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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) today announced 30 grants totaling $59.5 million over five years to provide substance abuse and mental health services to homeless individuals. These grants will enable communities to expand and strengthen their treatment services for homeless individuals with substance abuse disorders, mental illness, or co-occurring substance abuse disorders and mental illness.
“There are 2-3 million Americans homeless at some point each year,” SAMHSA Administrator Charles Curie said. “Of these, an estimated 20 percent have a serious mental illness, and up to half of those with a serious mental illness also have an alcohol or drug use problem. SAMHSA’s vision is to ensure that everyone has an opportunity for a life in the community. Clearly, the pillars of a fulfilling life must be built on a foundation of safe, stable and comfortable shelter.”
These 30 awards in 20 states build on the 34 grants funded in 2004. The awards for 2005 are up to $400,000 per year in total costs. Continuation of these awards is subject to availability of funds, as well as the progress achieved by the grantees.
This year’s Treatment for the Homeless Projects grantees and their award amounts are as follows:
Alaska
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Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc., Anchorage, Alaska -- $400,000 per year for five years to expand capacity by adding five residential treatment beds for homeless adults who are chronic inebriates and who are Alaskan Natives or American Indians. The program will provide wrap around services such as child care, employment training and transportation, and case management.
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Rural Alaska Community Action Program Anchorage, Alaska-- $399,630 per year for five years to provide a realistic solution for homeless late stage chronic alcoholics by using techniques to retain clients in treatment, detoxification, case management, and life skills training.
Arkansas
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Decisions Point, Inc., Springdale, Ark.--$400,000 per year for five years to provide comprehensive mental health and substance abuse treatment services across a full continuum of care to homeless individuals.
California
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Homeless Health Care Los Angeles, Calif. --$400,000 per year for five years to implement an integrated comprehensive, seamless, no wrong-door (enabling clients to receive treatment for both disorders wherever they enter the system) and a client-driven model of substance abuse and mental health treatment for persons who are homeless.
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Monterey County Health Department Behavioral Health Division, Salina, Calif. –$399,951 per year for five years to provide integrated treatment and intensive case management to chronically homeless individuals with co-occurring disorders in a rural area. The program will use motivational interviewing skills that encourage patients to change behaviors to help those with serious substance abuse disorders and post traumatic stress disorder.
- Phoenix Programs, Inc., Concord, Calif.--$399,695 per year for five years to provide outreach and intensive case management, wrap around services, and dedicated treatment beds/slots to homeless individuals suffering from co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders.
Connecticut
- Columbus House, Inc., New Haven, Conn. -- $400,000 per year for five years to implement an interagency collaboration that will provide peer-based engagement and street and clinic-based treatment for women who are homeless who have substance abuse or dual substance abuse and psychiatric disorders.
Florida
- Mental Health Care, Inc., Tampa, Fla. –$400,000 per year for five years to establish an Assertive Community Treatment team trained to keep people out of hospitals and help them develop skills for living in the community in recovery. The program will serve people who have been chronically homeless, whose primary diagnosis is mental illness and may have a co-occurring substance abuse disorder.
Kentucky
- Hope Center, Inc., Lexington, Ky. --$400,000 per year for five years to provide outreach, stabilization, substance abuse treatment, and wraparound services to homeless women with substance abuse or co-occurring disorders.
Maryland
- People Encouraging People, Baltimore, Md. –$400,000per year for five years tocreateacomprehensive dual diagnosis treatment program for persons who are homeless and have substance abuse and mental health problems.
Massachusetts
- Institute for Health and Recovery, Cambridge, Mass. –$400,000 per year for five years to provide integrated and trauma informed clinical case management using motivational interviewing and integrated dual diagnosis treatment to homeless mothers in homeless shelters who have substance abuse and or co-occurring disorders.
Michigan
- Kent County CMH Authority of CMHSA Network, Grand Rapids, Mich. --$359,761 per year for five years to provide integrated dual disorder treatment and Assertive Community Treatment to single men and women who are homeless and diagnosed with co-occurring disorders.
