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MARYLAND

Grantee: COUNTY OF TALBOT Easton, MD
Program: Child Mental Health Initiative SM059052
Congressional District: MD-01
FY 2009 Funding: $998,539
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2015
This proposal, RURAL Crisis and At Risk for Escalation diversion Services for children (RURAL CARES), will expand and adapt the urban foster care model developed under a current Children's Mental Health Initiative (CMHI) Cooperative Agreement in Baltimore city to meet the unique needs of our rural communities. Maryland's Eastern Shore faces cultural and geographic challenges common in rural jurisdictions including poverty, isolated communities, inadequate access to care, and significant stigma associated with mental health care. Lack of workforce is also an issue. Seven of these nine counties have been designated in full as Health Professional Shortage Areas for mental health by the Health Resources and Services Administration. RURAL CARES will give us the capacity to keep these children in their home communities.
  
Grantee: ROBERTA'S HOUSE, INC. Baltimore, MD
Program: 2009 CMHS EARMARKS SM059780
Congressional District: MD-02
FY 2009 Funding: $285,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2010
This project is community-based, non-profit program offering a comprehensive bereavement support program for healing "hearts and minds" of children and their families emotionally, physically and spiritually through peer and clinical support, education, empowerment and community awareness to low-income, school-age children and teens along with their families who have experienced the death of a loved one or to those who are survivors of homicide or have family or friends that have been victims of homicide living in high crime areas of Baltimore, MD.
  
Grantee: ON OUR OWN OF MARYLAND, INC. Baltimore, MD
Program: Statewide Consumer Network SM056448
Congressional District: MD-03
FY 2009 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2010
On Our Own of Maryland, (OOOMD) Maryland's Statewide consumer organization, will work with consumer group at the county level to build, strengthen and further develop our statewide network. OOOMD will host quarterly meeting between consumers and Mental Health Transformation Project (MHTP) staff in different regions of the state, participate on the various sub-committees of the MHTP, and transform our consumer network of drop in centers into wellness and recovery centers. "Hands-on" technical assistance from skilled staff and consultants in organizational development will be provided at the sub-committee level. Cultural Competency & Minority Issues will be addressed by a Planning Committee comprised of OOOMD Board of Directors/staff, TEA Arthur (a consultant), MHA Cultural Competence Committee and MHA Office of Consumer Affairs focusing on how minorities view the public mental health system.
  
Grantee: TOWSON UNIVERSITY Towson, MD
Program: Campus Suicide SM058968
Congressional District: MD-03
FY 2009 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
Through the Towson University Counseling Center (TUCC), TU will use grant funds to develop and implement a comprehensive, culturally competent system of educational programs, informational materials, infrastructure support, and referrals to community providers. The project will provide and evaluate gatekeeper training to 400 students and 200 campus personnel each year to assist in identifying students at risk for suicide and refer them for help. Project funds will enable TUCC to increase the number of educational seminars to reach more than 750 students each year with culturally competent information focused on educating students about suicide risk factors and reducing treatment stigma. The project will create and implement a comprehensive strategic suicide prevention plan and ensure that the university response to students is as helpful as possible. Students who present with behavioral/mental concerns (i.e. self-harm, suicidal gestures, and attempts) on campus will be identified and incidents/behaviors raising concern will be tracked and entered into a secure database. The project will also include developing improved infrastructure and a referral database to assist more than 200 students each year who are projected to be at risk in accessing services they need that go beyond the scope of what the TUCC provides. The database would allow TUCC providers to more quickly connect students to the most appropriate resource to fit their individual and culturally specific needs. A major benefit expected from this project is focused on enhancing the University's capacity to better provide means to target and respond to the needs of high risk groups. Enhanced visibility of the TUCC hotline and national suicide prevention lifeline will provide access to all campus students. Culturally specific Web-based materials will also be developed for faculty, family members, and community gatekeepers.
  
