SAMHSA Grant Awards by State FY 2005

Discretionary Funds in Detail

MARYLAND 

Center for Mental Health Services

Grantee: Kennedy Krieger Research Institute, Inc Baltimore, MD
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children SM56215
Congressional District: MD-01
FY 2005 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2007
The Kennedy Krieger Family Center (KKFC) Trauma Intervention Clinic proposes to develop, evaluate, and disseminate effective mental health treatment protocols for children and adolescents in or at risk for out-of-home placement, who are suffering from traumatic stress due to cumulative and repetitive exposure to parental substance abuse, neglect, physical/sexual abuse, domestic violence, and/or community violence. A special focus will be to improve the understanding of how intrauterine drug exposure impacts the effectiveness of interventions, particularly those aimed at improving self-regulatory capacity. The Family Center is a high volume outpatient mental health clinic located in Baltimore City that provides interdisciplinary evaluation and treatment services to traumatized children and their families. Treatment approaches at the KKFC include individual, family, group, play, cognitive-behavioral, dynamic, psychopharmacological, and curriculum-based interventions.
     
Grantee: On Our Own of Maryland, Inc Baltimore, MD
Program: CMHS Statewide Consumer Network Grants SM56448
Congressional District: MD-01
FY 2005 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
On Our Own of Maryland is a statewide consumer organization that develops consumer organization skills through management and leadership skill training. The training builds consumer capacity to participate in state planning and strengthen relations with other groups that identify technical assistance needs. The project proposes to convene a statewide consumer leadership summit that will explore current and alternative service delivery models for funding and the structure of the public mental health system. This summit will explore implementation of a self-directed care model. Four regional summits will convene to disseminate findings and recommendation from stakeholders at local levels. Consumer will also be provided hands on technical assistance from consultants and staff in organizational development. On Our Own will meet quarterly with local leaders and conduct anti-stigma workshops, sponsor business management and cultural competence seminars. In addition, the project will examine methods to increase consumer participation on state level, disseminate information and link consumers to national technical assistance centers.
     
Grantee: Maryland Dept of Hlth and Mental Hygiene Catonsville, MD
Program: Alternatives to Restraint & Seclusion SIGs SM56513
Congressional District: MD-01
FY 2005 Funding: $237,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
The Maryland Mental Hygiene Administration will implement a two-pronged infrastructure development approach aimed at creating alternatives to the use of seclusion and restraint in the state-operated psychiatric facility system. Implementing the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) Core Interventions, MMHA will also implement the Maryland Youth Practice Improvement Committee's (MYPIC) Staff Guide and Training Curriculum for reduction of seclusion and restraint. The project aims at broad organizational culture change and work force improvement through development of new cognitive awareness and intervention skills for staff. The project will develop a system-wide telemedicine capacity as part of its infrastructure building activities. In response to evidence of higher rates of seclusion and restraint among African American populations, the applicant will develop a Cultural Competence Core to review all proposed activities and interventions through the lens of cultural competencies. Statewide Consumer and Family organizations will be key partners, as will two local Schools of Medicine located within Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland. In addition, the Maryland Protection and Advocacy agency, Maryland Disability Law Center, will play a key role. Evaluation services will be provided by HSRI.
     
Grantee: Maryland Dept of Hlth and Mental Hygiene Catonsville, MD
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants SM56649
Congressional District: MD-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: MD Coalition of Fam. for Children's MH Columbia, MD
Program: CMHS Statewide Family Network Grants SM56434
Congressional District: MD-02
FY 2005 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
The Statewide Family Network Grant will be used to build capacity in Maryland through expanded outreach to families, building family leadership, creating training opportunities, and initiating a project to build youth leadership. Outreach staff will provide information, support, training and advocacy for families caring for a child with mental health needs.
     
Grantee: State of Maryland Annapolis, MD
Program: Mental Health Transformation State Incentive Grants SM57459
Congressional District: MD-04
FY 2005 Funding: $2,713,887
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
Maryland’s Mental Health Transformation provides a set of strategies to bring the vision of the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health closer to reality for citizens of Maryland.The proposal brings together the experience of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and its evolving history of transforming mental health services in Maryland with the newly created Maryland Department of Disabilities, which is charged with service integration and system reform for people with disabilities. The Transformation Work Group brings together a powerful coalition of Cabinet Secretaries, senior State officials, leaders in the consumer, family, and mental health advocacy movements and representatives of the highest echelon of executive leadership in our State to facilitate deep and lasting change in the way services are delivered. The proposal also features enhancement of already strong public-academic and public/private provider partnerships in the areas of evidence based practices and emphasis on a recovery focused approach to service. The University of Maryland, Center of Mental Health Services Research, located in the School of Medicine, plays a prominent role in the proposed activities. Overall, the proposed transformation activities take stock of the current strengths of the system with a realistic appraisal of areas needing change and brings together the resources and people needed to effect meaningful and lasting change in the system.
     
