illness education/skills teaching and resource acquisition help for chronically homeless individuals/homeless families experiencing mental illness or co-occurring disorders.
  
Grantee: WALKER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Lafayette, GA
Program: Child Mental Health Initiative SM058490
Congressional District: GA-09
FY 2009 Funding: $1,500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2014
The Walker County Board of Commissioners is applying for funding to further develop a system of care philosophy and framework to address the needs of children and youth with serious emotional disturbances (SED) and their families. KidsNet Northwest will serve children between birth and age 21 and their families. Priority populations include those youth involved with the child welfare system and/or the juvenile justice system. Beginning in year 3, priority populations will be expanded to include infants and young children from birth to five years.
  
Grantee: DOUGLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD Smyrna, GA
Program: Supportive Housing SM059225
Congressional District: GA-13
FY 2009 Funding: $378,789
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
The Douglas County Community Services Board (Douglas CCSB), located in Douglas County, Georgia, in partnership with community-based organizations plan to increase the permanent supportive housing units under their Shelter Plus Care program. The Douglas CCSB will continue to use the PathwaysÂ’ Housing First Program to meet the individual where they are and help them to define their own needs and goals from their perspective. The overall goals of this program is to increase access to permanent supportive housing, expand services to include coordination and linkage of primary and behavioral healthcare, improve outreach and continuity of care for veterans and their families, and improve stakeholder understanding and participation in ending chronic homelessness in Douglas County.
  

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)

Grantee: CAMDEN CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE & RESOURCES Saint Marys, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013454
Congressional District: GA-01
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: COOK COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTIONS Sparks, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP011511
Congressional District: GA-01
FY 2009 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 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: NEW HORIZONS COMMUNITY SERVICE BOARD Columbus, GA
Program: Minority HIV Prevention SP015123
Congressional District: GA-03
FY 2009 Funding: $335,333
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
New Horizons Community Service Board, Inc. intends to expand their Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Minority Prevention Services (CHAMPS) Program targeted to 220 African-American women ages 25-49 years in an eight-county area of West Central Public Health District of Georgia. Staff provides evidenced-based interventions to reduce and/or prevent the onset of SA/HIV infection among a growing number of at-risk adults in the area. The comprehensive, multi-strategy approach includes a number of culturally-competent, evidence-based intervention activities like: Screenings and Assessment, Counseling, Testing and Referral (CTR), Brief Strategic Therapy (BST), The SISTA Project, and Comprehensive Risk Counseling and Services (CRCS). The program involves both staff and participants throughout the evaluation process to provide feedback on the interventions, make suggestions for improvement and determine the overall effectiveness of the program. With a strong, 33-year history in the community, New Horizons is a leader in providing prevention, intervention and treatment services to high risk, minority, disabled and gender-specific populations.

  
Grantee: TROUP FAMILY CONNECTION AUTHORITY LaGrange, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014706
Congressional District: GA-03
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: STAND, INC. Decatur, GA
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP013423
Congressional District: GA-04
FY 2009 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
Our Common Welfare requests $350,000.00 to provide: 1) continuity of care for recently released inmates with HIV, SA and Hepatitis by connecting them with primary care providers who will continue to provide treatment after release; 2) thorough disease screening and detection (HIV, SA, and Hepatitis) for inmates undiagnosed; and 3) prevention and intervention training, case management support services and community outreach.

The proposed Getting Connected Project will target, for the five year funding cycle, a total of 500 (100 per year) unduplicated African American male parolees, ages 18-49, in DeKalb County, Georgia, who will: 1) be released without knowledge of HIV, substance abuse or Hepatitis status; 2) be released as substance-abusing or diagnosed as having a substance abuse (SA) disorder; 3) be released as being infected with HIV or diagnosed as having AIDS; 4) be released with Hepatitis or undiagnosed; 5) if incarcerated, be within 90 days of scheduled release to the community; and 6) if already released to the community from incarceration, be within one year or less of release from incarceration and under some form of probationer supervision; and to 1,000 (200 per year) partners, family members of the parolees, and members of the communities of color reporting high rates of HIV / AIDS, SA, and Hepatitis in DeKalb County.

