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SAMHSA News Bulletin

Date: 10/7/2009
Media Contact: SAMHSA Press
Telephone: 240-276-2130

SAMHSA Awards more than $2.5 Million for Statewide Consumer Network Grants

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) today announced the award of 12 grants totaling more than $2.5 million over three years to support consumer organizations in their work to improve mental health services for persons living with serious mental illnesses.

 

“Mental health services should be consumer and family driven,” SAMHSA Acting Administrator Eric Broderick, D.D.S., M.P.H said. “These new grants will help more communities move towards this goal by increasing consumer and family member involvement in the development and delivery of mental health services.”

 

Grantees are encouraged to work in partnership with their states in mental health transformation activities to achieve common state wide consumer network goals, whether through their states’ Mental Health Transformation State Incentive Grants or other system reform initiatives. 

Each grant recipient will receive approximately $70,000 per year for up to three years.  Continuation of these awards is subject to both availability of funds and progress achieved by the grantees. Total funding for year one is $839, 747. This grant program will be administered by SAMHSA’s Center for Mental Health Services.  The grantees are:

  • Iowa Advocates for Mental Health Recovery, Sioux City, Iowa  -- $69,896
  • Focus on Recovery, Middletown, Connecticut -- $70,000
  • Wings Across Alabama, Montgomery, Alabama -- $70,000    
  • Alaska Youth & Family Network, Anchorage, Alaska -- $70,000
  • Fresh Start of Miami-Dade, Miami Gardens, Florida -- $70,000
  • Recovery Education Centers of Alaska, Kasilof, Alaska -- $70,000
  • North Carolina Mental Health Consumers Org., Raleigh, North Carolina -- $69,859
  • KS Consumer Advisory Council for Adult MH, Wichita, Kansas -- $70,000
  • Grassroots Empowerment Project Inc., Madison, Wisconsin – $69,992
  • AWARE Inc., Earlsboro, Oklahoma -- $70,000
  • Mental Health Association of the Southern Tier, Binghamton, New York -- $70,000
  • Depressive Manic Depressive Association of Gt, St. Louis, Missouri -- $70,000

For additional information about these grants and other SAMHSA programs, please visit http://www.samhsa.gov/.

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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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