Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)
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GEORGIA
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Grantee: EMORY UNIVERSITY
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Atlanta, GA |
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Program: AIDS TCE-Service Capacity Bldg in Minority Communities |
SM057701 |
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Congressional District: GA-04 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $468,384
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Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011 |
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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.
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Grantee: GEORGIA MENTAL HEALTH CONSUMER NETWORK
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Decatur, GA |
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Program: Statewide Consumer Network |
SM056333 |
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Congressional District: GA-04 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $70,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2010 |
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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.
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Grantee: GEORGIA PARENT SUPPORT NETWORK, INC.
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Atlanta, GA |
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Program: Statewide Family Networks |
SM057967 |
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Congressional District: GA-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $60,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010 |
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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.
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Grantee: DEKALB COUNTY GEORGIA
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Decatur, GA |
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Program: Jail Diversion (2008) |
SM058056 |
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Congressional District: GA-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $318,918
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Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010 |
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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.
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Grantee: GEORGIA STATE DEPT OF HUMAN RESOURCES
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Atlanta, GA |
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Program: Jail Diversion (2008) |
SM058813 |
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Congressional District: GA-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $402,108
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013 |
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GeorgiaÂ’s Jail Diversion and Trauma Recovery Project will support the provision of trauma-integrated jail diversion programs and services for individuals with post traumatic stress disorder and trauma related disorders involved in the justice system. Project objectives include: 1) training criminal justice, mental health and substance abuse staff on trauma-informed care; 2) increasing the number of veterans and others with PTSD that receive trauma screening, treatment and recovery services; 3) increasing the number of jails, community corrections and mental health agencies participating in screening; and 4) decreasing the number of veterans and others with PTSD that have involvement with the criminal justice system. Achievement of outcomes will be evidenced by one year prior and one year post data collection as well as collection points upon entry, at six months, and at 12 months. Candidates for this program will be recruited through multiple intercept points along the justice continuum, including first contact with law enforcement, initial detention, court hearings and community corrections. Candidates will be identified through PTSD screening instruments at point of entry. All qualified candidates will also be screened for substance use disorder. Candidates have access to wraparound services within the program including housing and employment supports and health, mental health and (if indicated) substance abuse treatment and linkage as well as a 25 week psychosocial empowerment program called Seeking Safety in treating PTSD or PTSD/SUD.
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Grantee: GEORGIA STATE DEPT OF HUMAN RESOURCES
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Atlanta, GA |
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Program: State Data Infrastructure Grants |
SM058121 |
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Congressional District: GA-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $142,200
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Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010 |
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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.
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Grantee: GEORGIA STATE DEPT OF HUMAN RESOURCES
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Atlanta, GA |
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Program: Child & Adolescent MH and SA SIGs |
SM056548 |
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Congressional District: GA-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $749,312
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Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009 |
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The overall purpose of the Child and Adolescent State Infrastructure Grant Project is to strengthen the capacity, from a state level, to develop, expand and sustain mental health, substance abuse and co-occurring services and supports at the community-based level for youth who have serious emotional disturbances, substance abuse and co-occurring disorders and their families. Strategies addressed include: development of a trained workforce, funding strategies, policies and practice guidelines and web resource development and improved data infrastructure development. As lead agency, the Department of Human Resources, Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Addictive Diseases (DMHDDAD) will administer project activities including the establishment of a State level Children's Behavioral Health Service Collaborative (CBHS Collaborative). The CBHS Collaborative will develop a statewide vision for behavioral health services across all child-serving agencies, develop a state strategic plan for building capacity to provide behavioral health services including provider and network development, mapping financial resources currently being spent on BHS services across the child-serving systems and maximizing use of all funding streams. The project will also include development of a trained workforce, development of policy and practice guidelines to support service improvements and development of a mechanism for statewide information on resources available to serve youth with behavioral health needs. Achievement of these goals will lead to an improved service delivery system for youth and their families. The DMHDDAD will build upon the System of Care Quality Improvement project currently underway across the state with stakeholders that have formed into Action Teams and developed Action Plans.
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Grantee: COUNTY OF FULTON
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Atlanta, GA |
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Program: CMHS 2008 EARMARKS |
SM058586 |
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Congressional District: GA-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $118,866
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Project Period: 09/15/2008 - 09/14/2009 |
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Grantee proposes to plan for, identify, and implement a pre-jail dliversion model to deliver services to persons with mental illness and at risk of incarceration. The grantee will conduct a needs assment to evaluate the ability of local communities to address needs of mentally ill persons taken into police custody, investigate diversion models used in other cities, and adopt a model and implement a program in Fulton County that will best address the county's needs and provide assessment and crisis stabilization services, as well as intensive case management for at risk persons with mental illness and may persons with co-occurring substance abuse disorders. Grantee will leverage this work to enage mental health services and other community provider agencies, advocacy groups and other community members, and other stakeholders to address diversion needs.
