Date: 10/15/2008 Media Contact: SAMHSA Press Office Telephone: 240-276-2130
SAMHSA Awards Almost $16 Million to Prevent and Reduce Alcohol Use among Youth
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) today announced the award of 79 grants totaling almost $16 million over four years for the Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking (STOP) Act grant program. The purpose of this program is to prevent and reduce alcohol use among youth in communities throughout the United States.
"Using the recent Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking as a guide, SAMHSA will encourage existing local community coalitions to develop, assess, and implement effective strategies to prevent and reduce underage drinking," said Eric Broderick, D.D.S., M.P.H., acting administrator of SAMHSA . "These strategies may include changing local attitudes and norms, and re-evaluating existing laws and policies."
The 79 awards can be funded up to $50,000 per year in total costs. Continuation awards are subject to the availability of funds and progress achieved by awardees. The grants announced today will be administered by SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention.
The awardees are:
Organization
First Year Award
Underage Drinking Task Force Project Center for Prevention and Counseling Newton, N.J.
$50,000
The Cambridge Prevention Coalition Cambridge, Mass.
$50,000
Springfield STOP Act Project New North Citizens Council Inc Springfield, Mass.
$50,000
STOP Act Grant Irvine Unified School District Irvine, Calif.
$50,000
Valley Community Coalition Initiative Helping Service for Northeast Iowa Inc. Decorah
$50,000
Impacting Population-level Change with Underage Drinking through Environmental Changes and Community Partnership City of Woonsocket, R.I.
$50,000
Missoula County Missoula, Mont.
$50,000
Watertown Youth Coalition S.T.O.P. Underage Drinking Program Wayside Youth & Family Support Network Framingham, Mass.
$50,000
Cazenovia Community Underage Drinking Task Force Madison County Council on Alcoholism Canastota, N.Y.
$50,000
Social Norms Marketing Campaigns Hampshire Educational Collaborative Northampton, Mass.
$50,000
Castro Valley Community Action Network (CAN)! Castro Valley Unified School District Castro Valley, Calif.
$50,000
Hood River Prevents Coalition SOBER Truth Project Hood River County, Hood River, Ore.
$50,000
Middletown Cares City of Middletown, Middletown, N.Y.
$50,000
Educating Parents of 4th, 5th, & 6th Graders about Alcohol & Drugs Natrona County School District #1 Casper, Wyo.
$49,980
Asset Building Coalition, STOP Act Project Mendocino County Health & Human Services Agency Ukiah, Calif.
$50,000
Environmental Strategies to Reduce Underage Drinking in Charlotte County Alliance Fort Charlotte, Fla.
$50,000
Reducing Underage Drinking in Rural Appalachia Johnson County Safe Haven, Inc. Mountain City, Tenn.
$50,000
Preventing and Reducing Underage Alcohol Use in Chicago County Comm. Partnership with Youth & Families North Branch, Minn.
$50,000
ASAP Inc. Rural America Initiatives Rapid City, S.D.
$50,000
Project Help Community Collaborative Project Help: Sacramento MASA Sacramento, Calif.
$50,000
Gwinnett County STOP Act Project Gwinnett Coalition for Health & Human Services Lawrenceville, Ga.
$50,000
Parents Supporting Parents Network (PSPN) Greenville Family Partnership Greenville, S.C.
$50,000
The Ossining Communities That Care (OCTC) Open Door Family Medical Center, Inc. Ossining, N.Y.
$50,000
Safe Climate Coalition STOP Act Project Safe Climate Coalition of Lake County, Inc. Yalaha, Fla.
$50,000
Environmental Strategies to Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking Metropolitan Drug Commission, Inc. Knoxville, Tenn.
$50,000
Throggs Neck Parent Mobilization and Resource Center to Stop Underage Drinking New York Archdiocese Drug Abuse Prevention Program Bronx
$50,000
Calloway County Stop ACT Program Calloway County Board of Education Murray, Ky.
$50,000
Together We Can United Way of the Ozarks, Inc. Springfield, Mo.
$49,947
Westchester County Coalition for Drug and Alcohol Free Youth Westchester County, White Plains, N.Y.
$50,000
Project SUDN (Stop Underage Drinking Now) Grant County Health Department Lancaster, Wis.
$50,000
The North Country Health Consortium (NCHC) Whitefield, N.H.
$50,000
21 Reasons STOP Project, Portland, Maine Medical Care Development, Inc. Augusta
$50,000
Partners in Prevention-Rock County, Inc. Janesville, Wis.
$50,000
CARSA The Oregon Partnership, Inc. Portland, Ore.
$50,000
FY 2008 STOP Project Helena School District One, Helena, Mont.
$50,000
Makin’ It Happen Coalition for Resilient Youth Manchester, N.H.
$50,000
Coalition for Healthy Communities Lake County Health Department Waukegan, Ill.
$50,000
Underage Drinking Prevention in Rural Northern Maine Cary Medical Center Caribou
$50,000
Coalition for a Drug-Free Greater Cincinnati Stop Underage Drinking Cincinnati
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.
