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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)

COLORADO

Grantee: Colorado Department of Human Services Denver, CO
Program: Disaster Relief SM000254
Congressional District: CO-01
FY 2009 Funding: $419,394
Project Period: 11/01/2008 - 08/31/2009
  
Grantee: FEDERATION OF FAMILIES FOR CHILD HEALTH Denver, CO
Program: Statewide Family Networks SM057915
Congressional District: CO-01
FY 2009 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
The Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health - Colorado Chapter (Colorado Federation) will serve families of children with serious emotional disturbance, family organizations, and family advocates in the State of Colorado.
Project's goals:
1. Family members will be able to increase thier access to the public mental health system and will be able to navigate their way through the system.
2. Family members will be recognized as experts on their children
3. Youth will be heard and will actively participate in their own mental health care.
Objectives:
1. Local community familly orgaizations will enhave their infrasturcture
2 Increase the abilities and skill level of local family community orgaizations
3. Increase the effectiveness of family involvement on policy-making boards
4. Youth will increase their skills and ability to participate in their own care

Colorado Federation working with local community family organizations and family advocates in four targeted regions in Colorado: Metro Denver, the Western Slope, Southern Colorado and Southwestern San Luis Valley. Colorado Federation will distribute a needs assessement concerning the the infrastructure needs of local family organizations, and develop a technical assistance training plan. Colorado Federation will work with service providers concerning how to better incorporate familiy members on their policy making boards.
  
Grantee: COLORADO MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION Denver, CO
Program: State Data Infrastructure Grants SM058085
Congressional District: CO-01
FY 2009 Funding: $142,200
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
The new Data and Evaluation Steering Committee will have a broader membership than by providing input into the planning, development, oversight, refinement, and evaluation of performance indicators and infrastructure development through inclusion of executive and clinical staff as well as technical staff from the provider network. Projects that are nearing or have been completed include web-based data submission for the Colorado Client Assessment Record (CCAR) and report writing capability through the LogiXML Report Writer. Web-based technology will also be developed for Encounter data submission and, potentially, administration of the MHSIP and YSSF surveys.
  
Grantee: DENVER DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES Denver, CO
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-Treatment Centers (2007) SM058184
Congressional District: CO-01
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2011
The Denver-Kempe Trauma Collaboration will make Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) available to abused and neglected children birth to three years of age and their families from within Denver's Child Welfare System. We plan to adapt and fully integrate CPP into our city-wide community-based services network and, more-broadly, to develop our Center as a resource young maltreated children and their families in child welfare and mental health systems. We intend to embed CPP in our community-based network so they will adopt CPP and ensure it is delivered in conjunction with neighborhood-based services. Our four goals are to 1) Develop and Deepen the Collaboration, 2) Adapt and Pilot the Intervention, 3) Implement the Intervention, and 4) Sustain the Program and establish the Collaboration as a Resource.
  
Grantee: COLORADO MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION Denver, CO
Program: Jail Diversion SM058806
Congressional District: CO-01
FY 2009 Funding: $403,194
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
The Colorado Diversion of Veterans with Co-occurring and Trauma disorders to Recovery Project (CD-VCTR) is a progressive collaboration between a wide array of local, state and federal partners. This project will provide jail diversion services to the rapidly growing population of US Veterans within Colorado, directly linking those veterans to treatment services that will support recovery from a range of trauma spectrum disorders (including co-occurring substance abuse). CD-VCTR Project's mission is to decrease the number of US Veterans, with trauma spectrum disorders, entering the Criminal Justice System in Colorado and assure that these individuals receive appropriate treatment and care for their identified trauma disorders. Jail diversion and increased behavioral health services within the criminal justice system is a state identified priority (Governor Ritter's FY0809 Budget Proposal, State Strategic Plan). The project has identified three primary goals: 1) Identify and address state and local system barriers preventing US Veterans with trauma spectrum mental illnesses entering the criminal justice system from obtaining the necessary treatments and care required for recovery; 2) Identify and address system barriers that prevent the public behavioral health system and the criminal justice system from working together effectively and efficiently in early identification and assessment of US Veterans with trauma spectrum disorders within the criminal justice system to assure proper placement and treatment; and 3) Illustrate the effectiveness of a jail diversion pilot program that provides services at Intercept 1 Emergency Services and Intercept 2 Pre-arraignment or at initial court hearing. The Project's target population is US veterans with trauma related disorders involved, or at significant risk for involvement, with the criminal justice system. Pilot sites are Denver and Colorado Spring with 1540 veterans receiving services over the five year program.
  
