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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)

MISSISSIPPI

Grantee: CATHOLIC CHARITIES, INC. Jackson, MS
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-Treatment Centers (2007) SM056091
Congressional District: MS-02
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2011
Catholic Charities, Inc. will be the lead entity in Trauma Recovery for Youth, (TRY). TRY will institute a trauma informed system of care throughout MS to meet the needs of children and families and offer best practice for children regardless of ethnicity or economic status. TRY will collaborate with experts within the NCTSN to provide at least four TF-CBT learning collaboratives, three SPARCS learning collaboratives, and three learning collaboratives on the treatment of physically abused children. TRY will provide an assessment protocol, training, and consultation to at least 200 clinicians in MS and will establish a training unit within Catholic Charities that will ensure that further dissemination of these interventions is a part of the MS continuum of care.
  
Grantee: MISSISSIPPI STATE DEPT OF MTL HLTH Jackson, MS
Program: Child Mental Health Initiative SM057025
Congressional District: MS-02
FY 2009 Funding: $1,903,792
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2012
The Pine Belt System of Care project will establish a system of coordinated, individualized care for children affected by severe emotional disturbance (SED) or co-occurring SED and substance misuse, in a region of Mississippi that has high need for, but low availability of, services. In addition to meeting a salient local need, this project will serve as a national model for systems of care in rural areas, with focus on meeting the needs of underserved, dually diagnosed youth and their families.

The proposed project is 1) responsive to the goals of the Center's Children's Mental Health Initiative; 2) grounded in the Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health's 14 Implementation Factors for Effective Systems of Care; 3) based in a State with a longstanding statutory commitment to the local development and implementation of SOC principles and practices; and 4) sponsored by the three Mississippi organizations most optimally positioned to ensure its successful execution.

  
Grantee: MISSISSIPPI STATE DEPT OF MTL HLTH Jackson, MS
Program: State Data Infrastructure Grants SM058119
Congressional District: MS-02
FY 2009 Funding: $154,700
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
The Mississippi Mental Health Data Infrastructure Quality Improvement Project will enable the Mississippi Department of Mental Health to (1) Refine the central data repository for public mental health system data; (2) Refine the process for collection and reporting of information from consumer and family satisfaction surveys; (3) Improve data quality assurance systems; and (4) Increase accessibility and use of URS/NOMs measures and other mental health system data by the Mississippi State Mental Health Planning Council, DMH staff and other stakeholders involved in planning and system improvement activities. 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. 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: MISSISSIPPI STATE DEPT OF MTL HLTH Jackson, MS
Program: Child Mental Health Initiative SM059028
Congressional District: MS-02
FY 2009 Funding: $481,579
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2015
The MS TOP project will serve an average 252 participants annually over the 5-year implementation period, or a total of 1,260 youth and young adults, ages 16-21, with a SED who are transitioning from child mental health services to adult mental health services and/or from an institutional setting to the community.

The MS Department of Mental Health will administer the project, develop a cross-agency infrastructure and integrated system of care, and ensure national and local evaluation of performance is conducted. MDMH will award sub-grants to 7 community mental health centers in the state to implement the proposed project.
  
Grantee: MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY Mississippi State, MS
Program: Campus Suicide SM058943
Congressional District: MS-03
FY 2009 Funding: $76,449
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
The MSU-Meridian Campus Suicide Prevention Program proposes to sustain the current components of our secondary suicide prevention program and build on primary wellness-based suicide prevention components. MSU-Meridian Campus has a contract with a local EAP provider so that campus students and their families have access to free unlimited outpatient mental health services. The MSU-Meridian Campus secondary suicide prevention program components that will be sustained include: (a) mental health network between campus and community mental health services; (b) crisis response plan to include responses to suicide; (c) integration of Lifeline throughout program; (d) informational materials for students and families; (e) gatekeeper workshops; (f) depression, substance abuse, and suicide online education mini-courses (wwwl.endingsuicide.com) (g) College Response online clinical screening; (h) anti-stigma artwork (paintings) series; and (i) student peer helper program. The wellness-based primary suicide prevention components that will be added include:(a) Indivisible Self Model of Wellness that includes seventeen components of wellness grouped into five main factors of self: creative self, coping self, social self, essential self, and physical self; (b) Month wellness component theme and campus activities designed to develop that particular wellness component; (c) wellness component online mini-courses. The purpose is to: enhance campus mental health (wellness); early identify and engage at-risk students, implement helping interventions that may include counseling referral before students engage in serious suicide planning, or suicidal behavior. The program objectives include: (a) increase campus faculty/staff, and student mental health (wellness); (b) increase campus help-seeking attitudes/behavior; (c) increase campus protective factors against suicide; (d) increase number of campus counseling referrals and proportion of referrals that attend counseling.
  