Grantee: AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION Silver Spring, MD
Program: Minority Fellowship Program SM058566
Congressional District: MD-04
FY 2009 Funding: $826,587
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
The goal of the American Nurses Association Minority Fellowship Program is to develop ethnic minority nurses who are recognized for excellence in creating, transmitting, and utilizing knowledge and skills to improve the health of people in local and global communities. The intent of this project is to increase the number of PhD prepared nurses from underrepresented ethnic minority groups. Project Goals and Measurable Objectives: To achieve the goals of the MFP, the staff will develop and strengthen the MFP infrastructure that will include a paperless office that has all aspects of its components automated and password protected to ensure privacy and confidentiality. The staff will computerize all documents that will allow for safe and efficient retrieval. These documents will be used for evaluation purposes and future planning of the project. The evaluation component will be developed that requests data from the Fellows, their advisors, their employers, their peers, and the MFP staff. Activities such as the infrastructure components of the project, the learning activities, and the communication processes that are associated with the MFP will be evaluated through electronic media. The Fellows will also be asked to participate in evaluating all aspects of this project. The Measurable Objectives Include: (1)Increase the pool of ethnic minority PhD trained nurses with expertise in MH/SA disorders practice, research and health policy, (2) Achieve its work through the professional organization, the American Nurses Association, and by the Fellows' matriculation at a variety of accredited colleges and universities, and (3) Assure that Fellows assume leadership roles in translating science to service, reducing mortality and morbidity through excellence in direct care, and enhancing well-being among ethnic minority populations.
  
Grantee: HUGO W. MOSER RES INST KENNEDY KRIEGER Baltimore, MD
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-Treatment Centers (2007) SM056215
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2009 Funding: $399,982
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2011
The Kennedy Krieger Family Center-Integrated Trauma Approaches (KKFC-ITA) Center will provide comprehensive local and statewide services for high-risk, underserved children with traumatic childhood exposures that include implementation, evaluation, and adaptation of trauma-informed (TI) practices and expansion of the Trauma Training Academy to provide education on TI treatments. Specifically, the KKFC-ITA Center will target children with trauma and 1) neglect, 2) adolescent substance abuse, and 3) parental incarceration. KKFC-ITA Center will provide services for a predominantly African American population living in Baltimore, MD. The three goals of the KKFC-ITA Center are to: 1) increase TI service delivery to children with traumatic exposures, 2) evaluate and adapt TI practices at KKFC for children with trauma and neglect, and 3) expand the Trauma Training Academy (TTA) to provide education on TI treatment models for children and families with histories of childhood trauma.
  
Grantee: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE Baltimore, MD
Program: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder-Adaptation Centers (2007) SM058147
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2009 Funding: $600,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2011
The goal of the Family-Informed Trauma Treatment (FITT) Center is to develop, implement, evaluate, and disseminate theoretically sound, family-based interventions for underserved urban and military populations that apply accepted methods of trauma treatment within a systemic model of family process to support positive outcomes for children and families. This Center builds upon an empirically supported, family-centered abuse prevention model and two emergent trauma-focused, family systems intervention strategies to fill the void in the child trauma field for standardized, trauma-specific family therapies. Our Family-Informed Trauma Treatment Model will embed the core components of trauma-informed care within a comprehensive framework of service delivery for families. This Center represents a unique collaboration among Baltimore's major academic and service institutions including the University of Maryland's Schools of Medicine and Social Work and the Kennedy Krieger Family Center.
  
Grantee: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY Baltimore, MD
Program: Youth Suicide Prevention & Early Intervention - Cooperative Agreement State-Sponsored SM059250
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2009 Funding: $498,605
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
The White Mountain Apache Tribe in partnership with Johns Hopkins, Empowering our Spirits initiative will deploy a three-tiered prevention strategy (universal, selective, indicated) including three culturally-adapted evidence-based interventions that build on a unique triballly mandated suicide surveillance system. Primary intervention targets will include: community-wide education to promote protective factors and reduce risks; early identification and triage of high-risk youth; and intensive prevention intervention with youth who attempt suicide and their families. Tier 1 Universal objectives are to promote broad community advocacy and education and education to increase understanding that suicide is preventable and reinforce protective factors that are core to the Apache belief system. Tier 2 Selected intervention objectives are to increase early identification and continuity of care for youth. Tier 3 Indicated intervention objectives are to prevent suicide and promote linkages to care, safety planning, problem solving and coping among youth who attempt suicide and their families. The proposed efforts will be strengthened by three levels of community support: 1) a team of Apache Natural Helpers trained by Johns Hopkins mental health experts and employed by the project to carry out all activities; 2) an inter-agency "Health and Safety Coalition;" and 3) an Elders' Advisory Council.
  