Grantee: MERCY HOUSING COLORADO Denver, CO
Program: Supportive Housing SM059103
Congressional District: CO-01
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
The population of focus for the Aromor Behavioral Health Supportive Housing Project is homeless and chronically homeless young adults and adults with mental health disorders, substance use disorders (SUDs), and co-occurring disorders. Addictions Research and Treatment Services (ARTS) will offer a range of services for mental illness, SUDs, and co-occurring disorders, from education and wellness activities to intensive treatment. Five evidence-based practices will form the cornerstone of the ARTS services. Mercy Housing Colorado will offer intensive case management and some wrap-around services. A number of additional partners and collaborators are providing outreach, wrap-around, and recovery support services. The major goals for the project are to serve a minimum of 436 persons over the five-year term of the project, to increase the availability and accessibility of behavioral health services for residents, to demonstrate high rates of engagement and retention in permanent housing and services, and to deliver services that are evaluated as leading to multiple positive client outcomes.
  
Grantee: COLORADO STATE DEPT OF HUMAN SERVICES Denver, CO
Program: Supportive Housing SM059119
Congressional District: CO-01
FY 2009 Funding: $249,201
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
The Colorado Springs Shelter Plus Care Services Enhancement Project will focus on providing enhanced treatment, case management, outreach and engagement, vocational assistance and benefits acquisition to a minimum of 17 chronically homeless individuals and families participating in the program during the first year, increasing to 37 households in year five.
The project has five primary goals and associated objectives: (1) Program
Engagement & Enrollment; (2) Residential Stability; (3) Improved Mental Health Status; (4) Increased Vocational Skills or Income (5) Established Recover Goals.
  
Grantee: COLORADO STATE DEPT/PUB HLTH & ENVIRONMT Denver, CO
Program: Youth Suicide Prevention & Early Intervention - Cooperative Agreement State-Sponsored SM059168
Congressional District: CO-01
FY 2009 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
The Office of Suicide Prevention (OSP) in the Injury, Suicide and Violence Prevention (ISVP) Unit of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) is coordinating Project Safety Net, a comprehensive suicide prevention initiative in seven Colorado communities. The initiative primarily targets parents, caregivers and other adults working with youth ages 10-17 in the following target populations: 1) Hispanic/Latino (a) youth; 2) LGBTQ youth; 3) youth in the juvenile justice system; and, 4) youth enrolled in the child welfare system. The OSP will select seven Colorado counties/regions through a competitive request forproposals process open to 21 of Colorado's 64 counties that have suicide death rates above theU.S. rate and/or hospitalization rates above the Colorado rate for 10-17 year olds. Participating communities will work with a local coalition and with a subcommittee advisory council of the Suicide Prevention Coalition of Colorado (SPCC); will create and disseminate cross-system referral and follow-up protocols for treatment and/or care of suicidal youth; will train gatekeepers in the Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) and the Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) training; and will work with a marketing specialist to create public awareness campaigns targeting potential suicide interveners Project Safety Net will accomplish the following four goals during the three years of the cooperative agreement:
Goal One: Build capacity at the state and local levels for providing culturally competent suicide intervention and prevention services to youth.
Goal Two: Improve the ability of adults in the community to respond to suicide risk among Hispanic/Latino (a) and LBGTQ youth, and among youth involved in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems.
Goal Three: Ensure that youth identified as suicidal are referred to and receive appropriate services in their communities.
Goal Four: Determine the effectiveness of Project Safety Net
  
Grantee: COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS Denver, CO
Program: Supportive Housing SM059216
Congressional District: CO-01
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
The purpose of this project is to improve housing stability among chronically homeless adults with mental illness or co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders who live in supportive housing projects managed by Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. The Renaissance Services Enhancement Team's (ReSET) aim is to help chronically homeless persons maintain their tenure in the permanent supportive housing slots through the timely and coordinated provision of services, supports and resources tailored to each individual's specific needs. Over the five-year project period, ReSET plans to deliver services to a total of 180 unduplicated persons, with about 100 participants at any one time.
  
