SAMHSA Grant Awards by State FY 2005

Discretionary Funds in Detail

FLORIDA

Center for Mental Health Services

Grantee: Florida Dept of Children & Families Tallahassee, FL
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants SM56610
Congressional District: FL-01
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: Department of Children/Family Services Tallahassee, FL
Program: Disaster Relief SM00200
Congressional District: FL-01
FY 2005 Funding: $2,632,539
Project Period: 03/30/2005 - 12/29/2005
     
Grantee: Department of Children/Family Services Tallahassee, FL
Program: Disaster Relief SM00201
Congressional District: FL-01
FY 2005 Funding: $1,808,984
Project Period: 03/30/2005 - 12/29/2005
Regular services grant funding was provided to the State of Florida through the Crisis Counceling Assistance and Training Program. Funds from the President's Disaster Fund supported outreach, counseling, and public education services to community members affected by the Hurricane Ivan disaster in Florida. The program is supported through an interagency agreement between the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
     
Grantee: Florida Dept of Children & Families Tallahassee, FL
Program: Emergency Response SM00202
Congressional District: FL-01
FY 2005 Funding: $11,000,000
Project Period: 04/11/2005 - 04/10/2006
Emergency Response grant funding was provided to the State of Florida through Supplemental Mental Health and Substance Abuse Funding for response to hurricane disasters. The funding supported outreach, counseling, and public education services to community members affected by Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Jeanne and Ivan in Florida.
     
Grantee: Department of Children/Family Services Tallahassee, FL
Program: Disaster Relief SM00195
Congressional District: FL-01
FY 2005 Funding: $3,750,000
Project Period: 12/06/2004 - 11/05/2005
     
Grantee: Florida Institute for Family Involvement Crawfordville, FL
Program: CMHS Statewide Family Network Grants SM56451
Congressional District: FL-02
FY 2005 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
This project is to develop and enhance the Florida service system infrastructure for children and youth with severe emotional disturbance and their families in a manner that will facilitate mental health service delivery which is family driven and built upon the principles of a sound system of care.
     
Grantee: Orange County Government Orlando, FL
Program: Jail Diversion SM55063
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2005 Funding: $256,227
Project Period: 04/01/2004 - 03/31/2007
In an effort to provide more appropriate treatment for those with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders, and in order to reduce the strain these individuals place on the system, Orange County will develop a Post-Booking Treatment Diversion Program for individuals who have been arrested for a non-violent offense and who are in need of mental health and substance abuse treatment. The Orange County Jail Diversion Forensic PACT Team will work through the various "Treatment Diversion Courts", as well as jail staff to identify individuals diagnosed with chronic, severe mental illnesses and severe chemical dependency and divert them from the jail and into community treatment services where they will be able to receive treatment that is unavailable to them while in jail. When fully operational, the Forensic PACT Team will be able to serve 40 individuals diagnosed with chronic, severe mental illness and severe chemical dependency, and who have a record of frequent incarceration and/or inpatient placement in a mental health hospital and poor adherence to treatment.
     
Grantee: Daytona Beach Comm. College Dayona Beach, FL
Program: Campus Suicide SM57528
Congressional District: FL-07
FY 2005 Funding: $25,050
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
Daytona Beach Community College (DBCC), in collaboration with Bethune-Cookman College (B-CC) and the University of Central Florida (UCF), will provide suicide prevention education and information to college students, faculty, and staff in Volusia and Flagler Counties. The Campus LIFE (Life Is For Everyone) Project will create a mental and behavioral health services network and provide suicide prevention training and education. In 2004, there were 110 suicides among the 500,000 residents of the two-county area on the central east coast of Florida.The Campus LIFE project will change suicide prevention efforts from reactive to proactive in the following ways. The Campus LIFE Project will develop a resource network of mental and behavioral health services available to college students at free or reduced rates.The Campus LIFE project will conduct educational training and seminars to inform students, faculty, and staff, and reduce stigmas associated with seeking help for mental and behavioral needs. The project will train the trainer, train a student peer group, provide educational seminars for staff, and provide educational seminars for students.A counselor will attend each educational seminar to conduct crisis intervention and refer participants to the resource network if the need arises. The Campus LIFE project will provide suicide prevention educational seminars for 25% of each partner’s faculty and staff; approximately 348, and 200 students each year of the grant.
     
Grantee: University of South Florida Tampa, FL
Program: CMHS 2005 Earmarks SM56834
Congressional District: FL-11
FY 2005 Funding: $496,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2006
     
Grantee: University of South Florida Tampa, FL
Program: Linking Adolescents at Risk to Mental Health Services Grant Program SM57442
Congressional District: FL-11
FY 2005 Funding: $237,508
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2007
This application from the University of South Florida will serve approximately 8900 students in four high schools in the Albuquerque, New Mexico school district. Among youth between the ages of 15 and 24, New Mexico has the third highest suicide rate in the nation. Furthermore, one-third of all of the suicides by youth between the ages of 15 and 19 in New Mexico occur in Bernalillo County, the location of the Albuquerque Public School district. The applicant proposes the integration of three prevention programs into one comprehensive suicide prevention program. These three programs include: the QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) Institute Gatekeeper Training Program, the Jason Foundation Working to Give Our Youth a Promise for Tomorrow curriculum (JFC), and a multiple stage screening program based on the Columbia University Teen Screen Program. Family involvement is a critical component of the proposed approach. The applicant identifies 12 main objectives related to increasing awareness of risk factors for parents, students, and school personnel, gatekeeper training, increased referrals of at risk youth to school mental health personnel, screening of referred youth, the promptness of further assessment, evaluation of referral effectiveness to emergency services, the investigation of mediators and moderators that could affect the referral process, and the evaluation of whether those students referred for mental health treatment improve.
     