Grantee: GULF COAST MH CTR OF REGION 13 Gulfport, MS
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-Treatment Centers (2007) SM058758
Congressional District: MS-04
FY 2009 Funding: $399,845
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2012
Gulf Coast Mental Health Center (GCMHC) will be the central agency in Trauma Informed Disaster and Evidence based Services (TIDES). TIDES will develop additional proficiency in evidence based trauma practices. Resources from the NCTSN will enable this core group to treat Katrina survivors by centrally organizing staff. Having two military bases on the MS Gulf Coast, TIDES will serve children of military personnel. GCMHC was the central hub for the mental health needs of the four Mississippi counties most devastated by Hurricane Katrina - those along the coastline. The project will utilize SAMHSA resources to address other therapy needs specific to their population, including incorporating Child Parent Conjoint-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CPC-CBT), Trauma Assessment Pathways (TAP), and Psychological First Aid (PFA) within their site. Clinicians will educate the community on trauma and formally centralize crisis response for future events.
  
Grantee: MISSISSIPPI FAMILIES AS ALLIES, INC. Jackson, MS
Program: Statewide Family Networks SM057914
Congressional District: MS-04
FY 2009 Funding: $60,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
Mississippi Families as Allies for Children's Mental Health, Inc. will build on its sixteen year history of partnering with agency administrators, service providers, policy makers, legislators, families and youth to continue transformation of the Mississippi system of Care for children and youth with serious mental health needs and co-occurring disorders. SFN grant activities will focus on achieving our major transformation goals, i.e., signficant changes for our children and youth in the areas of school dropouts; graduation rates; competitive employment; treatment for co-occurring disorders; incarceration; suicide; and living in their home community. To those ends, the 2007-2010 Mississippi Family and Youth System Reform Network will use SFN grant funds to:
Provide policy and leadership training to families and youth to strengthen their participation in the State's SOC infrastructure entities such as local Making a Plan (MAP) Teams and Adolescent (A) Teams; Assist families to work with these local teams to strengthen awareness of and action on economic and cultural diversity issues that affect service outcomes; Conduct aneeds assessments with the families and youth themselves around specialized service issues such as trasition to adult life and work; youth in the juvenile justice system; youth with co-occuring disorders; and youth at risk of suicide; Dissenimate the findings from these needs assessments to policy making groups such a the State Mental Health Planning Council, the Interagency Coordination Council of Children and youth; the Special Educatuon Advisory Board and others; help families to work closely with the Division of Medicaid on implementation of it's newly-awarded 5-year Community Alternatives to Psychiatric Residential Treatment Familities demonstration grant; continue to promote and train service provider, families and youth on strengths-based and Wraparound processes; and use the current MS FAA youth Making a Difference team as a catalyst.
  

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)

Grantee: MISSISSIPPI STATE DEPT OF MTL HLTH Jackson, MS
Program: Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants SP013939
Congressional District: MS-02
FY 2009 Funding: $2,093,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
Led by the Governor and the Mississippi Department of Mental Health's Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse (DADA), SPF SIG will build on Mississippi's recent success of cross-agency collaboration at both the state level and the grassroots level. Priorities of the SPF SIG are to further address Mississippi's identified gaps by strengthening the Strategic Prevention State Plan, utilizing the State Epidemiology and Outcomes Workgroup (SEOW), improving cultural competencies, intiating an underage concumption of alcohol intitiative, and targeting resources to areas of need.
  