Grantee: MENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF DENVER Denver, CO
Program: Primary Care & Behavioral Health Integration SM059606
Congressional District: CO-01
FY 2009 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2013
The Mental Health Center of Denver (MMCD) and three system partners will develop the Promoting Resources for Integrated Care and Recovery Plus (PRICARe Plus). Project partners include Denver Health, which operates the nation's largest federally qualified health center and is Colorado's largest safety net health care provider; the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver, and Colorado Access, a health maintenance organization that specializes in public sector populations. PRICARe Plus will provide primary care services through a Denver Health nurse practitioner who will supervised by a Denver Health family physician with extensive experience in providing medical care for individuals with SW.
  
Grantee: COLORADO STATE JUDICIAL BRANCH Denver, CO
Program: Community TX & Service Ctrs of the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative SM059629
Congressional District: CO-01
FY 2009 Funding: $394,816
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
The Trauma Project, Denver Juvenile and Family Treatment for Safer Communities (TASC) and the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect (Kempe) will implement a standard protocol to identify, screen, assess, and treat children and youth of substance abusing parents for exposure to trauma as part of a comprehensive prevention and intervention approach for families involved in Denver's justice system. Sixty families will be served in Year 1, and 70 each in Years 2 and 3. The target population is 55% Latino; 20% African American; 23% Anglo; and 2% other. The project will develop and implement a standardized protocol to screen and assess drug endangered children and adolescents for trauma issues and to provide Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) to treat trauma and trauma related-symptoms.

  
Grantee: TRINIDAD STATE JUNIOR COLLEGE Trinidad, CO
Program: Campus Suicide SM058450
Congressional District: CO-03
FY 2009 Funding: $74,354
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
Trinidad State Junior College, established in 1925, is a comprehensive, Hispanic-serving, Colorado, two-year rural community college. Trinidad State Junior College (TSJC), is proposing the Suicide Prevention Outreach and Education (SPOE) Project to address the need for suicide prevention, education and unified referral among a rural eight county region of Southern Colorado. The college student population is 38% Hispanic and 42% minority. The target population includes students aged 16-25, education staff and faculty and community gatekeepers including health and mental health providers. These populations encompass a broad spectrum of students and professionals in the education, health and mental health arena. It is the intent of the SPOE to develop and coordinate a multi pronged effort intended to positively impact the region. The SPOE Project Goals include:
1. To develop a coordinated and knowledgeable suicide prevention network coalition infrastructure among mental health, high school, college and community gatekeepers in the region;
2. To develop social marketing campaigns to de-stigmatize mental disorders and increase help-seeking behavior among students by offering activities and materials to at least 800 students; and
3. To provide training for at least 50 faculty, staff and administrators to increase the number of trained gatekeepers in the community.
  
Grantee: COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY-FORT COLLINS Fort Collins, CO
Program: Community TX & Service Ctrs of the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative SM059574
Congressional District: CO-04
FY 2009 Funding: $399,253
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
Recognizing collaboration as a key strategy in providing effective intervention services, the Prevention, Empowerment, and Resiliency Collaborative (PERC) Center will be established to address the needs of children, youth, and families from four neighborhoods in Fort Collins, CO where trauma is precipitated by chronic poverty, community violence, child maltreatment, and the immigration experience. The PERC Center will advance the provision of culturally appropriate, evidence-based treatment and care for youth impacted by trauma by collaborating with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) treatment centers, mental health organizations and child welfare systems to implement and evaluate two evidence-based trauma interventions [Trauma Adapted - Family Connections (TA-FC) and Culturally-Modified - Trauma Focused Treatment (CM-TFT)]. Grounded in the principle of building on the strengths and developing the capacity of youth, families, and neighborhoods to facilitate recover and promote resilience, the PERC Center proposes to serve between 400-600 youth and family members during the 3-year grant cycle. To assure significant positive impact on youth and families in the target communities, the project will emphasize project accountability and continuous assessment of objectives and outcomes
  
Grantee: PACIFIC CLINICS Arcadia, CO
Program: 2009 CMHS EARMARKS SM059385
Congressional District: CO-28
FY 2009 Funding: $466,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2010
This Latina Youth Suicide Prevention Programs provides prevention and early intervention to Middle and High School youth ages 11-18 who are at-risk of gang involvement, substance abuse, suicide, and depressive/mood disorders; provides education and support to parents, school staff, and the community decreasing the stigma associated with mental illness and empowering them to become a stable force in the lives of young Latinos.
  