Grantee: The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD
Program: Campus Suicide SM57525
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2005 Funding: $69,323
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
Suicide and attempted suicide continue to be a concern at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The number of students reporting suicidal ideation or presenting to the student counseling center on campus has been rapidly increasing, signaling the need for increased intervention. The number of clients seen as emergencies has risen dramatically from 372 in 2002-2003, to 391 in 2003- 2004, to 479 in 2004-2005. According to Counseling Center staff there is a steady rise in the number of psychological problems among students as well as an alarming increase in the severity of these problems. The toll on staff has been severe. One colleague reported treating 16 actively suicidal clients this semester, with as many as 7 at one time. In addition, all counselors are overwhelmed by the required after hours on call responsibility. The overall goal of the proposed project is to provide a seamless and localized response system for students in crisis. The program will ensure that a student in crisis will have direct and immediate access to a trained counselor. This will be accomplished through the implementation of an after-hours crisis hotline, staffed by licensed clinicians who will be able to provide students with immediate assistance. When a student’s need is determined to be critical, the Center will provide on-site, in-person assessment and crisis intervention. These efforts will be coordinated with Hopkins Security and Union Memorial Hospital. In addition, we will would provide educational materials and information sessions, and create a network of services that educate the campus community. This includes students, staff, parents, and other parties, ensuring that people who are concerned about a student’s wellbeing have twenty-four hour access to trained professionals who can help.
     
Grantee: Department of Health & Mental Hygiene Catonsville, MD
Program: Evidence Based Training & Evaluation SM56164
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2005 Funding: $285,695
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006
Building on Maryland's commitment to integrate effective treatments into routine health care settings for those with severe mental illness, this project will provide training on Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) to three sites. Upon successful implementation, and completion of Training of Trainer activities, these sites will become the ACT Training Resource Programs for the State. Evaluation activities will assess training efforts, program fidelity, implementation, and outcomes. The project will address the gap between scientific advances in knowledge about effective treatments for persons with serious mental illness and the availability of those services in routine health care settings. Program implementation will be closely monitored, including fidelity to the model and consumer outcomes. Once the initial three sites receive training and education in ACT and successfully implement programs in their own agencies, they will receive special training on becoming ACT trainers themselves. This 'train the trainer' model will be piloted within the state as a mechanism for disseminating evidence-based practices, expanding the long term capacity of the system to provide ACT and other EBPs to consumers. The project will expand on the collaborative relationship between the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) and the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry (Mental Health Systems Improvement Collaborative). Also, in partnership with On Our Own of Maryland (OOOMD), the statewide mental health consumer advocacy group, consumers will be trained to administer a survey to ACT clients assessing consumer satisfaction, including cultural competency. This aggregate information, along with the ongoing collection of outcomes conducted by the sites, will then be used to help the ACT provider sites assess their services for relevance, satisfaction to consumers and for cultural competency, and to take corrective measures when necessary.
     
Grantee: American Nurses Association Silver Spring, MD
Program: Minority Fellowship Program SM56572
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2005 Funding: $825,930
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
The Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) at the American Nurses Association (ANA) is designed to facilitate the entry of ethnic minority nurses into careers in mental health and substance abuse by offering a program that recruits and supports them in their pursuits to attain advanced degrees. It proposes a rigorous pre-doctoral training program to support 20 highly qualified ethnic minority fellows to pursue careers in mental health and substance abuse disorders. This program includes academic and professional support and supervision for the fellows and their course of study in mental health and substance abuse. An ethnically diverse group of nurses serve on the MFP advisory. This program will continue to strengthen its relationship with consumers, ethnic minority communities and professionals, deans and directors of nursing programs and leaders in service institutions.
     
Grantee: People Encouraging People, Inc Baltimore, MD
Program: AIDS TCE-Service Capacity Bldg in Minority Communities SM53850
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2005 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 09/29/2006
People Encouraging People (PEP) and the Park Heights Community Health Alliance (PHCHA) plan to utilize a mobile treatment model to provide psychiatric services to the consumer in an environment in which they are most comfortable. The Mobile Treatment Team will consist of a nurse, a social worker and an outreach worker. The staff will be supported by a psychiatrist who will make visits in the community and follow best practices of treatment for HIV/AIDS. The staff will receive special training in the combined treatment of HIV/AIDS and the unique mental health needs of this population.
     
