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SAMHSA Grant Awards By State FY 2006
Discretionary Funds in Detail

Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)
PUERTO RICO

Grantee: UNIVERSITY OF PR CAYEY UNIVERSITY COLL	Cayey, PR
Program: Campus Suicide	SM57822
Congressional District: PR-00
FY 2006 Funding: $74,906
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
The Univ of Puerto Rico proposes a program to develop a comprehensive support network and college action plan for attending potential and serious cases of suicide. The focus of this program entails training through workshops and information materials for the campus body, in its informational aspect and a smaller number in direct services. Also, a comprehensive network strategy will be implemented through a crisis hotline and a referral program. The project will be implemented over 3 years, beginning with a basic and direct approach, with training and preparation of inventories of resources, to the creation of more student focused imformational materials and more elaborate presentations, culminating in efforts to document success for institutionalization and replication. The expected results of the program calendar will be the guide to both proces and outcome objectives to be assessed. The evaluation will include quantitative measures on how many individuals in each category were reached by the program's efforts and qualitative measures on how they react.

Grantee: UNIVERSIDAD DEL TURABO - SUAGM	Gurabo, PR
Program: Campus Suicide	SM57880
Congressional District: PR-00
FY 2006 Funding: $74,719
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
Grantee's Suicide Prevention Program will include 3 main activities: the development of a systematic training program for student's organizational leaders, faculty, counselors, athletic coaches, and security personnel; development and implementation of an institutional crisis response plan; and data collection of risk factors as identified by the administration of a validated screening test that will be used to develop statistics and informational material related to suicide prevention strategies. The purpose of the training program is to develop institutional direct service personnel with increased knowledge concerning mental health and behaviroal conflicts, strengthen the ability to recognize and identify high risk behaviors, and promote the ability to respond effectively and make the necessary referrals for direct services as appropriate. This project will permit data collection on suicide risk factors and the identification of effective institutional resources in suicide prevention management.

Grantee: Mental Health & Anti-Addiction Serv Adm	San Juan, PR
Program: Children's Services	SM54513
Congressional District: PR-00
FY 2006 Funding: $1,500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2008
Under the Mental Health and Anti-Addiction Services Administration (MHAASA), the Puerto Rico Mental Health Initiative for Children (PR/MHIC) is directed to developing a culturally competent system of care (SOC) for Hispanic children with SED and their families in the Llorens Torres Housing Project in San Juan, and the rural municipality of Gurabo. The proposed six-year project will integrate representatives of the Puerto Rico Departments of Health, Education, Family, Juvenile Justice, Ombudsman for Persons with Disabilities and Juvenile Institutions with community and family-run groups such as the Independent Leaders Pro-Welfare of Llorens Torres and community-based organizations such as the Gurabo Community Health Center to form a governing board that will also include youth and parents of SED children.

Grantee: Mental Health & Anti-Addiction Serv Adm	San Juan, PR
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants	SM56650
Congressional District: PR-00
FY 2006 Funding: $71,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
This project will continue the State's effort to build infrastructure to collect data and report the remaining Mental Health Block Grant Uniform Reporting System Developmental Measures. Grant efforts will focus on (1) local provider training to improve data quality, (2) implementation of web-based technology using DS2K + data standards to collect, report, and improve accessibility of data, and (3) strengthening internal and external database linkages. Project outcomes will include consistent data definitions, timely capture of data, improved measure of service outcomes and client change, improved data quality, and enhanced ability to analyze and report on developmental measures such as school attendance, school performance, and involvement with the criminal justice system. The project outcomes will be evaluated based on the ability to produce the data required for URS and other desired reporting. The project will also be evaluated in terms of its ability to produce data that is useful to and is used by system stakeholders.

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
PUERTO RICO

Grantee: ASPIRA of Puerto Rico, Inc	San Juan, PR
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP13176
Congressional District: PR-00
FY 2006 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)
PUERTO RICO

Grantee: Universidad Central del Caribe	Bayamon, PR
Program: Addiction Technical Transfer Center	TI13588
Congressional District: PR-00
FY 2006 Funding: $952,296
Project Period: 03/31/2002 - 09/29/2007
The Caribbean Basin ATTC provides state-of-the-art addiction education and training programs to health care professionals, territorial and local governments, and community organizations in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The majority of the population served by this site is Hispanic/Latino. This creates a unique opportunity for this ATTC to design and adapt culturally appropriate education and training programs for the Hispanic/Latino populations. The science to services initiatives of this ATTC provide resources for all 14 Regional ATTCs to use with Spanish speaking populations.

Grantee: Universidad Central del Caribe	Bayamon, PR
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS	TI14540
Congressional District: PR-00
FY 2006 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To develop and implement a community based substance abuse and HIV/AIDS outreach program. The total number of clients to be recruited is 400 women. The program will use outreach to target women from the Latino population.

Grantee: Lucha Contra El Sida, Inc	San Juan, PR
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS	TI15804
Congressional District: PR-00
FY 2006 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Lucha Contra el SIDA, Inc. (LCS) is a non-profit, tax-exempted, community-based organization that provides biopsychosocial supportive services, permanent housing and employme nt to people living with HIV/AIDS, and those related to them, as well as to medically- indigent, substance abusers and homeless individuals.

Last Update: 2/28/2008