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SAMHSA News Bulletin

Date: 10/8/2009
Media Contact: SAMHSA Press
Telephone: 240-276-2130

SAMHSA Awards Up to $15.3 Million in Grants to Expand Substance Abuse Treatment Capacity in Targeted Areas

 

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) today announced it is awarding up to $15.3 million over three years to 13 grantees to expand substance abuse treatment capacity systems in communities that can most benefit from these types of integrated comprehensive services.

 

“For many people, these grants will expand their community’s ability to provide integrated and comprehensive care,” said Acting Administrator Eric Broderick, D.D.S., M.P.H.  “This community-based response will improve the quality and intensity of care and services.”

 

These grants will foster the development and utilization of local recovery-oriented systems of care to address gaps in treatment capacity by supporting person-centered and self-directed approaches for substance abuse (including alcohol and drug) treatment and recovery services in communities with serious drug problems.

 

The annual award per grantee amount is up to $400,000 for fiscal year 2009. Continuation award amounts may vary, depending on the availability of funds and performance of the grantee. The program will be administered by SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment.

 

Grant recipients are:

           

Grantees

1st Year Awards

Boston Public Health Commission, Boston, MA

$400,000

CASA Esperanza, Inc., Roxbury MA,

$400,000

Cope Community Services, Tucson, AZ

$399,424

Foundation for Research on Sexually Transmitted Diseases, New York, NY

$400,000

Haymarket Center, Chicago, IL

$400,000

Institute for Health and Recovery, Cambridge, MA

$400,000

Pima Prevention Partnership, Tucson, AZ

$400,000

Serving Children and Adolescents in Need, Laredo, TX

$400,000

Southeast, Inc., Columbus, OH

$400,000

Spectrum Youth and Family Services, Burlington, VT

$400,000

Squaxin Island Tribal Council, Elma, WA

$285,061

Substance Abuse Foundation of Long Beach, CA

$400,000

University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL

$384,873

               

 


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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