SAMHSA Grant Awards by State FY 2005

Discretionary Funds in Detail

GEORGIA 

Center for Mental Health Services

Grantee: Georgia Department of Human Resources Atlanta, GA
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants SM56629
Congressional District: GA-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: Georgia Mental Hlth Consumer Network Decatur, GA
Program: CMHS Statewide Consumer Network Grants SM56333
Congressional District: GA-01
FY 2005 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
The Georgia Mental Health Consumer network requests grant funds to train consumers with co-occurring diagnoses in the development and utilization of the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP). The agency plans to develop a self-directed wellness recovery plan using the WRAP Model and train Certified Peer Specialists to aid in the process of sustaining consumers in treatment. Under the auspices of the Georgia Self-directed Recovery Project, the network seeks to improve consumer knowledge about individualized needs and increase the capacity to apply appropriate skills conducive to sustaining recovery. The WRAP Model will be designed in two workbooks that will address wellness/recovery issues and vocational issues. One workbook will address wellness in daily living activities and train consumers in developing and sustaining peer led support groups. The second workbook will address wellness in the workplace on issues such as workplace stress and increase job placement success. Each workbook will be adapted for culturally sensitive groups as well as the visually impaired. Certified Peer Specialist will be trained to continuously assist consumers in the facilitation of their recovery plan. The network will also provide information via web site that lists treatment and recovery information, training and support group opportunities and other resources for self-directed care.
     
Grantee: Georgia Parent Support Network, Inc Atlanta, GA
Program: CMHS Statewide Family Network Grants SM56441
Congressional District: GA-01
FY 2005 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
Georgia Parent Support Network, Inc. (GPSN) is proposing to strengthen organizational relationships, improve collaborations, and develop closer relationships with child-serving advocacy organizations to enable families to strive toward independence, foster leadership skills, and continue assessing the technical assistance needs of family-controlled organizations, as well as increasing youth involvement in every facet of the organization's operation.
     
Grantee: Open Arms, Inc. Albany, GA
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children SM56202
Congressional District: GA-02
FY 2005 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2007
Open Arms, Inc., a non-profit child abuse prevention and treatment organization with a residential facility and a child advocacy center, is establishing a Community Treatment Center in Albany, Georgia to provide services for children in a rural and economically depressed region. Open Arms, Inc. is integrating all local agencies--child welfare, the school system, juvenile justice and law-enforcement agencies--into its mission to help those children and adolescents who have been victims of child abuse. One of those local agencies, The Sunshine Center, provides the client base for children who have been exposed to violence in the home, at school or at play. This comprehensive therapeutic treatment center is developed to prevent future suffering and break the cycle of abuse in this community.
     
Grantee: Dekalb Community Service Board Decatur, GA
Program: CMHS 2005 Earmarks SM56827
Congressional District: GA-04
FY 2005 Funding: $148,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2006
     
Grantee: Georgia Department of Human Resources Atlanta, GA
Program: Child & Adolescent MH and SA SIGs SM56548
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2005 Funding: $749,812
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
The overall purpose of the Child and Adolescent State Infrastructure Grant Project is to strengthen the capacity, from a state level, to develop, expand and sustain mental health, substance abuse and co-occurring services and supports at the community-based level for youth who have serious emotional disturbances, substance abuse and co-occurring disorders and their families. Strategies addressed include: development of a trained workforce, funding strategies, policies and practice guidelines and web resource development and improved data infrastructure development. As lead agency, the Department of Human Resources, Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Addictive Diseases (DMHDDAD) will administer project activities including the establishment of a State level Children's Behavioral Health Service Collaborative (CBHS Collaborative). The CBHS Collaborative will develop a statewide vision for behavioral health services across all child-serving agencies, develop a state strategic plan for building capacity to provide behavioral health services including provider and network development, mapping financial resources currently being spent on BHS services across the child-serving systems and maximizing use of all funding streams. The project will also include development of a trained workforce, development of policy and practice guidelines to support service improvements and development of a mechanism for statewide information on resources available to serve youth with behavioral health needs. Achievement of these goals will lead to an improved service delivery system for youth and their families. The DMHDDAD will build upon the System of Care Quality Improvement project currently underway across the state with stakeholders that have formed into Action Teams and developed Action Plans.
     
Grantee: Positive Impact, Inc Atlanta, GA
Program: AIDS TCE-Service Capacity Bldg in Minority Communities SM53953
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2005 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 09/29/2006
The Georgia Comprehensive HIV-AIDS Minority Psychosocial Services (CHAMPS) Project will utilize a series of synergistic outreach, engagement, treatment and evaluation strategies to enhance the extent to which comprehensive, quality HIV-related mental health services are available and appropriate to address the mental health needs of African American and Latino individuals living with HIV in Georgia. The project will have two primary components: 1) an urban project to enhance access and engagement in mental health services for individuals living with HIV in metropolitan Atlanta, and 2) a rural project, to assess and enhance two of Georgia's highly HIV impacted rural areas to respond to the mental health care needs of ethnic minorities living with HIV.
     