The types of services to be offered each year of the grant period will be: 1) Thorough Disease Screening for HIV/AIDS, SA and Hepatitis; 2) GED Education referrals; 3) Communication Classes; 4) Life Style Choices Classes that will include: a) Anger Management; b) Relapse Prevention & Management; c) HIV/AIDS Education; d) Mental Health Prevention; e) Substance Abuse Prevention,. j) Criminal Thinking and Behaviors; g) Job Placement Assistance.
  
Grantee: RECOVERY CONSULTANTS OF ATLANTA, INC. Decatur, GA
Program: Minority HIV Prevention SP015043
Congressional District: GA-04
FY 2009 Funding: $335,333
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013


"The SAVED SISTA Project" will begin with an all female outreach team. This group of 3 women, referred to as peer-specialists, are all in addiction recovery and have each been trained in outreach competencies and motivational interviewing. They will canvass homeless communities of Atlanta and engage women and motivate them to get tested for HIV and to consider entering drug and alcohol treatment. In addition, this group of women will facilitate a 5-week HIV, substance and intimate partner violence prevention project for a group of 6 - 10 homeless women. And finally, our peer specialists will test a minimum of 25 homeless substance using women each month for HIV, and link those that are positive with HIV-care services.
  
Grantee: GENESIS PREVENTION COALITION, INC. Atlanta, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012981
Congressional District: GA-05
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: GEORGIA COUNCIL ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE Atlanta, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013074
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2009 Funding: $99,811
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: MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Atlanta, GA
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP013334
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2009 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The Imani Project is a community-based prevention initiative in the Department of Pediatrics at the Morehouse School of Medicine. The Imani Project will increase the capacity of residents in the Zone One catchment area of northwest Atlanta, Georgia by working with government, nonprofit, and faith-based entities to reduce the risks of substance abuse and the transmission of HIV and hepatitis. It will serve African Americans and other underserved residents (ages 13-25 preferred), including ex-offenders (ages 18-25 first offenders preferred). The Imani Project will provide substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, and hepatitis prevention education through high school and college peer educators at Frederick Douglass High School and HBCUs in the Zone One community. Imani staff and their collaborators will provide substance abuse education and HIV/AIDS and hepatitis prevention education to the re-entry populations. The intervention will employ an approach involving faith-based re-entry liaisons themselves while emphasizing entrepreneurship, business development, and job development where indicated. Program participants will consist of the following: Zone One residents at Bowen Homes and Bankhead Courts communities, re-entry populations (i.e., Jefferson Place Emergency and Transitional Housing, Antioch Urban Ministries, Inc. Reentry Services), students attending Frederick Douglass High School, and college students attending historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) including Morehouse College, and Clark Atlanta University. The targeted population has demonstrated risks for substance abuse, HIV / AIDS and hepatitis infection. In a geographical area where reportedly 95% of the ex-offenders manifest substance abuse problems, the number of AIDS cases are in the Atlanta metropolitan area is twice as high as the statewide number, especially among the African Americans in Fulton County. Further, the Zone One community has the highest incidences of AIDS and STDs in the State.
  
Grantee: WHOLISTIC STRESS CONTROL INSTITUTE, INC. Atlanta, GA
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP013435
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2009 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The Wholistic Stress Control Institute, Inc. (WSCI), an award winning African-American non- profit community based organization, is requesting five-year funding from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA) for the purpose of developing a comprehensive integrated Substance Abuse (SA), HIV and Hepatitis Prevention Program for minority and minority reentry populations in Metro Atlanta. The goal of the proposed project is to build the local community's service capacity to prevent and reduce the onset of SA and transmission of HIV and Hepatitis among minority and minority reentry populations in Metro Atlanta who are disproportionately affected by SA, HIV/AIDS and/or hepatitis.

The project objectives are: I) to conduct a community needs assessment that will assess the magnitude of SA, HIV and Hepatitis for the target population and their catchment areas; 2) to mobilize a community workgroup of key stakeholders to build the local capacity to address SA, HIV and Hepatitis prevention; 3) to provide planning and coordination of services for the workgroup to develop a strategic plan for the prevention and reduction of the onset of SA, and the transmission of HIV and Hepatitis among minority and reentry populations; 4) to provide African American minority populations and African American minority reentry populations with a SA, HIV and Hepatitis Prevention Program; 5) to provide screening services and pre/post counseling services for SA, HIV and Hepatitis for minority target populations; 6) to partner with existing licensed provider organizations for referrals, testing, direct medical treatment for substance abuse, HIV and Hepatitis services and provide referrals for Hepatitis A & B immunization services for the minority populations and minority reentry populations; 7) to identify, coordinate and make referrals to other linkages of care services needed for minority and minority reentry populations.
  
