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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)

VERMONT

Grantee: CENTER FOR HEALTH AND LEARNING Brattleboro, VT
Program: Youth Suicide Prevention & Early Intervention - Cooperative Agreement State-Sponsored SM058383
Congressional District: VT-00
FY 2009 Funding: $499,953
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
The Center for Health and Learning and the Vermont Department of Mental Health are partnering to strengthen and expand youth suicide prevention and intervention in Vermont through collaboration between multiple agencies and organizations. There are six major areas of focus: 1. Building infra-structure in Vermont for youth suicide prevention by engaging the Vermont Youth Suicide Prevention Coalition (VYSPC) in four annual meetings per year. 2. Collaboration with the United Ways of Vermont on a statewide public information campaign aimed at de-stigmatizing mental health issues and normalizing help seeking behavior, referring the public to resources (e.g., 2-1-1 line, local and web-based resources and including production of brochures, posters and media placements for targeted audiences). 3. Statewide school-based Gatekeeper Training and protocols development, using the Maine Model. This includes four components: a) Gatekeeper Training b) Protocols Development c) Training of Trainers for those delivering the Lifelines student lessons d) Staff and Parent Awareness programs. 4. Statewide community-based Gatekeeper training for four major audiences: a) Primary Care Providers b) Law Enforcement c) Youth Serving Professionals (AHSrelated): Mental health and Substance Abuse Professionals, Juvenile Justice, Foster Care, Social Workers, community-based professionals, and d) Emergency Medical Care Providers. The latter two will be a Training of Trainers where participants will be asked to go back to their settings and conduct awareness raising sessions. 5. Intensive community-based intervention by collaborating with the VT Department of Health on identifying two communities engaged in implementing the Strategic Prevention Framework for Substance Abuse prevention and implementing the New Hampshire Frameworks model. 6. Working with Vermont Child Health Improvement Program (VCHIP) at the University of Vermont to implement targeted interventions aimed at college-age students.
  
Grantee: VERMONT STATE DEPT OF HEALTH Burlington, VT
Program: 2004 COSIGS SM056581
Congressional District: VT-00
FY 2009 Funding: $93,246
Project Period: 09/01/2005 - 08/31/2010
The Vermont Integrated Services Project focuses on the publicly funded outpatient behavioral health treatment systems operated by the State's Mental Health Authority (DMH) and the Alcohol and Substance Abuse Authority (ADAP). The project also includes Vermont's two Federally Qualified Health Center primary health care agencies. The project creates the expectation, and provides the requisite supports, to ensure that service providers screen for menal and substance use disorders and perform integrated assessments to understand the course, severity, and interaction of co-occurring on an individual. Local clinical and administrative leaders are trained on the principles and practices of integrated treatment using evidence-based approaches to prevention, intervention, screening, assessment, treatment, and recovery services. ADAP and DMH have created a state-level management group to re-design existing information and business systems to fund, contract for, and evaluate integrated treatment services.
  
Grantee: VERMONT STATE DEPT OF HEALTH Burlington, VT
Program: State Data Infrastructure Grants SM058069
Congressional District: VT-00
FY 2009 Funding: $142,200
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
Two additional learning communities have been identified for special attention by this project. The most important, for this project, is the Vermont Mental Health Planning Council. The project will work with planning council members to identify areas of concern, provide relevant indicators, and support a dialogue regarding the interpretation and implications of these indicators. Another learning community will consist of state level program administrators and local programs directors. Members of this community are ready to begin a process of data-based quality improvement that will be more confidential than the other, more open learning communities. All results of these analyses will be presented in narrative, graphic and tabular formats so as to be accessible to the broadest possible range of learners.
  
