SAMHSA Grant Awards by State FY 2005

Discretionary Funds in Detail

ALASKA

Center for Mental Health Services

Grantee: Anchorage Comm. Mental Health Serv. Anchorage, AK
Program: Community TX & Service Ctrs of the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative SM57127
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $398,037
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2009
Anchorage Community Mental Health Services is requesting SAMHSA support to establish the first Alaska Child Trauma Center in Anchorage, Alaska. The Center will collaborate with community partners to establish a trauma-focused coalition and treatment network to establish best practices-based services for children and adolescents (ages 3 to 18), who have suffered trauma. Child trauma is an enormous problem in Alaska. Alaska has one of the highest rates of child maltreatment, domestic violence, substance abuseand suicide in the nation.In order to provide the best possible services for children and adolescents who have suffered trauma, the Alaska Child Trauma Center will work with The Trauma Centers of Massachusetts, to train Anchorage providers in the use of the ARC (Attachment, Self-Regulation and Competency) model,The Center will also work with the State of Alaska Division of Behavioral Health,and to build a comprehensive traumafocused services network for children and adolescents in Anchorage. The Center will work with a professional research team, pilot testing the ARC Framework and evaluating the model locally. There will be close attention to the effectiveness of the model with Alaskan Native and American Indian children and children in foster care.the Alaska Child Trauma Center will collaborate closely with a coalition of state agencies, mental health providers, community agencies, consumers and others.
     
Grantee: Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc. Anchorage, AK
Program: Circles of Care American Indian & Alaskan Native Children SM56771
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $319,714
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
The Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc. (CITC), in partnership with South Central Foundation will assist the Native children, youth, and families of the villages of the Cook Inlet Region to develop the infrastructure to transform the mental health system of care. The project will be titled "Cherish the Children".
     
Grantee: United Way of Anchorage AK Anchorage, AK
Program: CMHS 2005 Earmarks SM56836
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $595,196
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2006
 
     
Grantee: Alaska Young Family Network Anchorage, AK
Program: CMHS Statewide Family Network Grants SM56409
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $69,999
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
Alaska Youth and Family network provides an informative interactive website, support groups, answer questions and network parents of severely emotionally disturbed children about mental health and substance abuse treatment system of care for their child. An outreach component teaches youth to advocate for their own needs. AYFN facilitates professionals, parents and youth to be equal partners in policymaking about the Alaskan behavioral health system.
     
Grantee: NAMI Alaska Anchorage, AK
Program: CMHS Statewide Consumer Network Grants SM56429
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $69,934
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
For three years, NAMI of Alaska has played a fundamental role in developing consumer networks, supporters and service providers in regional Alaskan communities. NAMI proposes to link its 12 affiliates as a means to strengthen consumer networks in rural communities that require additional community specific development. With the involvement of Native Alaskans, cultural adaptations have been made to implement training in leadership, personal empowerment, advocacy, organizational development and board and commission membership in previous years. To further facilitate the consumer network, NAMI proposes to implement a training curriculum that will meet the needs of the rural communities and supporters. Consumers are primed from previous related trainings to share knowledge with their peers in other communities. In order to proceed, the efforts in place by NAMI will continue to be needed to implore their continued input on consumer based programs and initiatives in otherwise inaccessible areas of rural Alaska.
     
Grantee: Fairbanks Native Association Fairbanks, AK
Program: CMHS 2005 Earmarks SM56859
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $744,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2006
This grant augments the Ch'eghutsen Child Mental Health Initiative, by supporting additional clinical training for village residents in the University of Alaska Rural Human Services certificate program.
     
