SAMHSA Grant Awards by State FY 2005

Discretionary Funds in Detail

MAINE 

Center for Mental Health Services

Grantee: Dept of Behavioral & Dev Servs (DBDS) Augusta, ME
Program: Partnerships for Youth Transition SM54464
Congressional District: ME-01
FY 2005 Funding: $499,890
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2006
The Maine Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services "Portfolio for Success" project will focus specialized resources for youth, 14-21, with serious emotional disturbances (SED), and newly emerging SED, in the urban community of greater Portland, and the rural community of Washington County. Systemic partners include the gubernatorial Children's Cabinet including Education, Human Services, and Corrections, as well as the Maine Medical Center. Evidence based mental health treatment services and employment services will be provided. The goal of the project is to increase high school, college graduation, and employment rates for targeted youth, decreasing homelessness, substance abuse, and criminal activities. Objectives are to ID and resolve systemic barriers, expand services to a broader range of youth at risk, and develop and model a Transition Portfolio that can be replicated in other urban and rural communities.
     
Grantee: Maine D.H.H.S. Augusta, ME
Program: Child Mental Health Initiative SM57045
Congressional District: ME-01
FY 2005 Funding: $999,728
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2011
The State of Maine, Children's Behavioral Health Services, intends to build an infrastructure and implement an integrated system of care for children ages birth through eighteen with serious emotional disturbances while learning more about and more effectively addressing the needs of a particularly vulnerable and high risk group, young people who have experienced trauma. Children's Behavioral Health Services has teamed up with Child and Family Services (child welfare), Department of Corrections, Department of Education, parents, youth and Tri-County Mental Health Services, a comprehensive mental health center with experience in the development and implementation of trauma-informed practices for adults, to develop its system of care. The focus will be in three western counties, Androscoggin, Oxford and Franklin, with some of the highest rates of immigrants and refugees as well as over average incidences of poverty, child abuse reports and foster care placements. Over 30 state and local agencies, respected professionals in the field of children's mental health and childhood trauma, statewide family organizations and national experts have committed their support for this project.
     
Grantee: State of Maine Augusta, ME
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants SM56620
Congressional District: ME-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: Maine Parent Federation Augusta, ME
Program: CMHS Statewide Family Network Grants SM56363
Congressional District: ME-01
FY 2005 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
Maine Patent Federation, Inc. will carry out a project called Project CANDO, Creating A Network for Diverse Opportunities. The activities of the project will be carried out regionally baed on cultural differences and the needs of families within each region. Maine families will act as catalysts for change to ensure supports and services are available as well as family and consumer driven.
     
Grantee: Maine Youth Suicide Prevention Program Augusta, ME
Program: Youth Suicide Prevention & Early Intervention - Cooperative Agreement State-Sponsored SM57396
Congressional District: ME-01
FY 2005 Funding: $399,997
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
Maine is proposing a strategic expansion of its nationally recognized youth suicide prevention program to reach high-risk and particularly vulnerable rural communities and culturally sensitive populations. New partnerships will be developed to address priorities identified in the Maine Youth Suicide Prevention Program (MYSPP) Plan in selected partner communities through enhanced state and local level collaboration. Stakeholders have identified and prioritized the gaps and needs to which SAMHSA funding will be directed, including state level improvements in the analysis of data; increased public awareness of the risk factors for youth suicide; implementation of suicide prevention activities within partner community youth serving systems; enhanced accessibility of early intervention services; family supports; and strengthened postvention and grief support resources. In addition, project staff will work with members of at risk populations and their families, including Native Americans and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth.
     
Grantee: Advocacy Initative Network of Maine Bangor, ME
Program: CMHS Statewide Consumer Network Grants SM56329
Congressional District: ME-01
FY 2005 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
For five years, the Advocacy Initiative Network of Maine has provided advocacy and program development for consumer of the mental health system. The agency seeks funding to strengthen consumer networks and the mental health system by combating stigma. To provide a pathway for a recovery based system of care, the project will teach leadership and self-recovery skills to consumers while discerning how consumer input can alter policy and resource allocation. With support from the state, regional and local collaborators, the project will develop peer support initiatives for partnerships in the state's mental health system. Technical assistance will train consumers about peer support initiatives; promote leadership and organizational skill development; provide in-state recovery education centers and design a fiscal plan for future network growth. The project will also expand training and telecommunication capacity. Such capacity will be provided on promising self-help/recovery models of care; connect with rural and underserved communities; and develop an accessible resource of consumer information.
     
Grantee: Community Counseling Center Portland, ME
Program: CMHS 2005 Earmarks SM56821
Congressional District: ME-01
FY 2005 Funding: $297,600
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2006
     
Grantee: Office of the Governor Augusta, ME
Program: 2004 COSIGS SM56584
Congressional District: ME-01
FY 2005 Funding: $747,555
Project Period: 09/01/2005 - 08/31/2010
     

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention

Grantee: Medical Care Development Augusta, ME
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12888
Congressional District: ME-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: People's Regional Opportunity Program Portland, ME
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13167
Congressional District: ME-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: Greater Waterville PATCH, Inc. Waterville, ME
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13085
Congressional District: ME-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: Office of the Governor Augusta, ME
Program: Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants SP11190
Congressional District: ME-01
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. Maine's Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant will build a statewide data-driven prevention infrastructure that provides common tools and supports for prevention and health promotion programs.
     
Grantee: New England Institute/Addiction Studies Augusta, ME
Program: Prevention of Meth and Inhalant Use SP10704
Congressional District: ME-01
FY 2005 Funding: $349,997
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006
The New England Institute of Addiction Studies (NEIAS), in cooperation with five of the New England State Prevention Authorities and other partners will strengthen the capacity of those states to prevent inhalant abuse. This program will conduct five distinct activities designed to reduce, over time, the level of inhalant use by youth in the targeted states through implementing a plan that will increase the capacity of the existing prevention infrastructure to address this problem. NEIAS will convene a Regional Inhalant Use Prevention Work Group to promote the use of model prevention tools and strategies in five states. The group will include non-traditional prevention partners such as fire safety education representatives, poison control representatives, and retailers. It will also include national inhalant prevention experts.
     
Grantee: Central Maine Community Health Corp Lewiston, ME
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11583
Congressional District: ME-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: Regional Medical Center at Lubec Inc. Lubec, ME
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12322
Congressional District: ME-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 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: Millinocket Regional Hospital Millinocket, ME
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11360
Congressional District: ME-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: River Coalition Inc Old Town, ME
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11317
Congressional District: ME-02
FY 2005 Funding: $50,000
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: Healthy Community Coalition Wilton, ME
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12172
Congressional District: ME-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.
     

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

Grantee: New England Institute/Addiction Studies Augusta, ME
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment TI15562
Congressional District: ME-01
FY 2005 Funding: $249,997
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006
Project Summary: The New England Institute of Addiction Studies will collaborate with the Vermont Office of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs (the Singe State Agency) and five treatment providers from across the state of Vermont in the delivery of MET/CBT5. Approximately 150 adolescents will be served, including 90 in exclusively rural settings. Youth will be assessed using the GAIN, and followed using the GAIN M-90, at 3, 6 and 12 months after intake.