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Grantee: MAINE STATE DEPT/MH/MTL RET/SUB ABU SRVS Augusta, ME
Program: 2004 COSIGS SM056584
Congressional District: ME-01
FY 2009 Funding: $98,900
Project Period: 09/01/2005 - 08/31/2010
The State of Maine will build on the multi-year coordination and collaboration efforts to create a more receptive and responsive treatment system for people experiencing psychiatric and alcohol or drug related co-occurring disorders. The project will target diverse populations including Native Americans, migrant workers, and immigrants from Asia and Africa. COSIG Works for Maine will pilot nine service sites and theen replicate the model more broadly throughout the state. Project activities will include:
1) Screen at least 3000 individuals per year for co-occurring disorders;
2) Assess the level of severity of co-occurring disorders in at least 2000 people per year;
3) Treat 1000 people per year for both disorders comprehensively and in a coordinated manner.
4)Train providers in 50 agencies per year to screen, assess and develop treatment plans for people with co-occurring disorders; and
5) Evaluate the impact of treatment services on individuals with cooccurring disorders.
  
Grantee: MAINE STATE DEPT/HEALTH/HUMAN SERVS Augusta, ME
Program: Child Mental Health Initiative SM057045
Congressional District: ME-01
FY 2009 Funding: $802,152
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2011
The State of Maine, Children's Behavioral Health Services, intends to build an infrastructure and implement an integrated system of care for children ages birth through eighteen with serious emotional disturbances while learning more about and more effectively addressing the needs of a particularly vulnerable and high risk group, young people who have experienced trauma. Children's Behavioral Health Services has teamed up with Child and Family Services (child welfare), Department of Corrections, Department of Education, parents, youth and Tri-County Mental Health Services, a comprehensive mental health center with experience in the development and implementation of trauma-informed practices for adults, to develop its system of care. The focus will be in three western counties, Androscoggin, Oxford and Franklin, with some of the highest rates of immigrants and refugees as well as over average incidences of poverty, child abuse reports and foster care placements. Over 30 state and local agencies, respected professionals in the field of children's mental health and childhood trauma, statewide family organizations and national experts have committed their support for this project.
  
Grantee: MAINE STATE DEPT/HEALTH/HUMAN SERVS Augusta, ME
Program: Youth Suicide Prevention & Early Intervention - Cooperative Agreement State-Sponsored SM057396
Congressional District: ME-01
FY 2009 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2011
Proposed is a strategic expansion of the well established Maine Youth Suicide Prevention Program (MYSPP). Training and resources will be provided to key groups in direct contact with youth in a variety of settings. Community networks, that identify and assist youth at risk for suicide, will be created with 10 high schools and related community organizations. Data gathered will measure project impact and increase understanding of youth suicide in Maine.
Training, collaboration and resource development will reach at risk high school and college students, youth in foster care, youth with serious emotional disorders, youth in correctional settings; Native American, LGBT youth and returning veterans. This proposal contains evaluation on the efficacy and sustainability of two key promising practices: gatekeeper training and the Maine Lifelines Program, a comprehensive school-based youth suicide prevention and early intervention program. Caring About Lives in Maine builds on collaborations and linkages to enhance the capacity of schools and service providers to provide a culturally competent, sustainable system of prevention, early identification, intervention and referral for families and youth in selected areas of the state. Funds will: 1) implement suicide prevention and early intervention strategies; 2) provide assistance to increase the capacity of youth-serving organizations to identify youth at risk and link them to culturally competent helping resources; 3) assist colleges in learning about protocol development; and 4) continue collaboration to pilot and evaluate an AFSP model of web-based outreach to high risk college students. Findings will be used to measure the impact of and ensure continuous quality improvements to the project and to track outcomes for at-risk youth. MYSPP will continue collaboration with key stakeholders and governmental agencies to assure project success.
  
Grantee: MAINE PARENT FEDERATION, INC. Augusta, ME
Program: Statewide Family Networks SM057907
Congressional District: ME-01
FY 2009 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
Creating A Network for Diverse Opportunities ( Project CANDO) will continue to sponsor and strengthen Maine's six regional family network's provision of in formation, education, skills development and supports enabling parents of children with severe emotional disturbance to positively influence programs and policies most affecting their lives.

The Maine Parent Federation (MPF) project goal: Maine parents and family members will act as catalysts for change at individual, provider, community and state levels to ensure that system of care and support services are available, appropriate and provided as a result of productive partnerships between families, service providers and policy makers.

Project objectives are: 1. conduct statewide information and outreach to all families, children and youth with mental health issues; 2. provide targeted training, education, informatio and advocacy; 3. provide program and administrative support maintaining sex regional family networks; 4. provide specific training, facilitation and other supports so parents can effectively participate in local and state level policy arenas.

CANDO's youth leadership component incorporates the objectives of outreach, leadership and peer mentor training; youth program development and increased youth participation in a variety of advisory and policy making groups.
  
