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SAMHSA News Bulletin

Date: 9/19/2007
Media Contact: SAMHSA Press
Telephone: 240-276-2130

SAMHSA Awards $1.7 Million in Grants to Prevent Methamphetamine Abuse

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration today announced the award of two grants, totaling $1,764,000 over three years.  The awards will help communities, where there are signs of methamphetamine use, intervene with evidence-based prevention strategies.

"Methamphetamine is a uniquely destructive drug,” said Terry Cline, Ph.D., SAMHSA administrator.  “These grants can help local communities continue to drive down the use of methamphetamine and, in some cases, prevent it from being used.” 

Grant recipients are using these awards in a number of ways, such as implementing evidence-based community prevention programs that target populations at greatest risk for methamphetamine abuse; training and education of professionals, educators, law enforcement personnel, families and others about the signs of methamphetamine abuse and prevention options; and testing and evaluating pilot programs focused on drug-endangered children.

One award is up to $350,000 in the first year and the second award is up to $238,000 in its first year and both are renewable for up to three years in all.  Continuation of these awards is subject to availability of funds and progress achieved by the awardees. Total funding for year one is $588,000.

Grants were awarded to:

California Recovery Clinics, Corona, California--$238,000 in the first year to implement an effective, evidence-based prevention program that combines direct prevention services with critical infrastructure development.  CRC’s Methamphetamine Prevention Project will cover a multicultural target population, and their families in the areas of Corona/Norco in the Riverside County. The program will be conducted through professionally led workshops at the schools using hands-on activities and youth speakers to show the effects of methamphetamine abuse and addiction.

Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans, Inc., (Proyecto Ganadores), San Antonio, Texas--$350,000 in the first year to AAMA, a multifaceted, fast-growing social services agency involved in education, social service and community development.  AAMA serves primarily Mexican American youth residing in the lower Rio Grande Valley.  Proyecto Ganadores will serve as the infrastructure for the proposed methamphetamine prevention project. Two strategic categories will be addressed: culturally advanced infrastructure progress and the provision of an innovative culturally tailored strategy to decrease the use of methamphetamine in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. For more information, visit www.samhsa.gov

SAMHSA is a public health agency within the Department of Health and Human Services. The agency is responsible for improving the accountability, capacity and effectiveness of the nation's substance abuse prevention, addictions treatment, and mental health services delivery system.


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