2006 Press Release - SAMHSA Awards States $145 Million in Strategic Prevention Framework Incentive Grants

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	Date:	September 19 , 2006
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	SAMHSA Awards States $145 Million in Strategic Prevention Framework Incentive Grants
	The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) today announced 16 grants totaling $145 million over five years to implement Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants (SPF SIGs) to advance community-based programs for substance abuse prevention, mental health promotion and mental illness prevention. Dennis O. Romero, Acting Director of SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, announced the grants during his speech at the Illinois Alcoholism and Drug Dependence Association’s annual conference in Oak Brook, Illinois. The strategic prevention framework is built on a community-based risk and protective factors approach to prevention and a series of guiding principles that can be utilized at the federal, state/tribal and community levels. The SPF requires states and communities to systematically assess their prevention needs based on epidemiological data, build their prevention capacity, strategically plan for and implement effective community prevention programs, policies and practices, and evaluate their efforts for outcomes. Although the direct recipients of SPF SIG funds are states and federally recognized tribes and tribal organizations, SAMHSA envisions the SPF SIGs being implemented in partnerships between the states/tribes and communities. “Substance abuse prevention, just like the prevention of obesity or smoking, involves work by families and schools, faith organizations and health professionals, corrections officials and youth leaders,” said Assistant Surgeon General Eric Broderick, D.D.S, M.P.H., Acting Deputy Administrator of SAMHSA. “People from all sectors of a community are needed to help build resilience and reduce risk factors that affect the decision to reject substance abuse. Similarly, funding streams from multiple sources can come together to build a comprehensive approach to prevention that spans organizations and individuals at the local and state levels. The grants being awarded today help achieve both of those goals.” The funds enable states, in collaboration with communities, to implement a process known to promote youth development, reduce risk-taking behaviors, build on assets, and prevent problem behaviors. These grants enable the states to provide leadership, support and technical assistance to help ensure that participating communities are successful, as measured by 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. The 16 awards are for up to $2.1 million in the first year and are renewable for up to a total of five years. The total funding for 2006 is $29 million. Continuation of these awards is subject to both availability of funds and progress achieved by awardees. Grants were awarded to the following states, territories and tribal organizations: Alaska Cook Inlet Tribe Council, Inc., Anchorage -- $1,633,546 for the first year will support a tribal infrastructure development project to establish a solid foundation for delivering and sustaining effective substance abuse prevention services for the Anchorage tribal community. American Samoa American Samoa Government, Pago Pago -- $1,313,095 in the first year to develop Fa’a Samoa (the Samoan Way). This program includes comprehensive, integrated, strategic prevention framework-focused, data-driven, community-based, substance abuse prevention activities for American Samoan youth and families. California Native American Health Center, Inc., Oakland -- $1,455,143 for the first year to support the One with All program to expand the capacity of Northern California tribal organizations to provide culturally appropriate, evidence-based substance abuse prevention services for American Indians and Alaska Natives in the region. Built on the principles of the strategic prevention framework, it will include not only a needs assessment and development of a comprehensive strategic plan, but also an in-depth evaluation of the approaches utilized and their impact on the growing community. Georgia Georgia Department of Human Resources, Atlanta -- $2,093,000 for the first year will support an extensive state/local collaboration to build and implement a data-driven prevention system that provides tools and supports to promote substance abuse prevention and health promotion. The program will create unified structures for local planning and programming, and provide guided funding for local delivery of evidence-based prevention strategies statewide. Hawaii Office of the Governor, Honolulu -- $2,093,000 in the first year will enable Hawaii to build and implement a coordinated, comprehensive approach to substance abuse prevention based on the strategic prevention framework model of community-based prevention that helps ensure that prevention is the first line of defense against illegal drug use and underage drinking. The program establishes effective alcohol and other substance abuse prevention efforts that are evidence-based, culturally appropriate, and sustainable. Kansas Office of the Kansas Governor, Topeka -- $2,093,000 for