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)

Grantee: GREATER DENVER INTERFAITH ALLIANCE Denver, CO
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP013337
Congressional District: CO-01
FY 2009 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
Greater Denver Interfaith Alliance in Denver, CO has received a 5 year Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) grant to provide substance abuse prevention and HIV and Hepatitis prevention services to minority populations and minority reentry populations.

The Greater Denver Interfaith Alliance, in collaboration with an array of community-based organizations, provider and government agencies, faith-based institutions and other key community stakeholders, is proposing to implement Project Redemption, a community-based initiative focused on preventing substance abuse, HIV/AIDS and hepatitis in low-income communities of color in the city and county of Denver.
The mission of this project and its related goals are:

To develop, enhance and sustain the capacity of the community partnership led by the Greater Denver Interfaith Alliance to deliver culturally competent, effective and integrated substance abuse, HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis prevention intervention services for high-risk youth and adults in the city and county of Denver.
  
Grantee: COLORADO STATE JUDICIAL BRANCH Denver, CO
Program: Prevention of Methamphetamine Abuse SP014018
Congressional District: CO-01
FY 2009 Funding: $98,833
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 03/31/2010
The Denver Juvenile and Family Court Methamphetamine Prevention Initiative will engage justice-involved youth of methamphetamine-abusing parents and their families in a comprehensive substance abuse prevention program geared toward preventing methamphetamine abuse and addiction. The program will also address the need for a coordinated community methamphetamine prevention strategy in Denver, Colorado.
  
Grantee: COLORADO STATE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR Denver, CO
Program: SCPI-Partnership for Success SP016273
Congressional District: CO-01
FY 2009 Funding: $2,300,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
The Colorado Prevention Partnerships for Success (CPPS) project employs a public health approach to demonstrate positive statewide change among 12 - 17 year olds in underage and binge drinking rates and in the binge drinking disparity for Latino Youth. The CPPS will continue to integrate the Strategic Prevention Framework within Colorado's State Prevention System to ensure measurable and sustainalbe substance abuse prevention outcomes.
  
Grantee: EAGLE RIVER YOUTH COALITION Avon, CO
Program: Drug Free Communities SP015882
Congressional District: CO-02
FY 2009 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing 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: BOULDER COUNTY BD OF CNTY COMMISSIONERS Boulder, CO
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013109
Congressional District: CO-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: SAN LUIS VALLEY COMP CMTY MTL HLTH CTR Alamosa, CO
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012369
Congressional District: CO-03
FY 2009 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2013
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
  
Grantee: MONTEZUMA COUNTY PARTNERS, INC. Cortez, CO
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012944
Congressional District: CO-03
FY 2009 Funding: $99,900
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: PEER ASSISTANCE SERVICES, INC. Denver, CO
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP013416
Congressional District: CO-03
FY 2009 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
A collaborative involving several faith and community based service organizations, the Colorado Department of Corrections, the Colorado Department of Health and Environment, City/County of Denver, Denver Health, and The Children's Hospital has formed to address substance abuse, HIV / AIDS, and Hepatitis prevention activities in minority communities. The project will focus increased coordination, resource sharing, and systems change to improve service delivery.

The collaboration will seek to increase coordination of services for African Americans, Latinos, and Native American communities, including those in reentry by promoting a unified approach from substance abuse, HIV / AIDS, and Hepatitis prevention systems that now often operate in isolation from each other. A steering committee will implement a comprehensive needs assessment in the first year of the project. Results of the strategic planning will be implemented during subsequent years using Prevention Case Management, Screening, Brief Intervention/Referral, and other model programs selected through a community forum and work group approach that includes individuals from the target communities in the decision making process.

Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities, a case management approach for individuals in reentry with an increased risk for alcohol or other drug abuse, will be the primary focus of the effort with the minority population in reentry and will develop an approach that integrates Hepatitis and HIV screening and referral into its current substance abuse screening and referral services, providing the model for expansion to other service providers. At the same time the larger city and state systems will explore ways to coordinate substance abuse, HIV / AIDS, and Hepatitis prevention and treatment so that clients receiving services for anyone of the concerns will be consistently screened and tested for the other two concerns.
  
