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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)

FLORIDA

Grantee: BRIDGEWAY CENTER, INC. Fort Wallen Beach, FL
Program: Supportive Housing SM059095
Congressional District: FL-01
FY 2009 Funding: $282,431
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
Bridgeway Center, Inc. (BCI) proposes to alleviate homelessness and promote selfsufficiency in chronically homeless persons with mental health and/or substance abuse disorders by providing treatment and wrap-around services to individuals in supportive housing. The proposed project will target chronically homeless individuals with mental health and co-occurring substance abuse who are enrolled in the BCI HUD supportive housing program. The projected number of persons to be served within the proposed project will include 80 persons in the first year with an additional 40 clients to be served in each of the subsequent 4 years of project funding, providing for a total of 240 persons to be served over the entire 5-year project period. The goal of the program is to improve long term housing success by providing comprehensive supportive services to individuals living in a permanent supportive housing program.
  
Grantee: State of Florida Dept of Children & Fam Tallahassee, FL
Program: Disaster Relief SM000258
Congressional District: FL-02
FY 2009 Funding: $998,000
Project Period: 01/15/2009 - 01/15/2010
  
Grantee: FLORIDA STATE DEPT OF CHILDRN & FAMILIES Tallahassee, FL
Program: State Data Infrastructure Grants SM058079
Congressional District: FL-02
FY 2009 Funding: $142,200
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
Florida will enhance the content and structure of the system by hiring the necessary consultant(s), who will be responsible for various computer programming and data analysis activities. The first year will focus on: (a) modification of the system; and (b)improvement of existing data analysis and reporting capabilities by creating new data table views and producing data presentation reports that are useful and easily accessible to a variety of users. The second and third year will continue the enhancement of the system by improving existing data analysis and reporting capabilities to reflect future changes in the URS requirements for NOMs and Evidence-Based Practices.
  
Grantee: FLORIDA STATE DEPT OF CHILDRN & FAMILIES Tallahassee, FL
Program: Jail Diversion SM059275
Congressional District: FL-02
FY 2009 Funding: $268,849
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
Florida's Jail diversion and Trauma Recovery project will pilot a jail diversion program in Hillsborough County, serving estimated 240 persons over the course of the grant. The project will focus on initial contact with law enforcement. As the project is implemented in other sites statewide, Florida will roll out a training program on coaching and supervision of staff for trauma screening, treatment and recovery services and create a state level validated veteran peer support specialist credential.
  
Grantee: COMMUNITY REHABILITATION CENTER, INC. Jacksonville, FL
Program: TCE-Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Older Adults SM058663
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2009 Funding: $415,070
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
Children and Families, Alcohol, Substance Abuse, and Mental Health provider agency, will implement an older adult mental health services project to provide community mental health services to individuals age 60 and older with severe and persistent mental illness in Jacksonville and Duval County, Florida.
  
Grantee: GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC Jacksonville, FL
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-Treatment Centers (2007) SM058764
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2012
Gateway Community Services will implement and evaluate effective trauma-focused and trauma-informed treatment and services for children and adolescents living in Northeast Florida who have displayed symptoms of PTSD. Gateway will serve four groups of children: 1) Young children, age birth to 12, accompanying their parent to residential substance abuse treatment (WRP- Women's Recovery Program); 2) Adolescent males age 12-18 who are under the supervision of the Department of Juvenile Justice and placed in a secure residential program (Impact House); 3) Adolescents, age 12-18, who are in residential treatment for a substance use or co-occurring substance and mental health disorder; and 4) Adolescents who are receiving substance abuse outpatient treatment in a community setting.
  
Grantee: EDWARD WATERS COLLEGE Jacksonville, FL
Program: Campus Suicide SM058952
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2009 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
Edward Waters College, a small historical black liberal arts college, seeks partial funding to create a Campus Wide Suicide Prevention Program. Specifically, the college will develop an infrastructure within its existing Counseling Center to create a network of key gatekeepers, student leaders and community behavioral health partners who will design and implement a strategic plan that will reduce or eliminate risk factors that predispose students to suicidal ideation and prevent suicidal attempts and other behavioral health problems. This network will be known as Project Care. Project Care's major objectives include: a) providing QPR training to college administrators, faculty, staff and student leaders; b) facilitating educational seminars and cultural diversity workshops on the myths and stigma associated with suicide and depression, c) promoting help-seeking behaviors within the student body by replacing the negative attitudes of the behavioral health systems held by many African-Americans, d) distributing informational literature on suicide and depression; e) strengthening the relationships of off campus community behavioral health providers, f) providing educational information to parents on campus, over the Internet, and through mail, and establishing a Campus Wide Suicide Help Line. Project Care has selected this "best practice" as the cornerstone of its training/educational seminars and workshops. The QPR approach to training is compatible with Project Care's philosophy of serving the campus where at-risk students reside as opposed to identifying individual students in need. Project Care will serve an average of 825 students, their parents and 200 faculty and staff over the life of the project. Programming will improve the quality and intensity of services for the target populations through implementation of evidence-based suicide prevention approaches, modified to address the unique needs of a predominantly African-American student body.

  
Grantee: COMMUNITY REHABILITATION CENTER, INC. Jacksonville, FL
Program: 2009 CMHS EARMARKS SM059375
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2009 Funding: $285,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2010
Grantee proposes to expand and enhance the current CRC services offered to service recipients with co-occurring. The project is designed to increase service delivery, success rates and decrease substance abuse for co-occurring consumer disorders. Recovery based psycho educational modules will also be put into place to promote illness management and healthy lifestyles for persons diagnosed with serious and persistent mental illness.
  
Grantee: GRAND AVENUE ECONOMIC COMMUNITY DEV CORP Orlando, FL
Program: Supportive Housing SM059094
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
PROJECT PATHLIGHT HOME targets chronically homeless individuals with a serious mental illness or with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, residing in permanent supportive single room occupancy (SRO) housing programs in Orlando and Orange County, Florida. During the first year of service delivery, PROJECT PATHLIGHT HOME is expected to serve an estimated 40 unduplicated persons who are chronically homeless persons. In year two the program is expected to expand services to an additional 40 unduplicated persons. The total number of unduplicated clients served over the course of the project's three year funding period, including drop-out and other turnovers, is not expected to exceed 100 unduplicated individuals.
  
Grantee: DAYTONA BEACH COMMUNITY COLLEGE Daytona Beach, FL
Program: Campus Suicide SM058975
Congressional District: FL-07
FY 2009 Funding: $95,711
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
Daytona State College, Seminole Community College and University of Central Florida have formed the Project SPEAK (Suicide Prevention Education And Knowledge) consortium to conduct suicide awareness and prevention activities at three commuter institutions. Located in east Central Florida, the partner institutions serve approximately 63,000 students across 10 campuses in three counties. The three institutions will provide education and training to students, faculty, administrators and staff. The project goal is to raise awareness through education of administrators, faculty, staff, students and their families of the colleges and universities located in Volusia, Flagler and Seminole Counties, Florida, of the signs of depression, substance abuse and suicidal ideation in order to prevent suicides among college students. Project SPEAK will utilize educational seminars, develop and deploy online training, provide intensive Gatekeeper training, create a stronger network of local resources through an annual conference, and develop a video on suicide prevention. Through the activities, the project team will meet six measurable objectives that include training 500 campus personnel, educating 800 students, and providing intensive suicide prevention training to at least 100 campus personnel and students. In addition, the project will establish an annual conference for mental health professionals and community members, host an annual student festival, and produce a video on suicide awareness and prevention for commuter institutions. All of the objectives are designed to strengthen each institutions infrastructure in decreasing suicide rates and increasing help-seeking among students. At the conclusion of the grant activities, each institution will have a set of resources to continue suicide prevention and awareness education and training on their campuses.
  
Grantee: HOMELESS SERVICES NETWORK OF CENTRAL FL Orlando, FL
Program: Supportive Housing SM058265
Congressional District: FL-08
FY 2009 Funding: $422,333
Project Period: 05/01/2008 - 04/30/2011
Project HOPE is designed to target chronically homeless individuals and families, with serious psychiatric conditions and those with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders, residing in permanent supportive housing programs in the greater Orlando area. The project will focus on individuals and families currently in, or transitioning into HUD Shelter + Care programs and Scattered Site Long Term Supportive Housing as well as those transitioning out of the Orange County Central Receiving Facility (CRC) Phase II. The services identified in this proposal will be delivered through a collaborative partnership among the Homeless Services Network of Central Florida, (HSN), the lead agency for the Continuum of Care and SHP funding, The Center for Drug Free Living (The Center), the largest provider of substance abuse services in Central Florida, and Lakeside Behavioral Healthcare (Lakeside), the largest provider of behavioral health services in Central Florida.
  
