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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)

NEVADA

Grantee: NEVADA P.E.P., INC. Las Vegas, NV
Program: Statewide Family Networks SM057905
Congressional District: NV-01
FY 2009 Funding: $60,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
Nevada's Statewide Family Netowrk works to effectively participate in State and local mental health services planning and health care reform activiites related to improving the infrasturcture that supports community-based services for chidren and adolescents with serious emotional distrubances and their families.

This grant is meant to support an array of activities to help build a solid foundation for delivering and sustaning effective mental health services by assisting family members to work with pokicy makers and service providers to improve services for children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbances and their families.

The Collaborating for Children Network Program will continue to provide culturally appropriate competent services helping families to identify and address their families' needs.

The CFC Network will build upon and strengthen the established community-based and statewide linkages with families, family groups, professionals, organizations and policy-makers who are dedicated to empowering families.
  
Grantee: NEVADA ST DIV OF MENTAL HLTH/DEVELMT SRV Carson City, NV
Program: State Data Infrastructure Grants SM058080
Congressional District: NV-02
FY 2009 Funding: $142,200
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
We will continue to refine CMHS's URS reporting system using the new AVATAR software, and automate the reporting of all basic and developmental CMHS performance measures. This system will facilitate the upgrading of Nevada's Strategic Plan 2004-2007 and provide the Division with the ability to use consumer encounter data on a statewide basis for long range planning. 2008 DIG grant funds will allow the Division to emphasize enhanced MIS user training and Crystal report use for new and advanced MIS system users. The FFYO8 DIG continues to assist Nevada with data infrastructure issues, web-based technologies, and the Internet.
  
Grantee: NEVADA STATE DEPT OF HLTH/HUMAN SVCS Carson City, NV
Program: Youth Suicide Prevention & Early Intervention - Cooperative Agreement State-Sponsored SM059187
Congressional District: NV-02
FY 2009 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
A System of Care for Youth Suicide Prevention in Nevada supports, enhances and expands suicide prevention efforts with youth ages 10-24, within three regions of Nevada. The focus of this project is to incorporate several existing suicide prevention efforts targeting the mental health issues of teens and their families into a comprehensive and collaborative system of care approach. The intention is to implement and expand the pilot project in Clark County into a more comprehensive and sustainable system of suicide prevention, disseminate information from the pilot project statewide, and implement a utilization-focused evaluation system to inform decision making and bring this public health crisis under control. The Office of Suicide Prevention and local consortia will work together to build upon existing infrastructure where suicide prevention is a key component to achieve the following:
Goal I. Nevada will strengthen its comprehensive statewide Suicide Prevention Plan using a quality improvement process derived from lessons learned in prior suicide prevention efforts and continue to accomplish youth-focused goals that increase awareness that suicide is preventable and decrease suicidal behaviors.
Goal II. Nevada will improve local suicide prevention planning/services in its largest community (Clark County) while developing and implementing a local suicide prevention plan in its second largest community (Washoe County). In addition to Gatekeeper Training and screening, text messaging will be implemented as a unique method of increasing youth awareness and encouraging help-seeking behavior.
Goal III. Nevada will support stakeholders in at least two of Nevada's rural communities and partner to develop, implement and evaluate local suicide prevention plans.
Goal IV. Nevada will continue to evaluate youth suicide prevention plan and programs to improve training, policy, and community collaboration.
  
Grantee: INDIAN HEALTH BOARD OF NEVADA Reno, NV
Program: Youth Suicide Prevention & Early Intervention - Cooperative Agreement State-Sponsored SM059786
Congressional District: NV-02
FY 2009 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2011
  

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)

Grantee: PARTNERS ALLIED FOR COMMUNITY EXCELLENCE Elko, NV
Program: Drug Free Communities SP015572
Congressional District: NV-02
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: PARTNERSHIP OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES Gardnerville, NV
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013067
Congressional District: NV-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: NEVADA HISPANIC SERVICES, INC. Reno, NV
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP013327
Congressional District: NV-02
FY 2009 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
Nevada Hispanic Services, Inc. has received a five year grant to provide substance abuse prevention and HIV and Hepatitis prevention sevices to minority populations and minority populations re-entering the community from incarceration. The purpose of the proposed project is to allow Nevada Hispanic Services (NHS) to build a solid foundation for delivering and sustaining effective substance abuse, HIV, and hepatitis (SA/HIV/Hep) prevention services, targeting high-risk Hispanics and African Americans in Washoe County. Within the Hispanic and African American populations, this project will focus on four subpopulations: men who have sex with men, injecting drug users, non-injecting substance abusers, and reentry populations. The mission of NHS is to identify and address the needs of minority communities through direct service, education, advocacy and community involvement.
  