Grantee: Rockdale Co Board of Commissioners Conyers, GA
Program: Children's Services SM52900
Congressional District: GA-11
FY 2005 Funding: $200,000
Project Period: 07/01/2000 - 06/30/2006
The Gwinnett, Rockdale, Newton Community Service Board (GRN), Georgia Parent Support Network, and community-based agencies have formed a partnership to create new opportunities for children and families. The initiative will be implemented initially in Rockdale County, ultimately reaching into Gwinnett county. A multi-layered vision guides the initiative: children and families from the center of the system; recognition that child and family strengths is the key to facilitating good outcomes; and children thrive in environments that allow them to be connected to their families and communities. Specific goals are to:1)enhance the infrastructure of the system by strengthening interagency collaboration; 2)achieve full, meaningful involvement of families in the system's governance, service decisions and provisions, and evaluation; 3)develop an intensive care coordinated system; 4)increase formal and informal supportive services for children and families; improve cultural competence; and 5)develop training and education modules for families, staff, and administrators.
     

 

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention

Grantee: Wholistic Stress Control Institute Atlanta, GA
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 4 Services SP10476
Congressional District: GA-01
FY 2005 Funding: $350,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The Wholistic Stress control Institute in Atlanta, GA has received a 5 year grant to provide integrated substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention services to minority and underserved populations. The grantee through the Pointing African-Americans Towards Health Project (PAATH) will serve 600 of the most in need male and female African-American youth in the city of Atlanta. The youth attend the Community Education Partnership Program and are students who have been removed from their neighborhood school, for disciplinary problems, including violence, chronic absenteeism and/or academic failure. The PAATH project will significantly reduce the high risk behaviors of these students related to substance abuse and HIV infection, and expand SAP and HIVP services being offered to this population.
     
Grantee: Wholistic Stress Control Institute Atlanta, GA
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP13435
Congressional District: GA-01
FY 2005 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The Wholistic Stress Control Institute, Inc. (WSCI), an award winning African-American non- profit community based organization, is requesting five-year funding from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA) for the purpose of developing a comprehensive integrated Substance Abuse (SA), HIV and Hepatitis Prevention Program for minority and minority reentry populations in Metro Atlanta. The goal of the proposed project is to build the local community's service capacity to prevent and reduce the onset of SA and transmission of HIV and Hepatitis among minority and minority reentry populations in Metro Atlanta who are disproportionately affected by SA, HIV/AIDS and/or hepatitis. The project objectives are: I) to conduct a community needs assessment that will assess the magnitude of SA, HIV and Hepatitis for the target population and their catchment areas; 2) to mobilize a community workgroup of key stakeholders to build the local capacity to address SA, HIV and Hepatitis prevention; 3) to provide planning and coordination of services for the workgroup to develop a strategic plan for the prevention and reduction of the onset of SA, and the transmission of HIV and Hepatitis among minority and reentry populations; 4) to provide African American minority populations and African American minority reentry populations with a SA, HIV and Hepatitis Prevention Program; 5) to provide screening services and pre/post counseling services for SA, HIV and Hepatitis for minority target populations; 6) to partner with existing licensed provider organizations for referrals, testing, direct medical treatment for substance abuse, HIV and Hepatitis services and provide referrals for Hepatitis A & B immunization services for the minority populations and minority reentry populations; 7) to identify, coordinate and make referrals to other linkages of care services needed for minority and minority reentry populations.
     
Grantee: Berrien County Collaborative Inc Nashville, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11660
Congressional District: GA-01
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: Camden Children's Alliance and Resources Saint Marys, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13454
Congressional District: GA-01
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: Memorial Hth. Univ. Med. Cnt. Fnd., Inc. Savannah, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12220
Congressional District: GA-01
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: CVI Camilla, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11489
Congressional District: GA-02
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: Dekalb Prevention Alliance Decatur, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11482
Congressional District: GA-04
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: Our Common Welfare Inc Decatur, GA
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP13423
Congressional District: GA-04
FY 2005 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
Our Common Welfare requests $350,000.00 to provide: 1) continuity of care for recently released inmates with HIV, SA and Hepatitis by connecting them with primary care providers who will continue to provide treatment after release; 2) thorough disease screening and detection (HIV, SA, and Hepatitis) for inmates undiagnosed; and 3) prevention and intervention training, case management support services and community outreach. The proposed Getting Connected Project will target, for the five year funding cycle, a total of 500 (100 per year) unduplicated African American male parolees, ages 18-49, in DeKalb County, Georgia, who will: 1) be released without knowledge of HIV, substance abuse or Hepatitis status; 2) be released as substance-abusing or diagnosed as having a substance abuse (SA) disorder; 3) be released as being infected with HIV or diagnosed as having AIDS; 4) be released with Hepatitis or undiagnosed; 5) if incarcerated, be within 90 days of scheduled release to the community; and 6) if already released to the community from incarceration, be within one year or less of release from incarceration and under some form of probationer supervision; and to 1,000 (200 per year) partners, family members of the parolees, and members of the communities of color reporting high rates of HIV / AIDS, SA, and Hepatitis in DeKalb County. The types of services to be offered each year of the grant period will be: 1) Thorough Disease Screening for HIV/AIDS, SA and Hepatitis; 2) GED Education referrals; 3) Communication Classes; 4) Life Style Choices Classes that will include: a) Anger Management; b) Relapse Prevention & Management; c) HIV/AIDS Education; d) Mental Health Prevention; e) Substance Abuse Prevention,. j) Criminal Thinking and Behaviors; g) Job Placement Assistance.
     