Grantee: Sarasota County Government Sarasota, FL
Program: Child Mental Health Initiative SM57026
Congressional District: FL-13
FY 2005 Funding: $1,000,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2011
The Sarasota Early Childhood Mental Health Partnership will improve and increase mental health and non-mental health services and supports provided for infants and very young children consistent with system-of-care principles and best practices. Over the six year finding period, the project will link the existing elements of the children’s mental health system with those of the early childhood system to [1] create an early childhood mental health system of care; [2] expand key services needed to improve the behavioral health of these children; and [3] deliver comprehensive training and technical assistance to ensure cross-training of system-of-care staff from the two systems. The infrastructure needed to support the newly created system of care will be built by bringing together child-serving agencies, organizations, professionals, families of children with emotional disturbance, and others with an interest in the funding and delivery of services to children with serious emotional disturbance in a cooperative effort to improve and increase mental health services and supports for children and their families. A structured outreach and referral mechanism will be developed to ensure appropriate access to services, with particular emphasis being placed on reaching those populations, which have been underserved or inappropriately served in the past, such as ethnically, and racially diverse children and children living in rural areas of the county. Children meeting the criteria for services will be enrolled and offered the services of a parent advocate to assist them in selecting a care coordinator, service providers, and others as members of theft child/family team. Between 400 and 500 children and their families will be served over the six-year project period.
     
Grantee: Florida Dept of Children & Families Miami, FL
Program: Jail Diversion SM55073
Congressional District: FL-17
FY 2005 Funding: $299,763
Project Period: 06/01/2003 - 05/31/2006
With 20% of inmates (1200 individuals) suffering with serious mental illness, the Miami-Dade County Jail is the largest facility with psychiatric patients in Florida. The Florida Dept. of Children and Families' Jail Diversion Expansion Program will expand existing programs to include countywide Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) for all police agencies and to improve the case management system to provide better aftercare and treatment for the diverted population. Miami-Dade County has the highest percentage of people with mental illnesses of any urban area in the United States, 9.1% of the general population or approximately 210,000 people. Without adequate community-based treatment and a less than optimum system of continuum care, many people with mental illnesses in the community cycle in and out of the criminal justice system for their entire adult lives. Annually, the local Department of Corrections spends almost fifteen million dollars to manage this population and one million dollars to provide psychotropic medication. The Eleventh Judicial Circuit in Miami-Dade County, Florida has responded to this crisis by implementing the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Criminal Mental Health Project. The Project, which is supported by a broad base of partners includes a Pre- Booking and Post-Booking Jail Diversion Program, an Adult Living Facility Quality of Care Program, a Transition and Housing Program, and an In-Court Case Management Specialist. The goal of the Project is to make jail the last resort for people with severe and chronic mental illnesses. Within the last year, the Project has reduced recidivism among the misdemeanor population from an estimated 70% to 11 % and has saved the local government hundreds of thousands of dollars. Recently, the program was recognized by receipt of a Council of State Governments Innovation Award. However, the additional resources will improve and expand services to better meet the program's goals.
     
Grantee: Broward County Board of Co Commissioners Ft Lauderdale, FL
Program: Initiative to End Chronic Homelessness SM55929
Congressional District: FL-25
FY 2005 Funding: $617,894
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006
The program will institute a program entitled Housing and Health Options Provide Empowerment (HHOPE) that addresses the housing and treatment needs of fifty- three (53) chronically homeless unaccompanied adults through the creation of a 13 Person Mobile Assertive Community Treatment Team
     
Grantee: Broward County Board of Co Commissioners Ft Lauderdale, FL
Program: Children's Services SM54475
Congressional District: FL-25
FY 2005 Funding: $1,500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2008
Broward County, FL will redesign children's mental health services into a comprehensive, coordinated SOC to support SED children in the least restrictive & most clinically appropriate environment. The project mission & goals were identified, during a 2-year planning process, in a document entitled "Broward County's Children's Services Strategic Plan, A Framework for Action". Child serving agencies such as education, child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health, primary health care and substance abuse were involved. Government & private funders, child & family service providers, child advocates, parents & youth participated. The mission is "To create and participate in a collaborative planning, funding & service delivery system that is integrated, culturally competent and focused on empowering families to create measurable change in the lives of their children." This project will create an infrastructure that supports on-going collaboration among local stakeholders, & addresses systemic issues, service gaps & barriers that prevent SED children from remaining within their natural family & community environments. The governing body will be comprised of community stakeholders, 3 SED parents & 2 youths. The local SED Network (SEDNET) will provide expertise specific to the needs of SED families. Family will be provided with TA to create a Family-Run Organization and to enhance parent advocacy skills. Service initiatives include developing a comprehensive, integrated, non-duplicative and strengths-based single "front-door" allowing access to the SOC through behavioral health & primary healthcare providers. A research-based model of intensive wraparound services will be implemented to prevent residential placement. The One Community Partnership will create a drop-in center for older teens & enhance child care & respite to support SED families.
     

 

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention

Grantee: School Board of Miami-Dade County, Fl Miami, FL
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP13249
Congressional District: FL-01
FY 2005 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS), a public, non-profit school district, in Miami, FL. 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. Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) proposes the Promoting Our Students' Success through Informed Behavior, Learning and Self-Efficacy (POSSIBLE) Project. Project POSSIBLE will operate within a geographically underserved, urban area of Miami-Dade County. Within the Feeder Pattern, the race and ethnicity of students is as follows; 74% Black, 24% Hispanic, 1 % White, and 1 % Other. The zip code where the majority of Miami Central Senior High School students reside (33147) is ranked #1 in the county for juvenile offenses. According to the Miami-Dade County Health Department, Office of HIV/AIDS since 1980, Miami-Dade has reported 27,047 adult AIDS cases and since July 1997, 9,577 cumulative adult HIV cases have been reported (Miami- Dade County Health Department, Neighborhood Profiles, 2004). This zone represents 9% of the county's total population but over 20% of the reported AIDS cases and over 18% of the reported HIV cases. While the rate of ATOD incidents was about half the state rate, Miami Central's rate at 6.37 per 1,000 students was more than double the county's rate for all high schools (Florida DOE, 2005). The evaluation plan will provide both process and outcome measures, with both qualitative and quantitative data.
     