Grantee: VERMONT STATE DEPT OF HEALTH Burlington, VT
Program: Seclusion and Restraint (2007) SM058125
Congressional District: VT-00
FY 2009 Funding: $213,777
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
The purpose of the project will be to improve mental health inpatient treatment by implementing alternatives to seclusion and restraint (S/R) at the Vermont State Hospital (VSH) for adults with serious mental illness and Retreat Healthcare (RHC) for children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbances. SAMHSA's Six Core Strategies to Reduce the Use of Seclusion and Restraint will guide the development of strategic plans at each hospital and will help create the culture shift necessary for the use of less coercive measures for ensuring patient and staff safety. The goals of the project are as follows:
Goal 1: Vermont will strengthen and enhance its oversight, leadership and coordination capacity at the state level and at VSH and RHC to enhance the development of alternatives to restraint and seclusion
Goal 2: Using the SAMSHA Six Core Strategies as a guide, Vermont will develop and implement a strategic plan to complete S/R Reduction efforts at VSH and the RHC.
Goal 3: Vermont will implement specific S/R Reduction Techniques (e.g. Sensory Modulation) at VSH and the RHC to reduce and prevent the need for S/R.
  
Grantee: VERMONT STATE DEPT OF HEALTH Burlington, VT
Program: Child Mental Health Initiative SM058485
Congressional District: VT-00
FY 2009 Funding: $1,500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2014
The goal of this 6-year project is for Vermont's transition-aged youth (16 through 21 inclusive, with their families) with severe emotional disturbance (SED) to have adequate preparation and the necessary supports to be productively engaged in the community and free from incarceration. For this population, the necessary supports include access to health care (908 youth will receive treatment for mental health and co-occurring substance abuse challenges), also post-secondary education, employment, housing, and caring relationships (with adults who nurture positive youth development). The strategic planning and ongoing management of this project will be under the direction of Vermont's State Interagency Team (SIT), which was established by State law Act 264 in 1988 to oversee a system of care for children and youth with SED.
  
Grantee: VERMONT STATE DEPT OF HEALTH Burlington, VT
Program: Jail Diversion SM058809
Congressional District: VT-00
FY 2009 Funding: $412,500
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
During the project's first three years, VDMH will pilot its infrastructure and intervention model in Chittenden County, screening an estimated 14,000 veterans and other adults in the criminal justice system for trauma-related illness and diverting an estimated 300 from detention to evidence-based treatment and supports. In years three-five, the project will progress toward statewide implementation, screening an additional 24,500 adults and diverting 525 to treatment. Over the grant term, 38,500 adults will be screened and 825 will be diverted to evidence-based care. At both the pilot site and state levels, the project will result in the following outcomes: 1) increased identification of veterans and other adults involved in the criminal justice system who have trauma-spectrum illness; 2) increased availability of both trauma informed services and evidence-based trauma treatment and community supports; 3) increased access to trauma informed services and evidence-based trauma treatment and community supports; 4) increased number of veterans and other adults who are diverted from the criminal justice system into evidence-based treatment and supports; 5) decreased recidivism to the criminal justice system among those diverted to appropriate care; and 6) enhanced ability to collect and analyze data on the number of individuals with trauma disorders involved in the Vermont criminal justice system and the outcomes of those receiving treatment and support.
  
Grantee: VERMONT STATE DEPT OF HEALTH Burlington, VT
Program: Community TX & Service Ctrs of the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative SM059492
Congressional District: VT-00
FY 2009 Funding: $399,999
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
The Vermont Department of Mental Health, through the creation of the Vermont Child Trauma Collaborative (VCTC) comprised of 12 community mental health treatment centers serving Vermont's 14 counties, will fully implement and sustain the Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency (ARC) Framework for complex trauma treatment. Outcomes will include reduced trauma symptoms increased child competency, reduced parenting stress, and reduced need for intensive services. We will target children ages 3-18 who have experienced complex trauma, multiple and/or chronic exposure to developmentally adverse interpersonal victimization, and their families. They will target new referrals from the Vermont child welfare system and children from refugee communities in two counties. The target is to treat a total of 350 children who have experienced complex trauma and their families. The VCTC will consult with the Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute for the statewide dissemination of ARC. Consultation with the University of Vermont Connecting Cultures Program will allow VCTC to adapt the ARC framework to better serve the refugee community.

