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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)

LOUISIANA

Grantee: SISTERS OF MERCY MINISTRIES Metairie, LA
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-Treatment Centers (2007) SM058776
Congressional District: LA-01
FY 2009 Funding: $350,298
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2012
Mercy Family Center will lead the continued development of Project Fleur-de-lisTM (PFDL), an intermediate and long-term school-based mental health service model for children who have been exposed to traumatic events as a result of natural and man-made disasters. PFDL is a collaborative program linking local social service agencies, schools and nationally recognized researchers, program developers and clinicians in a coordinated effort to provide state-of-the-art mental health services within our schools and community.
  
Grantee: UNITY OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS New Orleans, LA
Program: Supportive Housing SM059082
Congressional District: LA-01
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
The purpose of the proposed project, Home First New Orleans, is to reduce chronic homelessness in Greater New Orleans through supportive housing services to chronically homeless people. The project will employ a "housing first" strategy where chronically homeless people, identified and engaged by project outreach workers, will be placed directly from the streets into permanent housing units or a low barriers "safe haven", where they will be provided abundant support, housing stabilization, life skills, and case management services from project case managers, with no requirement that they be "housing ready". The project aims to reach via intensive outreach efforts 400 homeless persons a year, 2000 (unduplicated) over the course of the project. A total of 139 chronically homeless persons will be provided supportive housing services a year, 347 (unduplicated) chronically homeless persons will be provided supportive housing services over the five year project period.
  
Grantee: LOUISIANA STATE UNIV HSC NEW ORLEANS New Orleans, LA
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-Treatment Centers (2007) SM058770
Congressional District: LA-02
FY 2009 Funding: $399,079
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2012
Louisiana Rural Trauma Services Center (LRTSC) will provide and evaluate a continuum of care of trauma-focused trainings, interventions, and services for children and adolescents, ages 3-18, including children of military families, in schools in Orleans, St. Bernard, and Plaquemines Parishes heavily impacted by Hurricane Katrina. Because ofo the extent of the devastation and complexity of recovery, training and service models will be adapted, modified for cultural sensitivity, and implemented to meet needs at this time.
  
Grantee: UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE Monroe, LA
Program: Campus Suicide SM058961
Congressional District: LA-05
FY 2009 Funding: $99,981
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
The University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM) is proposing to develop and implement the ULM HELPS project, which will support a comprehensive and coordinated campus effort designed to educate ULM faculty, staff, incoming freshmen and their families, and the student body at large about the risk and protective factors associated with suicide and suicide ideation to help increase the identification of students at risk for suicide or with mental and behavioral problems that may increase the risk of suicide; appropriately respond to students at risk; promote help seeking behaviors and recommend appropriate referral sources; and prevent death by suicide as well as suicide attempts by students. We will: (1) Educate and empower faculty, staff and police officers via professional development seminars and courses and paper and electronic awareness campaigns. By the end of year one, the program will reach 10% of population and participants will report an average 50% change in their knowledge, attitudes, and skills. (2) Enhance already existing services and training programs aimed at educating incoming freshmen and their families via educational workshops and culturally appropriate paper and electronic awareness campaigns. By the end of year one, the program will reach 10% of population. Participants will report an average 25% change in their knowledge, attitudes, and skills. (3) Enhance already existing services and training programs aimed at educating the ULM student body at large via culturally appropriate electronic and paper educational tools and awareness campaigns. By the end of year one, the program will reach 10% of population (8.6% more than is currently reached with existing efforts and resources). Participants will report an average 25% change in their knowledge, attitudes, and skills.
  
Grantee: LOUISIANA STATE DEPT OF HLTH & HOSPITALS Baton Rouge, LA
Program: Disaster Relief SM00232
Congressional District: LA-06
FY 2009 Funding: $4,023,501
Project Period: 09/01/2006 - 06/30/2009
Funds were jointly administered by FEMA and CMHS to provide short-term crisis counseling to individuals affected by Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita.
  