Grantee: Lakeview Center, Inc Pensacola, FL
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP13262
Congressional District: FL-01
FY 2005 Funding: $222,352
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The Substance-abuse, HIV/Hepatitis Assessment & Prevention Education (SHAPE) in Pensacola, FL 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 referall services to African Americans adults.
     
Grantee: Community Drug and Alcohol Council Pensacola, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12147
Congressional District: FL-01
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: Florida State University Tallahassee, FL
Program: SAMHSA Conference Grants SP11807
Congressional District: FL-01
FY 2005 Funding: $25,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2006
The Responsible Retailing Systems Model Conference: Combating Underage Sales of Alcohol and Tobacco IS a 2 Y2 day conference scheduled for March 30 -April l, 2006 in Santa Fe, New Mexico that will present a new model of preventing underage sales of alcohol and tobacco products to approximately 85 -100 diverse stakeholders representing: law enforcement and regulatory agencies; retailers and their associations; public health agencies, prevention specialists and advocates; parents and educators; and producers, distributors and their associations. The three goals of the proposed conference are 1) To reduce adolescents' commercial access to alcohol and tobacco products through the adoption of Best Practices for RR, 2) To promulgate the RR Systems model through the evidence of the 4 state RR Systems Model Project, and 3) To stimulate a dialogue among diverse stakeholders and strengthen public- private collaboration. The agenda will achieve these goals and related objectives through presentations of the state R/E agencies and their retailer partners in the 4-state RR Systems Model project who are pilot-testing the RR Systems model; through panel discussions of national experts in RR policy.
     
Grantee: Florida Dept of Children & Families Tallahassee, FL
Program: Cooperative Agreement for Ecstasy & Other Club Drugs Prevention Services SP11161
Congressional District: FL-01
FY 2005 Funding: $292,356
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) in partnership with Gateway Community Service (Gateway) and Stewart Marchman Center (SMC) is seeking funding to continue implementation of an effective, innovative exciting prevention program in Northeast Florida as it is tested and evaluated with the intent of establishing it as SAMHSA's first Ecstasy and Club Drugs Prevention Program on the National Registry of Effective Programs. In September 2002, Gateway with partners University of Florida McKnight Brain Institute (UF) and Steel Beach Productions was awarded an infrastructure development grant to develop, innovative culturally sensitive, developmentally specific educational materials for use with children, youth and young adults (youth) who are high risk for experimentation with ecstasy and club drugs. In September 2003, Gateway in partnership with SMC in Daytona was awarded SAMHSA funding to implement these new exciting materials.
     
Grantee: Basic NW FL, Inc Panama City, FL
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services SP10576
Congressional District: FL-02
FY 2005 Funding: $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2008
BASIC Planning for Integrated SA/HIV Prevention Services is a one-year planning and capacity building project, implemented by Bay AIDS Services & Information Coalition, Inc. , which will eventually lead to the establishment of integrated substance abuse (SA) and HIV prevention services for primarily African American residents who display high risk behavior and live in underserved communities in a six-county area in the Northwest Florida Panhandle. The envisioned planning project will rely heavily upon a consensus building process and will be directed toward two goals: 1) to develop and implement a planning structure that will result in a more accurate determination of community need for substance abuse and HIV prevention services, the capacity of the current system, and the gaps in meeting recognized comprehensive needs; and 2) to establish a programmatic and cost-effective, culturally sensitive model of care for the provision of integrated SA/HIV prevention services to all residents of the service area. The project will also include an assessment of current service capacity and the development of core competencies, where needed, so that integrated prevention services can be implemented the end of the planning process. BASIC, a minority-serving, community-based organization located in Panama City, Florida, will implement the planning project. BASIC has a 13-year history of providing HIV prevention and case management activities in predominantly rural communities in a six-county area of the Northwest Florida Panhandle through the identification of basic innovations and solutions to addressing complex issues. BASIC will rely on its existing cooperative partnerships with other prevention providers as well as other collaborative community partners to ensure the development of a model care that is not only responsive to the needs of African Americans, but that will also ensure the best possible client outcomes.
     
Grantee: Boys & Girls Club of Perry Taylor County Perry, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12181
Congressional District: FL-02
FY 2005 Funding: $74,475
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: Florida Dept of Children and Families Tallahassee, FL
Program: Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants SP11178
Congressional District: FL-02
FY 2005 Funding: $2,350,965
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
The Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants are used to advance community-based programs for substance abuse prevention, mental health promotion, and mental illness prevention. The SPF SIG implements a five-step process known to promote youth development, reduce risk-taking behaviors, build on assets, and prevent problem behaviors. The five steps are: (1) conduct needs assessments; (2) build state and local capacity; (3) develop a comprehensive strategic plan; (4) implement evidence-based prevention policies, programs and practices; and (5) monitor and evaluate program effectiveness, sustaining what has worked well. These grants will allow the programs to provide leadership, technical support and monitoring to ensure that participating communities are successful. The success of the grants will be measured by specific measurable outcomes, among them: abstinence from drug use and alcohol abuse, reduction in substance abuse-related crime, attainment of employment or enrollment in school, increased stability in family and living conditions, increased access to services, and increased social connectedness. The Florida Strategic Prevention Alliance will complete the development of integrated state and community-level strategic processes. Both levels will be supported with the assistance of epidemiology, community readiness, resource assessment, strategic planning and organizational development resources for evidence-based programming, and a web-based performance data system that tracks both coalition and program activities.
     