  
Grantee: VERMONT PSYCHIATRIC SURVIVORS, INC. Rutland, VT
Program: Statewide Consumer Network SM056364
Congressional District: VT-00
FY 2009 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2010
The purpose of this grant is to empower Mental Health Consumers to become leaders in the Vermont Mental Health system and promote recovery and transformation through the system. This grant will be used to enhance leadership of consumers of mental health services by providing education, peer support, and mentoring. It will decrease stigma by public education and sharing of personal recovery stories by those who have experienced mental illness. The grant program will also enhance present recovery programs to reach out to those who do not have full access to recovery.
  
Grantee: VT FED/FAMILIES/CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH Waterbury, VT
Program: Statewide Family Networks SM057903
Congressional District: VT-00
FY 2009 Funding: $60,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
The Vermont Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health Statewide Family Network plan is built upon our successful model of regional Peer Navigators working in local communities with families of children, youth and young adults with or at risk of serious emotioal disturbance to empower them to become agents of trasformation for them selves and for the System of Care. This transformation will be parent driven and youth guided in the implementation, sustainability, and impovement of effective mental health and substance abuse prevention and treatment services for children, youth, young adults and their families. The peer Navigators are central in all our programs. We will provide support and skill building hours to the Navigators through this grant as we also work towards full funding for these positions. The major goals of this project are to:
1. Strengthen the Vermont Federation's organization infrastructure by board development, assessing and addressing our level of cultural competency, increasing staff skills and hours, developing an evaluation plan, increasing fuding opportunities and revenue.
2. Work with State systems and partners to increase capacity of peer support and advocacy services and supports by strengthening our relationships and discussions with SOC and increasing our capacity to provide peer supports.
3. Develop and implement family driven training and technical asistance to increase the provision of effective mental health and substance abuse practices that are culturally competent and meet the needs of children and youth with SED and their families by implementing our regional family outreach plan and informing families and youth about our trainings and about issues relating to mental health.
4. Increase the number and diversity of consumers on state and local policy and decision making bodies to include more diverse youth and family members who are impacted by mental health challenges/SED by increasing collaboration.
  

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)

Grantee: UNITED COUNSELING SERVICE BENNINGTON CO Bennington, VT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013818
Congressional District: VT-00
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: YOUTH SERVICES Brattleboro, VT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP016379
Congressional District: VT-00
FY 2009 Funding: $124,182
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
  
Grantee: VERMONT STATE DEPT OF HEALTH Burlington, VT
Program: Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants SP011203
Congressional District: VT-00
FY 2009 Funding: $2,332,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2010
The Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants are used to advance community based programs for substance abuse prevention, mental health promotion, and mental illness prevention. The SPF-SIG implements a five-step process known to promote youth development, reduce risk-taking behaviors, build on assets, and prevent problem behaviors. The five steps are: (1) conduct needs assessments; (2) build state and local capacity; (3) develop a comprehensive strategic plan; (4) implement evidence-based prevention policies, programs and practices; and (5) monitor and evaluate program effectiveness, sustaining what has worked well.

These grants will allow the programs to provide leadership, technical support and monitoring to ensure that participating communities are successful. The success of the grants will be measured by specific measurable outcomes, among them: abstinence from drug use and alcohol abuse, reduction in substance abuse-related crime, attainment of employment or enrollment in school, increased stability in family and living conditions, increased access to services, and increased social connectedness.

In Vermont, the Vermont Department of Health, in partnership with other State agencies, will develop a comprehensive, integrated statewide substance abuse Vermont Strategic Prevention Framework resulting in data-driven, community-based prevention activities for Vermont's highest risk youth and families.
  