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Grantee: INTEGRATED HEALTH RESOURCES, LLC
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Atlanta, GA |
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Program: Suicide Prevention - Crisis Center Follow Up |
SM058898 |
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Congressional District: GA-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $67,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011 |
Behavioral Health Link will implement a follow up project to enhance support for the 15,000+ persons annually who report suicidal thoughts during or shortly before calling crisis lines managed by BHL (including the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline). BHL will provide real-time linkage to mental health or other services, and during follow up calls, it will assess the caller's status, offer support and promote treatment connection; a follow up postcard may be sent.
The project population is the subset of callers to BHL crisis lines who are suicidal at the time of, or shortly before, the call. This includes callers to the NSPL, as well as the Georgia Crisis & Access Line (GCAL). Based on the number of suicidal persons who call BHL crisis lines annually (16,476 with suicidal desire in FY 200$), 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.
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Grantee: GEORGIA DIVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH
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Atlanta, GA |
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Program: Youth Suicide Prevention & Early Intervention - Cooperative Agreement State-Sponsored |
SM058393 |
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Congressional District: GA-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $500,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011 |
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The Georgia Youth Suicide Prevention Project will build upon existing state suicide prevention efforts to extend suicide prevention/early intervention services to at-risk youth and their families. The project blends statewide prevention awareness and gatekeeper training, expanded work with universities, coalition support, enhanced gatekeeper training in schools and advanced training for hospital staff and diverse youth-serving agencies in five target counties. Managed by the state Injury Prevention Section, the project will reach youth aged 10-24 in five counties in varying state locations with suicide death rates above the national rate, diverse populations and existing youth suicide prevention support. To build and expand statewide capacity, the project will conduct basic youth suicide prevention training among youth-serving agencies, organizations and professional groups, establish an active Youth Suicide Prevention Subcommittee within the Suicide Prevention Coalition of Georgia and develop a Georgia Strategy for Youth Suicide Prevention. In five target counties during the three year grant period, the project will support local suicide prevention coalition development and expand or enhance a network of and linkages among mental health, substance abuse, youth-serving agencies, and schools. It will work with local communities to implement an enhanced gatekeeper training tested in Cobb County schools that combines Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) training for adult school staff and the Sources of Strength program to develop peer leaders that reflect a school's diversity. The project also will implement suicide prevention and victim support training in hospital emergency departments; Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) to help caregivers recognize and review risk, intervene to prevent the immediate risk of suicide and link people with community resources; and postvention support training.
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Grantee: RIVER EDGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER
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Macon, GA |
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Program: Supportive Housing (2007) |
SM058271 |
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Congressional District: GA-08 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $375,000
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Project Period: 05/01/2008 - 04/30/2013 |
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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.
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Grantee: WALKER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
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Lafayette, GA |
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Program: Child Mental Health Initiative |
SM058490 |
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Congressional District: GA-09 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $1,000,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2014 |
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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.
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Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
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Grantee: CAMDEN CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE & RESOURCES
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Saint Marys, GA |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP013454 |
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Congressional District: GA-01 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $100,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010 |
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The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
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Grantee: BERRIEN COUNTY COLLABORATIVE, INC.
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Nashville, GA |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP011660 |
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Congressional District: GA-01 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $100,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2009 |
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The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
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Grantee: COOK COUNTY COM FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH
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Sparks, GA |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP011511 |
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Congressional District: GA-01 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $100,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2009 |
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The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
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Grantee: COMMUNITY VALUES, INC. (CVI)
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Camilla, GA |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP011489 |
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Congressional District: GA-02 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $100,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2009 |
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The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
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Grantee: COUNTY OF BIBB
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Macon, GA |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP011391 |
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Congressional District: GA-03 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $100,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2009 |
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The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
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Grantee: TROUP FAMILY CONNECTION AUTHORITY
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LaGrange, GA |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP014706 |
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Congressional District: GA-03 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $125,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013 |
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The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
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Grantee: NEW HORIZONS COMMUNITY SERVICE BOARD
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Columbus, GA |
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Program: Minority HIV Prevention |
SP015123 |
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Congressional District: GA-03 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $335,333
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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.
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Grantee: DE KALB PREVENTION ALLIANCE, INC.
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Decatur, GA |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP011482 |
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Congressional District: GA-04 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $100,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2009 |
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The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
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Grantee: STAND, INC.
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Decatur, GA |
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Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework |
SP013423 |
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Congressional District: GA-04 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $254,320
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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.
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Grantee: RECOVERY CONSULTANTS OF ATLANTA, INC.
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Decatur, GA |
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Program: Minority HIV Prevention |
SP015043 |
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Congressional District: GA-04 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $335,333
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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.
