SAMHSA Grant Awards by State FY 2005

Discretionary Funds in Detail

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 

Center for Mental Health Services

Grantee: Howard University Washington, DC
Program: Campus Suicide SM57520
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2005 Funding: $75,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
Howard University’s Department of Psychiatry and the University Counseling Service will collaborate and establish a comprehensive suicide prevention program. Goals and Objectives: The overall goals for this project is to increase help seeking behavior, to decrease suicidal behavior, and decrease stigma associated with students seeking mental health treatment. Objectives include the following: (1) Training for recognition of at risk behavior and delivery of effective treatment. Each training module is intended to meet specific needs throughout the campus community by developing programs for students, campus personnel and mental health personnel including those in the emergency division of the Howard University Hospital; (2) Improve our existing strategies of education and outreach to new and existing students and parents by developing supplementary informative literature to be disseminated. Further outreach will be executed by organizing a one day symposium for students once a year, and developing a video by and for students on help seeking behavior and stigma of mental disorders to be shown inTarget audience will be, but not exclusively, vulnerable student populations in an effort to reach at risk populations after training sessions and receiving nformative materials, we anticipate a more educated faculty and staff on how to recognize a student in suicidal crisis and how to obtain help for that student in a careful and sensitive way that will not traumatize the student and the faculty or staff involved. We expect an outcome of more students being open about their mental health and uncover the dilemma of seeking help without feeling stigmatized.
     
Grantee: American Psychological Association Washington, DC
Program: Minority Fellowship Program SM56564
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2005 Funding: $1,142,450
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
The principal aim of the American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program (APA-MFP) in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services is to identify, select, and support the training of 30 doctoral level ethnic minority students and 1 post-doctoral trainee whose prior experiences and clearly stated goals suggest they will make significant contributions to the mental health and substance abuse services needs of ethnic and racial minorities. This project will continue the MFP summer training institute and efforts to partner with a program designed to steer community college students toward doctoral degrees in psychology. The program provides stipend support, ancillary training experiences, mentoring career guidance, and access to an outstanding network of professional contacts. An expert advisory committee provides oversight and program guidance as well as mentoring and professional leadership.
     
Grantee: Georgetown University Washington, DC
Program: NTTAC-National Training & TA Assistance Ctr for CCHld and Adoles MH SM56495
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2005 Funding: $3,500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2010
The National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health in the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development was established in 1984. NTAC was established to strengthen the capacity of states, territories, tribes and communites to transform their mental health systems to meet the diverse and complex needs of children and adolescents with or at risk for serious emotional disturbances and their families. Using the blueprint for transforming mental health provided by the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, NTAC will respond to the needs of states, with a specific focus on state mental health agencies, partner child-serving agencies, statewide family organizations, and youth leaders. Individualized coaching to states and territories will focus on the following priority areas: strengthen capacity for system transformation; state planning, policy development and financing; improving systems of care and service delivery and incorporating evidence-based /promising practices; early intervention and early childhood mental health services; reducing disparities and improving cultural/linguistic competence; integrating services across child-serving systems and serving vulnerable populations; workforce and leadership development; and data management, accountability, and technology.
     
Grantee: District of Columbia Dept of Mental Hlth Washington, DC
Program: Linking Adolescents at Risk to Mental Health Services Grant Program SM57432
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2005 Funding: $237,831
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 08/29/2007
STOP Suicide, which is being proposed in collaboration with the District of Columbia Public Schools and public charter schools, will evaluate the efficacy of two methods of indicated suicide prevention (TeenScreen and School-Based Crisis Intervention) for the identification, engagement and referral to the mental health service system of urban, minority youth at risk of suicide. Both approaches, guided by clinically informed measures and procedures, are designed to reduce the incidence of suicidal behavior among youth who display risk factors by having trained professionals screen youth for suicidal ideation, plans, or past attempts and then link them to clinically indicated services.If a mental health concern arises from either indicated approach, an additional assessment is conducted to determine the need for less intensive outpatient services, more intensive outpatient services, or inpatient hospitalization. Students and their families will be seen and/or referred to the appropriate services that are fully accessible for all students. D.C. Department of Mental Health School-based Mental Health Program (SMHP) clinicians will provide follow-up.STOP Suicide will target adolescents ages 15-21 who attend one of thirty D.C. public or public charter schools with an SMHP clinician. The project goal is to have a total of 510 students complete a mental health screen each year (using both approaches). We anticipate that follow-up information will be successfully collected from 80% of families and students each year who indicate a positive screen (N=120 per year; N=240 for grant period).
     
