2006 Press Release - SAMHSA Awards $49 Million in Grants

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	Date:	October 6, 2006
	Media Contact:	SAMHSA Press
	Telephone:	240-276-2130



	SAMHSA Awards $49 Million in Grants Treat People Who Are Homeless
	The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHSA) today announced a series of grants to provide treatment to persons who are homeless, suffering from substance use or mental disorders or both. The first grant program (Development of Comprehensive Drug/Alcohol and Mental Health Treatment Systems for Persons Who are Homeless, also known as The Treatment for Homeless program), includes 23 grants totaling $45 million for five years to expand and strengthen treatment services. These grant programs define a person who is homelessas someone who lacks a fixed, regular, adequate nighttime residence. Those who have a disabling condition and have either been continuously homeless for a year or more or have had at least four episodes of homelessness in the past three years are considered chronically homeless. In addition, 21 supplemental grants totaling $4 million for one year were awarded to help current grantees enhance their services component to ensure that individuals experiencing chronic homelessness obtain mental health and substance abuse treatment, linkage to housing and housing support services, case management, and other recovery-oriented services. “It is estimated that up to 600,000 persons are homeless on any given night. Many have serious mental health and substance abuse problems that can be treated,” said Assistant Surgeon General Eric Broderick, D.D.S., M.P.H., SAMHSA’s Acting Deputy Administrator. “These grants will help provide the treatment and recovery support services needed to help these people overcome their illnesses and obtain a safe, decent place to live.” The 23 grant awards are funded up to $400,000 each in total costs per year for five years. Continuation of these awards is subject to both availability of funds and progress achieved by awardees. The total funding for 2006 is approximately $9 million. The grants are administered by SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT). The Treatment for Homeless -grantees are as follows: ALABAMA Health Services Center, Inc., Anniston -- $400,000 for the first year to provide empirically validated, behaviorally based substance abuse treatment and job/employment training for persons who are homeless, abusing substances, and HIV positive or at-risk for HIV infection. CALIFORNIA New Directions, Inc., Los Angeles -- $400,000 for the first year to provide integrated clinical treatment and employment services to veterans in Los Angeles County who are homeless and suffering from co-occurring mental illness and chronic substance use disorders. East Bay Community Recovery, Oakland -- $400,000 for the first year to develop and implement a strength-based, client-driven service program that addresses the impact of substance abuse and mental illness for persons who are homeless. COLORADO Mental Health Center of Denver, Denver -- $ 400,000 for the first year to provide access to trauma-intensive outpatient treatment and supportive services for women who are homeless and who suffer from co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Community Connections, Inc., Washington, DC-- $399,385 for the first year to provide a comprehensive package of evidence-based services to persons who are homeless with severe mental disorders and who are part of a post-booking jail diversion program in the District. FLORIDA Broward County Board of Commissioners, Ft. Lauderdale -- $301,113 for the first year to utilize the Integrated Dual Diagnosis Treatment model for adults who are unsheltered homeless or who are living in an emergency shelter and experiencing co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. GEORGIA Integrated Life Center, Inc., Stone Mountain -- $352,356 for the first year to provide intensive outpatient co-occurring substance abuse and mental health treatment services for single homeless males. ILLINOIS Counseling Center of Lake View, Chicago -- $399,730 for the first year to develop, implement and evaluate an integrated system of care that links tailored mental health and substance abuse services. This project will target homeless youth ages 14-24. MASSACHUSETTS Friends of the Shattuck Shelter, Jamaica Plain -- $384,142 for the first year to expand access to gender-specific, integrated, culturally sensitive, trauma-informed substance abuse and mental health treatment for women. TENNESSEE Ridgeview Psychiatric Hospital and Center, Oak Ridge -- $400,000 for the first year to address a significant treatment void of the Appalachian homeless rural population with co-occurring disorders by implementing individualized, community-based, integrated treatment services linked with a seamless referral system. TEXAS South Texas Substance Abuse Recovery Services, Corpus Christi -- $400,000 for the first year to expand and strengthen culturally competent substance abuse/mental health treatment services with housing programs for persons who are homeless. Hope Action Care, San Antonio -- $400,000 for the first year to target women who are homeless with a diagnosed substance abuse disorder and/or mental illness and provide comprehensive wraparound services to include counseling, treatment, medical, social, education, job training and housing. U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS Village – VI Partners in Recovery, St. Croix -- $400,000 for the first year to provide integrated substance abuse, mental health and health treatment to homeless men and women living with dual disorders. WISCONSIN Meta House, Inc., Milwaukee -- $400,000 for the first year to expand gender-appropriate treatment services for women who are homeless with co-occurring disorders and their children. This project will include services to help clients maintain recovery commitment, improve mental health functioning and increase housing stability. The *Treatment for Chronic* Homeless –grantees are as follows: CALIFORNIA Project Open Doors, Ventura County -- $400,000 for the first year to use best practices to treat persons who are homeless and suffering from co-occurring disorders. CLARE Foundation, Inc., Santa Monica -- $400,000 for the first year to strengthen and enhance a comprehensive treatment system in Santa Monica for persons who are chronically homeless and who have co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders. People in Progress, Los Angeles -- $392,190 for the first year to expand existing services in a comprehensive drug/alcohol treatment system for persons who are chronically homeless in central Los Angeles. Contra Costa County Health, Martinez -- $399,736 for the first year to expand capacity and effectiveness in serving persons who are chronically homeless. This project will utilize an integrated services team providing wrap-around services linked to housing. FLORIDA Coastal Behavioral Healthcare, Sarasota -- $400,000 for the first year to