Grantee: Health Promotion Program Initiatives Inc Tallahassee, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP10807
Congressional District: FL-02
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 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: Stewart-Marchman Center, Inc Daytona Beach, FL
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP13368
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2005 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
Stewart-Marchman Center's Prevention on the Move and its community partners will form a work group to perform a community needs assessment, create an inventory of available services, and identify gaps in and barriers to available services. NIDA's Community-Based Outreach Model, an evidence-based design to facilitate behavior changes needed to reduce transmission risks of HIV, Hepatitis and other communicable diseases will be used. The target population for Prevention on the Move includes African American residents in the general and reentry population in the Metropolitan Statistical Area of Daytona Beach Florida. The geographic region represents both the highest prevalence of HIV / AIDS in county and the largest concentration of African American's. Within this population in the geographic area, this project will target injection drug users, men who have sex with men, commercial sex workers, heterosexuals, bi-sexuals, former inmates, abusers of alcohol and other substances, and homeless individuals. Prevention on the Move will reduce the incidence of infection of HIV, Hepatitis, and other communicable diseases caused by, or developed in conjunction with substance abuse by bringing the services and linkages to care to the community where the clients live, work and socialize. Since drug abuse is usually a covert activity, drug users and their sex partners rarely access services through traditional health and social service agencies. Indigenous outreach workers who are familiar with the drug use subcultures and local neighborhoods in their communities have been shown to be particularly effective agents of behavior change. Peer outreach workers will be utilized as part of the prevention strategy, to serve as opinion leaders and educate and influence their peers to reduce their risks for HIV, Hepatitis, and other communicable diseases in Daytona Beach, Florida.
     
Grantee: Community Rehabilitation Center, Inc. Jacksonville, FL
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP13456
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2005 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The Community Rehabilitation Center Inc. in Jacksonville, FL 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 target an African-American population of approximately 100,000 to participate in an evidence-based prevention models. This program is designed to produce measurable outcomes that demonstrate the effectiveness that community inclusion has when dealing with severe persistent mentally ill persons as well as the effectiveness in a community treatment model for high HIV infection rates of other STD's and the presence of Hepatitis.
     
Grantee: Marion County Ocala, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12326
Congressional District: FL-03
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: Center for Drug-Free Living, Inc Orlando, FL
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services SP10686
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2005 Funding: $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The Holden Heights Empowerment Project (HHEP) is a collaborative among The Center for Drug-Free Living, Inc. and grassroots community organizations to provide substance abuse and HIV prevention programming for populations who are disproportionately impacted by the AIDS epidemic. An application of social norms using Club Hero, a CSAP promising prevention model, the project enables individuals, families, and communities to strengthen their relationships of support and their protection against substance abuse and HIV/AIDS. It is anticipated that this project will result in the development of an effective prevention model for nationwide replication among other community-based agencies. The program targets the Holden Heights area of Orlando, Orange County, Florida, a community determined to thwart the economic and social forces that have contributed to the deterioration of urban neighborhoods nationwide. The project will complement existing neighborhood improvement initiatives, providing a much-needed component to improve family functioning and mitigate the risks of deviant behavior among the community's youth. The project will serve a minimum of 50 children, ages 6 to 17, and their parents each year for a total projected participation of 250 youth and their families. Youth will receive training in life skills such as ATOD education, HIV/AIDS education, conflict resolution, peer relations, community service, and goal setting. Parents will participate in community service projects with their children and serve as targets of a social norms campaign to enhance awareness of parental roles in appropriate youth development and behavior. Both parents and youth may participate in experiential education and individual family life skills training. The project's goals are to increase enhance self-efficacy among youth, increase attachment to community and school, reduce the incidence and severity of substance use among youth, and improve parental competence.
     
Grantee: Healing Balm Ministries, Inc Jacksonville, FL
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services SP10477
Congressional District: FL-04
FY 2005 Funding: $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2008
The Healing BALM Ministries of Northeast Florida, Inc. proposes a rural area SAP and HIVP planning grant for Nassau County, Florida, especially for the communities of Yulee, Callahan, and Fernandina Beach. The planning grant will develop a community-based intervention/prevention approach to SAP and HIVP led by Healing BALM Ministries. Yulee, the temporary Nassau County seat, will serve as the centrally based target community, but the community-based intervention will stretch fifteen miles east of Yulee to Fernandina Beach and fifteen miles west to Callahan. The target population will include high-risk substance abuse youth ages 15-19 and adults ages 20-39 including both low-income Black and low-income White substance abusers. The Healing BALM Ministries will provide a needs assessment of the target communities of Yulee, Fernandina Beach, and Callahan and developmental and supportive work in the school and community to formulate community-based support for SAP and HIVP in these communities. The work of the community-based support for SAP and HIVP in Fernandina Beach and Callahan will be sustained by the infrastructure development and SAP and HIVP leadership in this SAMHSA planning grant of the Healing BALM Ministries, Inc. which is strategically located in Yulee, Florida.
     
Grantee: Hamilton County School District Jasper, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12314
Congressional District: FL-04
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: Holmes County Sheriff Department Bonifay, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11305
Congressional District: FL-05
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: One Voice for Volusia, Inc Daytona Beach, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12247
Congressional District: FL-05
FY 2005 Funding: $100,000
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.
     
Grantee: Citrus County Sheriff's Office Iverness, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13592
Congressional District: FL-05
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 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: Village South, Inc Miami, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11288
Congressional District: FL-05
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: Flagler County Board of County Commiss. Bunnell, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12928
Congressional District: FL-07
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: Communities in Schools of Putnam Cty Inc Palatka, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11437
Congressional District: FL-07
FY 2005 Funding: $91,743
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: Epic Community Services Inc St. Augustine, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11664
Congressional District: FL-07
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: Operation PAR, Inc. Pinellas Park, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13502
Congressional District: FL-09
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: Metropolitan Charities Community Service St. Petersburg, FL
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP13439
Congressional District: FL-09
FY 2005 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The Minority Empowerment Through Risk-Reduction and Outreach (METRO) program, administered by Metropolitan Charities, Inc. (MCI) targets minority and minority reentry adults over the age of 18 in Pinellas County Florida. MCI main goal is to prevent the onset of substance abuse and reduce the transmission of HIV and Hepatitis through substance abuse, HIV and Hepatitis prevention services, outreach, prevention case management, Motivational Enhancement Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Substance Abuse Counseling.
     