Grantee: WALKER RIVER PAIUTE TRIBE Schurz, NV
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014715
Congressional District: NV-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.
  

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)

Grantee: WESTCARE NEVADA Las Vegas, NV
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment TI016482
Congressional District: NV-01
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2010
Provide intensive case management, and incorporate motivational interviewing, to engage, stabilize and treat homeless persons with substance abuse and mental health disorders.
  
Grantee: EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Las Vegas, NV
Program: Adult Treatment Drug Courts TI021878
Congressional District: NV-01
FY 2009 Funding: $295,320
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
The Eighth Judicial District Court will increase the capacity for residential treatment services for their Adult Drug Court participants. The residential organizations will also expand existing day treatment programming so that an appropriate treatment option is available to participants when residential treatment beds are fully occupied. The population who will need residential treatment tends to have the following characteristics: 1) addicted to methamphetamine; 2) suffering from co-occurring disorders and choosing to self-medicate; and/or 3) living with others who use/abuse alcohol and other drugs.
  
Grantee: FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Elko, NV
Program: Adult Treatment Drug Courts TI021513
Congressional District: NV-02
FY 2009 Funding: $300,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
The Eastern Nevada Regional Drug Court Partnership is a collaboration of the Fourth and Seventh Judicial District Courts. There is a lack of substance abuse and mental health treatment services to the ADC. The project will expand and enhance substance abuse treatment for substance use and co-occurring disorders by increasing access to timely assessment and evaluation, increasing the hours for group and individual counseling, increasing the number of residential beds, and providing case management services. The target population is males and females 18 and older who have been arrested and charged with substance-related crimes and/or charged with a crime where substance abuse was a factor.
  
Grantee: UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO Reno, NV
Program: Addiction Technology Transfer Center TI013419
Congressional District: NV-02
FY 2009 Funding: $650,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
The Mountain West Addiction Technology Transfer Center (MWATTC, serving NV, MT, WY, UT, CO, ID) proposes to develop and strengthen the substance abuse disorders treatment workforce in order to provide culturally relevant services in recovery-oriented systems of care in the states of Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming, in partnership with key regional stakeholders through technology transfer activities including training, technical assistance activities, and academic programming. The proposed goals of the MWATTC project include: assessing training and workforce development needs; providing educational opportunities for students entering the addiction field; providing training and technical assistance to clinical supervisors; promoting the adoption of evidence based practices that are culturally relevant and recovery-oriented; serving as a resource for community, faith-based, and recovery groups; utilizing innovative approaches in technology transfer initiatives to develop products and disseminate research findings; engaging in regional, cross regional, and national network activities; sponsoring institutes and activities that promote leadership development; and conducting recruitment and retention practices designed specifically to retain and enhance diversity and competency.
  
Grantee: RENO-SPARKS INDIAN COLONY Reno, NV
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment TI017775
Congressional District: NV-02
FY 2009 Funding: $300,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
The Reno-Sparks Indian Colony proposes to provide a comprehensive treatment program for American Indian/Alaskan Native adolescents and their families living in northern Nevada. Services will include intervention and direct outpatient counseling and therapy services, as well as referral to residential treatment programs. The tribe operates the Reno-Sparks Tribal Health Clinic and is ideally situated to provide focused and culturally competent services to this target population.
  
Grantee: RENO-SPARKS INDIAN COLONY Reno, NV
Program: Adult Treatment Drug Courts TI021883
Congressional District: NV-02
FY 2009 Funding: $300,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
The Reno-Sparks Indian Colony Wa Pai Shone Healing to Wellness Drug Court will enhance services by providing an intensive outpatient treatment program for AI/AN clients. By adding this component the project will reduce the number of repeat drug court offenders who are diagnosed with a substance use disorder and co-occurring mental health disorders. Another goal is to improve the data collection to be able to forecast trends and identify gaps in services related to drug court offenders.
  

Last Update: 10/29/2009