SAMHSA Awards $30.9 Million to Community Treatment and Service Centers Helping Children Suffering from Traumatic Stress

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SAMHSA Awards $30.9 Million to Community Treatment and Service Centers Helping Children Suffering from Traumatic Stress

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced that $30.9 million in total funding over the next three years will be provided through the Community Treatment and Services (CTS) Centers, which is one of the three types of centers under the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative (NCTSI). The overall goal of the initiative is to help communities meet the special needs of children at risk or suffering from traumatic stress.

The grants enable community treatment and service organizations to provide expanded evidence-based prevention, screening and treatment services for children who may be more susceptible to mental health problems because they have been exposed to natural disasters, abuse, neglect or other traumatic events.

Grantees are expected to implement and evaluate effective treatment and services in community settings and youth serving service systems, and collaborate with other Centers in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) on clinical issues, service approaches, policy, financing, and training issues. Grantees will collaborate extensively within the NCTSN for these purposes and for developing child traumatic stress-related products and services for nationwide consumption and benefit.

"This program builds resiliency in children by identifying and treating their mental health problems as early and comprehensively as possible," said SAMHSA Acting Administrator Eric Broderick, D.D.S., M.P.H. "This approach maximizes the impact community treatment and service centers can have in improving the lives of children and their families recovering from traumatic experiences."

Twenty-six community programs from around the country have been selected to receive funding over the next three years. The actual award amounts may vary, depending on the availability of funds and the progress achieved by the awardees. The funds are awarded and administered by SAMHSA’s Center for Mental Health Services.

Grantee	Per Year Award
Colorado Judicial Department	$394,816
Regents of the University of Minnesota	$400,000
La Rabida Children’s Hospital	$400,000
St. Vincent Catholic Medical Centers of NY	$400,000
Heartland Health Outreach	$400,000
Institute for Health and Recovery Inc.	$400,000
Child and Parent Support Services Inc.	$398,963
Children’s Center	$398,381
Beth Israel Medical Center	$395,788
Vermont Department of Mental Health	$400,000
Children’s Research Triangle	$398,840
Native American Health Center Inc.	$400,000
L.U.K. Crisis Center Inc.	$400,000
Serving Children and Adolescents in Need	$400,000
University of Rochester	$399,990
Catholic Charities Hawaii	$400,000
Family Service of Rhode Island Inc.	$399,789
Youth Network Council	$400,000
Parsons Child and FamilyCenter	$399,979
Family & Children’s Services Inc.	$400,000
The Research Institute at Nationwide Children	$400,000
Colorado State University	$399,253
Trustees of DartmouthCollege	$393,043
Baystate Medical Center	$334,744
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles	$400,000
The Dee Norton Lowcountry Children’s Center	$392,265

For additional information about the grant or awardees and other SAMHSA programs, please visit http://www.samhsa.gov/Grants/.

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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