Grantee: Informed Families/The FL Family Prtnrshp Miami, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12426
Congressional District: FL-11
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: Florida Inst for Community Studies, Inc Tampa, FL
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services SP10469
Congressional District: FL-11
FY 2005 Funding: $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2008
Proyecto Prevencion, a partnership between the FL Institute for Comunity Studies (FICS), a CBO, and the Hillsborough County Parks and Recreation Department, fills a void in the Latino community of Town N Country, which is documented to have a high teen birth rate (62% of all births), new cases of HIV, problems with substance abuse and a 33% prevalence rate for youth fighting, attributed to family disintegration and gangs. This five year intervention includes a community approach in which the community will decide which science based prevention model to implement in the nine centers of the Hillsborough County Parks in the area. A matched case design will enable the evaluator to determine the effectiveness of this multi-pronged approach.
     
Grantee: Hillsborough County Anti Drug Alliance Tampa, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities Mentoring SP13585
Congressional District: FL-11
FY 2005 Funding: $75,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2007
The grantee will: (1) support and encourage the development of new or the expansion of existing community anti-drug coalitions that are focused on the prevention and treatment of substance abuse; (2) assist one or more communities in efforts to begin coalition operations or to expand the operations of community coalitions that want to receive assistance.
     
Grantee: Hillsborough County Anti Drug Alliance Tampa, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11730
Congressional District: FL-11
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: Mid-Florida Center, Inc Avon Park, FL
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP13367
Congressional District: FL-12
FY 2005 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The Mid-Florida Center for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Inc., a certified minority 501(c) 3 not for profit behavioral health organization seeks funding to establish a partnership with the local Departments of Health, and community-based and faith-based organizations to provide effective prevention programs in communities of color within DCF#14, Florida. The target area includes Polk, Highlands and Hardee counties, an area of central Florida, halfway between Tampa and Orlando, containing a number of communities of color (African-American and Hispanic). Specific areas with prominent communities of color in these counties include: Polk -Cities of Lake land, Winter Haven, Auburndale and Bartow, and rural areas of Frostproof and Fort Meade Highlands -south-side Avon Park, Washington Heights in Sebring, Highway Park and Sambo's Migrant Camp in Lake Placid Hardee -Zolfo Springs and Wauchula. Within the target communities, culturally sensitive and competent substance abuse, HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis prevention programming is very limited or altogether non-existent. In most instances, prevention services are not accessible to communities of color. This is especially the case in overlooked and highly neglected rural and semi-rural areas of Florida, which is the definition of the proposed target communities. More specifically, the Mid-Florida Center will partner with the Department of Health's Regional Minority Office in Tampa, three local Health Departments in Polk, Highlands, and Hardee Counties, CUSH (Churches United to Stop the Spread of HIV), Refugee Church of Our Lord, Central Florida Health Care, local circuits of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice Florida Department of Correction. This partnership will become the Steering Committee for proposed prevention programming and will direct the required activities to supplement the Area 5, 6 & 14 Community Partnership Plan (Needs Assessment Section).
     
Grantee: Sarasota Coalition on Substance Abuse Sarasota, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12159
Congressional District: FL-13
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: Charlotte Allnce for Safe&Drug Free Cmty Port Charlotte, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13051
Congressional District: FL-14
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: The Village South, Inc. Miami, FL
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 4 Services SP10564
Congressional District: FL-17
FY 2005 Funding: $350,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The Village South, Inc. in Miami, FL has received a 5 year grant to provide integrated substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention services to minority and underserved populations. This program will expand and enhance prevention services to impact 7,000 vulnerable youth ages 10-13, of primarily Haitian and Caribbean descent.
     
Grantee: King David Foundation Inc Aventura, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13118
Congressional District: FL-18
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: AIDS Help, Inc Key West, FL
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services SP10463
Congressional District: FL-18
FY 2005 Funding: $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The applicant, AIDS Help Inc. (AHI) the only full service community based AIDS service organization and sole recipient of Ryan White CARE Act funds serving the Florida Keys, partnered with Human Services Associates (HAS), a premiere substance abuse provider with experience implementing science based prevention programs, for the provision of effective, multi-level and integrated substance abuse prevention and HIV prevention services in three high risk minority communities in Monroe County, Florida. The population of Monroe County is diverse consisting of a rich multi-cultural mix of US and exotic Caribbean cultures of various ages, ethnicities, and socioeconomic groups. Approximately 25% of the general population represents racial and ethnic minorities with the largest minority group comprising Hispanic/Latinos. These racial and ethnic minority populations are concentrated in specific communities that will be the sites of our proposed HIV and substance abuse preventive interventions in this project. The project will consist of three phases: community planning; integrated HIV and substance abuse prevention service delivery; on-going evaluation and sustainability planning. While this application proposes a suggested framework for integrated HIV and substance abuse prevention services, the final selection of program services will be achieved through formal and on-going community consensus-building and planning activities to ensure that priority HIV and substance abuse prevention needs are determined based on a thorough needs assessment and strategic plan.
     
Grantee: The Miami Coaltn for Safe/Drug Free Cmty Miami, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12399
Congressional District: FL-18
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: Partnership for a Drug Free Cmty of S FL West Palm Beach, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11399
Congressional District: FL-19
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: United Way of Broward County Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12315
Congressional District: FL-20
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: United Way of Broward County Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Program: SAMHSA Conference Grants SP12825
Congressional District: FL-20
FY 2005 Funding: $25,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2006
The proposed conference seeks to review and present a wide spectrum of approaches to understanding a broad range of cross-cutting themes and issues across the lifespan as they relate to substance use and abuse. The conference seeks to dissemination knowledge addressing how risk (specifically any trauma associated with these) arid protective factors, if not addressed at the appropriate time, can lead to a range of psychiatric and chemical abuse disorders. The conference seeks to explore risk and protective factors as well and the significance of early intervention and treatment as related to individual development across all phases of life; from childhood, to adolescence, adulthood and old age. The conference adheres to SAMHSA's priorities as detailed in its Programs and Principles Matrix by addressing several of the agency's cross cutting principles and programs/issues. Specifically, the proposed conference will address substance use and abuse in relation to its link with HIV/AIDS; older adults; prevention frameworks; violence and trauma; homelessness, and; co- occurring disorders.
     
