SAMHSA Grant Awards by State FY 2005

Discretionary Funds in Detail

MISSISSIPPI

Center for Mental Health Services

Grantee: Mississippi Department of Mental Health Jackson, MS
Program: SAMHSA Emergency Response - Hurricane Katrina SM00208
Congressional District: MS-03
FY 2005 Funding: $150,000
Project Period: 09/11/2005 - 03/10/2006
     
Grantee: Mississippi Families as Allies, Inc Jackson, MS
Program: CMHS Statewide Family Network Grants SM56462
Congressional District: MS-03
FY 2005 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
Mississippi Families as Allies for Children's Mental Health, Inc. ( MS FAA) will build on its twelve year record of partnering with agency administrators, service providers, policy makers families and legislators to continue reform of the Mississippi System of Care for children and youth with serious mental health needs. Increasing our training and technical assistance capacity for families, for the youth themselves and for our professional colleagues will be a major focus of grant activities.
     
Grantee: Mississippi Department of Mental Health Jackson, MS
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants SM56647
Congressional District: MS-03
FY 2005 Funding: $160,700
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: Catholic Charities, Inc. Jackson, MS
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children SM56091
Congressional District: MS-04
FY 2005 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2007
The Mississippi Child Trauma Therapeutic Services Collaborative is a strengths and resilience-based partnership that includes State mental health, State disaster management, a major faith-based provider, a prominent family organization, and a network of accessible, community- based services. Catholic Charities of Hope Haven Crisis Services will lead a four-year project to develop the multi-agency, child-/family-centered Child Trauma Therapeutic Services Center, based in Jackson, and serving a three-county area. This project will serve a wide-range of primarily rural and geographically isolated child trauma survivors, including those who have experienced physical, emotional or sexual abuse, rape, neglect, refugee trauma, community violence, domestic violence, violent crime, disaster, and the traumatic loss of loved ones.
     

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention

Grantee: North Delta Planning & Development, Inc Batesville, MS
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12436
Congressional District: MS-01
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: Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Choctaw, MS
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12926
Congressional District: MS-02
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: Southwest MS Rural Health Coalition Tylertown, MS
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11834
Congressional District: MS-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: Behavioral Health Fndn of Central MS Vicksburg, MS
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13123
Congressional District: MS-02
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: Warren Yazoo Mental Health Service , Inc Yazoo City, MS
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12092
Congressional District: MS-02
FY 2005 Funding: $75,000
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: Partnership for a Healthy Scott County Forest, MS
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12061
Congressional District: MS-03
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: Jackson Cnty Children's Svcs Coalition Gautier, MS
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12072
Congressional District: MS-04
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: Region XII Commission on Mental Health Hattiesburg, MS
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP13415
Congressional District: MS-04
FY 2005 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
Pine Belt Mental Healthcare Resources will provide targeted outreach, counseling/testing/ referral and prevention interventions to African Americans residing in Mississippi Public Health District who abuse substances and are at risk for HIV and/or hepatitis infection. The HIP HOP (HIV Intervention Project-HIV Outreach and Prevention) Project will employ faith based and other culturally appropriate outreach workers to recruit and engage African Americans who are at risk for infection or disease transmission due to risk behaviors, including those reentering the community after incarceration. Two evidence based prevention interventions, VOICES and Holistic Harm Reduction will be utilized to reduce risk behaviors. With its partners, Family Health Center, Gateway Baptist Church, Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Southeast Mississippi Rural Health Initiative and 1-2-1 Haven House, Pine Belt Mental Healthcare Resources expects to reduce the HIV/AIDS prevalence rate of African Americans in the Mississippi Public Health District through the reduction of behaviors that put individuals at risk. The objectives to be achieved by the end of the project periods are: 1) within five years, 2500 African Americans in Region XII will know the status of their HIV serostatus; 2) within five years, 6, 105 African Americans in Region XII will increase their understanding of modes of HIV transmission; 3) within five years, 1210 African Americans in Region XII will report the reduction or elimination of high risk behaviors that may lead to HIV infection or transmission; and 4) within five years, 99% of newly confirmed African Americans with HIV infection will access healthcare.
     
Grantee: Jackson State University Jackson, MS
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11729
Congressional District: MS-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: Long Beach School District Long Beach, MS
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11383
Congressional District: MS-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: Mississippi Gulf Coast YMCA Ocean Springs, MS
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11418
Congressional District: MS-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: The Nominal Group, Inc Jackson, MS
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services SP10791
Congressional District: MS-04
FY 2005 Funding: $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
This proposal, from The Nominal Group, Inc., requests $349,482.00 to sustain an effective substance abuse prevention (SAP) and HIV prevention (HIVP) program for African-American at risk youth in West Jackson (Hinds County) Mississippi. The proposed program, "Reducing the Risk to West Jackson Youth" (hereafter, Reducing the Risk) will target 80 African-American youth, males and females, ages 10-19, in West Jackson, Mississippi, who are binge drinking, or using alcohol or drugs and engaging in unprotected sex, having sex without a condom, or other unsafe sexual practice that may lead to contracting HIV and a sexually transmitted disease. Today, alcohol and other drug use and crime among African-American youth in West Jackson continues to be one of the most serious public health problems facing the city. The earlier a youth begins to drink alcohol and to use other drugs, the greater the likelihood of later alcohol and other drug problems, and the participation in risky behaviors that will place them at risk for contracting an STD or HIV. The proposed program, Reducing the Risk, will target 80 African-American males and females, ages 10-19, in West Jackson, Mississippi, who are binge drinking, or using alcohol or drugs and engaging in unprotected sex, having sex without a condom, or other unsafe sexual practice that may lead to contracting, HIV and, a sexually transmitted disease because of social, economic, and environmental (neighborhood characteristics), factors, and who exhibit behaviors that place them at high risk. The educational intervention sessions, of the program, will be implemented at the Hosanna Missionary Baptist Church 3475 Jayne Ave., Jackson; and " meetings with the parents and/or legal guardians will be held at the nearby Jayne Community Center. The Nominal Group believes that the proposed program can elicit changes in behavior.
     

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

Grantee: Coastal Family Health Center, Inc. Biloxi, MS
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI14611
Congressional District: MS-05
FY 2005 Funding: $225,353
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
Coastal Family Health Center, Biloxi, MS -- $252,969 -- to expand and enhance services that will provide day and evening individuals and group counseling for substance abuse treatment and HIV/AIDS prevention. The center goal is to provide substance abuse treatment for 150 patients and their families, providing early intervention and prevention services to 2,000 adolescents and 20 former prison inmates living in the Mississippi area. The program will use Targeted Capacity Expansion TCE/HIV to target adolescents and criminal justice individuals from the Latino population.