the first year will support the Substance Abuse Prevention for the Twenty-first Century project to build on existing interagency efforts, to address identified service gaps and policy needs, and to build the coordinated infrastructure at the state and community levels. Together these activities will result in more efficient and effective deployment of prevention resources that will have a positive effect at the level of the individual, community and state on substance abuse and related problems. Massachusetts Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston -- $2,093,000 in the first year will support the Massachusetts Collaborative for Action, Leadership, and Learning (Mass CALL2), which is working at the state and community levels to: prevent the onset and reduce the progression of substance abuse including underage drinking; reduce substance abuse and related problems; and promote mental health in communities statewide. The program will build substance abuse prevention and mental health promotion capacity and infrastructure at the state and community levels. Michigan Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa, Peshawbestown -- $513,831 for the first year to work in partnership with the Michigan Public Health Institute’s Center for the Collaborative Research in Health Outcomes and Policy to implement, evaluate, and sustain a strategic prevention framework-focused substance abuse prevention effort among the population of the Grand Traverse Band. The program is designed to prevent the onset and reduce the progression of substance abuse, including childhood and underage drinking. Mississippi Office of the Governor, Jackson -- $2,093,000 in the first year to build on Mississippi’s recent success of cross-agency collaboration at both the state and community levels to address identified infrastructure and program gaps in substance abuse prevention activities. The program will build on existing known needs, improve cultural competencies, initiate an underage drinking initiative, and target substance abuse prevention resources to areas of identified greatest need. Nebraska Office of the Governor, Lincoln -- $2,093,000 for the first year to produce sustained outcomes in preventing the onset and reducing the progression of substance abuse and related mental disorders and other problems among Nebraskans by developing sustainable, coordinated, and data-driven prevention systems at the state, sub-state and local levels that include effective needs assessment, mobilization, planning, implementation and evaluation processes. New Jersey Office of the Governor, Trenton -- $2,093,000 for the first year to implement a strategic prevention-framework-oriented system of substance abuse prevention activities that integrates state and local efforts, under the aegis of the State Department of Human Services/Division of Addiction Services, building and utilizing a common set of goals, expectations and accountabilities throughout the substance abuse prevention infrastructure. Oklahoma The Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah -- $2,093,000 in the first year to forge a comprehensive, data-driven, community-based integrated system of prevention across the nation. This substance abuse prevention system will provide the infrastructure for delivering and sustaining effective, efficient, and culturally appropriate substance abuse prevention services to American Indian citizens who live in the area served by the tribe. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Department of Health, Harrisburg -- $2,093,000 in the first year to coordinate and implement enhancements to the substance abuse prevention infrastructure, service capacity and service systems. The program will build an interagency substance abuse prevention coalition across the state to focus on both underage drinking and drug abuse, with common goals, and a standardized reporting system based on the principles of the strategic prevention framework. Utah Utah Department of Human Services, Salt Lake City -- $2,093,000 in the first year to continue the state’s transformation of its substance abuse prevention services into a statewide, integrated comprehensive, data-driven, culturally competent, seamless and sustainable system that is based upon the six guiding principles and five steps of the strategic prevention framework. Wisconsin Great Lakes Intertribal Council, Inc., Lac du Flambeau -- $1,104,835 for the first year to develop and implement the Great Lakes Intertribal Council Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Project to help the 11 tribes of Wisconsin build the infrastructure and capacity needed to better prevent substance abuse in their communities, with an emphasis on underage drinking. Office of the Governor, Madison -- $2,093,000 for the first year for a program that combines the comprehensive strategic prevention initiative model with existing state and local efforts to prevent the onset and reduce the progression of substance abuse, including childhood and underage drinking; to reduce substance abuse-related problems in communities; and to build prevention capacity and infrastructure. This project joins with the Governor’s Kids First Initiative, and the Healthiest Wisconsin 2010 state health plan.



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