Grantee: GUNNISON COUNTY Gunnison, CO
Program: Drug Free Communities SP015650
Congressional District: CO-03
FY 2009 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
  
Grantee: TEAM FORT COLLINS Fort Collins, CO
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013084
Congressional District: CO-04
FY 2009 Funding: $77,737
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: COUNTY OF TELLER Cripple Creek, CO
Program: Drug Free Communities SP011614
Congressional District: CO-05
FY 2009 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2014
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
  
Grantee: COUNTY OF LAKE Leadville, CO
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012441
Congressional District: CO-05
FY 2009 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2013
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
  
Grantee: COUNTY OF CHAFFEE Salida, CO
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012442
Congressional District: CO-05
FY 2009 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2013
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
  

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)

Grantee: MENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF DENVER Denver, CO
Program: Treatment for Homeless - Homeless TI018161
Congressional District: CO-01
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
The Mental Health Center of Denver (MHCD), in collaboration with local and state partners, is proposing the development of the Growth and Recovery Opportunities for Women Project (GROW). GROW will provide access to trauma-informed intensive outpatient treatment and supportive services for women who are chronically homeless and who have co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders in Denver, Colorado.
  
Grantee: COLORADO STATE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR Denver, CO
Program: SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral & Treatment) TI018302
Congressional District: CO-01
FY 2009 Funding: $2,800,000
Project Period: 09/15/2006 - 09/14/2011
Colorado will develop and implement a screening, brief intervention and referral for treatment (SBIRT) model program that will set the stage for continuation and expansion statewide. The program will be placed in hospitals, as well as community- and school-based clinics as a routine procedure within the service delivery systems, fostering a bridge between the general medical and substance abuse treatment delivery systems. The project will develop a comprehensive system for effectively identifying the level of treatment need for individuals through universal screening, and provide continued support for those in need of some level of treatment. Special emphasis will be placed on brief intervention and brief treatment models that address the needs of individuals who are abusing substances, but have not yet developed a dependency. A multi-disciplinary team will provide universal screening in hospital emergency departments and school and community health clinics. Bi-lingual paraprofessionals will deliver the screening and report findings to the medical team for one of the following:
1. Patients with low or no risk will be reinforced for demonstrating good judgment concerning the use of alcohol and other drugs.
2. Patients with moderate risk will receive a brief motivational intervention from the medical staff discussing the potential harm from their use of alcohol or other drugs and available resources.
3. Patients with a high risk will receive a brief motivational intervention by the medical staff and a referral to a substance abuse specialist for further assessment to determine the need for brief or more intense treatment.
  
Grantee: EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM, INC. Denver, CO
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI018848
Congressional District: CO-01
FY 2009 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
The Empowerment Program (Denver) will enhance and expand drug treatment and HIV/AIDS prevention services. The enhancement involves using the Seeking Safety curriculum to provide concurrent drug treatment and trauma services to women who are drug dependent and chronically relapse in treatment. These services will reach 200 women annually many of whom will have been released from prison and jail within the past 2 years. Over five years, the program expects to expand intensive outpatient treatment services to 1,000 women. In addition, women who have dependent children will be encouraged to attend Parent Child Interaction groups with their children to help their children with any trauma or neglect they may have experienced due to an unstable, dangerous environments they were exposed to when their mothers were drug involved.
  
Grantee: COLORADO STATE JUDICIAL BRANCH Denver, CO
Program: TCE-Other Populations & Emerging Substance Abuse Issues Category TI019277
Congressional District: CO-01
FY 2009 Funding: $487,560
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
Safe Families Treatment and Recovery Project The Denver Juvenile and Family Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities (TASC) will expand and enhance methamphetamine treatment options for justice involved pregnant and parenting women with co-occurring mental health issues and their families. The Safe Families project will integrate evidence-based, culturally competent treatment and family strengthening programs with a coordinated system of care to move participants toward sustained recovery. TASC and partnering community-based treatment providers will deliver the Matrix Model, an outpatient treatment program that has proven effective with methamphetamine addiction, to 150 methamphetamine-affected women per year, representing a total expansion of treatment services by 450 women and families over three years. Fifty- five percent of these women are Latina, 35% Anglo and 10% African American. All have co-occurring mental health and methamphetamine abuse disorders; all families are actively involved with the court and social service systems.
  