Missouri
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Burrell Behavioral Health, Springfield, Mo.-- $363,398 per year for five years to develop a team of mental health professionals, case managers, a dual disorders specialist, and a nurse who will fill gaps in outreach, crisis intervention, counseling, life skills and aftercare services for homeless persons afflicted by mental illness and/or substance abuse.
- Swope Health Services and Model Cities Health Corp. of Kansas, Kansas City, Mo. $399,892 per year for five years to offer a “housing first” option that pursues housing as the first step, treatment of varying lengths upon demand, and intensive case management services for persons who are chronically homeless who have substance abuse disorders.
Nevada
- West Care Nevada, Inc., Las Vegas, Nev.--$400,000 per year for five years to provide intensive case management, incorporate motivational interviewing, to engage, stabilize and treat homeless persons with substance abuse and mental health disorders.
New Jersey
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Newark Department of Health and Human Services, Newark Homeless Health Care Project, Newark, N.J. –$400,000 per year for five years to provide comprehensive primary medical care, and assess treatment for mental health and substance abuse needs. The program will integrate into a single system public health medical teams serving homeless shelters and a hospital based continuum of treatment services for substance abuse and mental illness.
New Mexico
- Presbyterian Medical Services, Santa Fe, N.M.-- $399,956 per year for five years to strengthen alcohol treatment services for homeless street inebriates who are predominately Navajo Native Americans.
New York
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Clear View Center Albany,N.Y. -- $399,998 per year for five years to expand and provide trauma services to homeless families in shelters and link them to mental health and substance abuse services through expansion of post-shelter case management services and supports.
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E.A.C., Inc., Bronx, N.Y.–$400,000 per year for five years to expand its current comprehensive diversion program for adult non-violent felony offenders with cooccurring alcohol, drug, and mental health disorders and who are homeless.
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Institute for Community Living, Inc. New York, N.Y.-- $400,000 per year for five years to serve homeless women with serious mental illness in a shelter.
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Odyssey House, Inc., New York, N.Y. –$391,868 per year for five years to provide outreach into the shelter system, enroll homeless persons with substance abuse problems from the shelters into residential or outpatient substance abuse treatment.
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St. Vincent Catholic Medical Centers of New York Department of Community Medicine, New, N.Y. --$400,000 per year for five years to establish an outpatient day rehabilitation program in a men’s shelter primarily for men with substance abuse disorders and some with mental illness.
- Westchester County Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services, White Plains, N.Y. --$399,999 per year for five years to create a drop-in-center to provide integrated mental health and substance abuse services, and case management through a homeless outreach and service program team using motivational interviewing with chronically homeless individuals.
Ohio
- Southeast, Inc., Columbus, Ohio–$399,978 per year for five years to create a treatment program for persons who have severe mental illness and co-occurring substance abuse disorders who are homeless and have criminal justice involvement.
Oregon
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DePaul Treatment Centers, Inc., Portland, Ore. –$400,000 per year for five years to provide effective substance abuse and mental health treatment services for homeless, street-dependent young people by offering treatment on demand.
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Josephine County Human Services Department, Grants Pass, Ore. -- $400,000 per year for five years to use case management to serve homeless adults with serious mental health, substance abuse or co-occurring disorders.
South Carolina
- Mental Illness Recovery Center, Inc., Columbia, S.C. –$399,892 per year for five yearsfor mental health and substance abuse services through an Assertive Community Treatment Team and provide a drop-in-center to people chronically homeless with co-occurring disorder or serious mental illness.
Texas
- Tarrant Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, Ft. Worth, Texas –$400,000 per year for five years to provide substance abuse treatment through intensive case management and ancillary services primarily to homeless women and their children.
Washington
- Spokane County Community Services, Spokane, Wash.--$400,000 per year for five years to provide out-of-office community-based intensive, multi-disciplinary case management and treatment services that will enable homeless adults who present with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse issues to live reasonably independent lives.
Wisconsin
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Health Care for the Homeless of Milwaukee, Inc., Milwaukee, Wis. –$400,000 per year for five years to integrate and expand an existing outpatient mental health and alcohol and drug clinic, and provide mobile substance abuse screening and treatment referral services with a continuum of service providers.
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