Grantee: Fairbanks Native Association Fairbanks, AK
Program: Children's Services SM54481
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $2,000,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2008
The Ch'eghutsen project will build on a completed Circles of Care planning grant to provide mental health care to children and families in the Fairbanks regional area, and 42 villages in the interior region of the state. Program partners include Tanana Chief's Conference, and the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. The program will also build on the state's Rural Human Services Program, involving training of paraprofessional community members to provide behavioral health care with a network of clinical consultation, supervision, training, and tele-psychiatry
     
Grantee: Alaska Dept Hlth & Social Services/DMHDD Juneau, AK
Program: Jail Diversion SM55098
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $269,237
Project Period: 06/01/2003 - 05/31/2006
This pre-trial jail diversion project will divert individuals with a major mental illness who have committed non-violent misdemeanors into appropriate community-based services and is a collaborative effort involving a mental health service provider, the Alaska Dept. of Corrections, the Anchorage Municipal Attorney, the local affiliate of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), with coordination by the Alaska Div. of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities. The largest city in Alaska (pop. 260,283), Anchorage has found a large percentage of its incarcerated population, who have committed non-violent misdemeanors, have serious mental illness. The behavior that leads to arrest is symptomatic of their mental illness and, rather than providing appropriate services, they are often processed through the court system and sentenced to incarceration. The proposed project will intervene in the process by screening individuals before they go to trial and, if considering their illness and the nature of their crime, they are found to be appropriate, their prosecution is deferred while they are provided with community-based services coordinated through Southcentral Counseling. Services are built around the Assertive Community Treatment model and features multi-disciplinary teams. Upon successful participation, a decision is made by the regarding dismissal of charges. For those who are not able to participate in services, the Municipal Attorney will determine an alternative course, such as referral to the Mental Health Court or District Court for trial. This program can serve 40 individuals at a time with an est. annual capacity of 122 clients from the Anchorage area. In the past 4 years, the city has est. a mental health court and offers alternatives to incarceration. The purpose of this project is to intervene earlier in the process and provide a component in a continuum of intervention and care whose primary goal is to decriminalize mental illness.
     
Grantee: State of Alaska Juneau, AK
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants SM56619
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $160,718
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.
     
Grantee: State of Alaska Dept of Hlth & Soc Serv. Juneau, AK
Program: CMHS 2005 Earmarks SM56863
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $248,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2006
 
     

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention

Grantee: Boys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral AK Anchorage, AK
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13483
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $99,991
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.
     
Grantee: United Way of Anchorage AK Anchorage, AK
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13064
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 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.
     
Grantee: United Way of the Tanana Valley Fairbanks, AK
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11622
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2009
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
     
Grantee: Alaska Council of School Administrators Juneau, AK
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12110
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2006
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
     
Grantee: Sitka School District Sitka, AK
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12421
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $74,785
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
     
Grantee: Bridges Community Resource Network, Inc Soldotna, AK
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13471
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $98,499
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.
     
Grantee: Providence Health System - Washington Valdez, AK
Program: Drug Free Communities SP10808
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $97,785
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2006
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.
     
Grantee: Yakutat Tlingit Tribe Yakutat, AK
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12246
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $99,794
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2007
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.
     

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

Grantee: Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc. Anchorage, AK
Program: State TCE Screening Brief Intervention Referral Treatment TI15969
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $2,254,494
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Connections SBIRT, a tribal project, will serve Anchorage, Alaska. It will enhance screening, referral, brief intervention and treatment services for adults and add those services for adolescents. Its overarching goal is to reduce substance use by participating patients as defined by GPRA outcome measures.
     
Grantee: Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc. Anchorage, AK
Program: TCE - American Indians/Native Alaskans TI17202
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
This project will expand services to provide residential substance abuse treatment to 32 Alaska Native Elders, annually, who are impacted by alcohol. Clients will be drawn from throughout the State. The grantee will use a Therapeutic Community treatment model, modified for Alaska Native culture and conceptualized as a "Therapeutic Village of Care."
     
Grantee: Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc. Anchorage, AK
Program: TCE - American Indians/Native Alaskans TI17184
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $320,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
Recovery Journey: Co-occurring Disorder Enhancement Project will expand the Native community's ability to provide a comprehensive, integrated and community-based response for AI/AN with co-occurring substance abuse and mental disorders. The project will serve 30 clients per year drawing treatment approaches from five evidence based practices.
     