Grantee: Henry M. Jackson Fdn/Advance Mil Med Rockville, MD
Program: SAMHSA Conference Grants SM56745
Congressional District: MD-08
FY 2005 Funding: $50,000
Project Period: 09/01/2005 - 08/31/2006
A conference on Workplace Disaster Preparedness will educate workplace mental health providers and stakeholders about the psychological consequences of disaster, terrorism and bioterrorism. Trauma experts and workplace leaders will disseminate knowledge and practical information to help attendees develop pre-event, event and post-event interventions for maximizing positive outcomes within their organizations.
     

 

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention

Grantee: Local Mngt. Board of Anne Arundel County Annapolis, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13459
Congressional District: MD-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: County Commissioners of Queen Annes Cty Centreville, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11629
Congressional District: MD-01
FY 2005 Funding: $99,948
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: County of Kent Chestertown, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12095
Congressional District: MD-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: Talbot Partnership for Alc/Other DA Prev Easton, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12339
Congressional District: MD-01
FY 2005 Funding: $61,855
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: Community Services & Research Center Princess Anne, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13058
Congressional District: MD-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: Friends Research Institute, Inc Baltimore, MD
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP13321
Congressional District: MD-02
FY 2005 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
Now, and for many decades, drug and alcohol use and abuse problems have continued to occur in Native American communities. More recently, HIV/AIDS and hepatitis have appeared in all but a few of these communities. Along with the frustration, pain, and senseless deaths that result from these problems, Native Americans must struggle with treating and preventing a problem that doesn't seem to fit within its own traditional healing systems. This proposal seeks to build a foundation for delivering and sustaining effective and culturally relevant services to prevent and reduce the onset of substance abuse (SA), and transmission of HIV/ AIDS and hepatitis among urban Native Americans and Native American reentry populations in Baltimore, MD. The overall purpose of the proposed project is to implement a culturally responsive HIV/AIDS/Hepatitis program that will increase and sustain service capacity to Native Americans in order to address SA, HIV, and hepatitis problems. The increases in service capacity are designed to: (1) build skills and knowledge; (2) promote new peer group norms of preventive communications and behaviors; and (3) help sustain new health promoting habits. Using the Strategic Prevention Framework as a model to develop culturally relevant service capacity specifically for urban Native Americans, the five goals of the project are to: (1) Conduct a community needs assessment; (2) Mobilize and build capacity to address SA/HIV and hepatitis prevention needs; (3) Develop a comprehensive strategic plan; (4) Implement evidence based prevention programs and infrastructure development activities; and, (5) Assess program effectiveness. Service capacity will be enhanced through partnership with an urban Native American program, LifeLines Foundation that serves substance abusing Native Americans in Maryland. Through this partnership, we will develop workgroups that provide syntheses of state and local indicator data specifically on Native Americans.
     
Grantee: Harford County, Maryland Bel Air, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12940
Congressional District: MD-02
FY 2005 Funding: $99,721
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: First Step Inc Cockesville, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12066
Congressional District: MD-02
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: Strategic Community Services, Inc. Glenarden, MD
Program: Youth Transition into the Workplace SP11138
Congressional District: MD-04
FY 2005 Funding: $150,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2006
Stretegic Community Services, Inc. will be developing a health-oriented substance abuse prevention program to reduce youth drug use and abuse in the workplace. The project is located in Prince George's County Maryland. The target population is African-American youth ages 16-24. Target Security Company is the worksite partner and other private security companies interested in implementing the practice will be selected during Phase I. GetFit@SAMHSA.gov will be tailored for this poopulation along with reviewing and tailoring Working for Wellness and Healthy Workplace.
     
Grantee: Strategic Community Services, Inc. Glenarden, MD
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 4 Services SP10536
Congressional District: MD-04
FY 2005 Funding: $350,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The Strategic Community Services, Inc. in Glenarden, MD has received a 5 year grant to provide integrated substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention services to minority and underserved populations. This program will use a youth popular culture framework to integrate substance abuse prevention and HIV prevention interventions. The project is entitled "Hip Hop to Prevent Substance Abuse and HIV" (H2P), and will integrate a SAMHSA model program and a CDC HIV Prevention Effective Program: Project School Using Coordinated Community Efforts to Strengthen Students (SUCCESS) and Becoming a Responsible Teen (BART).
     