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Grantee: WHOLISTIC STRESS CONTROL INSTITUTE, INC.
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Atlanta, GA |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP011365 |
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Congressional District: GA-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $100,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2009 |
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The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
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Grantee: GEORGIA COUNCIL ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE
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Atlanta, GA |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP013074 |
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Congressional District: GA-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $99,811
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010 |
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The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
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Grantee: GENESIS PREVENTION COALITION, INC.
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Atlanta, GA |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP012981 |
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Congressional District: GA-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $100,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010 |
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The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
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Grantee: WHOLISTIC STRESS CONTROL INSTITUTE, INC.
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Atlanta, GA |
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Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework |
SP013435 |
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Congressional District: GA-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $254,320
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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.
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Grantee: MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
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Atlanta, GA |
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Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework |
SP013334 |
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Congressional District: GA-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $254,320
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010 |
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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.
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Grantee: WHOLISTIC STRESS CONTROL INSTITUTE, INC.
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Atlanta, GA |
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Program: Minority HIV Prevention |
SP015209 |
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Congressional District: GA-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $335,333
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013 |
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The 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.
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Grantee: GEORGIA STATE DEPT OF HUMAN RESOURCES
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Atlanta, GA |
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Program: Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants |
SP013915 |
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Congressional District: GA-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $2,093,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011 |
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Through extensive collaboration at the state and local levels, a Georgia Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant (SPF SIG) will build a data-driven prevention system that provides tools/supports for prevention and health promotion, create unified structures for local planning and programming; and provide guided funding for local delivery of evidence-based prevention strategies across the state. Partnerships formed under the SPF SIG will foster redesigning of the prevention system to attain the goals of 1) reduced substance use, delayed onset of use, including underage drinking, and 3) reduced child welfare, public health and other societal problems associated with substance use and abuse.
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Grantee: GEORGIA MARTIAL ARTS FOUNDATION, INC.
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Cumming, GA |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP011601 |
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Congressional District: GA-07 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $100,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2009 |
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The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
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Grantee: GWINNETT COALITION/HEALTH & HUMAN SRVS
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Lawrenceville, GA |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP014421 |
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Congressional District: GA-07 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $100,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012 |
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The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
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Grantee: GWINNETT COALITION/HEALTH & HUMAN SRVS
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Lawrenceville, GA |
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Program: Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act Grants |
SP015372 |
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Congressional District: GA-07 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $50,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2012 |
The purpose of the Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking (STOP) Act grant program is to prevent and reduce alcohol use among youth in communities throughout the United States. The STOP Act grant program will encourage existing local community coalitions to develop, assess, and implement effective strategies to prevent and reduce underage drinking. Strategoies may include: changing local attitudes and norms, and re-evaluating existing laws and policies.
(1) Grantee must participate in national evaluation activities of the STOP grant program.
(2) STOP Grantees must use the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF), a five step evidence based process for community planning and decision-making. The five step rocess includes: needs assessment, capacity building, planning, implementation and evaluation.
(3) STOP grantees must plan and implement a comprehensive approach inclusive of multiple strategies as emphasized in the 2007 Surgeon General's Call to Action to prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking located online at: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/underage drinking/calltoaction.pdf Emphasis should be given to environmental strategies that incorporate prevention efforts aimed at changing or influencing community conditions, standards, institutions, structures, systems and policies. In addition, grantees must select strategies that lead to long term outcomes.
(4) STOP grantees must enhance, not supplant, effective local community initiatives for preventing and reducing alcohol use among youth. For current Drug Free Community grantees, STOP ACT foods can not be used to supplant or replace activities that are presently being supported by Drug Free Comunity funds, and , separate DFC and STOP ACT accouting systems must be maintained for the purposes of reporting.
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Grantee: HALL COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
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Gainesville, GA |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP014608 |
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Congressional District: GA-09 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $125,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013 |
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The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
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Grantee: COBB COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE
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Marietta, GA |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP011423 |
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Congressional District: GA-11 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $100,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2009 |
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The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
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Grantee: BRYAN COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
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Pembroke, GA |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP014806 |
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Congressional District: GA-12 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $124,981
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013 |
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The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
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Grantee: BULLOCH COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
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Statesboro, GA |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP014413 |
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Congressional District: GA-12 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $97,202
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Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012 |
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The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
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Grantee: TOOMBS COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
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Lyons, GA |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP014239 |
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Congressional District: GA-12 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $100,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012 |
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The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
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Grantee: OSBORNE PREVENTION TASK FORCE, INC.
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Marietta, GA |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP011679 |
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Congressional District: GA-13 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $100,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2009 |
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The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
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Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)
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Grantee: NEW HORIZONS COMMUNITY SERVICE BOARD
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Columbus, GA |
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Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS |
TI019832 |
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Congressional District: GA-03 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $450,000
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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.