Grantee: Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc. Anchorage, AK
Program: Targeted Capacity Expansion TI13817
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 06/01/2003 - 05/31/2006
Cook Inlet Tribal Council (CITC) will implement a "tribal application" for implementation of "Family Treatment" for Alaska Natives in Anchorage. Through a home-visit model of outpatient care, CITC will increase access and availability of services to Alaska Native families by taking treatment "to" families. This represents an expansion of existing treatment capacity of CITC's Ernie Turner Center Recovery Programs by 16 outpatient slots.
     
Grantee: Southcentral Foundation Anchorage, AK
Program: Recovery Community Service TI13221
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $200,000
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 09/29/2006
The purpose of this grant is to foster participation of people in recovery and their family members in the public dialogue about addiction, treatment and recovery. The term "recovery community" is a broad and encompassing term that includes persons having a history of alcohol and drug problems who are in recovery or recovered, those currently in treatment, those seeking treatment, as well as their family members, and other supporters and allies. Recovery community organizations help people in recovery, their families and supporters work together to identify, develop, and support needed treatment and recovery policies, systems, and services.
     
Grantee: Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc. Anchorage, AK
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment TI16488
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2010
Expand capacity by adding five residential treatment beds for "the homeless chronic inebriate" who are Alaskan Native and "American Indians." Provides wrap around and case management services.
     
Grantee: Rural Alaska Community Action Program Anchorage, AK
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment TI16456
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $399,630
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2010
Provide a realistic solution for homeless late stage chronic alcoholics by using engagement, detoxification, case management, and life skills training.
     
Grantee: Salvation Army Clitheroe Center Anchorage, AK
Program: CSAT 05 Earmarks TI17409
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $496,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2006
The Salvation Army Clitheroe Center (SACC) operates the largest detoxification facility in SouthCentral Alaska and the only facility that provides medically managed detoxification services to individuals in psychiatric distress, and to individuals withdrawing from Cocaine, Methamphetamines, Opiates and Benzodiazapenes, in addition to alcohol.
     
Grantee: Akeela, Inc. Anchorage, AK
Program: CSAT 05 Earmarks TI17429
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $198,400
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2006
Alaska is unique in that the local lifestyles, culture, and environmental influences play a primary role in substance abuse and criminal behaviors. The family orientation and structured social setting of a Therapeutic Community (TC) allows for enhanced cultural awareness and helps to counteract the racial divisions that many of our clients develop while in prison. Implementing a culturally appropriate experience-based approach to treatment is expected to enhance and improve that aspect of the TC experience. To accomplish this Akeela will staff an experience-based therapy counselor to the treatment team. The focus of this position is developing culturally appropriate activities for the TC residents allowing them the opportunity to experience and celebrate cultural diversity. This position is also responsible for conducting educational classes and groups on such topics as life skills enhancement, basic alcohol and drug information, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, parenting, and other beneficial topics.
     
Grantee: Fairbanks Native Association Fairbanks, AK
Program: TCE - American Indians/Native Alaskans TI17283
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
The Enhanced New Life project will expand a comprehensive continuum of care for 12 additional adolescents living in interior and northern Alaska. Spanning a range from residential co-occurring disorders treatment to outpatient chemical dependence treatment, the continuum of care will embrace an evidence-based treatment model integrating conventional western treatment and traditional Athabascan healing techniques, practices, and principles.
     
Grantee: Fairbanks Native Association Fairbanks, AK
Program: Targeted Capacity Expansion TI14915
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $496,763
Project Period: 06/01/2003 - 05/31/2006
The goal of the Insights to Healing program is to address a critical gap in Alaska's treatment capacity for clients with co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders by establishing an innovative residential program integrating substance abuse and mental health treatment with a focus on cultural reintegration to heal the intergenerational trauma underlying these disorders among Alaska Natives.
     
Grantee: Fairbanks Native Association Fairbanks, AK
Program: Pregnant/Post-Partum Women TI16880
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $499,986
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
The grant funds the Fairbanks Native Associations' Women and Children's Center for Inner Healing. The Center will expand its services through the Healthy Women - Healthy Children project. It provides critical medical and substance abuse treatment services, including residential services, particularly to Alaskan Native women in isolated rural areas with limited health care available.
     
Grantee: Fairbanks Native Association Fairbanks, AK
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment TI16461
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $396,800
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
This program will provide a residential modified therapeutic community using culturally appropriate integrated substance abuse and mental health treatment and intensive case management for homeless persons.
     