Grantee: Lee Cnty Coalition for a Drug-Free SW FL Cape Coral, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12907
Congressional District: FL-25
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: Broward County Board of Co Commissioners Ft Lauderdale, FL
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP13378
Congressional District: FL-25
FY 2005 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
Broward's Collaboration to Reduce Use of Substances, HIV/AIDS, and Hepatitis has carefully considered the cultural make-up of the community, identified a realistic project target population based on the funder's objectives, corroborated by community needs assessments and focus group results. Using countywide analyses and reports Broward CRUSHH is able to adequately assess the magnitude of substance use/abuse, HIV, and hepatitis in the catchment area. Extensive planning occurred, engaging stakeholders, policy makers, funders, consumers and included consultation with evaluators throughout the application development process. As a result, Broward CRUSHH has adopted a four-prong prevention approach, focusing on outreach, training and technical assistance, cultural diversity, and prevention. As the first step in the development of Broward's Strategic Community Framework, a workgroup of providers, stakeholders, and policy makers, advocates and funders will convene. The strategic planning framework (SPF) for implementing culturally appropriate services to the target population will be based on documented needs; evidence-based practice for minority and reentry populations; resources/strengths of the community; measurable objectives; baseline data, and; enhancing hepatitis screening and linkages to services that provide immunizations for hep A and/or B.
     
Grantee: City of Homestead Homestead, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12317
Congressional District: FL-25
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.
     

 

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

Grantee: Lakeview Center, Inc Pensacola, FL
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI15822
Congressional District: FL-01
FY 2005 Funding: $491,433
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Lakeview Center's Inc. (LCI) Drug and Alcohol Counseling Service, in collaboration with Community Information Network, a local minority community based organization, proposes to expand substance abuse outreach, assessment, treatment and aftercare and enhance pretreatment, all in conjunction with HIV/AIDS services. We will serve 8550 African Americans over a 5-year period from the three zip code areas in Escambia County Florida with the largest number of HIV cases. Our target population members include African Americans who fit into one or more of the following risk categories: Women, including women and their children; and/or Individuals who have been released from prisons and jails within the past 2 years.
     
Grantee: Lakeview Center, Inc Pensacola, FL
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment TI16451
Congressional District: FL-01
FY 2005 Funding: $394,065
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
This project will provide outreach, assessment, case management, outpatient, residential, aftercare, vocational training and linkage to housing for homeless individuals.
     
Grantee: Florida Certification Board Tallahassee, FL
Program: CSAT 05 Earmarks TI17422
Congressional District: FL-01
FY 2005 Funding: $396,800
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2006
The mission of the proposed Center for Prevention Workforce Development is -To build a skilled prevention workforce that will work in local communities, key state agencies, and organizations to implement efficient, appropriately applied science-based substance abuse prevention across the life span of Florida's citizens. This project will be of national significance by: contributing to federal and state dialogue on building, maintaining, and enhancing an adequately prepared and competent substance abuse prevention workforce; identifying the essential components and key factors of workforce development that contribute to increased effectiveness and accountability of services provided; assisting other states in implementing new technologies for leading and managing change, outcomes, and prevention workforce development; creating products for training based on nationally agreed upon prevention competencies; creating tools for replication of this intensive workforce development model; and enhancing SAMHSA/CSAP's mission of bringing effective prevention to every community.
     
Grantee: Florida Certification Board Tallahassee, FL
Program: Addiction Technical Transfer Center TI13590
Congressional District: FL-01
FY 2005 Funding: $650,000
Project Period: 03/31/2002 - 03/30/2007
The Southern Coast ATTC (SCATTC) operated by the Florida Certification Board provides state-of-the-art addiction education and training programs in the states of Florida and Alabama for health care professionals, state and local governments and community organizations.
     
Grantee: Office of the Governor Tallahassee, FL
Program: Access to Recovery TI16811
Congressional District: FL-01
FY 2005 Funding: $6,798,709
Project Period: 08/03/2004 - 08/02/2007
This program will focus on individuals involved with the criminal justice system, families putting children at risk, or other high-risk populations such as persons with co-occurring disorders and individuals, including older adults, who abuse prescription drugs. The Florida program involves partnerships with Florida's Faith-Based Association, the Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association, the Southern Coast Addiction Technology Transfer Center, and the NET Training Institute
     
Grantee: Florida Office of Drug Control Tallahassee, FL
Program: State Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Coordination TI17378
Congressional District: FL-02
FY 2005 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 08/01/2005 - 07/31/2008
The State of Florida’s Office of Drug Control, in close partnership with Florida’s Substance Abuse Program Office, the Florida Certification Board (FCB) and many statewide partners, seeks funding to build enhanced capacity in Florida to provide effective, accessible, and affordable substance abuse treatment for adolescents and their families. While effective and strong in many ways, the adolescent system can be improved. The expected outcomes of this initiative are: - An expanded and trained workforce with specialty knowledge in youth substance abuse and co-occurring disorders will be in place. - A more effective adolescent service system will result from the incremental shift away from less desirable and less effective services to more evidence-based treatment. - Expanded treatment capacity will be in place within existing resources resulting from the unprecedented levels of cross system coordination, and from new resources made available through Medicaid expansions. The state also expects to reduce its current adolescent treatment readmission rate by 20% or greater in Year 2, and 30% or greater in Year 3 through system improvements and efficiencies to be gained through our project. The ultimate result will be an approximate net gain of 1348 additional adolescents that will be served withinexisting resources. Achievement of the goals outlined above will have a profound affect on Florida’s adolescent treatment system.
     