Grantee: MAINE STATE DEPT/MH/MTL RET/SUB ABU SRVS Augusta, ME
Program: State Data Infrastructure Grants SM058084
Congressional District: ME-01
FY 2009 Funding: $154,700
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
In the coming three years, the project will focus on the continued refinement of a comprehensive data model for mental health reporting with a focus on improved integration with the Maine DHHS offices and establishing formal linkages with the Maine Health Data Organization and other non DHHS state agencies. Additional development priorities include: enhancing the cultural competency of data collection; developing automated reporting; expanding fidelity assessments of evidence based practices; expanding and formalizing mechanisms to support meaningful participation in the DIG project; and development of standard data summary reports and formal mechanisms for the dissemination, review, and feedback of mental health performance information. DHHS is also committed to furthering the integration of physical health and mental health data, by supporting integrated analysis of Medicaid and BRFSS health and mental health data. An additional DIG supplement in 2009 will provide data analyses for the PHQ-8 Module on depression prevalence in the state implemented through the CDC's BRFSS survey.
  
Grantee: MAINE STATE DEPT/HEALTH/HUMAN SERVS Augusta, ME
Program: LAUNCH - Linking Actions for Unmet Needs in Children's Health SM058875
Congressional District: ME-01
FY 2009 Funding: $916,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
The Community Caring Collaborative (CCC) is a grassroots coalition of 33 agencies and tribal entities serving high-risk, substance-exposed young children ages 0 through 8 and their families in rural Washington County, Maine. Through Project LAUNCH, the CCC and Maine CDC will partner to build a sustainable system of care that is strength-based, family driven, culturally competent and based on an integrated public health model.
Tucked away in the northeastern coastal corner of Maine, Washington County is home to 2,000 Passamaquoddy Tribal members on two reservations and approximately 31,000 additional residents. Washington County is the most impoverished county in Maine, with a child poverty rate of 28.4%. Due to large distances between towns and lack of service coordination among health care and other providers, these babies and their families often do not come to the attention of child-serving agencies until ages 3-5. In 2003, the state received an Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (ECCS) grant and developed a plan for a comprehensive early investment in young children. Through Project LAUNCH, the state and the CCC will build on and enhance this plan. Locally, the CCC will deliver wraparound service planning, DC: 0-3R assessments, mental health consultation and other evidence-based practices to 125 families per year (600 over the project period), with "all doors" leading to integrated services. The Maine CDC and its partners will support the CCC through training, planning, service coordination, infrastructure development and evaluation.
  
Grantee: MAINE STATE DEPT/HEALTH/HUMAN SERVS Augusta, ME
Program: Healthy Transitions Initiative SM059442
Congressional District: ME-01
FY 2009 Funding: $479,959
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
The needs of transition-age youth and young adults are such a concern in Maine, that the Multi-Agency Children's Cabinet, chaired by Maine's First Lady, has established transition age youth as one of it's top three priorities. Moving Forward will address those needs by helping youth and young adults with serious emotional disturbance or mental illness residing in Androscoggin County to move towards independence by addressing education, housing, employment, relationships and other self-identified issues using evidence-based practices. Moving Forward will serve 30 to 50 individiuals per year experiencing serious mental health conditions who are disconnected from their homes and risk homelessness in Androscoggin county, Maine. The population will be between the ages of 16 and 25. Many will have experienced trauma from domestic violence, child welfare and juvenile justice involvement, homelessness and some will have been displaced from their native countries such as Somalia.
  
Grantee: COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER Portland, ME
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-Treatment Centers (2007) SM058232
Congressional District: ME-01
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2011
Community Counseling Center (CCC), as lead agency for the Greater Portland Children's Trauma Response Initiative (The Children's Initiative), proposes to develop a community-wide trauma-informed system of care for children who are suffering as a result of witnessing violence in or out of the home and/or experiencing violence outside of the family. The Children's Initiative, as part of a coalition of 24 organizations in Greater Portland (Maine) will provide a full range of trauma- informed services: outreach, community education, assessment and triage, training and treatment. The Initiative plans to utilize the evidence-based Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Model (TF-CBT) and serve male and female children, between the ages of five and eighteen residing in twelve cities and towns in southern Maine. The Children's Initiative's goals include: 1) Develop an inclusive community-based coalition with active participants from Greater Portland; 2) Form a consensus on TF-CBT; 3) Implement the TF-CBT model throughout the Greater Portland area; 4) Develop a systems-wide infrastructure to facilitate the referral, treatment, and coordination of care for children, and their families, who have experienced and/or witnessed violence; and 5) Conduct evaluation performance improvement activities.
  