Grantee: Fairbanks Memorial Hospital Fairbanks, AK
Program: CSAT 05 Earmarks TI17413
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $496,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2006
The Golden Heart Project (formerly known as the Chronic Inebriate Program Task Group) respectfully submits our intent to continue building local systems changes to improve prevention, intervention, and treatment services with regard to the needs of the chronic inebriate population. This community group takes responsibility for improving access to integrated alcohol, drug, and mental health treatment services and for changing pessimistic attitudes about the value of supporting treatment services. Fairbanks, Alaska has a tremendous chronic public inebriate problem. This relatively small population of forty to sixty people has an overwhelming need for protective and health services. Before this project, our community depended on our most intensive level of emergency service for this population and people who desperately needed alcoholism and mental health treatment were not getting it. Instead, they were on our streets or cycling through the jail and emergency department. Our system of care has improved and continues to need integration to assure there is no-wrong door to treatment. The primary outcome measures of our work include a reduction in the use of emergency services for all alcoholrelated concerns, an increase in participation in detoxification and rehabilitative services, a reduced death rate among chronic inebriates, and an increase in the number of chronic inebriates who are living in sober environments.
     
Grantee: Fairbanks Native Association Fairbanks, AK
Program: CSAT 05 Earmarks TI17416
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $496,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2006
The Ralph Perdue Center Treatment Program Enhancement will expand the Insights to Healing co-occurring disorders residential treatment program from an 8-bed unit to a 12-bed unit while enhancing the program through the introduction of therapeutic acupuncture and an outpatient counselor for step-down treatment. This treatment enhancement will provide services to 24 clients during its one-year life.
     
Grantee: State of Alaska Juneau, AK
Program: Treatment of Persons w/Co-Occuring Substance Related and Mental Disorders TI15354
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $1,071,750
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
To improve the identification and treatment of individuals with co-occurring disorders throughout a diverse service delivery system, Alaska has committed to addressing SAMHSA goals of improved screening, assessment, treatment, and training, which will be accomplished through infrastructure development, focusing on staffing competency, credentialing, and licensure; financial planning and reimbursement; and information sharing and data collection.
     
Grantee: Cook Inlet Council Alcohol/Drug Abuse Kanai, AK
Program: CSAT 05 Earmarks TI17430
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $198,400
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2006
This proposal is being submitted by the Cook Inlet Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse (CICADA), in Kenai, Alaska, to continue to address a significant gap in outpatient treatment services targeting the needs of women and children residing on the Kenai Peninsula. The target group chiefly involves women who have become involved with the newly named Office of Children's Services (OCS) through reports of neglect or harm to their children, who may have had their children removed from their home, or are in jeopardy of having them removed due to their substance abuse, and/or receiving welfare and needing to transition to working to support them- selves and their family.
     
Grantee: Wrangell Community Services Wrangell, AK
Program: CSAT 05 Earmarks TI17423
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2005 Funding: $99,200
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2006
Avenues, a division of Wrangell Community Services (WCS), are seeking grant support for a system of substance abuse screening, assessment, and treatment services for the community of Wrangell. Avenues also intend to include treatment services for individuals with co-occurring disorders. Treatment services include ASAM PPC-II-R level 0.5 adult early intervention, level 1.0 adult treatment and aftercare, youth outpatient education and treatment, and emergency care services. Wrangell is located on the northern tip of Wrangell Island near the mouth of the Stikine River, along the Inside Passage of Southeast Alaska, and is only accessible by air or water. Wrangell was a key port on an historic trade route to the Canadian Interior. The community had its beginnings as a small Tlingit village in the late 1700s; its history as a Russian and British military outpost, fur-trading center, and staging area to mining activities dates to the early 1800s. Wrangell's economy today is primarily based on timber, fishing and tourism. The total targeted population is estimated at 2,308 (Census 2000) of whom 39 percent are Alaska Native. The seasonal population during the summer increases another 500 additional people for tourism, fishing, and summer recreational opportunities. Seasonal populations also utilize local health care services.