Grantee: WHOLISTIC STRESS CONTROL INSTITUTE, INC. Atlanta, GA
Program: Minority HIV Prevention SP015209
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2009 Funding: $335,333
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
The Wholistic Stress Control Institute, Inc. (WSCI), an award winning African-American nonprofit community based organization, is requesting five-year funding to implement the Minority SA/HIV Prevention Initiative Project from (SAMHSA). The goal of this project is to prevent and reduce the onset of SA and transmission of HIV/AIDS among 1,000 African American, young adults (ages 18-24), males and females, in Metro Atlanta communities.
  
Grantee: LEARN TO GROW, INC. Atlanta, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP015704
Congressional District: GA-05
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: GEORGIA/BEHAVIORAL/HLTH/DEVELOP/DISABILI Atlanta, GA
Program: Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants SP015930
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2009 Funding: $2,093,000
Project Period: 07/01/2009 - 09/29/2011
  
Grantee: GEORGIA MARTIAL ARTS FOUNDATION, INC. Cumming, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP011601
Congressional District: GA-07
FY 2009 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 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: GWINNETT COALITION/HEALTH & HUMAN SRVS Lawrenceville, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014421
Congressional District: GA-07
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: GWINNETT COALITION/HEALTH & HUMAN SRVS Lawrenceville, GA
Program: Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act Grants SP015372
Congressional District: GA-07
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: GWINNETT COALITION/HEALTH & HUMAN SRVS Lawrenceville, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities Support Program - Mentoring SP016011
Congressional District: GA-07
FY 2009 Funding: $75,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2011
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.
  
Grantee: HALL COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION Gainesville, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014608
Congressional District: GA-09
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: COBB COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE Marietta, GA
Program: Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act Grants SP016092
Congressional District: GA-11
FY 2009 Funding: $48,296
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2013
The Cobb Community Collaborative was awarded $50,000.00 STOP ACT for 2009-10. grant by the Substance Abuse Mental Health Administration. The Coalition services the towns of Marietta Georgia a suburban area of Atlanta with a population of 698,158. The CCC has completed its (10) year Drug Free Community Grant cycle in 2009.

The goals of the Coalition are to: (1) Foster changes in American society that facilitate healthy adolescent development and help prevent and reduce underage drinking. (2) Engage parents and other caregivers, schools, communities, all levels of government, all social systems that interface with youth, and youth themselves in a coordinated national effort to prevent and reduce underage drinking and its consequences. (3)Promote understanding of underage alcohol consumption.
(4) Conduct additional research on adolescent alcohol use. (5) Work to improve public health surveillance on underage drinking. (6) Work to ensure that policies at all levels are consistent with the national goal of preventing and reducing underage alcohol consumption.

The Coalition will achieve its goals by implementing these strategies: (1) Public awareness campaigns. (2) Publicize enforcement, policy and education strategies. (3) Collaborate with sponsors of community and ethnic holiday events. (5) Report findings o
  
Grantee: TOOMBS COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Lyons, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014239
Congressional District: GA-12
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: BRYAN COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Pembroke, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014806
Congressional District: GA-12
FY 2009 Funding: $124,981
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: BULLOCH COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION Statesboro, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014413
Congressional District: GA-12
FY 2009 Funding: $97,202
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.
  

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)

Grantee: MERCER UNIVERSITY Macon, GA
Program: SBIRT-Medical Residency Program TI020278
Congressional District: GA-01
FY 2009 Funding: $374,906
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
The Southeast Consortium for Substance Abuse Training (SECSAT) will promote SBIRT in 4 residency programs in the Georgia, North and South Carolina areas. The Faculty in Mercer University's Family Medicine residency program will build on experience gained in the NIH funded Georgia-Texas "Improving Brief Intervention" Project. Collaboration between Mercer's Internal Medicine Residency Program (Macon, GA); Wake Forest University's Internal Medicine Residency Program (Winston-Salem, NC); and AnMed Health Family Medicine Residency Program (Anderson, SC) will create comprehensive skills-based clinical curriculum with web-based modular components covering 13 core SBIRT competencies. Quarterly resident training seminars for 126 residents a year will be conducted and Mercer faculty will provide on-site support for SBIRT implementation as well as monitor and oversee program quality. A total of 294 residents will receive 558 resident years of training.
  