Grantee: COUNTY OF ORANGE Orlando, FL
Program: Child Mental Health Initiative SM059038
Congressional District: FL-08
FY 2009 Funding: $958,664
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2015
The Orange County Children's System of Care Project proposes to utilize federal funding to provide integrated home and community based services and supports for children with serious emotional disturbances and their families through encouraging the development and expansion of effective and enduring systems of care. A coordinated and comprehensive system of care will eliminate duplication of services, increase capacity within the system and provide increased access to needed services. Orange County and its partnering agencies are committed to working together; to optimize outcomes, serve as a catalyst for broad-based sustainable systematic change, facilitate policy reform, develop infrastructure and utilize "evidenced based practices" in a culturally and linguistically competent manner. The primary program goal is to expand community capacity through offering mental health and support services through sustained and focused outreach, treatment, education and prevention activities in a variety of settings and times to facilitate a family's ability to access services and to ensure there is "no wrong door" for accessing services. In the proposed project, youth ages 3-17 are prioritized for services. Additionally 60% of children who are to be served will be at risk of entering the dependency and delinquency systems and 40% would be those youth who have already entered into one or both systems. After year 3 of the grant, additional resources and services will be added for infant mental health and young adults. By the 6th year of the grant, 3,600 infants, children and young adults ages 0-21 will be screened for eligibility and 1,000 will receive services.
  
Grantee: CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA Pensacola, FL
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-Treatment Centers (2007) SM058234
Congressional District: FL-08
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2011
Children's Home Society of Florida, in partnership with the Florida Mental Health Institute, will develop the Trauma Recovery for Youth Center to demonstrate and evaluate the effectiveness of sustainable, culturally competent, trauma-focused interventions and trauma-informed system approaches to ameliorate adverse consequences of complex trauma experience for abused and neglected youth in foster care and other out-of-home family care. This project, to be implemented in four counties of Florida's northwest "Panhandle" will demonstrate trauma-specific practices and local system transformation in both small cities and rural communities. The TRY project will particularly focus on how to address child and family trauma issues to promote placement stability, expedite permanency, and prepare youth to successfully transition to independent living when they "age-out" of foster care.
  
Grantee: HOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT, INC. Clearwater, FL
Program: Supportive Housing SM059125
Congressional District: FL-09
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
Homeless Emergency Project, Inc. (HEP), one of Pinellas County, Florida's largest providers of HUD-funded Permanent Supportive Housing, proposes to partner with Bay Care Behavioral Health to provide on-site intensive individualized support services to homeless persons with serious psychiatric conditions or with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders. This partnership, Supported Housing Overlay Program (SHOP), is a supportive housing on-site overlay program designed to prevent/reduce chronic homelessness via a continuum of services for individuals/families experiencing chronic homelessness. SHOP will serve 100 individuals during year one and a total of 625 individuals over the life of the program.
  
Grantee: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA Tampa, FL
Program: Youth Suicide Prevention & Early Intervention - Cooperative Agreement State-Sponsored SM058379
Congressional District: FL-09
FY 2009 Funding: $499,747
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
The Florida ASAP (Adolescent Suicide Awareness and Prevention) Project will enhance the State's capacity to reach its 2010 goal of reducing the rate of suicide in youths between the ages of 10 and 24. The ASAP Project will be implemented in Duval County (DC), a large county with a youth suicide rate higher than the national average. Agencies in this community will build upon existing state and community evidence-based and culturally competent youth suicide prevention efforts and partnerships. The ASAP Project will enhance a community infrastructure where suicide prevention is a targeted activity of the community's Children's Mental Health Task Force, a working collaboration of over 35 state, pubic and private organizations. The targeted result will be a more comprehensive delivery of suicide prevention services. The ASAP Project will expand capacity with the following activities: Training gatekeepers (train the trainers model) in an evidence-based gatekeeper training model (QPR, Question, Persuade, Refer); Screening youths using a proven suicide prevention program (Signs of Suicide); Launching a social marketing campaign that directly targets the gatekeeper, parent/caregiver and youth populations of DC; Expanding current parent involvement activities (such as implementing a Parent Suicide Prevention Advisory and Outreach Council); and Utilizing existing crisis support services (e.g. United Way 2-1-1). In addition, DC's Children's Mental Health Task Force has created strong community partnerships to ensure that identified youths are not "lost in the system". Youth identified within the participating referral network will receive a case manager, and will immediately receive a suicide assessment and be referred for treatment. There are seven distinct service sectors within the participating referral network: education, law enforcement/juvenile justice, child welfare, substance abuse, public health, mental health providers, and the faith-based community.
  
Grantee: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA Tampa, FL
Program: 2009 CMHS EARMARKS SM059368
Congressional District: FL-09
FY 2009 Funding: $95,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2010
This planning project will develop services for U.S. service members and veterans with trauma related disorders and/or TBI deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001 and their families. The Center will be funded through a separate congressional earmark in 2009 or 2010. The project will develop and prioritize individual projects to provide optimal treatment services for military and veterans and comprehensive planning activities for large-scale implementation. Projects include: Web based Acceptance/Commitment Therapy (ACT); In person ACT; In person Accelerated Resolution Therapy; Web-based Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Tele-rehabilitation; Web-based Unmatched Count Technique Analysis; In-person Treatment for Traumatized Female Veterans; and In-person Psychosocial/Behavioral Intervention for Veterans with PTSD.
  
Grantee: SARASOTA COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT Sarasota, FL
Program: Child Mental Health Initiative SM057026
Congressional District: FL-13
FY 2009 Funding: $1,500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2011
The Sarasota Early Childhood Mental Health Partnership will improve and increase mental health and non-mental health services and supports provided for infants and very young children consistent with system-of-care principles and best practices. Over the six year funding period, the project will link the existing elements of the children's mental health system with those of the early childhood system to [1] create an early childhood mental health system of care; [2] expand key services needed to improve the behavioral health of these children; and [3] deliver comprehensive training and technical assistance to ensure cross-training of system-of-care staff from the two systems. The infrastructure needed to support the newly created system of care will be built by bringing together child-serving agencies, organizations, professionals, families of children with emotional disturbance, and others with an interest in the funding and delivery of services to children with serious emotional disturbance in a cooperative effort to improve and increase mental health services and supports for children and their families. A structured outreach and referral mechanism will be developed to ensure appropriate access to services, with particular emphasis being placed on reaching those populations, which have been underserved or inappropriately served in the past, such as ethnically, and racially diverse children and children living in rural areas of the county. Children meeting the criteria for services will be enrolled and offered the services of a parent advocate to assist them in selecting a care coordinator, service providers, and others as members of theft child/family team. Between 400 and 500 children and their families will be served over the six-year project period.
  
Grantee: COASTAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, INC. Sarasota, FL
Program: TCE-Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Older Adults SM058668
Congressional District: FL-13
FY 2009 Funding: $415,400
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
Pathways to Health: 60 and Beyond is a collaborative effort led by Coastal Behavioral Health care and key community partners to implement integrated treatment, rehabilitation, and support services that are specifically designed to meet the needs of older adults in Sarasota county, Florida.
  
Grantee: FLORIDA STATE DEPT OF CHILDRN & FAMILIES Miami, FL
Program: Child Mental Health Initiative SM059055
Congressional District: FL-17
FY 2009 Funding: $1,000,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2015
The "Miami-Dade Wraparound Project" (MDWP) is a collaborative effort to enhance, expand and strengthen the existing community-based family and youth mental health services in Miami-Dade County, in order to better serve children who have serious emotional disturbances (SED) and their families or caretakers in Miami Dade County, Florida. The MDWP will be a component of the broader Miami Dade County Children's Mental Health "system of care" (SOC) and will enable youth with multiple and changing needs to remain in the least restrictive settings in their community, in school, out of the juvenile justice/legal system and attain and maintain a physical-mental-emotional-spiritual recovery. The target population of this project is "SED adolescents, ages 12 to 17, who also have a co-occurring substance abuse diagnosis". The project intends to serve a minimum of 1500 youth annually, and provide culturally grounded, linguistically competent services to targeted youth residing within a unique racial/ethnic and culturally diverse, Miami Dade County, populated by a Hispanic majority.
  
Grantee: FRESH START OF MIAMI-DADE, INC. Miami Gardens, FL
Program: Statewide Consumer Network SM059398
Congressional District: FL-17
FY 2009 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
Grantee proposes to promote culturally and linguistically competent services statewide through outreach, advocacy and partnership with under-represented groups statewide. Efforts through this project will be provided in counties statewide to build new infrastructure that promotes true peer and provider collaboration; provide training in leadership; and integrate the values of WRAP; and establish networks in regions statewide. Grantee will also work with State, other agencies and groups to promote related activities that expand consumer service and accessibility.
  
Grantee: NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY Fort Lauderdale, FL
Program: Campus Suicide SM058972
Congressional District: FL-20
FY 2009 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
The Nova Southeastern University (NSU) EPIC project seeks to transform the suicide prevention trainings currently being conducted for employees and students to a web-based format. The project will benefit faculty and students at NSU's Student Education Centers (SECs) throughout Florida, as well as those involved exclusively in on-line education efforts. The goal is to create a human safety net that extends to the entire NSU community, providing training that explains the prevalence of student suicides, details the warning signs, and demonstrates how to help suicidal students access crisis and longer-term mental-health resources. This means reaching not only approximately 10,000 on-campus students, but also the 6,000 graduate and undergraduate students who attend one of the six Florida Student Education Centers (SECs) and the 10,000 who study online within Florida and from other states. The EPIC project seeks to create compelling and culturally relevant trainings for faculty, staff, and students. The web-based suicide prevention programs will be made available through the online virtual learning environment utilized for mandatory faculty training and student coursework. Project goals include: improving the identification and referral of at-risk students at the SECs across Florida by creating a network of resources in the areas surrounding the SECs and developing and implementing web-based suicide prevention training for faculty and staff; increasing awareness of suicide risk and protective factors and reduce the stigma associated with help-seeking behaviors among students attending classes at the these SECs by developing and implementing a web-based suicide prevention education program specific to students; and increasing awareness of suicide risk and protective factors and reduce the stigma associated with helpseeking behaviors among students completing online degree programs via the web-based approach.
  