Grantee: Community Rehabilitation Center, Inc. Jacksonville, FL
Program: CSAT 05 Earmarks TI17404
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2005 Funding: $297,600
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2006
Community Rehabilitation Center, Inc. (CRC), an approved State of Florida, Department of Children and Families, Alcohol, substance Abuse and Mental Health (ADM) agency, will use SAMHSA grant funds the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention Programmatic Directives to enhance current CRC services to consumers with Severe Persistent mental Illness (SPMI). The Psychosocial Intensive Services Unit of CRC will target SPMI clients with co-occurring disorders of mental illness and substance abuse. Enhanced services will include staff training and in-service on an integrated services approach, advocated by Minkoff and others, that will allow CRC efficiently and effectively serve more dually-diagnosed consumers. The CRC target population is the low-income, socio-economically poor from northwest Jacksonville and Duval County, Florida. A majority of the CRC consumers will live in Assisted Living Facilities (ALF) and have a history of mental illness. The goals of the project grant include increased service delivery, increased success rate of consumer recovery and rehabilitation and decreased substance abuse for co-occurring consumers disorders
     
Grantee: Center for Drug-Free Living, Inc Orlando, FL
Program: Strengthening Access and Retention (SAR) TI15573
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2005 Funding: $200,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006
The Strategic Planning Initiative (SPI) described in this proposal presents a unique opportunity for The Center for Drug-Free Living, Inc., to systematically analyze its existing outpatient care processes to identify and remove barriers to client access and retention.
     
Grantee: Center for Drug-Free Living, Inc Orlando, FL
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment TI15545
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2005 Funding: $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006
In an effort to address the alcohol and drug abuse treatment needs of adolescents in the Central Florida - Brevard County area, The Center For Drug -Free Living, Inc. will increase access to outpatient treatment through the expansion and enhancement of an existing outpatient treatment program. The B.E.S.T. (Brevard -Enhanced & Strengthened Treatment) Adolescent Initiative will add capacity to serve sixty (60) adolescents per year, (one-hundred eighty (180) over the life of the grant), targeting those who may be involved in the Juvenile Justice or Child Welfare systems or who face disciplinary action at school. Additionally, this expansion will improve the effectiveness of alcohol and drug abuse treatment through the adoption of Motivational Enhancement Therapy/Cognitive Behavioral Therapy -5 sessions (MET/CBT 5).
     
Grantee: Center for Drug-Free Living, Inc Orlando, FL
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI14406
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2005 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To expand and strengthen treatment services for people with substance abuse and co-occurring disorders. The program will provide detoxification, methadone, long term residential treatment, short term residential treatment, outpatient/aftercare and service linkages. The program services will target Latinos who are injection drug users, people from the criminal justice system, and people with co-occurring disorders.
     
Grantee: River Region Human Services, Inc. Jacksonville, FL
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI14438
Congressional District: FL-04
FY 2005 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To expand and enhance the agency's existing services. The program will provide outreach services including: HIV/TB risk assessments, pre and post counseling, HIV/TB testing, treatment readiness assessments, and referrals to community resources. The program targets injection drug users, women, and women and their children from African-American populations.
     
Grantee: Gateway Community Services, Inc. Jacksonville, FL
Program: Pregnant/Post-Partum Women TI16889
Congressional District: FL-04
FY 2005 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
Gateway Community Services will partner with public sector and private social service-oriented organizations to develop an integrated residential and continuing care program for mothers and their children who are in danger of being separated due to substance abuse and child abuse and neglect. Fifty-nine percent of children in Florida's Foster Care system came from families where substance abuse was an issue.
     
Grantee: Gateway Community Services, Inc. Jacksonville, FL
Program: Family Drug Courts TI17512
Congressional District: FL-04
FY 2005 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
Gateway Community Services, Inc. will expand the existing Dependency Drug Court Program in Duval County by enhancing services to provide more treatment services and judicial monitoring to substance-abusing parents who have been charged with abuse and/or neglect of their minor children. This project will serve 65 individuals annually for three years, for a total of 195 overall.
     
Grantee: Osceola Cty Board of County Commissioner Kissimmee, FL
Program: Adult Juvenile and Family Drug Courts TI14020
Congressional District: FL-08
FY 2005 Funding: $382,495
Project Period: 06/01/2003 - 05/31/2006
Osceola County proposes to complement the present system of treatment services supporting the Osceola County Adult Drug Court by adding a component of Long Term Residential treatment to serve the needs of the most chronic substance abusers in the Osceola County Adult Drug Court system and expanding continuing care.
     
Grantee: The Center for Drug-Free Living, Inc. Orlando, FL
Program: Pregnant/Post-Partum Women TI16018
Congressional District: FL-08
FY 2005 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006
The Orlando area Pregnant, Postpartum Women and Infants (PPWI) Program provides safe, stable living arrangements with comprehensive individualized, highly professional, culturally appropriate and sensitive, women specific, on site services for substance abusing women and their infants/children.
     
Grantee: Operation PAR, Inc. Pinellas Park, FL
Program: Young Offender Reentry Program (YORP) 2004 TI16928
Congressional District: FL-09
FY 2005 Funding: $450,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2009
The Bay Area Young Offender Reentry Program (YORP) will provide a comprehensive continuum of care focused on family reintegration and self-sufficiency for 390 sentenced substance abusing juveniles ages 14-18 reentering the community from a residential commitment program. This includes 60 in Year 1, 120 Year 2, 3 and 90 in Year 4. The program emphasizes an evidence-based substance abuse treatment model - MET/CBT 12 + FSN. The lead agency for the Bay Area YORP project is Operation PAR, Inc., the largest and most established substance abuse treatment agency in the Tampa Bay area. Operation PAR will work collaboratively with ACTS, Inc. and the Greater Tampa Metropolitan YWCA, Inc. to deliver the substance abuse treatment, case management and vocational readiness services provided to project participants. The extensive history between Operation PAR, ACTS and the local community stakeholders will assure that ancillary services for youth and their families are available via referral.
     