Grantee: 211 MAINE, INC. Portland, ME
Program: 2009 CMHS EARMARKS SM059387
Congressional District: ME-01
FY 2009 Funding: $190,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2010
In February 2006, the ten United Way organizations in Maine, the State of Maine, and Youth Alternatives Ingraham collaborated to bring 2-1-1 to the State of Maine. 2-1-1 is an easy to remember telephone number that connects people to a full range of health and social services in their community. Federal assistance will support service expansion, particularly in more rural parts of the State, as well as greater education. 2-1-1 Maine is available to residents 24 hours a day, 7 days a week providing information and referral sources for all areas of the State, including important support during times of disaster by providing information and rumor control. 2-1-1 serves all 16 counties in the State and serves a population of 1.3 million people. Project priorities for the coming year include: expanding collaboration with the Federal and Maine Emergency Management Agencies, enhance resource information available, develop better educational materials, and identify and implement a plan to reach more rural areas of the State.
  
Grantee: ADVOCACY INITIATIVE NETWORK OF MAINE Bangor, ME
Program: Statewide Consumer Network SM056329
Congressional District: ME-02
FY 2009 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2010
The Advocacy Initiative Network of Maine proposes to expand the history of advocacy and program development with consumer statewide. The development of partnership, leadership and the consumer voice will be the focus of strengthening the consumer network infrastructure and the mental health services system. The organization will work closely with the state Office of Consumer Affairs, peer groups, service providers, allied constituencies and other disability groups to implement a systemic approach to self-directed recovery and resiliency. The initiative will involve nearly 900 consumers in various policy and decision making groups.
  
Grantee: UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ORONO Orono, ME
Program: Campus Suicide SM058442
Congressional District: ME-02
FY 2009 Funding: $99,870
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
This program provides suicide prevention for all 12,000 students of the University of Maine, a rural Land and Sea Grant College in Orono, Maine. Faculty, staff, and students will be trained to identify and intervene with students at risk. Web-based assessment, education, referral, and electronic communication will lower the barrier to service for students at risk while facilitating access to mental health and other University resources.
Two primary goals underlying all aspects of the Touchstone Program are to reduce barriers to services and resources and to promote both help-seeking behavior and engagement by students at risk or in need. Ten percent of faculty and staff will be trained as 'gatekeepers' capable of identifying, intervening and referring at risk students to professional health care providers and other university resources. Those receiving gatekeeper training will demonstrate increased knowledge and sensitivity regarding suicide risk factors as well as increased comfort and confidence in intervening with students in distress.
  

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)

Grantee: MEDICAL CARE DEVELOPMENT, INC. Augusta, ME
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012888
Congressional District: ME-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: MEDICAL CARE DEVELOPMENT, INC. Augusta, ME
Program: Drug Free Communities Support Program - Mentoring SP015187
Congressional District: ME-01
FY 2009 Funding: $75,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2010
The grantee will: (1) support and encourage the development of new or the expansion of existing community anti-drug coalitions that are focused on the prevention and treatment of substance abuse; (2) assist one or more communities in efforts to begin coalition operations or to expand the operations of community coalitions that want to receive assistance.
  
Grantee: MEDICAL CARE DEVELOPMENT, INC. Augusta, ME
Program: Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act Grants SP015515
Congressional District: ME-01
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: MID COAST HOSPITAL Brunswick, ME
Program: Drug Free Communities SP015658
Congressional District: ME-01
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: FIVE TOWN COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT Camden, ME
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014896
Congressional District: ME-01
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: HEALTHY COMMUNITIES OF THE CAPITAL AREA Gardiner, ME
Program: Drug Free Communities SP015838
Congressional District: ME-01
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: PEOPLE'S REGIONAL OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM Portland, ME
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013167
Congressional District: ME-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: CARY MEDICAL CENTER Caribou, ME
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014318
Congressional District: ME-02
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: CARY MEDICAL CENTER Caribou, ME
Program: Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act Grants SP015471
Congressional District: ME-02
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: KATAHDIN SHARED SERVICES, INC. Millinocket, ME
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014564
Congressional District: ME-02
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: WATERVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL Waterville, ME
Program: Drug Free Communities SP015583
Congressional District: ME-02
FY 2009 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
  

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)

Grantee: STATE OF MAINE JUDICIAL BRANCH Augusta, ME
Program: Adult Treatment Drug Courts TI019970
Congressional District: ME-01
FY 2009 Funding: $292,827
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
Forensic enhancements to Maine's Co-Occurring Disorders Court will significantly improve the capacity of this innovative and rural program serving adults with serious criminal offenses, substance abuse disorders, and mental illness. This will be accomplished through a coordinated multi-system problem solving court approach. The most profound gaps in the continuum of care are found in Kennebec and Somerset Counties. Through the implementation of evidence based practices, wrap-around case management services will combine adherence and therapeutic functions while integrated treatment services will target criminogenic risk and need in addition to substance abuse disorders and mental illness in a co-occurring context. Expected outcomes include: more offenders will be screened and provided services; improved assessment; increased program retention; higher graduation rates; reduced in-program infractions; stronger recovery from substance abuse and mental illness; and increased public safety. Annually the project will serve 60 clients for a total of 140 clients over the three year grant.
  

Last Update: 12/11/2009