Grantee: LOUISIANA STATE DEPT OF HLTH & HOSPITALS Baton Rouge, LA
Program: Disaster Relief SM000260
Congressional District: LA-06
FY 2009 Funding: $10,447,040
Project Period: 04/13/2009 - 01/12/2010
  
Grantee: LOUISIANA FEDERATION/FAMILIES/CHILD MH Baton Rouge, LA
Program: Statewide Family Networks SM057985
Congressional District: LA-06
FY 2009 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
The Louisiana Family and Youth mentoring Program proposed here is an evidence-based program serving primarily poor at risk families in Louisiana that have a child/youth with serious emotional and behavioral problems as well as the youth themselves. The Louisiana Family and Youth Mentoring Program proposed here reaches out to all families in the state who have a child/youth with serious emotional and behavioral problems as well as those who have experienced traumatic stress due to recent disaster experiences and the ensuing dislocation and disruption of family and community life. The program provides increased opportunities for parent training and skills-building, thus, creating or enhancing the family and youth voice, statewide.
  
Grantee: LOUISIANA STATE DEPT OF HLTH & HOSPITALS Baton Rouge, LA
Program: State Data Infrastructure Grants SM058117
Congressional District: LA-06
FY 2009 Funding: $142,200
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
The major goal of this project is to further improve the Louisiana Office of Mental Health (OMH) data infrastructure in support of planning, service quality improvement, performance monitoring, and management decision support. The key grant objectives will be to: 1-Fully implement the federally required URS/NOMS tables and state performance measures with an emphasis on improved client-level reporting; 2-Establish standards and procedures for data and performance measures, 3-Establish an OMH Survey and Analysis Unit to augment capacity to explore and incorporate contemporary data collection/analysis/ reporting technologies; 4-Augment the current OMH SAS Data Warehouse/Decision Support System.
  
Grantee: LOUISIANA STATE DEPT OF HLTH & HOSPITALS Baton Rouge, LA
Program: Youth Suicide Prevention & Early Intervention - Cooperative Agreement State-Sponsored SM059239
Congressional District: LA-06
FY 2009 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
The Louisiana Partnership for Youth Suicide Prevention (LPYSP) advances strategies of the LA SJ.A.R. Plan to strengthen public and private partnerships, cultivate community efforts, mobilize existing resources, expand gatekeeper training, increase awareness of youth suicide and prevention, to provide timely referral resources to families and survivors, to increase support groups for survivors, to strengthen linkages between crisis response teams. This grant will expand statewide the youth suicide prevention efforts of the 2001 LA Youth Suicide Prevention Task Force. After receiving funding from the SAMHSA Garret Lee Smith Grant in 2006, the established Task Force transitioned into the new statewide collaborative known as the LPYSP. LPYSP is comprised of a broad range of public and private partners. This group serves as the governing body to undertake the oversight, development, monitoring, and evaluation of program activities to reduce youth suicides and suicide attempts in LA. The project targets 15000 youth and young adult ages 10 to 24 years old consisting of middle, high, and college students and professionals that serve this population. A high priority of this program will be early intervention, prevention and assessment services to youth and young adults who are at risk for mental or emotional disorders, substance abuse disorders that may lead to suicide or a suicide attempts. Through partnerships across systems the integration of suicide prevention resources and services in schools, universities, juvenile justice systems, substance abuse and mental health programs, foster care systems and other child youth support agencies that target at-risk youth population will increase their competence and awareness of youth suicide risk.
  

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)

Grantee: 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT ATTORNEY Gretna, LA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013119
Congressional District: LA-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: LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY Ruston, LA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013493
Congressional District: LA-05
FY 2009 Funding: $99,963
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: MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING Baton Rouge, LA
Program: 2009 CSAP EARMARKS SP016069
Congressional District: LA-06
FY 2009 Funding: $95,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2010
MADD Louisiana's Underage Drinking Prevention program revolves around a progressive system of age-appropriate service learning opportunities for youth ages 5 to 21. The program includes Protecting You/Protecting Me (PYPM), an evidence-based curriculum and SAMHSA model program, as well as several recognized environmental interventions that engage youth in change in their communities through Youth In Action and UMADD projects. MADD Louisiana seeks to engage parents within these initiatives and independently as well as through public awareness campaigns and educational events targeting adults.
  