Grantee: SPECTRUM PROGRAMS, INC. Miami, FL
Program: 2009 CMHS EARMARKS SM059782
Congressional District: FL-22
FY 2009 Funding: $238,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2010
The purpose of the Florida Center for Excellence in Emerging Behavioral Health Strategies is to provide evidence-based, full psychosocial assessment and primary health care needs to 100 consumers. Demonstrate the effectuality of a mental health and substance abuse treatment continuum that integrates research, best practices and emergent treatment methodologies across the spectrum of mental health, substance abuse, primary healthcare and co-occurring disorders. Mental and substance disorders and chronic health symptoms/conditions are addressed in the same treatment program with staff cross-trained on both areas of treatment. Individualized treatment is based on the Global Appraisal of Individual Needs model. The program will implement evidence-based practices throughout the continuum of care to improved treatment engagement and retention.
  
Grantee: FEDERATION OF FAM OF PALM BEACH CNTY Rivera Beach, FL
Program: Statewide Family Networks SM057960
Congressional District: FL-23
FY 2009 Funding: $60,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
Activities for this project will focus on estblishing stateide initiatives for family-run and mental health orgaizations throughout the State of Florida to participate more fully in the transformation of the State of Floida's children's mental health system to a consumer and family-centered system through coordinated effort of capacity building projects that concentrate on policies, programs, regulations, and stuatutes. To generate a greater awaremess of family involvement movement, this grant supports a team effort between the Federation of Families of Palm Beach County, Inc, in collaboration with the Hillsborough County Tampa Bay Chapter of the Federation of Families, the Spanish Dederation Families, Dejando Huellas (Leaving Footprints), Families Involved in Support and Helping (Broward Conty Mental Health America), and the Florida Mental Health Institute to establish a Statwide Family network connection over the hnext three years. The youth Task Force Committee will meet once a year as a group and collaboratively, once a month via conference calls. This project will focus on:
1. Encouragement and education of policy agendas that reflect efforts and practices to transform the emtal health system to a consumer and family-driven system.
2. Launching a statwide alliance of mutiple resources through three-tier informational system: monthly newsletter, a website, and a networking database and referral directory.
3. Development of a three-year strategic plan that targets Cha0ter Development, Family Involvement, Cultural Competence, and Public-Private health infrastructure with its goals and objectives.
  

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)

Grantee: LAKEVIEW CENTER, INC. Pensacola, FL
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP013262
Congressional District: FL-01
FY 2009 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The Substance-abuse, HIV/Hepatitis Assessment & Prevention Education (SHAPE) in Pensacola, FL has received a 5 year Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) grant to provide substance abuse prevention and HIV and Hepatitis prevention services to minority populations and minority reentry populations. The grantee will deliver integrated prevention services for substance abuse, HIV, Hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections as well as counseling , testing and referall services to African Americans adults.
  
Grantee: SUWANNEE VALLEY YOUTH ADVOCACY PRTNRSHP Live Oak, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013703
Congressional District: FL-02
FY 2009 Funding: $95,844
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
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: COUNCIL OF CHURCH BASED HEALTH PROG, INC Marianna, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013678
Congressional District: FL-02
FY 2009 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
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: HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAM INITIATIVES Tallahassee, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP010807
Congressional District: FL-02
FY 2009 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
  
Grantee: ALPHA EDUCATIONAL. AND LEADERSHIP FDN Tallahassee, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013727
Congressional District: FL-02
FY 2009 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
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: COMMUNITY REHABILITATION CENTER, INC. Jacksonville, FL
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP013456
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2009 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The Community Rehabilitation Center Inc. in Jacksonville, FL has received a 5 year Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) grant to provide substance abuse prevention and HIV and Hepatitis prevention services to minority populations and minority reentry populations. The grantee will target an African-American population of approximately 100,000 to participate in an evidence-based prevention models. This program is designed to produce measurable outcomes that demonstrate the effectiveness that community inclusion has when dealing with severe persistent mentally ill persons as well as the effectiveness in a community treatment model for high HIV infection rates of other STD's and the presence of Hepatitis.
  
Grantee: RIVER REGION HUMAN SERVICES, INC. Jacksonville, FL
Program: Minority HIV Prevention SP015073
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2009 Funding: $335,333
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
River Region Human Services, Inc. (RRHS) is not-for-profit 501 (c)3 incorporated in 1978 to provide a full range of substance abuse, mental health, and HIV/AIDS services. Sisters R.LS.E. will provide outreach and HIV/AIDS & substance abuse prevention programs, practices, and policies to African American women in Jacksonville, FL. Sisters R.I.S.E.! will be guided and bolstered by a SAMHSA Strategic Planning Framework to engage community providers and targeted women to pinpoint areas of shifting needs and ensure the implementation of a logic driven program with culturally appropriate services.
  
Grantee: PUTNAM COUNTY ANTI-DRUG COALITION, INC. Palatka, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013634
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2009 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 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: NACDAC Fernandina Beach, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP015922
Congressional District: FL-04
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: HAMILTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT Jasper, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012314
Congressional District: FL-04
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: STRATEGIC COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC. N. Lauderdale, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014399
Congressional District: FL-04
FY 2009 Funding: $99,093
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
  
Grantee: HERNANDO CTY COMMUNITY ANTI-DRUG COALITN Spring Hill, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014737
Congressional District: FL-05
FY 2009 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
  
Grantee: CLAY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER, INC Middleburg, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013658
Congressional District: FL-06
FY 2009 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
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: CENTERS, INC. Ocala, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP015973
Congressional District: FL-06
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 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: ONE VOICE FOR VOLUSIA Daytona Beach, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012247
Congressional District: FL-07
FY 2009 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing 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: SMA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES, INC. Daytona Beach, FL
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP015626
Congressional District: FL-07
FY 2009 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 06/01/2009 - 09/29/2010
Stewart-Marchman Center's Prevention on the Move and its community partners will form a work group to perform a community needs assessment, create an inventory of available services, and identify gaps in and barriers to available services. NIDA's Community-Based Outreach Model, an evidence-based design to facilitate behavior changes needed to reduce transmission risks of HIV, Hepatitis and other communicable diseases will be used.

The target population for Prevention on the Move includes African American residents in the general and reentry population in the Metropolitan Statistical Area of Daytona Beach Florida. The geographic region represents both the highest prevalence of HIV / AIDS in county and the largest concentration of African American's. Within this population in the geographic area, this project will target injection drug users, men who have sex with men, commercial sex workers, heterosexuals, bi-sexuals, former inmates, abusers of alcohol and other substances, and homeless individuals. Prevention on the Move will reduce the incidence of infection of HIV, Hepatitis, and other communicable diseases caused by, or developed in conjunction with substance abuse by bringing the services and linkages to care to the community where the clients live, work and socialize. Since drug abuse is usually a covert activity, drug users and their sex partners rarely access services through traditional health and social service agencies. Indigenous outreach workers who are familiar with the drug use subcultures and local neighborhoods in their communities have been shown to be particularly effective agents of behavior change. Peer outreach workers will be utilized as part of the prevention strategy, to serve as opinion leaders and educate and influence their peers to reduce their risks for HIV, Hepatitis, and other communicable diseases in Daytona Beach, Florida.
  
Grantee: FOCUS ON FLAGLER YOUTH COALITION Palm Coast, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014181
Congressional District: FL-07
FY 2009 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 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: EPIC COMMUNITY SERVICES St. Augustine, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP011664
Congressional District: FL-07
FY 2009 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2014
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
  
Grantee: ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF CTY COMMISSIONERS Orlando, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014775
Congressional District: FL-08
FY 2009 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
  
Grantee: SAFE CLIMATE COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY Yalaha, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013888
Congressional District: FL-08
FY 2009 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
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: SAFE CLIMATE COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY Yalaha, FL
Program: Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act Grants SP015225
Congressional District: FL-08
FY 2009 Funding: $50,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2012
The purpose of the Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking (STOP) Act grant program is to prevent and reduce alcohol use among youth in communities throughout the United States. The STOP Act grant program will encourage existing local community coalitions to develop, assess, and implement effective strategies to prevent and reduce underage drinking. Strategoies may include: changing local attitudes and norms, and re-evaluating existing laws and policies.
(1) Grantee must participate in national evaluation activities of the STOP grant program.
(2) STOP Grantees must use the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF), a five step evidence based process for community planning and decision-making. The five step rocess includes: needs assessment, capacity building, planning, implementation and evaluation.
(3) STOP grantees must plan and implement a comprehensive approach inclusive of multiple strategies as emphasized in the 2007 Surgeon General's Call to Action to prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking located online at: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/underage drinking/calltoaction.pdf Emphasis should be given to environmental strategies that incorporate prevention efforts aimed at changing or influencing community conditions, standards, institutions, structures, systems and policies. In addition, grantees must select strategies that lead to long term outcomes.
(4) STOP grantees must enhance, not supplant, effective local community initiatives for preventing and reducing alcohol use among youth. For current Drug Free Community grantees, STOP ACT foods can not be used to supplant or replace activities that are presently being supported by Drug Free Comunity funds, and , separate DFC and STOP ACT accouting systems must be maintained for the purposes of reporting.

