SAMHSA Grant Awards by State FY 2005

Discretionary Funds in Detail

SOUTH DAKOTA

Center for Mental Health Services

Grantee: Horizon Health Care, Inc. Howard, SD
Program: CMHS 2005 Earmarks SM56816
Congressional District: SD-00
FY 2005 Funding: $148,800
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2006
     
Grantee: Sinte Gleska University Mission, SD
Program: Circles of Care American Indian & Alaskan Native Children SM56781
Congressional District: SD-00
FY 2005 Funding: $319,714
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
Sinte Gleska University, of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, SD, will build the infrastructure for a culturally relevant and appropriate behavioral health service model for students, families of students, and the extended reservation community. The project will also enhance the masters level counseling degree program offered by the university. The project is titled "Circles of Care"
     
Grantee: State of South Dakota Pierre , SD
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants SM56627
Congressional District: SD-00
FY 2005 Funding: $143,675
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: Wakanyeja Pawicayapi, Inc. Porcupine, SD
Program: Community TX & Service Ctrs of the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative SM57166
Congressional District: SD-00
FY 2005 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2009
Wakanyeja Pawicayapi, Inc. (Children First, Inc.) is requesting support to develop a Community Treatment and Services Center (CTS) that would serve children and youth aged 3-18 who have experienced trauma on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota. Lakota children and youth experience traumatic events at much higher rates than the general population in the United States, but resources for treating trauma are seriously limited in quality and scope. The increased, local capacity and expertise that a CTS would offer could help insure that evidence-based trauma interventions arc made available to the target population. Wakanyeja Pawicayapi, an Oglala Sioux Tribally chartered organization is headquartered in the community of Porcupine in the heart of the reservation. Among the services it provides are culturally based mental health interventions for children and youth diagnosed with Serious Emotional Disturbance. The demonstrated leadership of the organization in local and national collaborations, and in strengthening the system of care on the reservation, makes it an excellent candidate for developing and sustaining a Community Treatment and Services Center.
     
Grantee: SD School Mines and Technology Rapid City, SD
Program: Campus Suicide SM57509
Congressional District: SD-00
FY 2005 Funding: $75,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
The goals of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (School of Mines) suicide prevention plan are to decrease the stigma and barriers to help-seeking behaviors for mental/behavioral health issues and increase overall mental health among students, thereby aiding the successful completion of their studies. The plan features three major components: Prevention Education, Gatekeeper Intervention Training, and Assessment and Treatment. These components are aimed at reducing risk factors and increasing protective factors as they relate to suicidality. Prevention Education includes seminars targeted to the student. Seminars will address the risk factors and protective factors in smaller groupings of students to maximize interaction and reinforce a social support structure.Prevention Education will also include the development and dissemination of informational material that address the warning signs, risk factors, and protective factors of suicidal behavior as well as appropriate action steps for students to act upon for themselves or on behalf of fellow students. Informational material will also publicize a suicide hotline and be disseminated to students, students’ families and staff. Gatekeeper Intervention Training will address mental/behavioral health problems, risk factors and protective factors and will instruct in the implementation of the crisis response protocol.The final component is the development of an Assessment and Treatment/referral system. Assessment of mental health and suicidal risk will be achieved through the suicide prevention office and will include pre- and post-treatment evaluations.
     
Grantee: Yankton Sioux Tribe Wagner, SD
Program: Child Mental Health Initiative SM57064
Congressional District: SD-00
FY 2005 Funding: $469,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2011
The Yankton Sioux Tribe is seeking Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) assistance to develop and implement a system of care for all youth living within the historic boundary of the Yankton Sioux Reservation. The program will be operated under the Behavioral Health Department of the Indian Health Services clinic in Wagner, South Dakota. A holistic system of care will be established that will focus on the youths' physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. Although the program will be targeted at Native Americans, all persons under the age of 21, regardless of race, will be eligible to receive services under the program. Funding will be used to: o Provide mental health service to reservation youth with a serious emotional disturbance and their families. o Provide training to the caregivers who will provide the mental health service to the youth and their families. o Hire a psychiatrist and a clinical psychologist on a contract basis to provide professional mental health treatment to the youth. The Yankton Sioux Tribe anticipates that this initiative will serve approximately 100 youth and their families annually in system of care service. The service will be comprehensive, holistic, and intensive. The program is much needed because there are no mental health services available on the reservation for youth with a serious emotional disturbance.
     

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention

Grantee: Rural America Initiatives Rapid City, SD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13193
Congressional District: SD-00
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: Action for the Betterment of Our Comm. Sturgis, SD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13045
Congressional District: SD-00
FY 2005 Funding: $99,968
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: University of South Dakota Vermillion, SD
Program: CSAP 2005 Earmarks SP12843
Congressional District: SD-00
FY 2005 Funding: $347,200
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2006
The purpose of the Consortium on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is to build capacity through an established consortium to reduce the risk factors that result in children born affected by a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. The current goal of the FAS Consortium is to revise and validate a screening instrument that can be used quickly in prenatal care settings for women considered at-risk of drinking during pregnancy. Objective one for this project is to complete the validation process for the Revised Prenatal Questionnaire (R-PNQ) that was started last year, and to train selected prenatal clinics in the Consortium states on .the use of the instrument. Objective two is to disseminate the findings from this study. The target population for the validation of the Revised Prenatal Questionnaire is pregnant women seeking prenatal care that are considered at-risk for alcohol use. Earlier data collected from the Prenatal Questionnaire across the states in this Consortium indicated specific key questions that could be used in prenatal clinics to quickly assess risk factors in women presenting at prenatal visits. Analysis of the data collected also indicated a higher level of sensitivity on the Prenatal Questionnaire than currently exists with many of the instruments now being used. Consequently over the next year, the Consortium on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS Consortium) will work to continue the validation of the Revised Prenatal Questionnaire (R-PNQ). During year one of this plan the PNQ was revised into a brief instrument that can be completed in a five- minute time frame; the revised instrument was piloted; validation of the revised instrument began by utilizing a 'gold' standard measure; clinic procedures for using the revised instrument were developed; and training clinics on using the instrument and making appropriate referrals to community resources based on the results also began.
     

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

Grantee: SD Department of Human Services Pierre, SD
Program: CSAT 05 Earmarks TI17403
Congressional District: SD-00
FY 2005 Funding: $694,400
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2006
The purpose of this proposed program is to enhance treatment services in South Dakota. The over-arching goal of this proposed program is to increase the percentage of clients completing the treatment program and returning to society as productive citizens. This proposal builds on the current program model. The current program is a collaborative effort that includes detoxification, intensive inpatient treatment, structured community living, and supportive community placement. A major feature of this proposal is the clinically-managed medium-intensity residential services (Level III.3 or extended care services).