Grantee: COLORADO STATE DEPT OF HUMAN SERVICES Denver, CO
Program: Access to Recovery TI019433
Congressional District: CO-01
FY 2009 Funding: $4,575,202
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
Access Colorado will enhance treatment and recovery support services in Colorado to ensure successful completion of substance abuse treatment and reduce the potential for relapse. Access Colorado will partner with a network of Employee Assistance Program (EAP) clinicians to provide an in-depth assessment and referral process based on consumer choice, while also building collaborations to increase and improve services. The EAP clinician will work with the client and with a consumer advocate to identify and provide information about treatment providers, recovery support services, and additional wrap-around services that best meet the client's needs. Individuals will access the EAP clinician based on a brief screening though a toll-free number or website. The target population for this program is adolescents and young adults, ages 12-25, as they have the greatest unmet need for treatment in the state. CO ranks as sixth highest in adolescent illicit drug use in the nation.
  
Grantee: MENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF DENVER Denver, CO
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI019881
Congressional District: CO-01
FY 2009 Funding: $450,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
The coalition of Denver community agencies proposes to develop the Denver SA/HIV tx program which will expand and enhance integrated substance abuse and mental health treatment services for 570 youth (ages 16-24 years) who are infected with or at high risk for contracting HIV. The program will target African-American and Latino youth with co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders. HIV rates for members of these ethnic groups are increasing rapidly and young people with co-occurring diagnoses are at high risk for HIV infection due to behaviors and characteristics associated with their age group and their dual disorders.
  
Grantee: COLORADO STATE JUDICIAL BRANCH Denver, CO
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI019913
Congressional District: CO-01
FY 2009 Funding: $447,579
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
Denver Juvenile and Family Treatment Accountability for Safer Communites will expand and enhance substance abuse outreach, pretreatment and treatment in conjunction with HIV/AIDS services among predominantly minority substance-abusing females on probation. Project Hope integrates strengths-based case management, incentives, supports and culturallly competent age and gender-specific evidence-based services to engage and retain this high risk population. Project HOPE will provide evidence-based HIV interventions to 150 individuals in Year 1 and 200 each in Years 2-5. Over 5 years, Project HOPE will serve 950 unduplicated individuals.
  
Grantee: MILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOLISM/DRUG ABUSE Denver, CO
Program: Treatment for Homeless Supportive Services TI020673
Congressional District: CO-01
FY 2009 Funding: $399,977
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
The Mile High Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse and Urban Peak Denver propose the development of Beat the Street, a project that targets homeless and at-risk young adults in the Denver metro area with substance abuse, mental illness or co-occurring disorders. The purpose of the project is to improve youth's residential stability and self-sufficiency by integrating age-appropriate housing and supportive services with individualized substance abuse and mental health treatment. The evidence-based interventions to be implemented include Strengths-Based Case Management, Stages of Change/Motivational Interviewing, supportive housing, and outreach and brief interventions. It is anticipated that 230 unduplicated clients will be served during the 5 year project period.
  
Grantee: COLORADO STATE JUDICIAL BRANCH Denver, CO
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment TI020910
Congressional District: CO-01
FY 2009 Funding: $299,694
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/30/2012
Denver Juvenile and Family Treatment Accountabilities for Safer Communities will implement Motivation for Adolescents in Transition, an individualized treatment and recovery program for adolescent and transition-age court-involved males and their families. MAT will use A-CRA/ACC along with legal incentives, intensive supervision and wraparound supports to meet the cultural, developmental and context-specific needs of a high-risk, treatment-resistant population. Project goals are to provide direct evidence-based substance abuse treatment and wraparound recovery support services to 225 juvenile/transition-age male offenders who are most likely to be subsequently incarcerated and their families. Measurable objectives include: completion of training and certification in GAIN, A-CRA and ACC; achievement of service numbers for treatment and recovery services, including referrals/service provision to family members and children; provision of incentives for all participants; retention targets; decreased substance abuse (during and after treatment); decreased recidivism and incarceration; and measurable positive bio-psychosocial functioning, including improved positive social behavior, peer relationships and family functioning. The project will also seek to enhance treatment capacity for an underserved population while increasing coordination across agencies working with court-involved adolescent and transition-age males.
  
Grantee: COLORADO STATE DEPT OF THE JUDICIARY Denver, CO
Program: Juvenile Drug Courts TI020921
Congressional District: CO-01
FY 2009 Funding: $198,915
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2013
The Denver Youth Development Court (DYDC) will enhance current functioning by incorporating the Reclaiming Futures screening, assessment and treatment components to meet the context-specific treatment and continuing care needs of this target population. This program will provide the Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (ACRA) and Assertive Continuing Care, (ACC) model to 200 court-involved youth ages 12 to 17 and their families over a 4 year period. ACRA/ACC certified clinicians located in client neighborhoods will deliver treatment services aid supports that respond to each client's substance abuse issues, developmental stage and life circumstances. Additionally, DYDC will utilize a family centered probation model that combines supervision and support for all family members in need. This program will also integrate current innovations including its Denver Police Department Law Enforcement Advocacy (LEA) program to provide community accountability and mentoring support for project participants.
  