  
Grantee: HARBOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE INSTITUTE New Port Richey, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP015663
Congressional District: FL-09
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: OPERATION PAR, INC. Pinellas Park, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013502
Congressional District: FL-10
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: OPERATION PAR, INC. Pinellas Park, FL
Program: Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act Grants SP016223
Congressional District: FL-10
FY 2009 Funding: $48,296
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2013
The Operation Par, Inc. was awarded a $50,000.00 STOP ACT grant for 2009-10 by the Substance Abuse Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA). The Coalition serves Pinellas County Florida which has a population of 917,437 residents. Operation Par is currently starting year (5) of its DFC grant.

The goals of the Coalition are: (1) Change Community Norms Regarding Alcohol Use by Youth. (2) Reduce opportunities for underage drinking by limiting your access to alcohol.

The Coalition will achieve its goals by implementing the following strategies: (1) in conjunction with Law Enforcement conduct compliance checks at convenience stores, bars/restaurants and alcohol vendors. (2) Reward responsible Vendor Serving and offer Vendor Serving training. (3) Expand social marketing practices through the" I am me campaign". (4)Enforce consistently and uniformly existing laws. (5) Expand funding for law enforcement to conduct fake ID checks. (6)Expand the Last Drink Survey program.
  
Grantee: METROPOLITAN CHARITIES, INC. St. Petersburg, FL
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP013439
Congressional District: FL-11
FY 2009 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The Minority Empowerment Through Risk-Reduction and Outreach (METRO) program, administered by Metropolitan Charities, Inc. (MCI) targets minority and minority reentry adults over the age of 18 in Pinellas County Florida. MCI main goal is to prevent the onset of substance abuse and reduce the transmission of HIV and Hepatitis through substance abuse, HIV and Hepatitis prevention services, outreach, prevention case management, Motivational Enhancement Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Substance Abuse Counseling.
  
Grantee: CENTRAL FLORIDA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWK Tampa, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014642
Congressional District: FL-11
FY 2009 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
  
Grantee: TAMPA-HILLSBOROUGH ACTION PLAN, INC. Tampa, FL
Program: Minority HIV Prevention SP015048
Congressional District: FL-11
FY 2009 Funding: $335,333
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
The Restoration thru Education Skills Training & Occupational Renewal for Excellence (RESTORE) project will target African American (adults 21 and above) who have been released from prison or jail within the last years throughout Hillsborough County, Florida. RESTORE will recruit individuals released from prisons and jails with the last two years into a comprehensive re-entry program that includes assessment and prevention education for HIV and substance abuse. The goal is to decrease sexual and substance abuse and risk behaviors among African American re entry population through increased awareness of risky behaviors and strengthened life skills among the re-entry population.
  
Grantee: LEE COUNTY COALITION/DRUG FREE SW FL Cape Coral, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012907
Congressional District: FL-14
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: SUBSTANCE ABUSE COALITION OF COLLIER CTY Naples, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013650
Congressional District: FL-14
FY 2009 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
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: MID-FLORIDA CTR/MH/SUBSTANCE ABUSE SRVS Avon Park, FL
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP013367
Congressional District: FL-16
FY 2009 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The Mid-Florida Center for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Inc., a certified minority 501(c) 3 not for profit behavioral health organization seeks funding to establish a partnership with the local Departments of Health, and community-based and faith-based organizations to provide effective prevention programs in communities of color within DCF#14, Florida. The target area includes Polk, Highlands and Hardee counties, an area of central Florida, halfway between Tampa and Orlando, containing a number of communities of color (African-American and Hispanic). Specific areas with prominent communities of color in these counties include: Polk -Cities of Lake land, Winter Haven, Auburndale and Bartow, and rural areas of Frostproof and Fort Meade Highlands -south-side Avon Park, Washington Heights in Sebring, Highway Park and Sambo's Migrant Camp in Lake Placid Hardee -Zolfo Springs and Wauchula.

Within the target communities, culturally sensitive and competent substance abuse, HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis prevention programming is very limited or altogether non-existent. In most instances, prevention services are not accessible to communities of color. This is especially the case in overlooked and highly neglected rural and semi-rural areas of Florida, which is the definition of the proposed target communities.

More specifically, the Mid-Florida Center will partner with the Department of Health's Regional Minority Office in Tampa, three local Health Departments in Polk, Highlands, and Hardee Counties, CUSH (Churches United to Stop the Spread of HIV), Refugee Church of Our Lord, Central Florida Health Care, local circuits of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice Florida Department of Correction. This partnership will become the Steering Committee for proposed prevention programming and will direct the required activities to supplement the Area 5, 6 & 14 Community Partnership Plan (Needs Assessment Section).
  
Grantee: HENDRY COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT Labelle, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP015908
Congressional District: FL-16
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: CHARLOTTE ALLIANCE FOR A SAFE AND DFC Port Charlotte, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013051
Congressional District: FL-16
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: CHARLOTTE ALLIANCE FOR A SAFE AND DFC Port Charlotte, FL
Program: Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act Grants SP015282
Congressional District: FL-16
FY 2009 Funding: $50,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2012
The Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act (STOP Act) grants is a program to prevent and reduce alcohol use among youth in communities throughout the United States. It was created to strengthen collaboration among communities, the Federal Government, and State, local and tribal governments; to enhance intergovernmental cooperation and coordination on the issue of alcohol use among youth; to serve as a catalyst for increased citizen participation and greater collaboration among all sectors and organizations of a community that first demonstrates a long-term commitment to reducing alcohol use among youth; and to disseminate to communities timely information regarding state-of-the-art practices initiatives that have proven to be effective in preventing and reducing alcohol use among youth.
  
Grantee: AIDS HELP, INC. Key West, FL
Program: Minority HIV Prevention SP015015
Congressional District: FL-18
FY 2009 Funding: $335,333
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
AIDS Help, Inc. the only full-service community based AIDS service organization and sole recipient of Ryan White CARE Act funds serving the Florida Keys, and its long standing partner Human Services Associates (HSA), a premiere local evidence-based substance abuse prevention provider, propose to implement Southermost SHARE-Substance Abuse and REV Prevention for High Risk Adults (21-and over), African American, Haitian, and Hispanic males and Females who have been released from prisons and jails within the past 2 years.

  
Grantee: INFORMED FAMILIES/FLA FAM PARTNERSHIP Miami, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012426
Congressional District: FL-18
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: MIAMI-DADE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD Miami, FL
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP013249
Congressional District: FL-18
FY 2009 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS), a public, non-profit school district, in Miami, FL. 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.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) proposes the Promoting Our Students' Success through Informed Behavior, Learning and Self-Efficacy (POSSIBLE) Project.
Project POSSIBLE will operate within a geographically underserved, urban area of Miami-Dade County. Within the Feeder Pattern, the race and ethnicity of students is as follows; 74% Black, 24% Hispanic, 1 % White, and 1 % Other. The zip code where the majority of Miami Central Senior High School students reside (33147) is ranked #1 in the county for juvenile offenses.
According to the Miami-Dade County Health Department, Office of HIV/AIDS since 1980, Miami-Dade has reported 27,047 adult AIDS cases and since July 1997, 9,577 cumulative adult HIV cases have been reported (Miami- Dade County Health Department, Neighborhood Profiles, 2004). This zone represents 9% of the county's total population but over 20% of the reported AIDS cases and over 18% of the reported HIV cases. While the rate of ATOD incidents was about half the state rate, Miami Central's rate at 6.37 per 1,000 students was more than double the county's rate for all high schools (Florida DOE, 2005).

The evaluation plan will provide both process and outcome measures, with both qualitative and quantitative data.
  
Grantee: INFORMED FAMILIES/FLA FAM PARTNERSHIP Miami, FL
Program: Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act Grants SP015484
Congressional District: FL-18
FY 2009 Funding: $50,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2012
The purpose of the Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking (STOP) Act grant program is to prevent and reduce alcohol use among youth in communities throughout the United States. The STOP Act grant program will encourage existing local community coalitions to develop, assess, and implement effective strategies to prevent and reduce underage drinking. Strategoies may include: changing local attitudes and norms, and re-evaluating existing laws and policies.
(1) Grantee must participate in national evaluation activities of the STOP grant program.
(2) STOP Grantees must use the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF), a five step evidence based process for community planning and decision-making. The five step rocess includes: needs assessment, capacity building, planning, implementation and evaluation.
(3) STOP grantees must plan and implement a comprehensive approach inclusive of multiple strategies as emphasized in the 2007 Surgeon General's Call to Action to prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking located online at: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/underage drinking/calltoaction.pdf Emphasis should be given to environmental strategies that incorporate prevention efforts aimed at changing or influencing community conditions, standards, institutions, structures, systems and policies. In addition, grantees must select strategies that lead to long term outcomes.
(4) STOP grantees must enhance, not supplant, effective local community initiatives for preventing and reducing alcohol use among youth. For current Drug Free Community grantees, STOP ACT foods can not be used to supplant or replace activities that are presently being supported by Drug Free Comunity funds, and , separate DFC and STOP ACT accouting systems must be maintained for the purposes of reporting.