Grantee: MARYLAND STATE DEPT OF HLTH/MENTAL HYG Catonsville, MD
Program: Mental Health Transformation State Incentive Grants SM057459
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2009 Funding: $2,713,887
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
Maryland's Mental Health Transformation provides a set of strategies to bring the vision of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health closer to reality for citizens of Maryland.The proposal brings together the experience of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and its evolving history of transforming mental health services in Maryland with the newly created Maryland Department of Disabilities, which is charged with service integration and system reform for people with disabilities. The Transformation Work Group brings together a powerful coalition of Cabinet Secretaries, senior State officials, leaders in the consumer, family, and mental health advocacy movements and representatives of the highest echelon of executive leadership in our State to facilitate deep and lasting change in the way services are delivered. The proposal also features enhancement of already strong public-academic and public/private provider partnerships in the areas of evidence based practices and emphasis on a recovery focused approach to service. The University of Maryland, Center of Mental Health Services Research, located in the School of Medicine, plays a prominent role in the proposed activities. Overall, the proposed transformation activities take stock of the current strengths of the system with a realistic appraisal of areas needing change and brings together the resources and people needed to effect meaningful and lasting change in the system.
  
Grantee: MARYLAND STATE DEPT OF HLTH/MENTAL HYG Catonsville, MD
Program: State Data Infrastructure Grants SM058099
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2009 Funding: $142,200
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
Maryland will continue to collect and refine URS and NOMS data. Funding will also be used to support evaluation and quality improvement efforts based upon the data which have come from Maryland's fee-for-service Public Mental Health Systems. Data will be assembled from other sources with the PMHS and from sources external to the PMHS to extend these outcome evaluations and quality improvement efforts. The series of Data Training Seminars which are targeted to administrators, providers, and advocates will be continued and its focus broadened. Technical assistance will be provided to the mental health Core Service Agencies, the local mental health authorities, in order to assist them with obtaining data from current sources, and presenting and analyzing data for inclusion in the planning documents that are prepared annually.
  
Grantee: MARYLAND STATE DEPT OF HLTH/MENTAL HYG Catonsville, MD
Program: Youth Suicide Prevention & Early Intervention - Cooperative Agreement State-Sponsored SM058409
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2009 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
Maryland's Linkages to Life Youth Suicide Prevention Program proposes an array of promising awareness, intervention, and postvention services for the entire State of Maryland. Special focus is placed on enhanced efforts in rural counties where mortality rates are highest in the State. The program is founded on a partnership of State and local government agencies, Medical Schools at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, and numerous private sector partner agencies. The goals of the project are directly from the State's Youth Suicide Prevention Plan: 1) AWARENESS-Maryland youth, their families and the professionals who work with them understand that suicide is preventable; 2) INTERVENTION-Culturally competent, effective and accessible community based intervention services and programs for youth are in place; 3) POSTVENTION-Effective, culturally competent professional services are accessible to youth who have attempted suicide and/or to other people affected by the suicide attempt or completion. The project will conduct broad State and local infrastructure development and service improvements in local schools statewide, providing enhancements related to suicide prevention within the state's Health Curriculum for students in the 8th grade and high school. An estimated 28,000 students are expected to take these courses. The project will also provide statewide training for a wide variety of educational personnel, including teachers, administrators, and those in the pupil support and paraprofessional workforce on suicide prevention and intervention. Local partnerships of schools, behavioral health authorities, juvenile justice and child welfare officials, and a wide range of private providers and advocacy groups will be created.
  
Grantee: MARYLAND STATE DEPT OF HLTH/MENTAL HYG Catonsville, MD
Program: Child Mental Health Initiative SM058522
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2009 Funding: $1,455,984
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2014
This proposal, Maryland crisis and At Risk for Escalation diversion Services for children (MD CARES), will cement a cross-agency partnership that blends family-driven, evidence-based practices within mental health and child welfare to better serve this high risk population. In Maryland there are approximately 10,100 children in foster care, of which approximately 6,100 are from Baltimore City ("the City"). Therefore, service dollars awarded under this cooperative agreement will be targeted to the neighborhoods in the City, where the majority of the youth and families in foster care reside. To most effectively leverage the systems change in the City and adapt the model for statewide implementation, MD CARES also incorporates statewide infrastructure and sustainability strategies which include:
crisis response and stabilization; completion of the statewide rollout of Maryland Youth Motivating Others through Voices of Experience (MOVE); and cross-agency fiscal and policy analysis.
  
