SAMHSA Grant Awards by State FY 2005

Discretionary Funds in Detail

SOUTH CAROLINA

Center for Mental Health Services

Grantee: Medical Univ of South Carolina Charleston, SC
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children SM56070
Congressional District: SC-01
FY 2005 Funding: $599,231
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2007
The National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center (NCVC) at the Medical University of South Carolina and two community partners--the Dee Norton Lowcountry Children's Center (LCC), and the Charleston/Dorchester Community Mental Health Center--will establish the Service Systems Models Intervention Development and Evaluation Center. The center will develop, evaluate, and disseminate evidence-based, trauma-informed interventions that can be used by youth-serving service systems such as schools, juvenile justice programs, mental health centers, medical centers, child advocacy centers, and rape crisis centers to help children and adolescents who have been exposed to traumatic events. The NCVC will work with its collaborating and community partners to 1) develop, evaluate, and disseminate a web and internet-based system for training counselors, 2) expand the use of, evaluate, and disseminate an empirically supported early intervention for sexual assault victims, and 3) implement, evaluate, and disseminate a school child abuse liaison program. In addition to these specific projects, the SSM center will have an ongoing program that seeks to identify promising interventions and provide leadership, expertise, and technical assistance within the NCTSN to foster their development, evaluation, and dissemination.
     
Grantee: South Carolina Dept of Mental Health Columbia, SC
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants SM56657
Congressional District: SC-01
FY 2005 Funding: $160,645
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: South Carolina Dept of Mental Health Columbia, SC
Program: Child & Adolescent MH and SA SIGs SM56547
Congressional District: SC-01
FY 2005 Funding: $741,615
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
Building on the work of previous grants from the U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services, this project will enhance South Carolina's system of care for children with serious emotional disturbances. The Project will develop an infrastructure designed to reduce long-term residential care. The emphasis will be on helping children and adolescents remain at home.
     
Grantee: South Carolina Dept of Mental Health Columbia, SC
Program: SAMHSA Conference Grants SM56716
Congressional District: SC-01
FY 2005 Funding: $50,000
Project Period: 09/01/2005 - 08/31/2006
A two-day southeastern regional conference in 2005 to disseminate information on current promising and best practices for collaborative community response to psychiatric emergencies and diversion of nonviolent offenders with mental illnesses from the criminal justice system to appropriate community treatment and resources. The conference will have a keynote presentation by a national expert, consumers and advocates will be featured as speakers, it will be televised throughout South Carolina with capability for call-in questions, and it will showcase national and state diversion initiatives with outcomes that have been documented in literature.
     
Grantee: Federation of Families of South Carolina Columbia, SC
Program: CMHS Statewide Family Network Grants SM56453
Congressional District: SC-02
FY 2005 Funding: $59,982
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
The South Carolina Technical Assistance Center for community Family Networks will provide technical assistance and training services to the 16 existing family support groups in 14 counties across South Carolina. The overarching purpose of this project is to increase state network participation and to assist local groups in becoming more self sustaining.
     
Grantee: South Carolina Share West Columbia, SC
Program: CMHS Statewide Consumer Network Grants SM56349
Congressional District: SC-02
FY 2005 Funding: $69,810
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
The only consumer governed organization in South Carolina, SC Share, proposes to utilize funds to develop a Recovery Learning Center that will educate consumers as expert on recovery based practices, provide support and follow up on models to teach peer groups, and advocate for consumer employment in the state's mental health system that will facilitate integration of consumer driven recovery based service delivery. SC Share will link this project on an existing project that provides basic recovery information. Consumers will learn how to integrate recovery-based practices into the mental health system as other peers are trained to share information in communities. An advisory committee, board of directors and staff will consist of consumers that will develop curriculum for the learning center. These consumers will be the supports for consumers who complete the training and seek employment that will integrate the trainees into the mental health system using a recovery-based model.
     
Grantee: SC Department of Mental Health Columbia, SC
Program: Children's Services SM56056
Congressional District: SC-05
FY 2005 Funding: $2,013,787
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2009
The South Carolina Department of Mental Health will launch YouthNet, a comprehensive system of care to capture and address the needs of seriously emotionally disturbed children and their families in three counties, Chester, Lancaster and York. YouthNet seeks to develop a broader array of services in its target area, and to integrate these services into a more effective system of care. Lancaster County has the 5th highest rate of child abuse and neglect in our state followed closely by Chester County. All three counties were ranked third highest in the state in the number of people ages 12 and older in need of alcohol or other drug treatment. Catawba Community Mental Health Center has the highest rate in South Carolina of out-of- home placements for child and adolescents with emotional disorders. While faced with significant challenges, these three counties have a strong history of working collaboratively to benefit the population. YouthNet will be created through each county with a local Community Resource Team (CRT) that will have wide representation from a variety of groups including family members and youth. Intensive Family Preservation Services will be developed for 240 families with children under the age of six. There are currently no such programs for families with young children with emotional problems in the state. Multisystemic Therapy, an evidenced-based practice, will be expanded for at least 50 families. Community-based treatment with an emphasis on wrap services will be greatly expanded. A Transition Facilitator will address needs of young adults. Mental health workers will be out-stationed in local schools, public welfare offices, a domestic violence shelter, and with the Catawba Indian Nation. Two Youth Coordinators will increase youth involvement in planning and implementation of appropriate services. An aggressive social marketing program will strengthen outreach and cross agency efforts.
     