Grantee: SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AREA HLTH EDUC CTR Lafayette, LA
Program: Minority HIV Prevention SP014991
Congressional District: LA-07
FY 2009 Funding: $335,333
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
The Drug Education and Prevention of HIV. The project is a community based project that will seek to prevent substance abuse and HIV among African American youth between the ages of 12-17 who live in the highest risk minority communities in Southwest Louisiana. The program will utilize small group interventions with a youth development approach to address and reach the goals of the project.
  

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)

Grantee: NEW ORLEANS AIDS TASK FORCE, INC. New Orleans, LA
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI019798
Congressional District: LA-02
FY 2009 Funding: $450,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
NO (New Orleans)/AIDS Task Force, will implement the New Orleans HIV Outreach and Substance Abuse Capacity and Expansion Project to expand its current capacity to provide substance abuse counseling to HIV positive clients through a partnership with Odyssey House, a local substance abuse treatment provider. The proposed program will target African- Americans and Latino(as) in the New Orleans, Louisiana metropolitan area who are HIV positive substance abusers. Substance abuse therapists and peer support outreach workers will work with community-based agencies that serve persons living with HIV/AIDS by conducting in-service trainings. All participants identified as HIV positive and in need of substance abuse counseling will be referred to services. NO/AIDS will also offer expanded and enhanced counseling to HIV positive clients. Through outreach, 1000 at risk individuals will be contacted per year, 200 will be referred to collaborating agencies, and 50 clients the first year and 60 each following year, will be enrolled in integrated substance abuse medical case management.
  
Grantee: ORLEANS PARISH CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT New Orleans, LA
Program: Adult Treatment Drug Courts TI021536
Congressional District: LA-02
FY 2009 Funding: $300,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
This project is designed to provide gender specific treatment services to women in Drug Court. Women will be treated using the Helping Women Recover (criminal justice version) protocol, enhanced case management and gender specific job readiness preparation and placement. Stephanie Covington's Helping Women Recover (HWR) is based on Women's Integrated Theory, which includes a theory of addiction, women's psychological development and trauma.
  
Grantee: ANANIAS, INC. Shreveport, LA
Program: Recovery Support Services Involving Grassroots Organization Category TI019306
Congressional District: LA-04
FY 2009 Funding: $499,200
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
The Louisiana PATHS partners are comprised of: substance abuse treatment specialists, HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment experts, respected members of the local clergy and professional evaluation consultants. With this combined expertise, the Louisiana PATHS Project can provide outreach, detox, outpatient and residential substance abuse treatment and referrals; HIV counseling, testing and early intervention /primary care services and secure additional arenas for outreach, testing and counseling; and accurate evaluations of overall data. Louisiana PATHS partners have committed to participate in the planning, implementation and evaluation of the Louisiana PATHS Project. Members of the community and target population will be included in the planning of the program by participating in meetings and focus groups. Louisiana PATHS' outreach efforts will result in access to and availability of substance abuse information, assessment and treatment for persons in the community. HIV/AIDS and other blood-borne infection outreach activities include information dissemination, prevention education, testing, counseling and referrals. Louisiana PATHS will target the African American and Latino/Hispanic lower socio-economic population, including women and women with children, adolescents, injection drug users, and individuals who have been released from prisons or jails within a prior two (2) year period.
  
