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Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant. The budget includes $1.8 billion, the same level as FY 2010, for this program. These grant funds are the cornerstone of substance abuse-related programs for states and territories. They are used by 60 jurisdictions to plan, implement, and evaluate substance abuse prevention and treatment services, including approximately 2 million client admissions annually.
Mental Health Block Grant. The budget provides $421 million for the Community Mental Health Block Grant. States and territories have significant flexibility to target services supported through this funding stream to their unique needs, including infrastructure, service delivery, planning, and evaluation to develop comprehensive community-based mental health service delivery systems.
Safe Schools/Healthy Students. The Agency collaborates with the Departments of Education and Justice through local partnerships to implement best practices for education, justice, law enforcement, and mental health services through the Safe Schools/Healthy Students program. The budget includes $95 million, the same as FY 2010, for the prevention of youth violence. SAMHSA-supported interventions foster early childhood development of mental and physical health, reduce or delay the onset of emotional and behavioral problems, and treat children with serious emotional disturbances.
HIV/AIDS Among Minorities. The budget includes $117 million to reduce health disparities in minority communities by delivering high-quality substance abuse, mental health, and HIV prevention and treatment services.
Examples of important new SAMHSA programs include the following:
Establishing Prevention Prepared Communities. The budget includes $23 million for a new initiative to implement comprehensive, evidence-based community prevention programs that serve young people during their at-risk years. This new program also funds grants to states for community prevention specialists to assist in the activation of these programs.
Community-Level Early Warning System. To detect the emergence of new drug threats and assist in identifying the public health and safety consequences of drug abuse, funding is earmarked in the budget to design and test a community-level early warning system under the “Program Management and Data Collection” category.
SAMHSA’s Congressional Justification is available at http://www.samhsa.gov/Budget/FY2011/SAMHSA_FY11CJ.pdf. For more detailed information about the President’s FY 2011 budget, visit http://www.hhs.gov/asrt/ob/docbudget/2011budgetinbrief.pdf.
| |
| |
|
|
|
| 1,779 |
1,799 |
1,799 |
-- |
| 79 |
79 |
79 |
-- |
| |
|
|
|
| 412 |
453 |
487 |
+34 |
| 9 |
9 |
9 |
-- |
| 201 |
202 |
223 |
+21 |
| 2 |
2 |
2 |
-- |
| 2,394 |
2,455 |
2,510 |
+55 |
| |
|
|
|
| 421 |
421 |
421 |
-- |
| 21 |
21 |
21 |
-- |
| 60 |
65 |
70 |
+5 |
| 344 |
362 |
374 |
+13 |
| 108 |
121 |
126 |
+5 |
| 36 |
36 |
36 |
-- |
| 969 |
1,005 |
1,028 |
+23 |
| 100 |
102 |
136 |
+34 |
| 23 |
23 |
23 |
+1 |
| 1 |
1 |
-- |
-1 |
| 3 |
-- |
-- |
-- |
| 3,466 |
3,563 |
3,674 |
+110 |
| |
|
|
|
| -132 |
-132 |
-132 |
-1 |
| 3,335 |
3,432 |
3,541 |
+110 |
| 528 |
549 |
553 |
+4 |
Source: U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services
Web site, “Budget in Brief,” (page 43, PDF format).