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Grantee: STAND, INC.
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Decatur, GA |
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Program: Adult Criminial Justice Treatment |
TI020429 |
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Congressional District: GA-04 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $400,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011 |
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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.
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Grantee: INTEGRATED LIFE CENTER, INC.
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Stone Mountain, GA |
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Program: Treatment for Homeless - Homeless |
TI018282 |
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Congressional District: GA-04 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $390,899
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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.
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Grantee: RECOVERY CONSULTANTS OF ATLANTA, INC.
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Decatur, GA |
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Program: Treatment for Homeless Supportive Services |
TI020628 |
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Congressional District: GA-04 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $400,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013 |
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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.
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Grantee: RECOVERY CONSULTANTS OF ATLANTA, INC.
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Decatur, GA |
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Program: Recovery Community Support - Recovery |
TI018114 |
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Congressional District: GA-04 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $350,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2010 |
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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.
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Grantee: WESTCARE GEORGIA, INC.
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Stone Mountain, GA |
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Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS |
TI018625 |
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Congressional District: GA-04 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $400,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012 |
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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.
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Grantee: DEKALB COUNTY GEORGIA
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Decatur, GA |
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Program: Adult Treatment Drug Courts |
TI019971 |
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Congressional District: GA-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $299,771
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011 |
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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.
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Grantee: MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
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Atlanta, GA |
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Program: Addiction Technology Transfer Center |
TI013589 |
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Congressional District: GA-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $600,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012 |
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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.
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Grantee: MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
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Atlanta, GA |
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Program: Historically Black Colleges and Univ. National Resource Center |
TI020447 |
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Congressional District: GA-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $500,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011 |
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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.
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Grantee: GEORGIA STATE DEPT OF HUMAN RESOURCES
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Atlanta, GA |
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Program: SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral & Treatment) |
TI019542 |
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Congressional District: GA-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $2,519,992
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013 |
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The Georgia BASICS program will implement targeted SBIRT services in the emergency departments and outpatient primary care clinics of Georgia's two largest medical facilities: Grady Health System in Atlanta and the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon. It is expected that there will be a 25% increase in the level of detection of substance use problems and disorders. The project expects to screen 356,010 clients over the life of the project using the ASSIST and CRAFFT, brief intervention and referral to specialty services. The goals are to increase the proportion of persons at these institutions receiving services following screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment; and develop an expanded and trained workforce with SBIRT competencies.
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Grantee: SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA
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Atlanta, GA |
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Program: TCE Rural Populations |
TI017196 |
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Congressional District: GA-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $312,528
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Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009 |
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With the Tallapoosa Methamphetamine Intervention Project (TMIP), the Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit Court of the Courts of Georgia will expand and enhance treatment services in the underserved rural Northwest Georgia counties of Polk and Haralson so that the communities have the ability to provide a comprehensive, integrated, community-based, appropriate, and effective response to the increasing problem of methamphetamine (MA) use. The project will: 1) increase access to services and resources for the target population and their families; 2) increase the availability of much needed resources in the underserved area; 3) prevent future substance abuse by the children (and other family members) through provision of service delivery to the entire family through the program participants.
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Grantee: FULTON COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
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Atlanta, GA |
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Program: CSAT 2008 EARMARKS |
TI019647 |
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Congressional District: GA-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $95,305
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Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2009 |
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Project Excell will enable the Fulton County Department of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities & Addictive Diseases (MH/DD/AD) to increase the number of homeless males suffering from co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders in intensive outpatient treatment. Up to 40 homeless individuals per month will be assessed and referred and 60 will be engaged in intensive outpatient treatment annually. The project will collaborate with various homeless shelters in the Atlanta/Fulton County area. Excell staff will visit these homeless shelters three times a week to discuss the program with potential participants and provide referrals. They will also provide information about the Matrix Treatment Model, mental health treatment, developmental disability services and other community resources available to homeless males with mental health issues.
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Grantee: COBB COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD
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Smyrna, GA |
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Program: Young Offender Reentry Program (YORP) 2004 |
TI017095 |
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Congressional District: GA-05 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $448,088
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Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2009 |
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The Center for Adolescent Wellness will provide both systems linkage and treatment services to sentenced substance-abusing juveniles (between the ages of 14 and 18) who are returning to their families from adult or juvenile incarceration. Collaboration with key stakeholders, best practice interventions (Chestnut Health Systems Bloomington's Out Patient and Intensive Outpatient Programs and Assertive Continuing Care) and varying modalities of treatment that include residential substance abuse treatment, intensive outpatient, and community-based treatment will address current deficits in care for sentenced substance-abusing juveniles. This program will have both treatment and systems linkages components. Systems linkages and treatment services are grounded in scientific theories and best practice guidelines related to substance abuse and criminal behavior among youth.
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