Grantee: NEW HORIZONS COMMUNITY SERVICE BOARD Columbus, GA
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI019832
Congressional District: GA-03
FY 2009 Funding: $447,010
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
New Horizons Community Service Board, Inc. intends to expand and enhance its Comprehensive Adult Treatment System Program to serve 432 (annually) additional minority women ages 25-years and older and their children in the West Central Health District of Georgia. The goal of the program is to reduce substance abuse among adults by providing evidence-based services and practices. The program expands services to more at-risk adults with a primary focus on reaching more adult women and their children. The program is enhanced by adding recovery support services to all participants served. New Horizons has a 33-year history of providing prevention, intervention, and treatment services to high risk, minority, disabled and gender-specific populations in the community.
  
Grantee: WESTCARE GEORGIA, INC. Atlanta, GA
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI018625
Congressional District: GA-04
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
WestCare Georgia's CARES Program will expand and enhance the system of care in the Tri-jurisdictional area of Georgia (the City of Atlanta, DeKalb and Fulton Counties), through outreach and pre-treatment services to 1000 youth. Youth will be primarily African American, age 12-17, who are at high risk for HIV/AIDS or are HIV +, are runaway and homeless youth or sexually exploited girls who trade sex for money and drugs, are living in the streets, and not living with parents or attending school regularly. 500 of these youth will receive additional testing and assessment services, and 350 will receive additional case management and wrap-around services annually, a total of 1750 over the life of the project. Goals include: (1) improving existing service delivery with community-based outreach and pretreatment services; (2) increasing stability and sobriety of youth; (3) reducing risk behaviors associated with HIV and other infectious diseases; and, (4) improving sobriety, health, stability and the social and emotional functioning of high risk adolescents. Crisis stabilization services will be provided for youth at WestCare's Assessment Center, where beds are available for 36-hour emergency, short term shelter. Enhanced services include gender specific treatment for sexually exploited girls and the provision of street outreach for runaway and homeless youth through the program's Safe Place Center.
  
Grantee: WESTCARE GEORGIA, INC. Atlanta, GA
Program: Treatment for Homeless - Homeless TI021458
Congressional District: GA-04
FY 2009 Funding: $350,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
WestCare Georgia, Inc. (WC-GA), a community-based non-profit, proposes to provide services annually through the Blanket Atlanta program to 175 homeless and permanent supportive housing clients with substance abuse, mental health or co-occurring disorders (875 over the life of the project) in the greater Atlanta, Georgia area. Clients receive outreach, assessment, case management, outpatient substance abuse and mental health treatment, recovery support and wraparound services. Clients will be African-American men (75%) over age 18, women (25%), seniors over age 55 (15%) and others. Homeless returning veterans and chronic public inebriates whose substance abuse, mental health or co-occurring disorders place them at risk for losing their residence will be a priority. Primary drugs of abuse will be alcohol, cocaine (crack), methamphetamine, heroin, prescription drugs and marijuana. The purpose of the program is to link treatment with comprehensive, wraparound services such as primary health care, housing assistance, 12-step groups, recovery support services and job preparedness training. Project goals with measurable objectives are to: (1) increase sobriety; (2) improve mental health and health status of the homeless; (3) improve social and emotional functioning; and, (4) improve long-term recovery, permanent supportive and stable living environments, and quality of life.
  