  
Grantee: KING DAVID FOUNDATION, INC. Aventura, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013118
Congressional District: FL-20
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: BROWARD COUNTY BOARD/CNTY COMMISSIONERS Ft Lauderdale, FL
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP013378
Congressional District: FL-20
FY 2009 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
Broward's Collaboration to Reduce Use of Substances, HIV/AIDS, and Hepatitis has carefully considered the cultural make-up of the community, identified a realistic project target population based on the funder's objectives, corroborated by community needs assessments and focus group results. Using countywide analyses and reports Broward CRUSHH is able to adequately assess the magnitude of substance use/abuse, HIV, and hepatitis in the catchment area. Extensive planning occurred, engaging stakeholders, policy makers, funders, consumers and included consultation with evaluators throughout the application development process. As a result, Broward CRUSHH has adopted a four-prong prevention approach, focusing on outreach, training and technical assistance, cultural diversity, and prevention. As the first step in the development of Broward's Strategic Community Framework, a workgroup of providers, stakeholders, and policy makers, advocates and funders will convene.

The strategic planning framework (SPF) for implementing culturally appropriate services to the target population will be based on documented needs; evidence-based practice for minority and reentry populations; resources/strengths of the community; measurable objectives; baseline data, and; enhancing hepatitis screening and linkages to services that provide immunizations for hep A and/or B.
  
Grantee: COMPREHENSIVE AIDS PROGRAM PALM BEACH Riviera Beach, FL
Program: Minority HIV Prevention - Cohort 8 SP015016
Congressional District: FL-22
FY 2009 Funding: $329,666
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
The Comprehensive AIDS Program of Palm Beach County, Inc. (CAP) Minority Adolescent HIV and Substance Abuse Prevention Program will target African-American adolescents, ages 12-17. The project will conduct a comprehensive Needs Assessment and will work with and train youth-serving agencies in evidence-based HIV and substance abuse prevention programs, recruit youth peer educators and implement a peer youth education program on substance abuse and HIV. The program's goal is to decrease sexual and substance abuse risk behaviors among the target population.

The project will provide education presentations, facilitate discussion groups, conduct outreach, work at youth health fairs and conferences, and engage peers in informal dialogues related to HIV and substance abuse. The project will reach an estimated 18,000 adolescents through peer educators and will test 1,125 adolescents for HIV infection.

The peer educator outreach will be based on CDC and SAMHSA-approved programs such as Project Alert, Popular Opinion Leader, Community PROMISE and Real AIDS Prevention Project (RAPP).
  
Grantee: UNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Program: Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act Grants SP015277
Congressional District: FL-23
FY 2009 Funding: $50,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2012
The Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act (STOP Act) grants is a program to prevent and reduce alcohol use among youth in communities throughout the United States. It was created to strengthen collaboration among communities, the Federal Government, and State, local and tribal governments; to enhance intergovernmental cooperation and coordination on the issue of alcohol use among youth; to serve as a catalyst for increased citizen participation and greater collaboration among all sectors and organizations of a community that first demonstrates a long-term commitment to reducing alcohol use among youth; and to disseminate to communities timely information regarding state-of-the-art practices initiatives that have proven to be effective in preventing and reducing alcohol use among youth.
  

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)

Grantee: FLORIDA CERTIFICATION BOARD Tallahassee, FL
Program: Addiction Technology Transfer Center TI013590
Congressional District: FL-02
FY 2009 Funding: $625,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
The Florida Certification Board (FCB) and its university partner, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, are seeking funding for the continuation of the Southern Coast Addiction Technology Transfer Center that serves Florida, Alabama and Mississippi to further their work in advancing and implementing improved, state-of-the-art treatment and recovery practices. The primary purposes for the SCATTC are: to forge/maintain partnerships in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida; to enhance the knowledge and expertise of front-line addictions counselors and their supervisors in evidence-based, culturally-responsive treatment/recovery practices; to develop or revise treatment curricula, training materials and other products; to develop leadership competencies among practitioners; to be facilitators of change initiatives that support a recovery-oriented system of care; to use innovative technology transfer methods; to be an active participant in national ATTC Network activities; and, to contribute to a state-of-the-art national ATTC website. In particular, the SCATTC will focus significant effort toward meeting the needs of front-line addiction counselors and their supervisors, with some effort focused on developing competencies of recovery support specialists.
  
Grantee: FLORIDA STATE EXEC OFFICE OF THE GOVERNR Tallahassee, FL
Program: SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral & Treatment) TI018306
Congressional District: FL-02
FY 2009 Funding: $2,800,000
Project Period: 09/15/2006 - 09/14/2011
This project proposes the use of SBIRT funds to implement an intervention program for older adults at risk for substance abuse, create new partnerships with primary care service providers, and address current systemic and policy practices that create barriers for older adults in need of substance abuse treatment. Florida ranks fourth in total population in the United States in addition to leading the nation in median age, with more than 3.5 million residents aged 60 and older. The rate of penetration for publicly-funded substance abuse services by older adults in this age group is less than 2% of all adults served each year. Minorities and underserved populations (e.g., Medicaid eligible individuals) represent a very small proportion of older adults served. The State of Florida Substance Abuse Program Office is committed to improving the identification of older adults with substance abuse problems through this project. To implement the services outlined above, Florida plans to use SBIRT funds to promote the following: 1) Florida will enhance and expand an innovative evidence-based pilot project (Brief Intervention and Treatment for the Elders-BRITE project) currently providing outreach services in four sub- state regions allowing Florida to add four additional sub-state regions as well as migrating the pilot projects into full implementation. 2) Florida will partner with primary care and emergency care physicians who come into regular contact with older adults at-risk or in need of substance abuse services. Older adults will be screened in "non-traditional" sites such as primary and emergency health care settings, public health clinics, and senior nutrition programs. 3) Florida will appoint a Systems and Policy Steering Committee that will work to identify systemic and policy impediments to treatment for older adults.
  
Grantee: GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC Jacksonville, FL
Program: Treatment for Homeless - Chronic TI018264
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
The Seeking Treatment and Recovery (STAR) for Chronically Homeless program plans to expand and strengthen treatment services for chronically homeless individuals with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders (CHCOD) in Jacksonville Duval County), Florida. Gateway Community Services is partnering with Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless, and Clara White Mission to provide comprehensive, integrated services to CHCOD.
  
Grantee: GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC Jacksonville, FL
Program: E-Therapy Category TI019155
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2009 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
Through Gateway Connect, Gateway Community Services plans to expand and enhance substance abuse treatment through the use of technology to reduce barriers of distance, disabilities, and social stigma and provide treatment opportunities to those needing treatment but who do not have access to, or are reluctant to access, substance abuse treatment services. The three major goals of the project are: 1) Improve access to substance abuse treatment services. 2) Increase the availability of substance abuse services to people seeking services. 3). Connect people seeking treatment with Peer Led Recovery Support Services in their own community. Gateway Connect plans to achieve these goals through E-therapy (secure chat rooms, encrypted emails, secure instant messaging, Webinars and informational websites), telephone therapy and integrated therapy using internet, the phone and face to face. During the first year of services, Gateway Connect plans to provide E-therapy to 130 persons (41 0 over 3 years). During the second and third year the project plans to expand its impact to the rest of Florida through NCI Systems, a collaborative of six (6) highly regarded and accredited Centers for Behavioral Health care that have been actively growing and improving communities for more than 30 years in Florida.
  
Grantee: GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC Jacksonville, FL
Program: Pregnant/Post-Partum Women TI019578
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2009 Funding: $468,916
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
Gateway Community Services (Gateway), a comprehensive substance abuse treatment
provider, is seeking to expand its residential and continuing care program for substance abusing pregnant and postpartum women and their children to serve an additional 40 pregnant and postpartum women, their minor children, the fathers and extended family. With special emphasis on expanding and enhancing a well established women and children's program, this project will go beyond basic required services to provide a state of the art, evidenced-based program to have long-term positive impact of the families served. Providing comprehensive services to women during pregnancy significantly improves the lives of the women, children, and their families. Such services are also important after birth, since the effects of alcohol and drug use continue to have negative consequences for them. Creating systems of support during and after treatment becomes critical in sustaining the work done during treatment.

  
Grantee: RIVER REGION HUMAN SERVICES, INC. Jacksonville, FL
Program: Pregnant/Post-Partum Women TI019596
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2009 Funding: $498,361
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
River Region Human Services, Inc. (RRHS), a licensed, not-for-profit provider of substance abuse (SA), mental health, and HIV/AIDS community services for over 30 years, is seeking SAMHSA funding to expand its Daffodil House, a specialized residential substance abuse treatment program for pregnant and postpartum women (PPW) and their minor children, to 16 beds due to lack of beds available in the community for women and infants. Funding is sought to address a critical community need for social and health services in Duval County, particularly the urban core that is plagued by health and social disparities, including poverty, crime, HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, infant mortality and lack of prenatal care. RRHS will provide for the full continuum of treatment needs of substance abusing PPW, their minor children, as well as significant others and appropriate family members who are in the women's immediate support system, a Family Disease Model approach to treatment. Services include outreach to detoxification, SA residential-, outpatient-, and mental health treatment; case management; parenting with Triple-P; family strengthening and reunification; SA prevention (for children); aftercare; housing assistance; and community re-entry. Upon successful completion and graduation from residential treatment, women will be linked to stable housing. Family treatment plans will be developed and intensive case management will be provided to women, infants, and children, as well as significant others, and other family members. RRHS will link clients to the many social service and health providers in the area, seeking to avoid duplication of services and build upon the existing network of care.
  
