SAMHSA Grant Awards by State FY 2005

Discretionary Funds in Detail

NORTH CAROLINA

Center for Mental Health Services

Grantee: NC Dept of Hlth & Human Services Raleigh, NC
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants SM56633
Congressional District: NC-01
FY 2005 Funding: $160,718
Project Period: 08/23/2004 - 08/22/2007
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: The U. of N. C. at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC
Program: Campus Suicide SM57534
Congressional District: NC-04
FY 2005 Funding: $63,669
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will address in meeting national “best practice” guidelines as well as University recommended initiatives to prevent suicide on campus. The goals highlight the importance of making suicide prevention a community effort and priority, taking it beyond the realm of a purely mental health problem. The first goal is the development of a formal infrastructure of key campus leaders to liaison with Counseling and Psychological Service (CAPS) professionals in a community effort to decrease suicidal behavior. As part of this initiative, a 'train-the-trainer' model will be utilized to extend the responsibility of students’ psychological and physical well being on campus to non-mental health campus specialists who see students in their natural environments. The second goal is to develop a peer-education program in an effort to reach and train those individuals, students, who are often the most entrusted with the suicidal concerns and behaviors of their peer students at-risk. The third goal is to expand existing web-based information on suicide prevention as part of a multimodal, multicultural approach to reach students, parents, faculty and staff who may feel more comfortable accessing information in this venue and who need information on a 24-hour a day basis. The fourth goal is to expand and integrate an email behavioral health screening program to outreach to at-risk students who are not wanting or able to take the step of making an appointment at CAPS or with a community mental health provider. The fifth goal is to develop an alliance with and provide information to parents who often have a unique role in knowing their own children’s mental and behavioral health vulnerabilities prior to entering college, and along with peers, being a first line of contact for their distressed children.
     
Grantee: Child & Parent Support Services Durham, NC
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children SM56124
Congressional District: NC-04
FY 2005 Funding: $399,401
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2007
Child & Parent Support Services as a Community Practice Center will 1) improve access to care for traumatized children in Durham, 2) heighten community provider response to trauma in children, 3) implement three new best practices interventions considered ready for replication and evaluation, and 4) work collaboratively with Network sites. The grantee will work through a collaboration of a community non-profit agency and three universities designed to unify previously fragmented community services for traumatized children. The project utilizes a comprehensive approach to child trauma including forensic assessment, child and parent treatment, intensive in-home services, and school-based interventions. This continuum of services was developed and implemented to respond to the complex needs of families experiencing trauma in addition to chronic psychosocial adversity. Utilizing evidence-based treatment approaches and working with network partners to identify screening tools and training strategies, the grantee will increase its capacity to provide state-of-the-art best practices in trauma treatment to children in their community.
     
Grantee: North Carolina Comm Health Ctr Assoc Morrisville, NC
Program: SAMHSA Conference Grants SM56750
Congressional District: NC-04
FY 2005 Funding: $50,000
Project Period: 09/01/2005 - 08/31/2006
A three-day SAMHSA supported Mental/Substance Abuse Curriculum will be offered at the 18th Annual East Coast Migrant Forum. The track will address improvements in the quality and availability of farmworker-specific mental health and substance abuse prevention, early intervention, and treatment taking into consideration differences in gender, religion, age, language and culture.
     
Grantee: ECAC for NC Families United Davidson, NC
Program: CMHS Statewide Family Network Grants SM56457
Congressional District: NC-09
FY 2005 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
NC Families United's mission is to link families of children with serious emotional, behavioral mental health challenges to state and community partners for improving the lives of these children and their families. Funding has allowed NC Families United to develop and grow into a statewide voice for children and families with serious emotional, behavioral, and mental health challenges.
     
Grantee: Mecklenburg Co. Area Mental Health Charlotte, NC
Program: Child Mental Health Initiative SM57065
Congressional District: NC-12
FY 2005 Funding: $999,788
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2011
Building on a strong local collaborative effort and a pilot System of Care (SOC) project, Mecklenburg CARES applies the lessons learned from North Carolina's prior projects to build a System of Care in a divested state environment that will: (1) Unify service planning to have "One Family, One Team, One Plan"; (2) Build upon TJNC Charlotte's growing capacity to merge data longitudinally; (3) Guide state efforts to expand SOC practice throughout the state; (4) Explore ways to blend funding to maximize flexible service delivery for families; (5) Decrease disparities in service delivery and outcomes. Funding through this initiative will help the community increase its capacity to work collaboratively, improve service delivery to children and families, and mobilize the broader community to develop resources to address the needs of children and families. Through a team approach, each family will develop a greater capacity to use community resources to help each child be successful in school, home and the community.
     