Grantee: MARYLAND STATE DEPT OF HLTH/MENTAL HYG Catonsville, MD
Program: Healthy Transitions Initiative SM059433
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2009 Funding: $480,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
The Office of Child and Adolescent Services and the Office of Adult Services within the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Mental Hygiene Administration are proud to submit this application in full partnership with Frederick and Washington counties, and consumers, youth and families (CYF) to design and implement a system of care (SOC) to meet the needs of young adults with mental heatlh needs as they transition into adulthood. This proposal, the Maryland Health Transitions Initiative (HTI), developed through the collaborative support of multiple local and state agencies and stakeholders, leverages the solid infrastructure built within both Maryland's child and adult sytems and sets forth a demonstrated commitment and partnership to improve outcomes for transition-aged youth (TYAY). The target populations is TAY, ages 16 through 25, with serious mental health conditions, defined as meeting the diagnostic criteria for serious emotional disturbance or serious mental illness.
  
Grantee: MD COALITION FAM 4 CHILDRENS MENTAL HLTH Columbia, MD
Program: Statewide Family Networks SM057904
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2009 Funding: $60,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
This Statewide Family network appplication proposes to develop infrastructure in three distinct areas:
Building capacity to address the needs of families caring for transition-age youth with mental health needs
Building family leadership capacity
Building youth leadership capacity

Funds from the grant will be used to support a half-time Transition Specialist to provide one-to-one information and support to families caring for transition-age youth. Additionally, the Transition Specialist will develop a curriculum to educate families caring for youth with mental helth needs who are graduating from high school. Using the curriculum, a six-session training for family members will be held annually throughout the lifetime of the grant. In the second year of the grant a handbook for families on trasition will be developed.

Finally, the Coalition's Youth Leadership weekend, held in July at a camp on the Eastern Shore, will strengthen the youth movement in Maryland. It is expected that fifteen youth will participate in the program. The University of Maryland Innovations Institute has received fuding to develop Youth MOVE in Maryland. The Youth Leadership weekend will further sloidify the youth movement in Maryland.
  

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)

Grantee: COUNTY OF KENT Chestertown, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012095
Congressional District: MD-01
FY 2009 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2011
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: CAROLINE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT Denton, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014304
Congressional District: MD-01
FY 2009 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
  
Grantee: COMMUNITY SERVICES AND RESEARCH CENTER Fruitland, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013058
Congressional District: MD-01
FY 2009 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
  
Grantee: WICOMICO COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT Salisbury, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014335
Congressional District: MD-01
FY 2009 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
  
Grantee: FIRST STEP, INC. Baltimore, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012066
Congressional District: MD-02
FY 2009 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2011
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
  
Grantee: COUNTY OF HARFORD Bel Air, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012940
Congressional District: MD-02
FY 2009 Funding: $99,721
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: LOCAL MGMT BOARD OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY Annapolis, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013459
Congressional District: MD-03
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: FRIENDS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC. Baltimore, MD
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP013321
Congressional District: MD-03
FY 2009 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
Now, and for many decades, drug and alcohol use and abuse problems have continued to occur in Native American communities. More recently, HIV/AIDS and hepatitis have appeared in all but a few of these communities. Along with the frustration, pain, and senseless deaths that result from these problems, Native Americans must struggle with treating and preventing a problem that doesn't seem to fit within its own traditional healing systems. This proposal seeks to build a foundation for delivering and sustaining effective and culturally relevant services to prevent and reduce the onset of substance abuse (SA), and transmission of HIV/ AIDS and hepatitis among urban Native Americans and Native American reentry populations in Baltimore, MD. The overall purpose of the proposed project is to implement a culturally responsive HIV/AIDS/Hepatitis program that will increase and sustain service capacity to Native Americans in order to address SA, HIV, and hepatitis problems. The increases in service capacity are designed to: (1) build skills and knowledge; (2) promote new peer group norms of preventive communications and behaviors; and (3) help sustain new health promoting habits. Using the Strategic Prevention Framework as a model to develop culturally relevant service capacity specifically for urban Native Americans, the five goals of the project are to: (1) Conduct a community needs assessment; (2) Mobilize and build capacity to address SA/HIV and hepatitis prevention needs; (3) Develop a comprehensive strategic plan; (4) Implement evidence based prevention programs and infrastructure development activities; and, (5) Assess program effectiveness. Service capacity will be enhanced through partnership with an urban Native American program, LifeLines Foundation that serves substance abusing Native Americans in Maryland. Through this partnership, we will develop workgroups that provide syntheses of state and local indicator data specifically on Native Americans.
  