Grantee: District of Columbia Dept of Mental Hlth Washington, DC
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants SM56637
Congressional District: DC-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: George Washington University Washington, DC
Program: Campus Suicide SM57512
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2005 Funding: $74,951
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
To meet the major challenge of reaching students at risk for suicide but unknown to campus mental health agencies, the GW Counseling Center proposes to empower students through a multidimensional awareness/educational campaign; to build a web of supportive and skilled faculty, staff and student leaders through comprehensive training/consultative programs; and to sustain a caring community through enhanced identification, referral, and emergency services. GW will engage existing resources across campus to create a multifaceted approach to reaching at-risk students. Multiple media will be used to permeate the campus community with constructive messages each semester. Repetition within poster, flyer, newspaper, radio and electronic billboard publicity will be designed to create a strong positive connection with University Counseling Center (UCC) services. Key faculty, academic advisors, university police, residential life staff, student service staff, and student leaders will be trained to recognize symptoms of students in distress, to respond skillfully and to refer appropriately those students to campus resources.The intention and hope of this proposal is to reach GW students by providing education about mental health issues, empowering a web of community members to identify and respond to students in need, encouraging and supporting these students in taking responsibility for their mental health care by accessing appropriate services, and strengthening campus services to address perceived needs. Evaluation of this suicide prevention project will focus on the impact of the proposed interventions, both in terms of number of individuals meaningfully served as well as new learning and behavior resulting from project interventions.
     
Grantee: District of Columbia Dept of Human Srvs Washington, DC
Program: Children's Services SM54498
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2005 Funding: $1,255,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2008
The D. C. Children Inspired Now Gain Strength (D.C. CINGS) project's major goal is to reduce reliance on out-of-home and out-of-state residential treatment centers for care of D.C. youth with SED through the creation of a comprehensive array of community-based services and supports to that are accessible, available, culturally appropriate and of high quality with families. The project will be governed by the Mental Health System of Care Sub-Council of the District Intergovernmental Youth Investment Collaborative which includes the directors of all key child-serving agencies, the Presiding Judge of the newly mandated District Family Court, the Superintendent of the D.C. Public Schools, the director of the Protection and Advocacy agency and four family members. Through a public/university partnership, professors from the Howard University School of Social Work will head the local evaluation team for the project. Following an interagency strategic planning process during year one, the project management team will be responsible for providing comprehensive services to over 800 youth and their families during the six-year grant period. The target population will be youth meeting criteria for SED between the ages of birth and 22. The District will begin with youth who are currently in costly out-of-state placements, eventually addressing the needs of youth who are also at-risk of such placements. Particular strategies will include the development of intensive home-based services, wraparound case management, an array of crisis responses for youth, and the development of a cadre of family liaisons to support families as they move through the system and identify/develop needed community supports.
     
Grantee: Office of Mayor, District of Columbia Washington, DC
Program: 2004 COSIGS SM56574
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2005 Funding: $1,057,565
Project Period: 09/01/2005 - 08/31/2010
The Districe of Columbia is using the opportunity of the COSIG program to accelerate the steps already underway to establish an integrated service delivery approach, screen all individuals that present for treatment in partner agencies, provide integrated clinical assessments, provide treatment for co-occuring disorders consistent with current science and best practices, create financial incentives and programmatic infrastructure to sustain services, and build a learning network for continuous quality improvement extending across historical service gaps. Using the Comprehensive Continuous Systems of Care model, the goal is to have "no wrong door" in the District's mental health service system by 2007. George Washington University will assist in creating pay-for-performance and value-based purchasing strategies that align financial incentives to support and sustain high quality assessment and treatment of co-occuring disorders.
     