Grantee: EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM, INC. Denver, CO
Program: Treatment for Homeless Supportive Services TI021671
Congressional District: CO-01
FY 2009 Funding: $350,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
The Empowerment Program proposes to provide outreach, case management, intensive outpatient substance abuse and/or mental health and trauma services for chronically homeless women, many of whom have been involved in the criminal justice system and have been recently released from jails or prisons to the streets. Some are involved in survival sex in order to find places to sleep, food or drugs and are the targets of sexual assault and other violence on the streets. The Empowerment Program will use a holistic approach to treatment that includes meditation, yoga, mindfulness, the Sanctuary model and an overall trauma informed approach to services for this population. Intensive case management and dialectical behavioral therapy will help women break out of years of drug addiction, mental illness and homelessness. Housing will be provided through Empowerment's inventory of apartments and in conjunction with other housing resources in the community. Fifty homeless women will be enrolled and provided comprehensive services in the first year of the grant and 40 additional women annually in the second through fifth years of the grant, for a total of 210 for the life of the grant. The demographics of the target population will include: African American (30%), Latina 30%, Native American Indian (10%), Asian-Pacific Islander (5%) and White (25%), 20% of whom will be between the ages of 18 and 24, and 80% will be 25 years and older. 70% of the target population will be single parents, 50% of whom might not have custody or contact with their children, and the other half will have custody, have a primary parenting role in their children's lives, or working on regaining custody of their children from the child protection services.
  
Grantee: COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS Denver, CO
Program: Treatment for Homeless - Homeless TI021813
Congressional District: CO-01
FY 2009 Funding: $350,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless (CCH) in Denver, Colorado, proposes to develop and implement a Dual Disorder Outreach Team (DDOT) that will focus on homeless adults ages 18 and over who are chronic public inebriates including those who have co-occurring mental health and/or medical disorders. The project will expand and strengthen treatment services for these individuals by integrating outreach brief interventions, case management, housing and a variety of evidence-based substance abuse and mental health treatment interventions. The overall purpose of the DDOT is: to improve participants' health status and quality of life and reduce substance use and the burden on Denver's public services by expanding and strengthening services and support for homeless Denver adults who are chronic public inebriates.
  
Grantee: CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER Denver, CO
Program: Adult Treatment Drug Courts TI021884
Congressional District: CO-01
FY 2009 Funding: $284,933
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
The Denver Approach for Recovery Through Treatment (DARTT) program's intent is to immediately divert individuals with substance abuse disorders and co-occurring mental health issues at the time that they initially come into contact with the criminal justice system. This program is designed to provide Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment (IDDT), an evidence-based substance abuse treatment model, within a Strengths-Based Intensive Case Management (S-BICM) team approach. S-BICM is based on the promising practice of Assertive Community Treatment. Approximately 63 unduplicated individuals will receive services over the life of the three-year project. Goals for this project include: (1) Building a sustainable collaborative infrastructure to ensure cross-system coordination between probation, law enforcement, courts and treatment, housing, employment and other support services to address existing service gaps for the probation population with co-occurring substance abuse disorders and (2) Reducing incarceration by increasing client access to and engagement with a multidisciplinary network of treatment and supportive services delivered using evidence- based practices. Key objectives include streamlining the referral process for the drug court treatment system, developing a system-wide sustainability and strategic plan, reducing recidivism by 70% and improving substance abuse, mental health, housing and employment outcomes.
  
Grantee: ARAPAHOE HOUSE, INC. Thornton, CO
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment TI017744
Congressional District: CO-02
FY 2009 Funding: $299,999
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
Arapahoe House, Inc. proposes to increase community capacity in the metro Denver area to provide family-focused, evidence-based treatment by implementing and evaluating a continuing care intervention entitled Assertive Continuing Care for Adolescents (ACCA) for youth aged 12-18 with co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders and their families. The Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach and Assertive Continuing Care (ACRA/ACC) models will be used.
  