Grantee: Morehouse School of Medicine Atlanta, GA
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP13334
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2005 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The Imani Project is a community-based prevention initiative in the Department of Pediatrics at the Morehouse School of Medicine. The Imani Project will increase the capacity of residents in the Zone One catchment area of northwest Atlanta, Georgia by working with government, nonprofit, and faith-based entities to reduce the risks of substance abuse and the transmission of HIV and hepatitis. It will serve African Americans and other underserved residents (ages 13-25 preferred), including ex-offenders (ages 18-25 first offenders preferred). The Imani Project will provide substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, and hepatitis prevention education through high school and college peer educators at Frederick Douglass High School and HBCUs in the Zone One community. Imani staff and their collaborators will provide substance abuse education and HIV/AIDS and hepatitis prevention education to the re-entry populations. The intervention will employ an approach involving faith-based re-entry liaisons themselves while emphasizing entrepreneurship, business development, and job development where indicated. Program participants will consist of the following: Zone One residents at Bowen Homes and Bankhead Courts communities, re-entry populations (i.e., Jefferson Place Emergency and Transitional Housing, Antioch Urban Ministries, Inc. Reentry Services), students attending Frederick Douglass High School, and college students attending historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) including Morehouse College, and Clark Atlanta University. The targeted population has demonstrated risks for substance abuse, HIV / AIDS and hepatitis infection. In a geographical area where reportedly 90% of the ex-offenders manifest substance abuse problems, the number of AIDS cases are in the Atlanta metropolitan area is twice as high as the statewide number, especially among the African Americans in Fulton County. Further, the Zone One community has the highest incidences of AIDS and STDs in the State .
     
Grantee: Genesis Prevent Coalition of Atlanta Inc Atlanta, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities Mentoring SP13563
Congressional District: GA-05
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: Genesis Prevent Coalition of Atlanta Inc Atlanta, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12981
Congressional District: GA-05
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: Georgia Council on Substance Abuse Atlanta, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13074
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2005 Funding: $99,811
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: Wholistic Stress Control Institute Inc Atlanta, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11365
Congressional District: GA-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: Cobb Community Collaborative Marietta, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11423
Congressional District: GA-06
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: Georgia Martial Arts Foundation Acworth, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11601
Congressional District: GA-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: Bibb County Macon, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11391
Congressional District: GA-08
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: Cook Cnty Commission for Children & Yth Sparks, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11511
Congressional District: GA-08
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: Augusta Richmond Com Part Child & Fam Augusta, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12087
Congressional District: GA-09
FY 2005 Funding: $78,696
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: Osborne Prevention Task Force Inc Marietta, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11679
Congressional District: GA-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: Bulloch County Board of Education Statesboro, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12138
Congressional District: GA-12
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.
     

 

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

Grantee: Morehouse School of Medicine Atlanta, GA
Program: Addiction Technical Transfer Center TI13589
Congressional District: GA-01
FY 2005 Funding: $649,984
Project Period: 03/31/2002 - 03/30/2007
The Southeast ATTC, located at Morehouse School of Medicine, serves the states of Georgia and South Carolina with state-of-the-art addiction education and training programs for health care professionals, state and local governments and community organizations. SEATTC is unique in being located at one of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities(HBCU) and actively involves other HBCU institutions in the work of the Center.
     
Grantee: Recovery Consultants of Atlanta, Inc Atlanta, GA
Program: Recovery Community Service TI13214
Congressional District: GA-04
FY 2005 Funding: $200,000
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 09/29/2006
The purpose of this grant is to foster participation of people in recovery and their family members in the public dialogue about addiction, treatment and recovery. The term "recovery community" is a broad and encompassing term that includes persons having a history of alcohol and drug problems who are in recovery or recovered, those currently in treatment, those seeking treatment, as well as their family members, and other supporters and allies. Recovery community organizations help people in recovery, their families and supporters work together to identify, develop, and support needed treatment and recovery policies, systems, and services.
     