Grantee: South Carolina State Dept of Mental Hlth Columbia, SC
Program: Youth Violence Prevention SM55803
Congressional District: SC-06
FY 2005 Funding: $199,951
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2006
The South Carolina Violence Prevention Coalition (SCVP) is a partnership among parents, young people who are receiving mental health services and have been involved with the juvenile justice system, juvenile advocates, and the SC Department of Mental Health and Juvenile Justice. The SCVP Coalition will spearhead a statewide strategy to divert youthful offenders away from institutions and support them with community programs proven effective in reducing criminal activity. Project goals include reducing the number of restrictive placements for South Carolina yough who have emotional problems and who are involved with the juvenile justice system and increasing the number of these youth who are at home, attending school or involved in vocational activities and who remain out of trouble and remain safe.
     

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention

Grantee: School Dist V-Lexington & Richland Co's Ballentine, SC
Program: Drug Free Communities Mentoring SP11753
Congressional District: SC-02
FY 2005 Funding: $74,934
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2006
The grantee is to support and encourage the development of new or expansion of existing community anti-drug coalitions that are focused on the prevention and treatment of substance abuse in the new or expanded coalition's community.
     
Grantee: Clemson University Clemson, SC
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12145
Congressional District: SC-03
FY 2005 Funding: $99,928
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: Community Initiatives Incorporated Greenwood, SC
Program: Drug Free Communities Mentoring SP13572
Congressional District: SC-03
FY 2005 Funding: $74,981
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: Community Initiatives Incorporated Greenwood, SC
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11728
Congressional District: SC-03
FY 2005 Funding: $99,964
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: Greenville Family Partnership Greenville, SC
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12284
Congressional District: SC-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: City of Spartanburg Spartanburg, SC
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12354
Congressional District: SC-04
FY 2005 Funding: $90,455
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: The Childrens Council Lancaster, SC
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12136
Congressional District: SC-05
FY 2005 Funding: $97,500
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: Lexington Richland Alc & Drug Abuse Cncl Columbia, SC
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11497
Congressional District: SC-06
FY 2005 Funding: $99,275
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: Florence Cty Comm on Alchl & Drug Abuse Florence, SC
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13166
Congressional District: SC-06
FY 2005 Funding: $76,013
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.
     

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

Grantee: Mental Illness Recovery Center, Inc Columbia, SC
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment TI16569
Congressional District: SC-02
FY 2005 Funding: $399,892
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2010
The Mental Illness Recovery Center, Inc. will provide integrated assertive community treatment to individuals who are homeless with mental illnesses and/or dually diagnosed with a mental illness and a substance use disorder in Richland County, SC. In partnership with the SC Department of Mental Health, the Columbia Area Mental Health Center and the Lexington- Richland Alcohol and Drug Abuse Council, the PRO-ACT team will provide comprehensive community services (outreach, case management, mental health and substance abuse treatment, services and psycho social rehabilitation).
     
Grantee: County of Lexington Lexington, SC
Program: Adult Juvenile and Family Drug Courts TI14054
Congressional District: SC-02
FY 2005 Funding: $300,000
Project Period: 06/01/2003 - 05/31/2006
With the assistance of this drug court treatment enhancement grant, the Lexington county Adult Drug Court Program plans to achieve several goals: add a full-time case management position as part of the contract with Lexington/Richland Alcohol and Drug Abuse Council; enhance the gender-specific treatment services; and conduct a process evaluation and outcome evaluation.
     
Grantee: Orangeburg County Orangeburg, SC
Program: TCE Innovative Treatment TI16396
Congressional District: SC-02
FY 2005 Funding: $421,766
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
Pathways initiative will target adolescents 11-15 years old who are at risk for substance abuse but not dependent. The program will provide an array of early intervention services including two evidenced-based intervention programs, Project Alert and the Parent Project.
     
Grantee: SC Dept of Alc. & Other Drug Abuse Svs Columbia, SC
Program: State Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Coordination TI17377
Congressional District: SC-05
FY 2005 Funding: $399,391
Project Period: 08/01/2005 - 07/31/2008
Breaking Barriers is a collaborative effort between the Governor of South Carolina, the Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services (DAODAS), and the various state agencies that either, fund, license or provide adolescent substance screening or treatment services. They include: the Department of Mental Health, the Department of Education, the Department of Juvenile Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Social Services, the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, Department of Disabilities and Special Needs, and the Department of Education. The project will seek to close gaps and eliminate barriers that currently exist within the adolescent treatment system. The goals of the breaking barriers project are: 1) increase coordination and collaboration within the adolescent treatment system at state and local levels; 2) increase use of standardized screening, assessment, referral & follow-up protocols among providers; 3) standardize and improve the capacity and skills of direct service providers; and 4) enhance and expand the use of evidence-based best practices for adolescent substance abuse treatment services.
     
Grantee: SC Dept of Alcoh & Other Drug Abuse Svcs Orangeburg, SC
Program: TCE Rural Populations TI16370
Congressional District: SC-05
FY 2005 Funding: $492,859
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
The program will serve adolescents 12-17 years of age at risk for substance abuse who are living in Chesterfield and Lee counties. The program, based on Brief Strategic Family Therapy, will provide treatment to 396 youth and their families.