2006 Press Release - SAMHSA Awards $9.9 Million to Fund Juvenile and Family Drug Treatment Courts

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	Date:	September 28, 2006
	Media Contact:	SAMHSA Press
	Telephone:	240-276-2130



	SAMHSA Awards $9.9 Million to Fund Juvenile and Family Drug Treatment Courts
	The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration today announced more than $9.9 million over three years in funding for alcohol and drug treatment courts for juveniles and families. Both programs provide alcohol and drug treatment and other services supporting substance abuse treatment, assessment, case management and program coordination. Juvenile drug treatment courts will receive over $7.5 million and family treatment drug courts will receive almost $2.4 million. The grants were announced during the presentation by H. Westley Clark, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., Director of SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, during the National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC) Annual Conference in Burbank, California. Juvenile drug treatment courts target delinquent adolescents with substance use or co-occurring mental and substance use disorders. Family drug treatment courts target parents with substance use disorders who have abused or neglected their children, and are designed to eliminate parental substance use in order to create a healthy environment so that children can be returned to their homes. “We have seen time and time again how drug treatment courts can turn around the lives of adolescents with drug or alcohol problems who are in trouble with the law,” said Assistant Surgeon General Eric Broderick, D.D.S., M.P.H., SAMHSA’s Acting Deputy Administrator. “Family drug treatment courts are equally important; they can help children grow up in families that are intact, caring and drug-free. Together these two programs are leading the way to safer, healthier families and communities.” First-year funding for the juvenile treatment drug courts totals $2,507, 419 for seven grants. First-year funding for family treatment courts totals $799,849 for two grants. Juvenile drug treatment court grantees include: California Santa Clara County Superior Court, San Jose, will receive $397,000 for the first year to integrate the most up-to-date gender research in expanded and enhanced court operations and treatment services. It will increase the juvenile treatment court’s capacity by almost 50 percent, serving 96 young women and girls, 140 young men and 50 parents. Massachusetts CAB Health & Recovery Services, Inc. will receive $399,643 for the first year to expand the juvenile drug court program in conjunction with the Essex County Juvenile Courts in Salem and Lynn. Children served will be between the ages of 13 and 18 and on probation or otherwise court-involved. The expansion will increase access to those in need to help them achieve abstinence from drugs and alcohol and enable participants to avoid being sent to lock-up or removed from their families. Michigan Wayne County Third Circuit STAND Program, Detroit, will receive $400,000 for the first year to help juveniles reduce substance use and abuse and related nonviolent delinquent behavior by using a structure that includes treatment services utilizing evidence-based assessments and treatment models, intervention, court supervision and community support. The project expects to serve 110 youth each year. Pennsylvania Philadelphia Health Management Corp. will receive $400,000 in the first year to build on the early success of the Philadelphia Juvenile Treatment Court, which became operational in September 2004. The program intends to develop a new, family-focused, intensive outpatient program for adolescents in the Kensington neighborhood to serve approximately 80 juvenile offenders referred through the juvenile treatment court. The program will include an innovative integration between a clinical service program and the juvenile justice system by expanding the role of the probation officer to include home-based case management, training in evidence-based treatment and case management models. Rhode Island Phoenix Houses of New England, Inc., Providence, will receive $391,140 in the first year to provide evidence-based alcohol and drug treatment services, continuing care and case management for 64 participants in the Hampden County Juvenile Drug Court and their families. The program will target nonviolent male and female juvenile offenders between ages 12 and 17 who enter the juvenile drug court. The program will service 64 youth per year. Texas Travis County Juvenile Court, Austin, will receive $400,000 to service 48 additional youth in its drug court program, along with the 52 clients currently receiving services, and provide substance abuse treatment services to 67 more young people. Wyoming Big Horn County Juvenile Drug Court, Basin, will receive $119,636 in the first year to deal with juveniles, ages 13-17, who need treatment for substance use or co-occurring substance and mental or physical disorders. Assessments are designed so the most appropriate services can be provided to youth and their parents. The program intends to serve 70 youth over three years. Family drug treatment court awards include: Arizona Pima County Juvenile Court Center, Tucson, will receive $399,995 to partner with the Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault to gain improved outcomes for clients through substance abuse treatment and family unification. Florida Administrative Office of the Court, Tampa, will receive $399,854 for the Tampa Dependency Drug Court Program, a collaborative effort between the judicial circuit court, a substance abuse treatment program and a university-based research institute. The purpose of the program is to provide enhanced services to parents alleged to have neglected their children as a result of alcohol or drug use.



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