Grantee: RECOVERY CONSULTANTS OF ATLANTA, INC. Decatur, GA
Program: Recovery Community Support - Recovery TI018114
Congressional District: GA-04
FY 2009 Funding: $350,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2010
Recovery Consultants of Atlanta, Inc. (RCA, Inc.) is a faith-based, peer-led, Recovery Community Organization (RCO). Founded in 1999 by concerned, committed and spiritually centered members of metro-Atlanta's 12-step and faith-based recovery communities. The goal is to provide peer-led support services that help sustain members of Atlanta's inner-city addiction recovery community. RCA, Inc. is the lead agency of a faith-based coalition that includes 6 predominately African American churches, and an Atlanta-based Historically Black College. The primary peer-led service, the one that subsequent services feed from, is a peer-led " Linkage to Care" program, consisting of a group of recovering individuals who literally canvas inner-city Atlanta communities and engage substance users in dialogue aimed at linking them with publicly funded detoxification programs and peer-led addiction recovery support services. Recovering individuals are linked with subsequent peer-led services that include but are not limited to: peer-led transitional housing, publicly funded addictive disorder treatment programs, Recovery @ Work (RAW) (a job training program offering full and part-time paid employment for up to 25 service recipients), and educational programs that improve parenting skills. The program will provide a recovery center offering more than 40 weekly 12-step, faith-based, health specific (HIV and HCV), gender specific, and family specific support groups.
  
Grantee: RECOVERY CONSULTANTS OF ATLANTA, INC. Decatur, GA
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI019722
Congressional District: GA-04
FY 2009 Funding: $450,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
Recovery Consultants of Atlanta, Inc. (RCA, Inc.) is a faith-based, peer-led Recovery Community Organization founded in 1999 by committed members of Atlanta's 12-step and faith-based recovery communities. RCA has been providing street outreach, pre-treatment, drug treatment, rapid HIV testing and recovery support services to the homeless community with substance abuse problems in Atlanta. RCA proposes to serve 382 HIV-positive and 5,800 high risk negative homeless substance users who currently do not receive HIV care or drug treatment services in Atlanta. The majority of the population that will be served are African American (96%), male (67%) and between the ages of 35 to 44 (45%). RCA proposes to expand and enhance services and test a minimum of 1,200 homeless substance users per year using OraQuick ADVANCE rapid tests. RCA will also link 480 homeless individuals affected by HIV into publicly funded detox and drug treatment programs. Clients who have reactive HIV tests will be referred to Ryan White funded care providers for medical case management and RCA's Center for Excellence for recovery support services.
  
Grantee: STAND, INC. Decatur, GA
Program: Adult Criminial Justice Treatment TI020429
Congressional District: GA-04
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
Project Self Empowerment will target individuals who are under some form of judicial or community justice supervision and who have substance involvement. The targeted individuals for the program are males, ages 18-45 residing in DeKalb County. Each candidate must have had no or one treatment experience, or two or more treatment experiences to be eligible to participate in the project. The program will have a target of 119 clients per year for a total of 357 clients over the grant period. The project will use Terence T. Gorski's CENAPS Model of Relapse Prevention Therapy.
  
Grantee: RECOVERY CONSULTANTS OF ATLANTA, INC. Decatur, GA
Program: Treatment for Homeless - Homeless TI020628
Congressional District: GA-04
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
Recovery Consultants of Atlanta, Inc. (RCA, Inc.) is a faith-based, peer-led Recovery Community Organization. The population to receive services in supportive housing includes the estimated 3,900 chronically homeless, inner-city Atlanta substance users identified through a rapid HIV testing program who are presently not receiving addictive or mental disorder treatment services or HIV care. The project will expand and enhance services to facilitate treatment for 72 unduplicated chronically homeless substance users per year for a total of 360 over the life of the project.
  
Grantee: INTEGRATED LIFE CENTER, INC. Stone Mountain, GA
Program: Treatment for Homeless - Homeless TI018282
Congressional District: GA-04
FY 2009 Funding: $390,899
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
Project Homebound is a "no-wrong door" initiative of the Integrated Life Center, Inc.
This initiative will provide intensive outpatient co-occurring substance abuse and mental health treatment services. The target population is single, unaccompanied homeless males. The characteristics of our homeless population are that many have prior living situations which span the spectrum from being unemployed for many years, sleeping under bridges and in abandoned cars, to the "new homeless" clients recently downsized out of jobs held for years.
  