Grantee: RAYS OF SONSHINE Monroe, LA
Program: Recovery Support Services Involving Grassroots Organization Category TI019180
Congressional District: LA-05
FY 2009 Funding: $454,160
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
Project FAMILY, is an expansion of the gender specific, client-paced, goal focused, faith-based long term intensive substance abuse treatment program of Rays of Sonshine for women with children and an enhancement of prevention outreach and peer-to-peer services as part of a restructured support system to sustain recovery, avoid relapse and reduce the prevalence of addiction in their children. Over the three term of the project, Project Family will assist 54 (18 per year) DSM W qualified substance abusing and addicted women with children in northeast Louisiana It will provide 30 women, 10 per year, with after care services and assist all 84 of them maintain or reestablish physical custody of their children. Project FAMILY will assist at least 50 children through its operation of the Sonshine Youth Center, exclusively for the children of addicts in active treatment or stable recovery. It will assist an additional 75 unduplicated persons at the Mission drop-in center with extended evening and Saturday hours for all of the clients in treatment with ROS and as a community resource for other drug-free addicts in stable recovery.
  
Grantee: LOUISIANA STATE DEPT OF HLTH & HOSPITALS Baton Rouge, LA
Program: Access to Recovery TI019510
Congressional District: LA-06
FY 2009 Funding: $4,419,645
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
The LA-ATR grant project under the auspices of the Governor's Office and through the leadership of the Department of Health and Hospitals, Office for Addictive Disorders (OAD), will assist in closing identified gaps in substance abuse treatment and recovery support services for those adults and adolescents involved in the criminal justice system and methamphetamine users. Through collaboration with providers from the public, private, faith- and community-based sectors, OAD will have broad-based support to treat these special populations. Louisiana has developed a unique and comprehensive electronic voucher and clinical case record system that will allow for accurate and effective outcomes monitoring, tracking costs and preventing fraud, waste and abuse. The web-based voucher system will provide clients freedom of choice for all ATR services
  
Grantee: LOUISIANA STATE DEPT OF HLTH & HOSPITALS Baton Rouge, LA
Program: Pregnant/Post-Partum Women TI019634
Congressional District: LA-06
FY 2009 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
The state of Louisiana's Office for Addictive Disorders (OAD) is seeking SAMHSA funding to expand the availability of comprehensive, high-quality residential substance abuse treatment, recovery supports, and family services to pregnant and postpartum women (PPW) and their minor children. Framed within a four-month residential treatment program, the Louisiana Pregnant and Postpartum Women (LA-PPW) Program will provide family-centered residential services for 48 women and children annually (totaling 144 over three years), and non-residential treatment to approximately 25 family members, significant others, and partners of the women annually. The program goals include expanding treatment service capacity and outcomes for PPW and their minor children, reducing infant mortality rates and birth defects, preserving and strengthening the family unit, and improving the overall quality of life for women and children. The OAD, the Fiscal Agent and grantee, will contract with Odyssey House Louisiana and Reality House to deliver direct treatment services. The LA-PPW Program will utilize a blend of two evidence-based practices, namely the Gender-Specific Model and the Transtheoretical Model in service provision. Having knowledge of the long-lasting effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the target population, program services will address the prevalence of co-occurring substance abuse and mental disorders, especially incidences of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The LA-PPW Program will also provide outreach to female veterans and low-income African American women, as these populations continue to be overlooked and underrepresented in treatment services.
  
Grantee: SWLA CENTER FOR HEALTH SERVICE Lake Charles, LA
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment TI020828
Congressional District: LA-07
FY 2009 Funding: $300,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
SWLA Center for Health Services' proposed substance abuse treatment project will serve populations of focus to include adolescents, ages 12-17, and transition age youth, ages 18-24 with Substance Use Disorders (SUD), and with SUD and co-occurring mental health disorders. The proposed service area is Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana and services will be provided at SWLA Center for Health Services' Lake Charles primary care service delivery site. Strategies and interventions will include cognitive therapy, behavioral therapy, networking therapy, individual therapy, family therapy, group therapy, case management and outreach. Residential treatment, emergency inpatient substance abuse services and emergency outpatient substance abuse services will also be provided. Project goals are to improve access to substance abuse treatment services through outreach, enabling services and utilization of the A-CRA/ACC model; and, to reduce health disparities and improve overall health status related to substance abuse by providing substance abuse treatment services, increasing compliance with and completion of treatment plans, and reducing overall substance use/abuse.
  

Last Update: 10/29/2009