implement comprehensive, evidence-based mental health and substance recovery services that are tailored to the needs of the chronically homeless in Charlotte County. Gateway Community Services, Jacksonville -- $400,000 for the first year to expand and strengthen treatment services for persons who are chronically homeless with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders in Jacksonville County. MASSACHUSETTS Pine Street Inn, Inc., Boston -- $400,000 for the first year to provide culturally competent services to chronically homeless men and women by implementing best practices for treatment and comprehensive case management programs. MARYLAND Baltimore Homeless Services, Baltimore -- $400,000 for the first year to operate a treatment model that will help the project house persons who are chronically homeless and have substance use disorders. NEW YORK Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, Manhattan -- $399,828 for the first year to establish a mobile treatment team that will offer outreach, engagement, in situ treatment and wraparound case management services to women who are homeless upon their release from prison. The 21 supplemental one-year awards for the Treatment for Homeless** grantees are administered by SAMHSA’s Center for Mental Health Services and were made to the following grantees to enhance their service capacity for individuals experiencing chronic homelessness: ALASKA Fairbanks Native Association Fairbanks -- $200,000 for one year to provide a residential, modified therapeutic community using culturally appropriate, integrated substance abuse and mental health treatment and intensive case management for homeless persons. Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc. Anchorage -- $199,808 for one year to add five residential treatment beds for homeless chronic inebriates who are Alaskan Natives or American Indians. This program will provide comprehensive, coordinated case management services. ARIZONA COPE Behavioral Services, Inc Tucson -- $199,983 for one year to implement a best practice model to overcome specific barriers to the local system of care for homeless persons by providing integrated substance abuse and mental health treatment services. CALIFORNIA North County Serenity House, Inc., Escondido -- $198,535 for one year to the First Phase to Recovery Enhancement program to offer comprehensive services from detoxification through residential treatment, and two years of aftercare support for homeless women in the earliest phases of recovery from substance abuse. Mount St. Joseph - St. Elizabeth, San Francisco -- $200,000 for one year at the Epiphany Center to enhance residential treatment services for homeless women and children. This program will support a residential treatment program and expand its addiction treatment services to homeless women with co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders and have children 0-3 years old or are without children. Mental Health Systems Inc., San Diego -- $200,000 for one year to the Dual Recovery Pegasus East. This program will increase the provision of outpatient services to dually diagnosed homeless persons. Tarzana Treatment Centers, Inc., Tarzana--$200,000 for one year to the Homeless to Health Supplemental Project. This program will expand and enhance residential treatment services for homeless women with substance use disorders. ILLINOIS The Thresholds, Chicago -- $182,865 for one year to the Thresholds Metro West Access Project to provide services and treatment to homeless individuals. KENTUCKY Hope Center, Inc. Lexington -- $200,000 for one year to provide outreach, stabilization, substance abuse treatment, and recovery (wraparound) services to homeless women with substance abuse or co-occurring disorders. MARYLAND People Encouraging People, Inc. Baltimore City -- $200,000 for one year to create a comprehensive dual diagnosis treatment system for persons who are homeless. This new program provides integration and expansion of People Encouraging People, Inc.’s current community-based mental health mobile treatment program and its facility-based mental illness substance abuse program. MISSOURI Phoenix Programs, Inc., Columbia -- $199,831 for one year to implement a long-term, residential, modified therapeutic community for homeless men with co-occurring disorders in existing rural facilities. Swope Health Services, Kansas City -- $99,533 for one year to provide client-directed treatment, a "housing first" option, treatment of varying lengths upon demand, and intensive case management services. NEW JERSEY UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway -- $199,836 for one year to maintain the Mission project. This program will support a comprehensive substance abuse and mental health service system for homeless veterans with a substance abuse and mental health diagnosis of depression, anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder. NEW YORK EAC, Inc., Hempstead --$200,000 for one year to the Bronx ADM Homeless Diversion Program to allow the Educational Assistance Corporation-Treatment Alternatives to Street Crimes (EAC-TASC) program to expand, over five years, its comprehensive diversion program for a total of 150 adult non-violent felony offenders with co-occurring alcohol, drug and mental health disorders and who are homeless. Institute for Community Living, Inc., Manhattan -- $200,000 for one year to the Gore Shelter Services Project for Homeless. The program is designed to improve consumer wellness and increase placements into permanent housing for women with a serious mental illness. Odyssey House, Inc., Manhattan -- $198,932 for one year to the Development of Comprehensive Drug/Alcohol and Mental Health Treatment Systems Odyssey House's Pathways to Housing project to provide treatment and housing services to homeless persons in recovery from substance abuse.. OHIO Alcohol & Drug Addiction Services Board, Cleveland -- $200,000 for one year to provide gender-specific treatment for homeless women who have a substance use disorder and a co-occurring mental health disorder. OKLAHOMA Family & Children's Services, Inc., Tulsa -- $200,000 for one year to provide integrated health, mental health and substance abuse services to adults with co-occurring disorders. OREGON Central City Concern, Portland -- $199,026 for one year to enhance its family-based outreach project by implementing culturally specific adaptations to its existing Integrated Dual Diagnosis Treatment model. TEXAS Center for Success and Independence, Houston -- $200,000 for one year to the Fresh Start Development and Expansion Program to provide services to homeless adolescents and young adults who need substance abuse treatment and dual disorder treatment. WISCONSIN Health Care for the Homeless, Milwaukee -- $200,000 for one year to the Addictions Treatment for the Homeless project to increase outpatient mental health and substance abuse services for persons who are chronically homeless and those at risk of homelessness.



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