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention

Grantee: Eastern N Carolina Cncl on Subst Abuse Greenville, NC
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11499
Congressional District: NC-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: Cumberland County Communicare, Inc Fayetteville, NC
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12153
Congressional District: NC-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: Chrysalis Foundation for Mental Health Chapel Hill, NC
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13189
Congressional District: NC-04
FY 2005 Funding: $98,640
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: Duke University Durham, NC
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP13283
Congressional District: NC-04
FY 2005 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
FirstSigns: Integration of Prevention In Primary Care Through Training, Testing and Education proposes a comprehensive program of substance abuse (SA) and HIV/hepatitis prevention and education to be integrated into routine primary care at the Lincoln Community Health Center, a federally qualified community health center, and a Duke Health Center Outpatient Clinic in Durham, North Carolina. The patients cared for in these facilities will be offered free, confidential OraQuick and OraSure Rapid HIV-1 antibody testing, along with pre and post-test counseling by qualified peer educators, chaplains and health educators. As part of this continuum of care, all patients will be offered follow-up interventions: Healthy Choices (HC), for those testing negative for HIV, and Positive Connections (PC), a prevention with positives (who are being discharged from the North Carolina Department of Corrections and PWP) program, for those testing positive for HIV. In addition, Durham County residents Durham County Jail will be offered access to these programs as a component of the reentry process. Persons testing positive for HIV will receive immediate on-site counseling from trained peer educators, chaplains and health educators. They will also be linked to HIV specialty care on a priority basis. The project will target minority and reentry populations who are disproportionately affected by SA/HIVHep. Following the five-step SAMHSA Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF), FirstSigns will increase the capacity of health and human service agencies in Durham to provide a seamless continuum of SA/HIV/Hep prevention through same day testing for HIV disease. PLWHA completing the PWP intervention will be offered Modified Directly Observed Therapy (MDOT) to facilitate substance abuse prevention while encouraging medication and medical adherence.
     
Grantee: Office of the Secretary, State of NC Raleigh, NC
Program: Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants SP11201
Congressional District: NC-04
FY 2005 Funding: $2,332,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2010
The State of North Carolina has received a five year Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant (SPF SIG). The purpose of the North Carolina SPF-SIG is a five-step process that will enhance state, regional, and local capacity to plan, assess, implement, evaluate, and sustain efforts to build a substance abuse prevention infrastructure. It recognizes the successes of the original NC-SIG by establishing regional Centers of Prevention Excellence which serve as "HUBs" that will reach out to "SPOKEs" in local communities to build capacity. The three primary goals of the NC SPF SIG project are to (1) Build prevention capacity and infrastructure at the State and community levels; (2) Prevent the onset and reduce the progression of substance abuse, including childhood and underage drinking; and (3) Reduce substance abuse-related problems in communities.
     
Grantee: ValueOptions Research Triangle Park, NC
Program: Youth Transition into the Workplace SP11118
Congressional District: NC-04
FY 2005 Funding: $149,916
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2006
To create EAP services that more effectively reach young workers, this project will work to adapt EAP services to better match their cultural, demographic and attitude preferences. To achieve this improved outreach, Value Options and its partners Health Management Associates (HMA) and the Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems initiative at George Washington University Medical Center (GWUMC) will use the sophisticated geodemographic segmentation systems and data mining techniques used by businesses to sell gourmet coffee or to locate branch bank offices. By using Value Options' database that includes socio-demographic and clinical service information from millions of client care episodes with geodemographic segmentation systems, we will create EAP services that reach young workers for the first time with media, messages, and processes of care that match their preferences and problems. In the first two years of the planned project, Value Options will work with six corporate customers served through its North Carolina center to create and pilot the prototype EAP outreach to young workers. In Phase II, the program will replicate Phase I and extend the program to Value Options' entire book of business, four other service sites and 12 staff model offices.
     