Grantee: ARAPAHOE HOUSE, INC. Thornton, CO
Program: E-Therapy Category TI019311
Congressional District: CO-02
FY 2009 Funding: $499,997
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
Arapahoe House, Inc. of metro Denver proposes to enhance and expand its continuum of services by establishing E-TREAT, an electronic-therapy intervention based on Motivational Interviewing and Transtheoretical Stages of Change theories. The purpose of the proposed project is to implement, evaluate, and refine a blended human and technological intervention to enhance motivation to change substance abuse behaviors, to improve engagement and retention rates, and ultimately improve treatment effectiveness. E-TREAT will address treatment capacity problems caused by long wait periods and client "no shows" by focusing on barriers faced by adult clients who are awaiting entry to traditional treatment or transitioning between treatment modalities. ETREAT will serve 400 adults entering residential or outpatient services over a three-year period (117 in both Years 1 and 3; 166 in Year 2). During Year 2, a Spanish language ETREAT will be launched. E-TREAT will supplement the existing AH continuum of social detoxification, residential and outpatient treatment, blending human interaction via a Recovery Coach with a range of resources using Internet and wireless communication technologies. Services enhanced via electronic resources will be continuously tailored to clients' changing needs and include initial assessment and technical assistance in the community, a personalized home page reflecting a client services plan, individualized feedback and motivational support from the Recovery Coach, peer group and professionally facilitated discussions, and electronic reminders.
  
Grantee: INTERVENTION, INC. Westminster, CO
Program: Offender Reentry Program (2009) TI021705
Congressional District: CO-02
FY 2009 Funding: $392,630
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
Intervention Community Correctional Services' (ICCS) Women's Program will establish a gender-specific continuum of substance abuse/co-occurring disorders (SA/COD) treatment and related recovery and reentry services to sentenced adult women returning to the community from incarceration in Jefferson and Boulder County Jails west and northwest of Denver. The program's goals and objectives are to (1) provide direct gender-specific treatment for SA/COD via assessment using the GAIN, evidence-based practices of cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational enhancement therapy and Seeking Safety, case management l2 step groups and peer services; (2) form stakeholder partnerships that will facilitate transition from incarceration to community-based substance abuse treatment and related reentry services; and (3) create a peer-based mentoring program. The Women's Program will serve 250 women annually and 750 women over the life of the project.
  
Grantee: UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER Aurara, CO
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment TI017648
Congressional District: CO-07
FY 2009 Funding: $299,880
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
Synergy's Assertive Continuing Care (ACC) project will enhance substance abuse treatment by providing 12-14 weeks of continuing care using the ACC/ACRA model for adolescents exiting Synergy's Residential and Day Treatment programs, and the Denver Family Crisis Center's (DFCC) Residential Treatment Center (RTC). This evidence-based model has been effective with adolescents in minimizing relapse and enhancing the youth's reintegration with family and community. The project will target adolescents from the entire five county, Denver Metropolitan Area. Synergy is also partnering for this project with Mile High Youth Corps, a program specializing in the development of youth's pro-social activities and skills as a mechanism for avoiding relapse.
  
Grantee: UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER Aurora, CO
Program: Treatment for Homeless Supportive Services TI021453
Congressional District: CO-07
FY 2009 Funding: $348,033
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
The Addiction Research and Treatment Services (ARTS) organization and Mercy Housing Colorado (MHCO) are partnering to deliver a Services in Supportive Housing' program. Mercy Housing is opening a new supportive permanent housing facility in central Denver known as the Aromor apartments. ARTS will offer a range of services for Substance Use Disorders (SUDs), mental health disorders, and co-occurring disorders, from education and wellness activities to intensive treatment, on site in the Aromor supportive housing facility. The Aromor apartments are located in a renovated building that is fully ADA compliant and will be home to 66 residents, all of whom are homeless or chronically homeless. The population of focus for the Aromor Behavioral Health Supportive Housing Project is homeless young adults and adults with substance use disorders, the majority of whom also have a co-occurring mental health disorder, as well as physical and oral health problems; typically this population encounters a number of access barriers to housing and services, barriers that are being effectively addressed with this project. The projected demographic characteristics for this population indicate that two-thirds are adult women, with a median age of 32 years, and a higher representation of ethnic minority persons than in the general population. Because of the significant outreach being proposed, it is anticipated that the vast majority of residents will have a mental health disorder, or a co-occurring disorder.
  

Last Update: 10/29/2009