SAMHSA Awards Funds for National Conference on Community-Based Approaches to Promoting Mental Health

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Date: 4/2/2009
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SAMHSA Awards Funds for National Conference on Community-Based Approaches to Promoting Mental Health

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) today announced the award of a Knowledge Dissemination Conference Grant totaling $39, 932 to the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM. The conference will take place June 17, 2009.

The grant award will support the upcoming conference titled, “Connecting Neighbors: Finding Strength in Communities.” This conference will provide an opportunity for family members, consumers, provider agencies, clinicians, and policy makers to strengthen partnerships and work together to enable the dissemination of evidence-based practices particularly behavioral health, co-occurring, recovery and cultural competency in rural and frontier settings.

The SAMHSA Conference Grant Program is used to disseminate information about best practices within the mental health services, substance abuse prevention and substance abuse treatment fields at regionally and/or nationally significant conferences.

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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