Grantee: Us. Helping Us, Inc Washington, DC
Program: AIDS TCE-Service Capacity Bldg in Minority Communities SM53944
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2005 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 09/29/2006
Us Helping Us, Inc., (UHU) will provide HIV-related group and individual psychotherapy, and psychiatric services, for black gay and bisexual men, and transgender persons in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. This project will allow UHU to expand its existing capacity and hire full-time staff psychotherapists. UHU has a 15 year history of providing culturally appropriate and culturally competent prevention and support services for black gay and bisexual men.
     
Grantee: Washington Very Special Arts Washington, DC
Program: Youth Violence Prevention SM55507
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2005 Funding: $150,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2006
WVSA art connection will plan and implement a youth violence prevention project for African American girls ages 14-21 years with disabilities. A coalition will be established that includes the Family Court of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, National Museum of Women in the Arts, the National Crime Prevention Council, National City Christian Church, and DC Self Defense. Project Goals: WVSA's overarching goal is to reduce youth violence, substance abuse, delinquency, suicide, and other mental health and behavior problems in females with disabilities ages 14-21. We have two primary goals: 1: To mobilize the community to address the violence prevention need of females ages 14-21 with disabilities in the District of Columbia (Year 1); and 2: To provide effective violence prevention strategies for females with disabilities ages 14-21 (Year 2).
     

 

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention

Grantee: Latin American Youth Center Washington, DC
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP13391
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2005 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The Latin American Youth Center in Washington, DC has received a 5 year Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) grant to provide substance abuse prevention and HIV and Hepatitis prevention services to minority populations and minority reentry populations. The grantee will deliver integrated prevention services for substance abuse, HIV, Hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections as well as counseling, testing and referral services to African American and Latino youth and young adults, ages 13 - 24 years, in DC Wards 1 and 4, and to DC youth exiting the juvenile justice system. Services will be provided in both school-based and community-based settings. The evidence-based, group-level, multi-session curriculum will focus on building resiliency.
     
Grantee: Sasha Bruce Youthwork, Inc. Washington, DC
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP13276
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2005 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
Sasha Bruce Youthwork, Inc. (SBY) in Washington, DC has received a 5 year Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) grant to provide substance abuse prevention and HIV and Hepatitis prevention services to minority populations and minority reentry populations. Targeting African American re-entry populations 21 years of age and younger, SPY will collaborate with the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL) to provide comprehensive, culturally competent outreach, prevention and referral services to promote positive attitude and behavioral changes in the areas of substance abuse, HIV and Hepatitis. Youth will be accessed through SBY's shelter and transitional living programs, under DC's juvenile justice rehabilitation network, as well as through street- and venue-based outreach. Counseling, testing and referral (CTR) services will also be provided.
     
Grantee: Publ Chrtr Schls Ctr for Stdnt Supp Svcs Washington, DC
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12403
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2005 Funding: $100,000
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: Washington Area Consortium HIVY Washington, DC
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services SP10588
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2005 Funding: $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Metro TeenAIDS (MTA) and City Year Washington DC (CYDC) will provide integrated substance abuse prevention and HN prevention services to youth ages 13 through 17 attending District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) through the DC Students Making Proud Choices! (DCSMPS!) project. MTA is a community-based organization whose mission is to prevent new HIV infections among young people and improve the quality of life for young people already affected by and infected with HIV. CYDC is a local site of the national City Year organization, whose mission is to demonstrate, improve, and promote the concept of national service as a means of building a stronger democracy. MTA and CYDC expect to reach over 26,000 junior, middle, and senior high school students over the five-year period of DCSMPS! MTA and CYDC seek to promote the adoption and maintenance of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors by District of Columbia youth that support them in abstaining from substance use and sexual activity or reducing risks when engaging in such activities. DCSMPS! responds to the shortfall in SAP and HIV prevention services targeted to District youth, a deficit recognized by local health agencies, community-based organizations, and young people themselves. Young residents of the national capital seeking information and support in order to make wise choices regarding substance use and sexuality are instead confronted by little or none of either service. DCSMPS! redresses this service gap on a major scale. MTA and CYDC's evidence-based prevention intervention consists of two components. In the first, teams of CYDC corps members-youth and young adults who have volunteered to contribute one or two years of community service-will bring the Making Proud Choices! integrated SAP/HIVP curriculum to DCPS students in grades 7 through 12. In the second, corps members will identify, train and support a subset of students from within those classes which have received the curriculum and establish them
     