Grantee: TOWN OF HARDWICK Hardwick, VT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013195
Congressional District: VT-00
FY 2009 Funding: $65,000
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: BLACK RIVER AREA COMMUNITY COALITION Ludlow, VT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013103
Congressional District: VT-00
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: MILTON COMMUNITY YOUTH COALITION, INC. Milton, VT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014939
Congressional District: VT-00
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: WASHINGTON CENTRAL FRIENDS OF EDUCATION Montpelier, VT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012341
Congressional District: VT-00
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: GRAND ISLE SUPERVISORY UNION SCHOOL North Hero, VT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP016382
Congressional District: VT-00
FY 2009 Funding: $45,000
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: GREATER NORTHFIELD COALITION COUNCIL Northfield, VT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013031
Congressional District: VT-00
FY 2009 Funding: $94,370
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: WASHINGTON NORTHEAST SUPERVISORY UNION Plainfield, VT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012104
Congressional District: VT-00
FY 2009 Funding: $60,000
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: CHITTENDEN SOUTH SUPERVISORY UNION Shelburne, VT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013028
Congressional District: VT-00
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: MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES SUPPORTING EDUC South Londonderry, VT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014310
Congressional District: VT-00
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: FRANKLIN COUNTY CARING COMMUNITIES, INC. St. Albans, VT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP015560
Congressional District: VT-00
FY 2009 Funding: $58,092
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: WINDHAM SOUTHWEST SUPERVISORY UNION Wilmington, VT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012875
Congressional District: VT-00
FY 2009 Funding: $89,000
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: MT. ASCUTNEY HOSPITAL COMMUNITY HLTH FDN Windsor, VT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013904
Congressional District: VT-00
FY 2009 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 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.
  

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)

Grantee: SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES Burlington, VT
Program: ROSC-Recovery-oriented Systems of Care under TCE AI/AN TI021136
Congressional District: VT-00
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
The Youth and Family Wellness Project (YFWP) is an evidence-based, client-empowered ROSC for youth and families. YFWP expands outpatient counseling services and enhances service engagement, retention and sustained recovery through: 1) active case management from point-of-entry into services; 2) systematic screening and assessment of Wellness capital; 3) family wellness coaching; and 4) post-treatment monitoring. Project goals include: 1) increasing access to recovery-oriented services for youth experiencing co-occurring problems; 2) ensuring family members and/or key caring figures are included in the service process from first point of contact through recovery; 3) enhancing services by providing comprehensive, recovery-oriented care from point-of-entry; and 4) ensuring continuous recovery support for youth through post-treatment monitoring. Achievement of these goals can be measured through the following broad objectives: implementation of systematic screening; Wellness plan development and case management services through the Outreach program; development of a family wellness coaching program; increase in life skills course offerings; increase in successful completion of vocational and educational support programs and completion of quarterly Recovery Management Check-ups with at least 25% of Outpatient Counseling clients. The project will serve a total of 759 youth and 193 family members over the three years of the project.
  
Grantee: VERMONT OFFICE OF COURT ADMINISTRATORS Montpelier, VT
Program: Adult Treatment Drug Courts TI021894
Congressional District: VT-00
FY 2009 Funding: $298,920
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2012
Rutland Treatment Court Enhancement project incorporates evidence-based practices into treatment and support services delivery to improve outcomes for drug court participants with co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders. The purpose of this project is to increase the effectiveness of the Rutland County Adult Drug Court program by: 1) increasing the availability of assessment and treatment; 2) increasing the intensity of services; and, 3) increasing the length of stay to accommodate the relatively greater needs of the target population. Motivational Interviewing, Contingency Management, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, will be used to improve capabilities to identify and respond to the needs of participants. This approach will be complemented by a redesign of the drug court phases and corresponding treatment and support services to increase the length of stay and increase the intensity of case management. Cross-training for all parties from any organization interacting with the target population will improve communication and information sharing by increasing understanding of one another's role, mission, and goals. The average age of participants is 27 years, and just over half (55%) are female. Over 95% of these participants are white and the most common drug of choice is heroin (50%) followed by prescription drugs (23%) and cocaine (11%). 25-50% of this population has co-occurring mental health issues.
  

Last Update: 10/29/2009