Grantee: SUITLAND FAMILY LIFE/DEVELOPMENT CORP Lanham, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012377
Congressional District: MD-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. Lanham, MD
Program: Minority HIV Prevention SP015112
Congressional District: MD-04
FY 2009 Funding: $335,333
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
Strategic Community Services, Inc. (SCSI) proposes to implement a project entitled, "Substance Abuse and HIV Integrated Prevention Services for African American Females ('SHIPS). SHIPS is the integration of two tested, effective programs listed on NREPP; Coping with Work and Family Stress (CWFS) and Hip Hop 2 Prevent Substance Abuse and HIV (H2P). CWFS and H2P: (1) empower African American women with education and the skills critical to changing the socioeconomic climate for their lives; (2) stresses the importance of reducing the number of oneÂ’s sexual partners, (3) ensures that the participants have access to the services by offering them at their work site as well as in the community in clinical settings, and (4) the interventions encourage African American women to deal with issues pertinent to their lives such as coping with the stress in their lives and unequal power status in sexual relationships. CWFS and H2P enhance self-esteem and self-efficacy, provides changes the women can believe in, and builds skills in communication, negotiation, and assertiveness.
The prevention services will be offered to employees of the members of the Prince George's Chamber of Commerce at their work site and at the only federal qualified health center (FQHC) in the County, Greater Baden Medical Services. The goals of the project include:
Goal 1: Prevent and reduce the onset of substance abuse and transmission of HIV/AIDS
Goal 2: Reduce substance abuse in the past 30 days. Goal 3: Prevent and reduce risky sexual activity. Goal 4: Increase HIV testing, counseling and referral services.
  
Grantee: COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND, LA PLATA La Plata, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013668
Congressional District: MD-05
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: GARRETT COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT Oakland, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014742
Congressional District: MD-06
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: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY Baltimore, MD
Program: Minority HIV Prevention - Cohort 8 SP015071
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2009 Funding: $329,666
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
The Life Changing Group project (TLC) seeks to address individual and structural sources of risk for the reentry population returning to selected communities in Baltimore. The project will seek to show that observed positive changes in structural risks are associated with decreased prevalence of Substance Abuse and HIV among reentry residents. Service providers, led by Group Ministries, will ensure that participants have secure housing and opportunities for immediate employment providing a secure basis for participating in the development of evidence based intervention programs. Participants will consist of Black males between the ages of 21 and 50 who have been released from prison or jail in the last 2 years. We anticipated serving 150 participants a year for five years (750 total). Phase I involves profiling the TLC Project Area in terms of socio-demographic, epidemiological characteristics, and available resources. Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHBSPH) Center for Communication Programs will develop the Community Needs Assessment. Phase II is the intervention phase. The first part of a two part intervention strategy will expand upon the existing, long-term initiatives that make up TLC (i.e. job training program, house reconstruction and in-house counseling and medical referral service). JHBSPH Department of Health, Behavior and Society will provide strategic guidance in the implementation of this structural intervention. Part two of the strategy will address the short-term individual sources of the risk. Training and support will be provided for the implementation of evidence-based prevention programs such as Living in Balance. Phase III will involve reentry participants directly as they work with TLC staff to develop and implement action plans. These plans will focus on providing peer driven approach combinig long-term strategy of structural change with the short-term strategy of implementing prevention program.
  
Grantee: MARYLAND ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE ADMIN Catonsville, MD
Program: Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants SP015591
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2009 Funding: $2,135,724
Project Period: 07/01/2009 - 06/30/2014
The Maryland Strategic Prevention Framework Program will prevent and reduce substance abuse problems (including underage drinking) by building and sustaining a cross-system data infrastructure, implementing a comprehensive prevention planning process and expand State and local capacity for the provision of culturally competent prevention services. Each jurisdiction will have a local council that uses data to identify priorties and develop strategies at the community level.
  