Grantee: National Latina Health Network Washington, DC
Program: SAMHSA Conference Grants SP12833
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2005 Funding: $25,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2006
The National Latina Health Summit is strategically planned as a culminating event, based on the important findings of the five regional Symposia. The Summit will act as a strong foundation, building public interest, a critical data base, and a contemporary structure for ascertaining the state of Latina health in this country. The National Latina Health Summit participants will represent the five regional Symposia and collectively present and discuss the state of health care in their perspective communities, exemplary programs and dissemination of information and resource materials. NLHN will ensure that cultural competency standards are adhered to the planning of the conference agenda. The 2004-05 regional Symposia focused was to discuss gaps, strategies and policy recommendations regarding the top six health priorities facing Latinas today. These are Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease, HIV/AIDS, Cancer, Substance Abuse/ Use, and Mental Health. The outcomes of these findings will be the basis for establishing of a strong national foundation for the 2005 National Latina Health Summit in Washington, D.C.
     
Grantee: Alliance for Consumer Education Washington, DC
Program: CSAP 2005 Earmarks SP12852
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2005 Funding: $99,200
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2006
The Alliance for Consumer Education (ACE) works to promote the safety, health, and well-being of "children, families and communities wherever h9use hold products are used to combat the growing problem of inhalant abuse, often referred to as "huffing." ACE is developing evidence-based community outreach program kits that will educate school counselors and parents on the proper use and safe management of household products (such as glue, aerosol sprays, paints, and gasoline, etc.). Inhalant Abuse can kill-beginning with the first time a child "sniffs" or "huffs." The statistics are startling: one in five students has used an inhalant to get high by the time he or she reaches eighth grade. Equally as troubling, the American Academy of Pediatrics reports that more than nine out often parents refuse to believe that their child is deliberately inhaling common household products. The Office of National Drug Control Policy reports that in Pennsylvania alone, abuse of inhalants is second only to the abuse of marijuana, and Inhalant Abuse is reported two to three times as often as the use of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, steroids or heroin. Many pay the ultimate price for this abuse: in January 1999, five teenage girls in Southeast Pennsylvania were killed in a car crash after inhaling air freshener. More recently, in February 2002, a sixteen year old Bryn Athyn student was found dead in his dorm room after accidentally killing himself by inhaling fumes from a can of air freshener. ACE's Pennsylvania program will focus on outreach to school-based counselors who will be equipped with prevention kits about inhalant abuse to be used for the education of parents with children aged six to twelve. The program is designed to provide parents and other adult influencers with high quality, practical information about inhalant abuse so they may be encouraged to include inhalants in any substance abuse discussions they have with their own children.
     

 

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment 

Grantee: Institute for Behav Change & Res, Inc Washington, DC
Program: Young Offender Reentry Program (YORP) 2004 TI17055
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2005 Funding: $450,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2009
The Institute for Behavioral Change and Research, Inc. (IBCR) propose to implement a project, entitled Young Offender Reentry Services (YORS), which will be uniquely tailored to Washington, DC female offender needs and resources. The target population will be fifty (50) Washington, DC female reentry residents, aged 10-17, all females who have been detained or committed with the criminal justice system and scheduled to be released back into the community to any of the 8 Wards of the city, low-or high-risk offenders, with any cultural or ethnic background. The purpose of YORS is to develop and implement a successful substance abuse reentry treatment system for female juvenile offenders. YORS will strengthen the female's resistance against delinquency. Components of YORS will integrate the Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT) Model to address coping skills, relapse prevention, skills training, relational building, and communication skills development. Ultimately, the offender will obtain the skills by actively developing new ways of interpreting and responding to inter- and intrapersonal situations
     