Grantee: Moses Cone Wesley Long Cmnty Hlth Fndn Greensboro, NC
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11471
Congressional District: NC-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: Coalition for Drug Abuse Prevention Winston Salem, NC
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12429
Congressional District: NC-05
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: Gastonia Housing Authority Gastonia, NC
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11292
Congressional District: NC-09
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: Hinton Rural Life Center, Inc. Hayesville, NC
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12870
Congressional District: NC-11
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: Sickle Cell Dis Assoc-Piedmont Greensboro, NC
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 4 Services SP10526
Congressional District: NC-12
FY 2005 Funding: $350,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The Sickle Cell Disease Association of the Piedmont (SCDAP) in Greensboro, NC has received a 5 year grant to provide integrated substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention services to minority and underserved populations. This program will provide three new HIV and substance abuse prevention interventions to African-American high risk communities in Greensboro and High Point, NC.
     

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

Grantee: Regional HIV/AIDS Consortium Charlotte, NC
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI14512
Congressional District: NC-01
FY 2005 Funding: $283,848
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To enhance the current case management system to include access to substance abuse professionals and connect clients who are dually diagnosed with treatment options and support during treatment and aftercare. African-American's comprise 71 percent of the 180 individuals that will be served during this grant period.
     
Grantee: North Carolina Dept of Hlth & Human Srvc Raleigh, NC
Program: State Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Coordination TI17387
Congressional District: NC-01
FY 2005 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 08/01/2005 - 07/31/2008
The proposed project will develop a sustainable infrastructure for substance abuse treatment coordination that will strengthen the capacity of the North Carolina Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services (DMH/DD/SAS) to serve youth in need of substance abuse treatment and their families. The project will build on existing collaborative efforts between parents and youth, the Division of MH/DD/SAS, the Department of Public Instruction (DPI), the Administrative Office of the Courts, the Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (DDJJDP), and other child serving public and private agencies, particularly as operationalized in the implementation of the legislatively-mandated and State-funded Comprehensive Treatment Services Program (CTSP) for youth with serious emotional and behavioral disorders and their families and the Managing Access for Juvenile Offender Resources and Services (MAJORS), which provides substance abuse treatment within a system of care context to adjudicated youth with substance abuse problems.
     
Grantee: Duke University Durham, NC
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI14386
Congressional District: NC-04
FY 2005 Funding: $499,992
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To ensure that an additional 400 people have access to culturally sensitive substance abuse and HIV prevention and treatment services. The target population of this intervention are African-American women, including women with children, African-American men who inject drugs, including men who have sex with men (MSM) and at-risk, non-injecting MSM and African-American men and women who have been released from prisons and jails.
     
Grantee: Duke University Durham, NC
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment TI15447
Congressional District: NC-04
FY 2005 Funding: $249,967
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006
The Drug Abuse Treatment for Adolescents (DATA) project is designed to make effective treatment for adolescent substance abuse available in community treatment settings. DATA is designed to be part of SAMHSA's Effective Adolescent Treatment initiative. In DATA, 110 cannabis or alcohol abusing adolescents between the ages of 13 and 17, and 44 similar youths ages 18 to 21, will receive a brief outpatient intervention that has been demonstrated to be an efficacious intervention for cannabis abusers.
     
Grantee: Governor's Inst on Alc & Substance Abuse Research Triangle Park, NC
Program: Strengthening Access and Retention (SAR) TI15587
Congressional District: NC-04
FY 2005 Funding: $200,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006
The Strengthening Treatment Access and Retention (STAR) Project brings together partners from the Pitt County Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Center and the Walter B. Jones Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center and their referring agencies to enhance management procedures and clinical skills to improve access and treatment. The STAR Project will target clients, aged 17-25, who are residents of Pitt County, a largely rural area in eastern North Carolina. Objectives of the STAR project include the following: to improve treatment access and retention in substance abuse services at the Pitt Center through the development of process improvement teams and to improve treatment retention through the use of motivational enhancement therapy (MET).
     
Grantee: EBCI Recovery Services Center Cherokee, NC
Program: Recovery Community Service TI13282
Congressional District: NC-11
FY 2005 Funding: $196,462
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.