Grantee: GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC Jacksonville, FL
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI019760
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2009 Funding: $450,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
Gateway Community Services, Inc. (Gateway), in partnership with the Duval County Health Dept. (Division of Institutional Health) and Operation New Hope, seeks to enhance and expand substance abuse services and outreach and pre-treatment services in conjunction with HIV/AIDS services in African-American, Latino and other racial or ethnic re-entry populations highly affected by the twin epidemics of substance abuse and HIV/AIDS. The RIGHT project proposes three levels of services: 1) outreach, risk education reduction, and testing along with pre-and post test counseling for minorities recently released from jail or prison who are high risk for HIV; 2) connections to medical management for those who are HIV+; and 3) substance abuse treatment and intensive case management for those in the target population who are HIV+ and have a substance use disorder. Through expanded services of the RIGHT Project, the program expects to: 1) increase number of days participants live clean and sober; 2) slow the progression of HIV/AIDS through increasing HIV medical compliance and treatment outcomes; and 3) slow the increase in newly identified reports of HIV/AIDS in the minority re-entry population and their partners.
  
Grantee: FLORIDA STATE FOURTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CT Jacksonville, FL
Program: Adult Treatment Drug Courts TI019942
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2009 Funding: $300,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
The drug court will expand through a partnership with Gateway Community Services. Treatment will last for a minimum of nine months in a three-phase approach. Over the course of the three year grant, it is expected that 168 adults will be served. It is a voluntary program with regular court appearances before the Judge and includes drug testing, individual/group counseling and regular attendance at 12-Step meetings. In addition, program participants will be assisted with obtaining education and skills assessments and will be provided referrals to vocational training, education and/or job placement services to build strength to combat relapse. The Jacksonville Adult Drug Court is based on the premise that arrest and court involvement can provide an important opportunity to involve offenders in substance abuse treatment, which can then reduce drug-related criminal behavior.
  
Grantee: GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC Jacksonville, FL
Program: ROSC-Recovery-oriented Systems of Care under TCE AI/AN TI020100
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
This project seeks to improve the quality and intensity of the substance abuse continuum of services at Gateway Community Services in Jacksonville, Florida through an enhanced recovery-oriented system of care (LROSC). A LROSC supports person-centered and self-directed approaches to care that build on the strengths and resilience of individuals, families, and communities to take responsibility for their sustained health, wellness, and recovery from alcohol and drug problems. Gateway has been successful in integrating the 12 Steps into treatment in many ways including: First Step Camp, daily 12 Step meetings, connecting clients with sponsors, promoting the importance of the 12 Step recovery and a lifetime commitment to recovery and the principals of the 12 Steps. As successful as the 12 Steps are, there are other means of recovery. In addition, Gateway seeks to enhance its other choices for recovery to people served in treatment through the use of an Advisory Committee, Recovery Coaches, development of recovery plans, budgets to purchase recovery support services and reaching out to other community & faith-based recovery-focused services. This project will target people in and seeking recovery from illicit drug and alcohol abuse and prescription drug misuse.
  
Grantee: GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC Jacksonville, FL
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment TI020870
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2009 Funding: $300,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
Gateway Community Services in partnership with, Family Support Services of Northeast Florida (child welfare) and the Full Service Schools plan to implement The Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach for Adolescent Cannabis Users (A-CRA) and Assertive Continuing Care (ACC) for adolescents (ages 12-17) and their caregivers seeking substance abuse treatment services. Through implementation of A-CRA and ACC, it is projected that 80 adolescents and their families will be served during the first year of implementation (anticipating training and start-up time) and 108 adolescents per year during the additional two years of implementation for a total of 296 adolescents and their families served in the course of the full 3 year grant period. As a result the project expects to: 1) Build assets in program participants to help them abstain from using marijuana, alcohol and other drugs; and 2) Build assets in the family system and home environment to help the adolescent remain abstinent from use of marijuana, alcohol and other drugs.
  
Grantee: CITY OF JACKSONVILLE Jacksonville, FL
Program: Adult Treatment Drug Courts TI021903
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2009 Funding: $295,788
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
The Judicial Circuit Adult Drug Court plans to expand the existing Drug Court program services: 1) by increasing residential treatment services for approximately 40 drug court participants annually, 2) providing case management and employment assistance to all drug court participants, 3) providing co-occurring treatment services for all drug court participants in need of services, and 4) establishing a recovery support network. This expansion will target the increasing need for residential substance abuse treatment and/or co-occurring issues. The goals of the 4th Judicial Circuit Adult Drug Court program expansion are to: 1) increase access to more intensive treatment services utilizing Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as evidence-based practices; 2) coordinate interagency collaboration that would lead to the development of a network of service, linking providers; and 3) identify and link persons in drug court treatment to services that will enhance post treatment success.
  
Grantee: SPECIALIZED TREATMENT EDUC/PREV/SRVCS Orlando, FL
Program: Adult Criminial Justice Treatment TI020333
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2009 Funding: $347,579
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
Expansion of Treatment and Recovery Services Program (ETRSP) will assist male and female adult offenders in accessing a continuum of Intensive Outpatient and Recovery Support Services (RSS) in the Orange County community. The services will not only be expanded, but the quality will be improved. Additional evidence-based practices will be implemented for the clients. Collaboration with the Orange County Corrections Department will allow access to almost 4,000 active offenders under probation supervision and approximately 150 eligible inmates at the Work Release Center who are free to move about the community. The goals of ETRSP are to increase the numbers of individuals entering into treatment in the community upon release; increase the availability and accessibility of services to them and provide linkages to RSS. The program will serve 160 clients per year for a total of 480 clients over the three year period.
  
Grantee: COUNTY OF SEMINOLE Sanford, FL
Program: Adult Treatment Drug Courts TI021531
Congressional District: FL-07
FY 2009 Funding: $299,867
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
The purpose of the Seminole County Adult Drug Court is to actively intervene and break the cycle of substance abuse and crime. The Seminole County Drug Court will expand the number of treatment slots in Adult Drug Court from 40 to 80 in a year, including 20 first-time felony offenders who will participate in a Pre-Trial Intervention track and 20 offenders who have been arrested more than one time and show evidence of a serious substance abuse problem. The program will also enhance the treatment and education components of the program. The ultimate goals of the Seminole County Adult Drug Court are to: 1) stop the abuse of alcohol and other drugs by adult offenders dependent on AOD, and 2) increase public safety by stopping related criminal behavior. The project will serve 40 new Drug Court participants in its first year, and 50 new participants each in the following two years, bringing the total unduplicated new clients to 140.
  
Grantee: ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF CTY COMMISSIONERS Orlando, FL
Program: Adult Treatment Drug Courts TI020004
Congressional District: FL-08
FY 2009 Funding: $300,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
The Orange County Adult Drug Court (OCADC) will expand and strengthen the system of care and treatment services within the existing drug court program by adding forty treatment slots, including 20 slots to meet the needs of individuals with co-occurring disorders. The "Co-occurring Track" will be incorporated into the existing Drug Court Program and will include: psychiatric assessments, development of individual treatment plans, and treatment plan reviews by a Psychiatric ARNP; counseling and case management services specifically oriented to the needs of individuals with co-occurring disorders; and access to psychotropic medications deemed essential for the participant to participate effectively in the treatment and judicial supervision that is part of the treatment drug court. The drug court will serve 60 unduplicated individuals each year for a total of 180 over the three years of the grant.
  
Grantee: CENTER FOR DRUG-FREE LIVING, INC. Orlando, FL
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment TI020781
Congressional District: FL-08
FY 2009 Funding: $300,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
The Central Florida Change Program for Transition Age Youth (CFCP for TAY) will target young adults ages 18-24 with Substance Use Disorders (SUD), and with SUD and co-occurring mental health disorders. The project will improve the effectiveness of alcohol and drug abuse treatment through the adoption of the Transition Age Youth Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA) coupled with Assertive Continuing Care (ACC), both of which are context specific focusing on the interaction between youth and their environments, family-centered and community-based. This expansion will add capacity to serve a minimum of ninety (90) Transition Age Youth over the three (3) year life of the grant, serving a minimum of thirty (30) youth per year. The project will target those who meet the A-CRA / ACC criteria who are at highest risk of substance abuse and who are involved in the Juvenile/Criminal Justice or Child Welfare systems.
  