Grantee: Suitland Family & Life Development Corp Glenarden, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12377
Congressional District: MD-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: Suitland Family and Life Development Lanham, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities Mentoring SP13561
Congressional District: MD-04
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: Pacific Institute for Research Calverton, MD
Program: Youth Transition into the Workplace SP11140
Congressional District: MD-05
FY 2005 Funding: $150,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2006
PIRE with Amtrak and Amtrak's unions propose a randomized controlled trial designed to reduce substance abuse among 1,500 Amtrak permanent employees aged 18-24 at enrollment. A grant-funded youth preventive services coordinator will develop and deliver (1) orientation training adapted from the US Navy's promising PREVENT curriculum, (2) youth-oriented materials for current prevention programs, and (3) training of a large workplace peer prevention network, Operation RedBlock, on young worker issues. Operation RedBlock, a union-operated, management supported, and company-funded peer support program was implemented in 1989. RedBlock harnesses the energy of 2,400 active volunteers to keep the workplace substance-free and steer employees with drug or alcohol problems to help. RedBlock markoff, which allows employees with substance abuse issues to "mark-off" and not get on board with confidentially without penalty and receive assistance for these issues.
     
Grantee: Collington Square Non Profit Corp Baltimore, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11726
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2005 Funding: $99,900
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: MD Department of Hlth/Mtl Hygiene Baltimore , MD
Program: Cooperative Agreement for Ecstasy & Other Club Drugs Prevention Services SP11160
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2005 Funding: $292,356
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
The Maryland AIDS Administration in collaboration with Chase Brexton Health Services Inc., and the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health is proposing a project to reduce club drug use among men who have sex with men (MSM) through a coordinated system of prevention and substance abuse treatment for MSM in the Baltimore metropolitan area. The proposed project was developed in response to the growing use of club drugs (e.g. ecstasy, methamphetamine, GHB, ketamine, and LSD) and high-risk sexual practices among MSM, which pose serious public health effects within the MSM community. In order to halt the progression of this growing problem, this project will expand and strengthen effective, culturally competent club drug prevention services for MSM in Baltimore.
     
Grantee: Identity, Inc Gaithersburg, MD
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 4 Services SP10516
Congressional District: MD-08
FY 2005 Funding: $349,500
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The Identity, Inc. in Washington, D.C. has received a 5 year grant to provide integrated substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention services to minority and underserved populations. Identity will implement a science-based integrated HIV and substance abuse prevention after-school curriculum for at-risk middle school Latino youth in Montgomery County, Maryland. that builds upon a comprehensive needs assessment conducted in 2002-2003. The curriculum contains a youth, parent, social action cultural sensitivity and an ATOD free lifestyle component responding to and designed with extensive community input from the target population, community members and community leaders. Identity's proposed program goal is to increase protective factors and decrease risk factors associated with HIV and substance abuse among Montgomery County middle school Latino youth.
     
Grantee: Touch of Love Ministries, Inc. Laurel, MD
Program: SAMHSA Conference Grants SP12835
Congressional District: MD-21
FY 2005 Funding: $25,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2006
The Touch of Love Ministries, Inc. is proposing to develop a Conference on Substance Abuse Prevention for Senior Citizens. The conference will comprise a plenary session and four workshops covering key elements in substance abuse prevention: knowledge of the issues involved, locating resources, involving the community, and developing and funding prevention programs. The four workshops are titled: Developing a Prevention Program; Involving the Community in Prevention Efforts; Finding Local Resources to Address Senior Substance Abuse; and Locating Funding for Substance Abuse Prevention. The goals of the conference are: increasing public awareness of the problem of substance abuse among senior citizens; and enhancing the capacity of service providers to identify and/or prevent senior substance abuse. Substance abuse among senior citizens is very much in evidence and is predicted to grow as the baby boomer generation ages. In 2001, illicit drug or alcohol abuse and dependence rates for seniors aged 50-59 were 3.2 percent, only a two-percent drop from 45-49 years olds (5.2%).
     