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)

Grantee: DANYA INSTITUTE, INC. Silver Spring, MD
Program: Addiction Technology Transfer Center TI013427
Congressional District: MD-04
FY 2009 Funding: $699,990
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
The proposed project is designed to develop and strengthen the workforce providing addiction treatment services in the Central East region, which includes Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland and New Jersey. Project goals include: (1) Working with partners and stakeholders to assess the training and development needs of the substance use disorders workforce in the region; (2) Developing and conducting training and technology transfer activities to meet identified needs; (3) raising awareness of and improving skills in using evidence-based and promising treatment and recovery practices in recovery-oriented systems of care; (4) Continuing and expanding the Center for HIV, Hepatitis and Addiction Training & Technology (CHHATT), Central East's Center for Excellence; and (5) Raising awareness of/improving skills in using culturally competent approaches to addiction treatment and recovery.
  
Grantee: PEOPLE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE, INC. Baltimore, MD
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment TI016623
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2010
People Encouraging People, Inc (PEP) in collaboration with Baltimore Mental Health Systems (BMHS), Baltimore Substance Abuse Systems (BSAS), the Baltimore City of Homeless Services (OHS), the University of Maryland School of Social Work (SSW) and the Park Heights Community Health Alliance (PHCHA) is proposing to create a comprehensive dual diagnosis treatment system for persons who are homeless in Baltimore City. This new program is an integration and expansion of PEP's current community based mental health mobile treatment program and its facility based Mental Illness Substance Abuse program.
  
Grantee: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE Baltimore, MD
Program: SBIRT-Medical Residency Program TI020257
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2009 Funding: $373,824
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
Project PISA (Physicians Intervening with Substance Abuse) from the University of Maryland will develop a comprehensive and innovative residency training curriculum for SBIRT for individuals who misuse, abuse or are dependent on substances including illegal drugs, prescription medication, alcohol and nicotine. This will be placed in the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) residencies of Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, ObGyn, Neurology, Pediatrics and Psychiatry. Residents in Child/Adolescent Psychiatry, Behavioral Pediatrics and Shock Trauma will also be included. The program will eventually include most of Baltimore and train 700 residents over 5 years. The curriculum will include didactic and practice components and video and interactive technology, web-based training and standardized patients.
  
Grantee: AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ADDICTION MEDICINE Chevy Chase, MD
Program: Physicians Clinical Support System TI019115
Congressional District: MD-08
FY 2009 Funding: $499,865
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) will continue to administer a National Physician Clinical Support System for the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders (PCSS) to assist practicing physicians, in accodance with the Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000, in incorporating into their practices the treatment of prescription opioid and heroin dependent patients using buprenorphine. ASAM, in consortium with other specialty addiction medicine, psychiatric, pain, and general medicine societies will continue to administer the PCSS and thereby assist physicians in the appropriate treatment of opioid dependence.
  
Grantee: AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ADDICTION MEDICINE Chevy Chase, MD
Program: Physicians Clinical Support System for Methadone TI020294
Congressional District: MD-08
FY 2009 Funding: $499,666
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) proposes to create, develop, and administer a Physician Clinical Support System for the appropriate use of methadone in the treatment of pain and opioid addiction (PCSS-M) to assist practicing physicians and other health care providers in prescribing for and managing patients on methadone. Methadone prescribing has substantially and appropriately increased in recent years because increasing numbers of individuals are in need of treatment for dependence or chronic, intractable pain. Unfortunately, methadone overdoses have also concurrently increased, partly because methadone has a complex pharmacology, and few physicians or other health care providers receive any training in proper use of methadone. Therefore, ASAM proposes to create the new PCSS-M as a complementary organization to the existing Physician Clinical Support System (PCSS), which ASAM successfully developed, implemented, and maintains.
  
Grantee: MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARYLAND Rockville, MD
Program: Adult Treatment Drug Courts TI020002
Congressional District: MD-08
FY 2009 Funding: $300,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
Montgomery County Adult Drug Court Capacity will expand intensive outpatient substance abuse treatment services to a larger number of clients, provide more comprehensive case management and implement a unique aftercare component aimed at ensuring that graduates maintain the success they worked for in the program. To date, Drug Court participants in this program remain disproportionately African American males. Key program components include culturally sensitive, appropriate and competent engagement, substance abuse counseling and treatment, person-centered planning, and linkage with referrals to resources and follow-up.
  

Last Update: 12/11/2009