Grantee: Operation PAR, Inc. Pinellas Park, FL
Program: Pregnant/Post-Partum Women TI16878
Congressional District: FL-09
FY 2005 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/30/2007
The Family Achievement in Recovery (FAIR) project is an initiative of Operation PAR, Inc., which is the largest treatment provider in West Central Florida. Funds will be used to increase residential treatment slots for women by 10 and add 5 more slots for children.
     
Grantee: Operation PAR, Inc. Pinellas Park, FL
Program: Adult Juvenile and Family Drug Courts TI14126
Congressional District: FL-09
FY 2005 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 06/01/2003 - 05/31/2006
Operation PAR joins the 6th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida in implementing the African American Center of Excellence (AACE). This l2- month, three-phase court supervised model will integrate an evidence based trauma curriculum Seeking Safety with a gender and culturally relevant program in a modified therapeutic community modality.
     
Grantee: Operation PAR, Inc. Pinellas Park, FL
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment TI15478
Congressional District: FL-09
FY 2005 Funding: $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006
Operation PAR, Inc. will expand substance abuse treatment services in Pinellas County Florida by providing Motivational Enhancement Therapy/Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 5 (MET/CBT 5) to 200 adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18 who are criminally involved. The PAR Adolescent Recovery Intervention Services (PARIS) will treat youth referred from the Office of the State Attorney, Sixth Judicial Circuit arid Boley Centers for Behavioral Health Care, Inc. MET/CBT 5 is an evidence-based, cost-effective brief five-session treatment intervention for adolescents with cannabis use disorders presenting for outpatient treatment.
     
Grantee: Westcare Florida St. Petersburg, FL
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI15778
Congressional District: FL-09
FY 2005 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The WestCare Florida Substance Abuse Treatment and HIV/AIDS Services project is located in St. Petersburg and will provide services in Pinellas County, Florida. The target population is African American and Hispanic transgender individuals who abuse or are dependent on drugs and alcohol, with my risk factors of male to male sex and/or injecting drug use. The enhancement services of this project include targeted outreach, pretreatment and HIV prevention interventions and expansion services consist of additional slots for outpatient substance abuse treatment.
     
Grantee: Westcare Florida St. Petersburg, FL
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment TI16510
Congressional District: FL-09
FY 2005 Funding: $396,800
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
This program will provide integrated health, substance abuse and mental health treatment to homeless adults with dual disorders
     
Grantee: Mental Health Care, Inc Tampa, FL
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment TI16630
Congressional District: FL-09
FY 2005 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2010
Mental Health Care, Inc. will provide modified Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) to persons who are considered chronically homeless, (individuals who have been homeless for a year or more) with severe and persistent mental illness who may have a co-occurring disorder. The program will collaborate with existing community services coordinating primary care with Tampa Community Health Center and accessing low-income housing through Tampa Housing Authority.
     
Grantee: Agency for Comnty Treatment Svcs Tampa, FL
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment TI13952
Congressional District: FL-11
FY 2005 Funding: $586,972
Project Period: 06/01/2003 - 05/31/2006
Keystone Dual Recovery is a collaborative of two agencies experienced in substance abuse and mental health treatment along with a university-based research institute. They will implement a program that will apply evidence-based practices to services for adult homeless persons who have co-occurring severe mental health and substance use disorders.
     
Grantee: Mid-Florida Center, Inc Avon Park, FL
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment TI15458
Congressional District: FL-12
FY 2005 Funding: $198,668
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
This program is designed for youth age 12- 21 who meet medical criteria for substance abuse or dependence. The program will adopt or expand use of a treatment protocol that combines two types of therapy, Motivational Enhancement Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy. This Motivational Enhancement Therapy/Cognitive Behavior Therapy, a five-session protocol, was previously proved to be effective with substance abusing youth.
     
Grantee: Coastal Behavioral Healthcare, Inc Sarasota, FL
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI14560
Congressional District: FL-13
FY 2005 Funding: $328,676
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To provide outreach, HIV testing, outpatient substance abuse and intensive HIV case management. Services will be expanded to target African-American and Hispanic men and adolescents. Service will be expanded to reach 6,240 new persons during the funding period and services will be enhanced to better serve 1,300 persons.
     
Grantee: First-Step of Sarasota, Inc Sarasota, FL
Program: Pregnant/Post-Partum Women TI16776
Congressional District: FL-13
FY 2005 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
First Step will expand the availability of residential treatment services for low-income women by increasing its Mothers and Infants program through the addition of a Transitional Living Program component. The program will provide up to eight mothers and their infants per year.
     
Grantee: The Village South, Inc. Miami, FL
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI13179
Congressional District: FL-17
FY 2005 Funding: $498,904
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 09/29/2006
To increase substance abuse treatment capacity for Hispanic adolescent girls, aged 11-17.
     
Grantee: Camillus House, Inc Miami, FL
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI15730
Congressional District: FL-17
FY 2005 Funding: $499,810
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Camillus House, Inc.will expand capacity of Camillus' substance abuse treatment program, increasing treatment capacity by 25% and increasing success rate to 65%. Over the five- year grant, 156 new clients would be admitted for treatment, and another 576 would receive enhanced services.
     
Grantee: Village South, Inc Miami, FL
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI14462
Congressional District: FL-17
FY 2005 Funding: $499,866
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To expand and enhance an intensive in-home treatment program for an additional 285 adolescents and their family. The program will use Targeted Capacity Expansion TCE/ HIV to target adolescents and men who have sex with men populations.
     
Grantee: Broward House, Inc. Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI14460
Congressional District: FL-23
FY 2005 Funding: $498,987
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To expand intervention and case management services. The program will provide outreach and education, link individuals to case managers, provide referrals and linkages for long term substance abuse treatment, housing, and vocational assistance to people in the criminal justice system from African-American and Latino populations.