Grantee: MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Atlanta, GA
Program: Addiction Technology Transfer Center TI013589
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2009 Funding: $600,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
The proposed ATTC is to be the vehicle for developing a strong collaborative entity in the States of Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina that will serve as an effective mechanism for disseminating substance use disorder-related evidence-based practices and for supporting the adoption of such practices based on comprehensive understanding of the regional target population needs. The ATTC understands the importance of conducting its mission in a culturally competent manner and strives to give voice to those who are underrepresented and/or underserved within its region. The lead organization, Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), a not-for-profit entity, was created in 1981 and is a nationally recognized, Historically Black College and University located in Atlanta, GA. The current Southeast Addiction Technology Transfer Center, located at MSM, is housed within the National Center for Primary Care, home to more than seven other nationally recognized resource programs and centers.
  
Grantee: GEORGIA/BEHAVIORAL/HLTH/DEVELOP/DISABILI Atlanta, GA
Program: SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral & Treatment) TI019545
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2009 Funding: $2,520,000
Project Period: 07/01/2009 - 09/29/2013
  
Grantee: POSITIVE IMPACT, INC. Atlanta, GA
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI019661
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2009 Funding: $350,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
The Georgia HIV Substance Abuse Treatment Engagement Program (GA-HIV STEP) is a culturally competent enhanced substance abuse outreach and pretreatment program targeting African American and Latino injection drug users, men who have sex with men, and women who are at high risk of HIV infection/transmission due to untreated substance abuse. The Program will utilize the Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment model (SBIRT) to assist individuals in reducing barriers to care and retention, and in accessing HIV testing, medical, and mental health services. The program will serve the metropoliatan areas of Atlanta and Augusta, Georgia and provide: 1) brief motivational interventions; 2) client case management to navigate entry into substance abuse treatment and improve treatment retention; and 3)participant and partner HIV rapid testing, counseling and referral. The program will reach 3,650 individuals over five years.
  
Grantee: MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Atlanta, GA
Program: Historically Black Colleges and Univ. National Resource Center TI020447
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2009 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
Morehouse School of Medicine's Cork Institute on Alcohol and other Addictive Disorders and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences propose to establish a Historically Black Colleges and Universities Center for Excellence in Substance Abuse and Mental Health (HBCU-CFE) which will build upon the accomplishments of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities National Resource Center for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Infrastructure Development. The goals of the HBCU-CFE include: expanding the existing network of HBCUs to foster the development of programs and mentoring; facilitating the exchange of substance abuse and mental health information; providing culturally appropriate substance abuse and mental health resources to HBCUs; and promoting the development of a diverse workforce by exposing students to opportunities such as internships, mentoring and leadership training.
  
Grantee: DEKALB COUNTY GEORGIA Decatur, GA
Program: Adult Treatment Drug Courts TI019971
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2009 Funding: $288,995
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
The DeKalb County Drug Court (DCDC) program will expand participants and enhance services through a Second Track using evidence-based, lower-intensity programming to address the unmet needs of the criminally-involved and addicted population. The target population of the Second Track is compromised of non-violent felony offenders classified with medium to low-medium risk of recidivism and have serious substance abuse issues, including crack cocaine and methamphetamine. The program plans to enroll 255 participants over three years. Eligible candidates for the Second Track will have at least a medium level of substance abuse problems and score at the Medium to Low-Medium level of risk for recidivism on the LSI-R. The benchmarks will include 3 months of intensive outpatient treatment, 6 months of outpatient treatment, and 12 months of maintenance, case management, and monitoring.
  
Grantee: COBB COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD Smyrna, GA
Program: Pregnant/Post-Partum Women TI019635
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2009 Funding: $396,558
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
The Cobb County Community Services Board's proposal is to enhance our nationally
recognized, Mothers Making a Change program and Ready for Work program by expanding the availability of comprehensive, high quality residential substance abuse treatment services for pregnant and postpartum women including specific services that strengthen families and promote involvement of fathers to improve the mother's chances for long-term sobriety. These residential programs are targeted toward pregnant and postpartum females who may have young children (under the age of 18) and whose families are at risk due to substance abuse in the home. Women receive services for various drug issues such as cocaine, crack cocaine, alcohol, marijuana, opiates, prescription, and over-the-counter medications. Many of the clients are from low socioeconomic areas and lack the resources to obtain the needed support, education, and funds to maintain their sobriety after treatment.
  

Last Update: 10/29/2009