Grantee: HOPE AND HELP CTR OF CENTRAL FLORIDA Winter Park, FL
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI018901
Congressional District: FL-08
FY 2009 Funding: $485,665
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
Hope and Help Center of Central Florida's application to SAMHSA for the Targeted Capacity Expansion Program for Substance Abuse Treatment and HIV/AIDS Services proposes to provide outreach and pre-treatment services in Sanford, Florida to men who inject drugs, as well as drug users (injecting and non-injecting) among the MSM population. These services will also be offered to men and women who have been released from prison and jails within the past 2 years. HIV rapid testing will also be provided in an aggressive, but culturally sensitive manner. Hope and Help Center is partnering with the Turning Point of Central Florida who will provide comprehensive outpatient treatment, and Seminole Community Mental Health Center who will provide intensive residential treatment, particularly for those residents who have co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders. Participants will be referred to the substance abuse treatment programs, through the outreach, pre-treatment and care management services provided by Hope and Help Center. Finally, the Health Council of East Central Florida will provide critical Quality Management and Evaluation components for this program. There are 666 individuals living in Seminole County (as of December 31, 2005) who are HIV-positive and aware of their HIV zero-status. More than 75% of these individuals reside in the two Sanford zip codes (32771 and 32773), the main target locations. Within Seminole County, there are an estimated 222 additional individuals who are positive but are currently unaware of their HIV positive status. Black/African American and Hispanic residents of Sanford are at the highest risk of HIV infection.
  
Grantee: PINELLAS COUNTY BOARD OF CNTY COMMISS Clearwater, FL
Program: Adult Treatment Drug Courts TI020117
Congressional District: FL-09
FY 2009 Funding: $300,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
The Pinellas County Adult Drug Court identified a gap in treatment capacity for drug court cases involving female offenders that require more evidence-based practices and referral services to adequately address their needs. A Motivational Enhancement Therapy/Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (MET/CBT 12) treatment model is necessary to effectively respond to the increasing population of female offenders who are misusing and/or abusing prescription drugs. More women will be served in a gender-specific, culturally responsive model, the GAIN will be used to accurately identify co-occurring and trauma, MET/CBT will be used, screenings for prescription drug issues will be implemented, and a uniform drug court treatment and administrative protocols will be developed. This program is a partnership between the Sixth Judicial Circuit Court and two substance abuse treatment providers, along with a university-based research institute.
  
Grantee: PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE Largo, FL
Program: Adult Criminial Justice Treatment TI020373
Congressional District: FL-10
FY 2009 Funding: $390,797
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
Project Recovery Enhancement Program (PREP) will expand and enhance outpatient treatment and recovery support services to 240 women on probation in Pinellas County, Florida over a three year period. On any given day, 430 women who will be released into the community are in need of substance abuse treatment. In addition, there is a 90 day waiting list for admission to outpatient treatment in the community. PREP will enable females under court supervision in the community to access and receive substance abuse treatment and recovery support services as soon as their probation begins. By providing timely, comprehensive, and appropriate substance abuse treatment, aftercare, and compliance monitoring, the goals of recovery from substance abuse and increased public safety will be achieved. The program will increase capacity, improve the quality and intensity of services for adult women in the community who are involved with the criminal justice system, and provide treatment and support services that help prevent relapse and promote sustained recovery from alcohol and drug use disorders.
  
Grantee: OPERATION PAR, INC. Pinellas Park, FL
Program: Pregnant/Post-Partum Women TI019605
Congressional District: FL-10
FY 2009 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
The Family Achievement in Recovery (FAIR) at PAR Village project is seeking SAMHSA funding to provide state of-the-art gender-specific, culturally and linguistically relevant residential treatment (Tx) services for 120 substance abusing pregnant, postpartum women (PPW) and 60 of their children focused on achieving sustained recovery characterized by: abstinence from drugs of abuse; family stability; stable mental and physical health; positive child development; and healthy behaviors. The project is an initiative of Operation PAR, Inc., the largest comprehensive Tx provider in West Central Florida. Over 20 years ago, Operation PAR's President & Chief Executive Officer Nancy Hamilton spearheaded national efforts to develop evidence-based, gender-specific Tx for PPW with the opening of PAR Village. The FAIR project will provide capacity expansion of existing residential Tx services for PPW and their children by: (1) increasing the number of beds; (2) increasing the Tx engagement rate; (3) increasing the Tx retention rate; and (4) utilizing competency-based criteria for Tx completion. The project will enroll female veterans, women of color, women involved with the child welfare system, and women with HIV. The goals are to: increase the percentage of women bringing their children into Tx to 33%.; increase the percentage of pregnant women enrolling in Tx during first trimester from 5% to 20%; reduce the negative impact of maternal SA on infants and children; increase Tx completion rates from 54% to 65% by addressing HIV, COD, and trauma; improve family functioning, economic stability and quality of life; and sustain recovery through support and self-sufficiency.
  
Grantee: OPERATION PAR, INC. Pinellas Park, FL
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI019787
Congressional District: FL-10
FY 2009 Funding: $450,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
The Operation PAR's "Cornerstone of Successful Achievement, Women's Empowerment Initiative" will target high-risk substance/alcohol abusing populations in African-American and Hispanic/Latino communities. These groups include women (18 years and older who are parents, pregnant and/or postpartum- birth to 12 months) and their minor children (age 17 and under). Evidence-based, culturally appropriate practices wil be used including the GAIN, Women's Leadership Training, SISTA, Seeking Safety, and MET/CBT. Project objectives include: 1) reduce wait-list by 33% and time between initial contact and screening and assessment by 47%; 2) assess 100% of participants for HIV, co-occurring disorders and trauma and implement appropriate treatment strategies; 3) add on-site rapid HIV-testing and offer to 100% of clients; 4) improve rate of women's engagement in treatment from 26% to 40%; 5) increase treatment completion rates from 40% to 65%; 6) improve staff capability to identify and implement evidence-based treatments (EBTs) and certify 85% in targeted EBTs; 7) increase percentage of women who bring their children into treatment from 10% to 30%; 8) improve family functioning of 85% of clients as measured by FAM- III assessment scores; 9) increase percentage of women entering treatment in their first trimester from 20% to 40%; 10) reduce infant mortality by ensuring 85% agree to onsite testing for STIs and hepatitis; and 11) empower participants to become prevention and peer leaders.

  
Grantee: OPERATION PAR, INC. Pinellas Park, FL
Program: Treatment for Homeless - Homeless TI020566
Congressional District: FL-10
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
The Operation PAR, Inc. U-Turn New Directions Toward Recovery and Independent Living Project plans to provide outpatient substance abuse treatment to homeless youth residing at three transitional living programs in Pinellas County, Florida. The evidence-based practices to be implemented include Motivational Enhancement Therapy/Cognitive Behavior Therapy. U-Turn will also provide the RESPECT intervention to educate youth about HIV/AIDS, hepatitis A, B, and C, and STIs.
  
Grantee: OPERATION PAR, INC. Pinellas Park, FL
Program: Offender Reentry Program (2009) TI021580
Congressional District: FL-10
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
Operation PAR, Inc. will serve youth in the Bay Area Young Offender Reentry Program using Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (ACRA) and Assertive Continuing Care (ACC)-evidence-based approaches designed specifically for youth ages 14-18 with substance abuse issues reentering the community from a residential commitment program. The project will focus on family reintegration and serve 64 youth per year for a total of 192. The purpose of this project is to reduce the rates of relapse and recidivism in youth reentering the community following release from residential commitment programs.
  
Grantee: MENTAL HEALTH CARE, INC. Tampa, FL
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment TI016630
Congressional District: FL-11
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2010
Mental Health Care, Inc. will provide modified Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) to persons who are considered chronically homeless, (individuals who have been homeless for a year or more) with severe and persistent mental illness who may have a co-occurring disorder. The program will collaborate with existing community services coordinating primary care with Tampa Community Health Center and accessing low-income housing through Tampa Housing Authority.
  
Grantee: ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE COURT Tampa, FL
Program: Adult Treatment Drug Courts TI021551
Congressional District: FL-11
FY 2009 Funding: $300,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
Hillsborough County's 13th Judicial Circuit plans to expand substance abuse treatment for court-ordered felony offenders with opioid dependency in Hillsborough County, Florida. It is expected that 60 clients will be served yearly (3-year total of 180) through outpatient treatment, medication-assisted treatment (MAT), & support services. This program focuses on opiate dependence for which MAT, coupled with phased intensive outpatient treatment, offers a realistic, effective approach. The objective is to provide opiate users with a long-term, outpatient treatment option - as an alternative to abstinence-based programs or jail/prison - with the ultimate intent of enabling offenders to reintegrate themselves as productive members of society. The goals of the project are to increase the capacity of the Drug Court to provide MAT, increase offender enrollment, increase the use of evidenced-based practices in court and treatment, and promote clients' self sufficiency and recovery from substance abuse.
  
Grantee: COASTAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, INC. Sarasota, FL
Program: Treatment for Homeless - Chronic TI018019
Congressional District: FL-13
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
The Charlotte County Home 2 Recovery project is a collaborative effort led by Coastal Behavioral Healthcare, Inc. (CBH) and the Charlotte County Homeless Coalition (CCHC) to implement a comprehensive and integrated system of evidence-based mental health and substance abuse recovery services that are tailored to the unique needs of the chronically homeless population in Charlotte County, Florida.. CBH will promote a comprehensive system of care for chronically homeless persons with co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders through extensive collaboration with community partners.
  