Grantee: Mount Ephraim Cndc Upper Marlboro, MD
Program: SAMHSA Conference Grants SP12826
Congressional District: MD-25
FY 2005 Funding: $25,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2006
The Mount Ephraim Community Non-profit Development Center proposes to develop a Conference on Substance Abuse and Prevention Among the Senior Population. It will include a plenary session and six workshops covering key elements in substance abuse prevention: knowledge of the issues; identifying the problem; locating resources and funding, involving communities and families, developing programs, and talking with seniors on the subject. The six workshop$, to be offered simultaneously --three in the morning, three in the afternoon --are titled: Identifying the Problem of Substance Abuse in Senior Citizens; Developing and Implementing a Prevention Program; Involving Families and Communities in the Prevention of Substance Abuse in Senior Citizens; Talking to Seniors on the Subject of Substance Abuse; Local Resources for Assisting Seniors with Substance Abuse Problems; and Funding Opportunities for Substance Abuse Prevention Activities. The conference has the twin goals of increasing public awareness of the problem of substance abuse among senior citizens and enhancing the capacity for identifying and/or preventing senior substance abuse. Substance abuse among senior citizens is very much in evidence and is predicted to get worse as the baby boomer generation ages.
     

 

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

Grantee: Baltimore City Health Department Baltimore, MD
Program: CSAT 05 Earmarks TI17418
Congressional District: MD-01
FY 2005 Funding: $248,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2006
Baltimore City seeks funding to continue its Felony Diversion Initiative (FDI), a project started in 2002 that has demonstrated an 80 percent success rate in reducing recidivism. The new grant-funded services will divert 50 additional offenders from incarceration to treatment.
     
Grantee: Baltimore City Health Department Baltimore, MD
Program: TCE Innovative Treatment TI16418
Congressional District: MD-01
FY 2005 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
Baltimore School-Based Recovery Services program expands treatment capacity for a large target population, minority youth, by implementing a schools-based screening and early identification program, an evidence-based treatment intervention, case management, referral, continuing care recovery monitoring, family support services, and training of school personnel in early identification of at-risk youth.
     
Grantee: Danya Institute, Inc Silver Spring, MD
Program: Addiction Technical Transfer Center TI13427
Congressional District: MD-04
FY 2005 Funding: $649,999
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 09/29/2006
ATTCs provide state-of-the-art education and training programs to health care professionals, state and local governments, and community organizations. Utilizing comprehensive curricula addressing all elements of addiction treatment and recovery, ATTCs disseminate research-based knowledge to addictions treatment and public health/mental health personnel, institutional and community corrections professionals, and others.
     
Grantee: Gaudenzia, Inc Baltimore, MD
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI14539
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2005 Funding: $499,886
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To expand the capacity to provide specialized substance abuse, HIV/ AIDS prevention and treatment services. The program will target criminal justice individuals, injection drug users, and men who have sex with men from the African-Americans and Latino populations.
     
Grantee: Chase Brexton Health Serv, Inc Baltimore, MD
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI15739
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2005 Funding: $423,537
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
To address the co-occurring problems of substance use, HIV/AIDS, and mental health issues in our primarily African American population of Men who have sex with Men (MSM), Chase Brexton Health Services (CBHS) will implementan Enhanced Services Model, comprising: Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) for MSMs and those with (or at risk for) HIV/AIDS; Integration of primary care, mental health, psycho-social, and pharmacy services; and Office Based Opioid Treatment (OBOT).
     
Grantee: Department of Health & Mental Hygiene Baltimore, MD
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI14530
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2005 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To enhance the capabilities of the substance abuse treatment program offered through drug courts. The program will target women, criminal justice individuals, injection drug users, and individuals who have sex for money or drugs from the African-American population.
     
Grantee: People Encouraging People, Inc Baltimore, MD
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment TI16623
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2005 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2010
People Encouraging People, Inc (PEP) in collaboration with Baltimore Mental Health Systems (BMHS), Baltimore Substance Abuse Systems (BSAS), the Baltimore City of Homeless Services (OHS), the University of Maryland School of Social Work (SSW) and the Park Heights Community Health Alliance (PHCHA) is proposing to create a comprehensive dual diagnosis treatment system for persons who are homeless in Baltimore City. This new program is an integration and expansion of PEP's current community based mental health mobile treatment program and its facility based Mental Illness Substance Abuse program.
     
Grantee: The American Society of Addiction Medic Chevy Chase, MD
Program: DATA Physician Clinical Support System TI16695
Congressional District: MD-08
FY 2005 Funding: $499,681
Project Period: 09/01/2004 - 08/31/2007
The grantee, in consortium with other specialty addiction medicine, psychiatric, pain and general medicine societies will create a Physician Clinical Support System designed to assist physicians in the appropriate use of this buprenorphine treatment.
     
Grantee: Adventist Healthcare, Inc Rockville, MD
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment TI15466
Congressional District: MD-08
FY 2005 Funding: $242,956
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.