Grantee: Recovery Consultants of Atlanta, Inc Atlanta, GA
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI15858
Congressional District: GA-04
FY 2005 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The Street Team for HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, and Substance Use Risk Reduction (STARR) is a grassroots, faith and community based outreach/pretreatment program that is deeply rooted in the culture of metro-Atlanta's African American substance using community. It provides support services for individuals and families in early recovery, including linkages to addictive disorders and mental health programs, HIV, HCV, and substance use education for individuals and families at risk, HIV and substance use prevention presentations for faith institutions, transportation and child care for parents seeking both faith based and 12 step support group services, a free-monthly training for individuals in recovery interested in pursuing careers as certified addiction counselors, and transitional housing for individuals and families in early recovery.
     
Grantee: Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice Decatur, GA
Program: Young Offender Reentry Program (YORP) 2004 TI17002
Congressional District: GA-04
FY 2005 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2008
The grant will allow Georgia to plan, develop, provide and evaluate substance abuse and other reentry services to sentenced juveniles aged 14-21 who are returning to the community from incarceration. The program intends to treat 525 youth over the course of four years.
     
Grantee: Integrated Life Center, Inc Stone Mountain, GA
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI14385
Congressional District: GA-04
FY 2005 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To enhance services to an additional 110 African-American and Latino consumers through the development of an outreach program. The program will use Targeted Capacity Expansion TCE/ HIV to target co-occurring and injection drug users from the African-American and Latino populations.
     
Grantee: Morehouse School of Medicine Atlanta, GA
Program: Historically Black Colleges and Univ. National Resource Center TI17165
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2005 Funding: $1,075,000
Project Period: 08/01/2005 - 07/31/2008
The Historically Black Colleges and Universities National Resource Center for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service System Infrastructure Development (HBCU-NRC) is envisioned as an innovative national resource center dedicated to: (1) establishing a national network of HBCUs to facilitate collaboration among the 104 HBCU institutions; (2) supporting culturally appropriate substance abuse and mental health disorders prevention and treatment student health services and wellness needs on HBCU campuses; and (3) designing accredited courses, minors/majors and undergraduate and graduate degree programs that adapt State requirements and encourage student interest in substance abuse and mental health.
     
Grantee: Georgia Department of Human Resources Atlanta, GA
Program: State Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Coordination TI17369
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2005 Funding: $399,904
Project Period: 08/01/2005 - 07/31/2008
Georgia's State Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Coordination (ATC) Project will enhance the State's capacity to provide an effective, accessible and affordable service system through collaborative strategic planning, cross agency coordination and training, workforce development, and promotion of evidence based practices (EBPs). The foundation for the ATC Project will be the development of a multi-State agency and community stakeholder Adolescent SA Advisory Committee headed by a high-level, statewide Adolescent SA Treatment (ASAT) Coordinator with the vested authority to coordinate adolescent SA service system improvement efforts across agencies. The lead agency to manage the project will be the Department of Human Resources' (DHR) Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Addictive Diseases (DMHDDAD), the designated State authority for SA treatment and prevention.
     
Grantee: Cobb County Community Services Board Smyrna, GA
Program: Young Offender Reentry Program (YORP) 2004 TI17095
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2005 Funding: $448,398
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2009
The Center for Adolescent Wellness will provide both systems linkage and treatment services to sentenced substance-abusing juveniles (between the ages of 14 and 18) who are returning to their families from adult or juvenile incarceration. Collaboration with key stakeholders, best practice interventions (Chestnut Health Systems Bloomington's Out Patient and Intensive Outpatient Programs and Assertive Continuing Care) and varying modalities of treatment that include residential substance abuse treatment, intensive outpatient, and community-based treatment will address current deficits in care for sentenced substance-abusing juveniles. This program will have both treatment and systems linkages components. Systems linkages and treatment services are grounded in scientific theories and best practice guidelines related to substance abuse and criminal behavior among youth.
     
Grantee: Union County Commission Blairsville, GA
Program: TCE Rural Populations TI17224
Congressional District: GA-09
FY 2005 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 08/15/2005 - 08/14/2008
North Georgia's Union County Commission, New Hope Counseling, aims to expand treatment services for 302 adults (25-60 years of age) with methamphetamine abuse and associated problems. The project intends to use the Matrix Model, an intensive outpatient modality integrating treatment elements from a number of strategies, including relapse prevention, motivational interviewing, psychoeducation, family therapy, and 12-step program involvement. The target population for this project will consist of primarily Caucasian (80%), male (80%) clients. In the first year, the grantee plans to serve 82 clients, while increasing to 110 per year for years 2 and 3, totaling 302 clients over the course of the grant.