Grantee: BREVARD COUNTY BOARD OF CO COMMISSIONERS Viera, FL
Program: Adult Treatment Drug Courts TI019981
Congressional District: FL-15
FY 2009 Funding: $235,529
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
Brevard County will expand its Adult Drug Court Pretrial Intervention Program by providing an additional 60 treatment slots per year. The program will focus on increasing the costly treatment services that are needed for so many addicted to methamphetamine. Program participants must meet eligibility criteria of no prior felony convictions and/or abstaining from continued use of drugs or alcohol. Participants can enter the program even if they have failed prior treatment, must reside in Brevard County, and must be over the age of 18 years old. There is a qualification phase and three phases of outpatient treatment consisting of group counseling, individual counseling, and mandatory attendance at self-help meetings.
  
Grantee: BREVARD COUNTY BOARD OF CO COMMISSIONERS Viera, FL
Program: Adult Treatment Drug Courts TI021901
Congressional District: FL-15
FY 2009 Funding: $298,689
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
Brevard County Drug Court Expansion and Enhancement of Substance Abuse Treatment (EESAT) Program will provide an additional location in Titusville, FL and transportation in Brevard County, which spans 81 miles from tip-to-tip. This will increase access and remove obstacles for indigent adults. The number of indigent adults entering into treatment and ultimately the recovery community will increase.
  
Grantee: BORINQUEN HEALTH CARE CENTER Miami, FL
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI018679
Congressional District: FL-17
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
Borinquen Health Care Center (BHCC), a community health center in Miami-Dade County, Florida, proposes to expand its capacity to provide outreach and pretreatment services to high- risk substance using Black (primarily Haitian) and Hispanic women (and their children) and men (including MSM and at risk non-injecting MSM). BHCC's culturally competent indigenous staff will provide outreach and pretreatment services using the NIDA model for community-based outreach and the CDC model for comprehensive risk and counseling services (CRCS). As part of its outreach services, BHCC will expand the use of its mobile van to provide services to the target populations. Outreach clients will be referred to a range of services available at BHCC, as well as to treatment at substance abuse partners in the local community. The goals and objectives of the project are to: 1) reduce behaviors that can put people at risk for HIV infection by providing culturally competent outreach and HIV education to an additional 7,500 high-risk substance users, and culturally-competent comprehensive risk counseling and services (CRCS) to an additional 1,050 high-risk substance users over the 5-year project period; 2) increase the number of high-risk people in Miami-Dade County who know their HIV status by providing rapid HIV tests to 7,500 additional high-risk individuals in target populations over the 5-year project period; 3) increase the number of people living with HIV in Miami-Dade County who receive HIV primary care and other supportive services by referring an additional 425 people living with HIV but not in care (or sporadically in care) to primary care, case management, and other support services over the 5-year project period; and 4) increase the number of high-risk substance users, including those who are HIVpositive, who receive substance abuse treatment services by referring an additional 250 treatment-ready individuals to substance abuse treatment over the 5-year project period.
  
Grantee: VILLAGE SOUTH, INC. Miami, FL
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment TI020798
Congressional District: FL-17
FY 2009 Funding: $202,674
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
The Village, in Miami, FL, proposes to enhance its current home-based, intensive outpatient LIFE program for adolescents through integrating the A-CRA Treatment Model into its existing services. The Village also proposes to expand the continuum of care by implementing the ACC Model and extending services to transition age youth (18-24 years). The proposed Enhanced Counseling and Community Care program will serve 165 (55 annually) adolescents and transition age youth and their families residing in Miami- Dade County during the 3 year project period. Services will aim at reducing alcohol and substance use; reducing mental health problems; increasing prosocial behavior; and improving the family environment and enhancing family support.
  
Grantee: CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES Miami Shores, FL
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI019872
Congressional District: FL-17
FY 2009 Funding: $445,510
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
St. Luke's Healthy and Free Project will provide integrated primary health, residential substance abuse and mental health services to targeted at-risk and HIV-infected populations at the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami, Inc., St. Luke's Addiction and Recovery Center in Miami, Florida. The project targets men who inject drugs, including men who have sex with men (MSM), and at-risk non-injecting MSMs; minority women (African-American and Hispanic/Latino); and individuals released from prisons and jails within the past two years. The Healthy and Free Project proposes to expand the number of residential beds served at the St. Luke's facility from 38 to 47 and enhance clinical services that comply with the SAMHSA Effective Practices outlined in CSAP's TIP 37: Substance Abuse Treatment for HIV At-Risk Individuals and CSAP's TIP 42: Substance Abuse Treatment for Persons with Co-Occurring Disorders. The project also proposes to enhance current residential services by offering rapid HIV testing to all residential clients, their sexual and needle-sharing partners and providing HIV/AIDS case management, medical services and coordination for all HIV positive residential clients in collaboration with partner agencies. It is expected that this program will serve a total of 885 unduplicated clients over the life of the grant.
  
Grantee: SAMUEL'S HOUSE, INC. Key West, FL
Program: Recovery Support Services Involving Grassroots Organization Category TI019296
Congressional District: FL-18
FY 2009 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
The Women in Transition (WIT) Project is a collaborative effort between Samuel's House, a transitional housing program, and the Care Center for Mental Health, a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Treatment Program, to develop and implement a coordinated, continuum of care service delivery system for homeless women with substance use or Cc-occurring disorders.
The primary goals of the WIT Project include:
1. Increase access and establish a "no wrong door" system of care for substance abusing female adults in Key West and the Lower Keys through the expansion of treatment capacity and provider collaboration in the establishment of a continuum of care for a substance abuse treatment delivery system for women.
2. Reduce or eliminate drug use among adult females residing in Key West or the Lower Keys who receive Treatment and/or Recovery Support Services through the WIT Project.
  
Grantee: COUNTY OF DADE Miami, FL
Program: Adult Treatment Drug Courts TI021890
Congressional District: FL-18
FY 2009 Funding: $300,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
The Miami Drug Court Specialized Treatment for Women Project will enhance services by improving the appropriateness, comprehensiveness, and effectiveness of treatment services provided to female Adult Drug Court participants through improved management of scarce court and treatment resources. The court will enhance case management, screening, assessment, placement, and treatment services.
  
Grantee: BROWARD COUNTY BOARD/CNTY COMMISSIONERS Ft Lauderdale, FL
Program: Treatment for Homeless - Homeless TI018185
Congressional District: FL-20
FY 2009 Funding: $389,243
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
The Substance Abuse and Health Care Services Division of the Human Services Department of Broward County, Florida along with agency partners propose a project to adopt the exemplary practice of Integrated Dual Diagnosis Treatment for use with adults who are unsheltered homeless or are living in emergency shelter and experiencing co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
  
Grantee: GUIDANCE CLINIC OF THE MIDDLE KEYS Marathon, FL
Program: Offender Reentry Program (2009) TI021624
Congressional District: FL-20
FY 2009 Funding: $399,756
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
The Outside the Fence Reentry Program will provide outreach, case management, HIV services, direct treatment (TX), wraparound and recovery services for Monroe County offenders released from jail or prison in need of addiction and mental health services. Services will be provided to 135 people (45 per yr.). Alcohol is the primary drug of abuse. It is anticipated that the population of focus will be 82% male, 18% female, 13% African American, 86% White, and 1% other ethnicities. Approximately 20% will have a veteran status and 75% will have a co-occurring disorder. The goals of the project are to: 1) foster a stable and manageable transition from incarceration to community-based living for adult male and female offenders; 2) avert relapse on alcohol, illicit drugs, and prescription medications following reintegration; and 3) promote community and family safety through the prevention of criminal recidivism and enhance social, mental health, and behavioral health functioning among offenders reintegrated into the community.
  
Grantee: COMPREHENSIVE AIDS PROGRAM PALM BEACH West Palm Beach, FL
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI019762
Congressional District: FL-22
FY 2009 Funding: $450,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
The Comprehensive AIDS Program of Palm Beach County, Inc. (CAP) Outreach and SA Capacity and Expansion Project proposed by CAP has two primary components. First, the project will use direct street outreach to provide HIV education and testing and SA screening to high risk individuals in their neighborhoods. Second, CAP will act as a broker of substance abuse treatment by referring, paying for treatment and following up with those individuals who are identified as in need for substance abuse treatment. The proposed program will target African American and Latinos in Palm Beach Florida who are at high risk for substance abuse and HIV. Outreach workers will conduct targeted street outreach and provide on the spot risk reduction education and offer rapid HIV testing. HIV testing and substance abuse screening will be offered at community sites. All participants identified as HIV positive or in need of substance abuse counseling will be referred to services. The goal of the proposed project is to decrease risky sexual behaviors and risky substance use behaviors in high risk minority communities.
  
Grantee: OIC OF BROWARD COUNTY, INC. Fort Lauderdale, FL
Program: Offender Reentry Program (2009) TI021748
Congressional District: FL-23
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
The Opportunity Industrialization Center of Broward County, Inc. Offender Reentry Program (OICB-ORP) will serve adult offenders ,18 years of age and older, under the jurisdiction of the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) criminal justice system. The intended benefits and long-term community outcomes of offenders' increased accessibility to substance abuse treatment services include: (1) increased public safety through reductions in drug related criminal acts; (2) decreased recidivism; (3) reduced drug use by offenders; (4) decreased recommitment of offenders; (5) efficiency in government spending; and (6) preservation of limited institutional resources for secure confinement.
  

Last Update: 10/29/2009