Grantee: BEHAVIORAL HEALTH FDN OF CENTRAL MS, INC Vicksburg, MS
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013123
Congressional District: MS-02
FY 2009 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
  
Grantee: WARREN-YAZOO MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE, INC. Yazoo City, MS
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012092
Congressional District: MS-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: MISSISSIPPI BAND OF CHOCTAW INDIANS Choctaw, MS
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012926
Congressional District: MS-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: PINE BELT REG MENT HLTHCARE RESOURCES Hattiesburg, MS
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP013415
Congressional District: MS-04
FY 2009 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
Pine Belt Mental Healthcare Resources will provide targeted outreach, counseling/testing/ referral and prevention interventions to African Americans residing in Mississippi Public Health District who abuse substances and are at risk for HIV and/or hepatitis infection. The HIP HOP (HIV Intervention Project-HIV Outreach and Prevention) Project will employ faith based and other culturally appropriate outreach workers to recruit and engage African Americans who are at risk for infection or disease transmission due to risk behaviors, including those reentering the community after incarceration. Two evidence based prevention interventions, VOICES and Holistic Harm Reduction will be utilized to reduce risk behaviors.

With its partners, Family Health Center, Gateway Baptist Church, Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Southeast Mississippi Rural Health Initiative and 1-2-1 Haven House, Pine Belt Mental Healthcare Resources expects to reduce the HIV/AIDS prevalence rate of African Americans in the Mississippi Public Health District through the reduction of behaviors that put individuals at risk. The objectives to be achieved by the end of the project periods are: 1) within five years, 2500 African Americans in Region XII will know the status of their HIV serostatus; 2) within five years, 6, 105 African Americans in Region XII will increase their understanding of modes of HIV transmission; 3) within five years, 1210 African Americans in Region XII will report the reduction or elimination of high risk behaviors that may lead to HIV infection or transmission; and 4) within five years, 99% of newly confirmed African Americans with HIV infection will access healthcare.
  
Grantee: LONG BEACH SCHOOL DISTRICT Long Beach, MS
Program: Drug Free Communities SP011383
Congressional District: MS-04
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: S W MISSISSIPPI RURAL HLTH COALITION Tylertown, MS
Program: Drug Free Communities SP011834
Congressional District: MS-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: DREAM OF HATTIESBURG, INC. Hattiesburg, MS
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013642
Congressional District: MS-05
FY 2009 Funding: $85,148
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.
  

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)

Grantee: COUNTRY OAKS RECOVERY CENTER, INC. Jackson, MS
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI018733
Congressional District: MS-02
FY 2009 Funding: $422,134
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
Country Oaks Recovery Center (CORC's) will implement the Genesis Program, which will serve HIV/AIDS infected African American men and women in Mississippi, who have been released from prison or jail in the previous two years. The evidence-based practices of Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Anger Management and the Seeking Safety Program for women are being integrated into CORC's African American-oriented therapeutic community. The Genesis Program is a partnership between CORC and Building Bridges, Inc., an African American HIV/ATDS services agency that provides testing, counseling, education, support groups and the Sister Program for women. Forty people will be served annually; 280 over the life of the project.
  
Grantee: COUNTY OF FORREST Hattiesburg, MS
Program: Adult Treatment Drug Courts TI021547
Congressional District: MS-04
FY 2009 Funding: $299,407
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
The purpose of the Drug Court is to enhance public safety and save the taxpayer money through the provision of a structured and accountable alternative to incarceration for nonviolent offenders with the disorders of substance abuse or chemical dependency. The goal of the Drug Court Enhancement Project is to enhance the services already provided by the Court to include assessment and treatment for adults with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders. The goal will be for the dually diagnosed consumer to experience clinical integration. TIP 42 integrates evidence-based services for mental health and substance abuse disorders within one service setting. Service providers holistically treat all contributing factors leading to the individual's substance abuse.
  

Last Update: 10/29/2009