Grantee: La Clinica del Pueblo Washington, DC
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI15727
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2005 Funding: $496,281
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Puerta Abierta (Open Door) seeks to develop creative, integrated strategies of care leading to reduced HIV transmission among substance-abusing Latino immigrant men who have sex with men in the Washington metropolitan area, building on the expertise of its partners working in many capacities with the target population over 20 years. The partnering of La Clinica del Pueblo and Neighbors' Consejo will strengthen existing resources for the Latino community and provide a more cohesive standard of care, as well as begin to establish a base of understanding for the overlap in substance abuse and occurrence of HIV in the Latino community in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
     
Grantee: Family & Medical Counseling Service, Inc Washington, DC
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI14411
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2005 Funding: $444,513
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To enhance and expand outreach, and other substance abuse treatment services including: case management, nutritional services, food bank services, mental health services, treatment adherence support, primary medical care, and referrals. The program will use outreach to target women, women and their children, men who have sex with men, injection drug users, and the criminal justice populations from African-American populations.
     
Grantee: NASADAD Washington, DC
Program: NASADAD State Collaborative Activity TI17116
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2005 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2006
This grant facilitates collaborative activities between SAMSHA and the States and will focus on areas of mutual interest and will help support States' ability to respond to changes brought about by the transition of management of the SAPT Block Grant to a performance and outcomes focus.
     
Grantee: District of Columbia Dept of Health Washington, DC
Program: State Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Coordination TI17397
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2005 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 08/01/2005 - 07/31/2008
The District government will strengthen and coordinate the youth treatment system by: - Developing a continuum of evidence-based youth treatement services; - Leading annual multi-agency planning of services; - Developing quality and performance standards and a certification process for providers; - Expanding capacity of youth-serving organizations; - Developing systems to monitor and evaluate the quality and effectiveness of treatment services; - Identifying and disseminating research findings to the provider community; - Developing a certification program for youth substance abuse treatment specialists; and - Improving the continuity and effectiveness of the publicly funded youth substance abuse treatment programs in the District of Columbia.
     
Grantee: Georgetown University Washington, DC
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment TI15433
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2005 Funding: $249,889
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006
The Georgetown University department of psychiatry, in collaboration with the department of pediatrics, seeks to expand their coordinated primary health care services to address adolescent substance abuse. Through the adoption of Motivational Enhancement Therapy/Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-5 sessions (MET/CBT 5) we will provide evidence-based treatment within the comprehensive umbrella of an urban primary care and a community-based service center setting. We will provide cutting edge treatment for adolescents and their families by addressing the patients' substance abuse, physical health and mental health in a coordinated manner with a multidisciplinary treatment team that includes a pediatrician, nurse practitioner, child and adolescent psychiatrist, addiction psychiatrist, mental health and addiction counselors.
     

Office of the Administrator (OA)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Grantee: National Catholic School of Social Serv. Washington, DC
Program: SAMHSA Dissertation Grants-2005 OA00094
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2005 Funding: $30,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2006
This application seeks to ultimately improve substance abuse treatment, empirically support supplemental benefits to substance abuse treatment and enhance measures reducing the impact of violence in the world, including the risk for development of co-occurring substance use and mental disorders. Movement towards this end will be accomplished by better understanding factors related to violence severity, as well as the complexity of the relationship between substance abuse and violence. This application will specifically be seeking to understand the complexities of substance abuse/recovery and violence as related to women, racial/ethnic minorities, low-income and those in the lower socio-economic brackets. Secondary analysis of the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) Service Research Outcomes Study (SROS) data set will be employed, utilizing multiple regression analysis to test both the main and sub-hypothesis that substance abuse treatment does have a positive impact on violence severity reduction. The proposed research is relevant to public health because it examines two serious public health issues: experiences of violence and substance abuse treatment. Unfortunately both of these issues are over represented in the disenfranchised, disempowered populations. Therefore, understanding substance abuse treatment's potential impact on reducing violence severity could serve to improve the quality of life for these underserved populations. Also because experiences of violence have been established as a predictor of developing a substance use disorder, being able to demonstrate and then enhance factors correlated to reduction of violence severity in the lives of clients who improve the cost-effectiveness of substance abuse treatment by reducing relapse as well as the number of people struggling with addiction.