SAMHSA Grant Awards by State FY 2005

Discretionary Funds in Detail

TENNESSEE

Center for Mental Health Services

Grantee: Fortwood Center Chattanooga, TN
Program: Initiative to End Chronic Homelessness SM55913
Congressional District: TN-03
FY 2005 Funding: $547,763
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006
This project will house 50 chronically homeless persons who are diagnosed with mental illness or co-occurring disorders.City of Chattanooga, Hamilton County, TN.
     
Grantee: Tennessee Dept of Mental Health Nashville, TN
Program: Child Mental Health Initiative SM57010
Congressional District: TN-04
FY 2005 Funding: $1,000,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2011
Mule Town Family Network is a rural child mental health initiative for Maury County, Tennessee administered through the Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities. Planned by state, county, local agencies, individuals, youth, and family members, this initiative formalizes the infrastructure to plan, implement, and evaluate wraparound services that respond to the needs of children and youth (birth to 21 years) with SED and their families. The Network creates strong linkages and timely access to collaborative, individualized, strengthsbased, child-centered, family-focused, integrated, culturally competent, and community-based, wraparound services according to the guiding principles and core values for systems of care. the initiative will ensure that children with SED and families access and receive services in a seamless system of care that is culturally sensitive and meets the needs and desires of families. Services will be provided in a care managed team approach that includes family involvement, family support, and confidentiality. A total of 440 children and youth with SED and their families will be enrolled during the duration of the 6-year project.
     
Grantee: Tennessee Dept of Mental Health Nashville, TN
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants SM56642
Congressional District: TN-04
FY 2005 Funding: $142,200
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: Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN
Program: Campus Suicide SM57508
Congressional District: TN-05
FY 2005 Funding: $68,088
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
The Vanderbilt University Suicide Awareness and Prevention Project (VUSAPP) proposes to improve identification of and response to suicidality and its antecedents within the Vanderbilt student population. The major goals of VUSAPP are to refine the current on-campus network of student services and to develop educational materials and programs for students, their families and campus personnel. The project aims to unite and marshal the existing expertise and knowhow on campus in order to develop training programs for students and campus personnel that will allow for a more effective response to students with mental or behavioral health problems. The VUSAPP program will develop educational materials and implement educational seminars to enhance the university community’s knowledge on such issues as identifying risk factors for suicide, decreasing high-risk activities, promoting help seeking behaviors and providing easy access to such services. Additionally, VUSAPP will create a local college- based hotline and/or linkage to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline as part of the crisis response plan on campus. Community resources in the greater Nashville area that address suicide and mental health directly, the Jason Foundation, Tennessee Voices for Children (TVC) and the Tennessee Network for Suicide Prevention (TNSP), will assist with the development of trainings and the implementation of VUSAPP at large. The evaluation employs an open systems evaluation design (Cohen & Kibel, 1993), which facilitates "understanding the environment in which programs are implemented and tracking progress toward the achievement of specific program outcomes" (Julian, Jones & Deyo, 1995, p.334).
     
Grantee: Tennessee Voices for Children, Inc. Nashville, TN
Program: CMHS Statewide Family Network Grants SM56367
Congressional District: TN-05
FY 2005 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
Tennessee voices for Children (TVC) proposes to increase the capacity of the Statewide Family Support Network. This network serves to strengthen coalitions between family members, youth, mental health professionals and policy makers to support comprehensive, least restrictive Systems of Care for children and youth with serious emotional disturbances, recognizing that families are the best and most effective agents for positive change.
     
Grantee: Tennessee Dept of Mental Health Nashville, TN
Program: Youth Suicide Prevention & Early Intervention - Cooperative Agreement State-Sponsored SM57400
Congressional District: TN-05
FY 2005 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
The Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities’ Tennessee Lives Count (TLC) is a statewide early intervention/prevention project to reduce suicides/attempts for youth (ages 10-24). TLC includes extensive gatekeeper and lethality assessment training, needs assessment and policy recommendations, stigma reduction, university curricula enhancement, and a plan for sustainability. TLC targets youth at risk for suicide, such as those in State custody, juvenile justice facilities, alternative schools, special education programs, gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth, youth with disciplinary and/or truancy problems, and other high risk populations. Project outcomes will result in: 14,000 gatekeepers, including 200 university faculty and 1,000 students trained in Question, Persuade, and Refer (Q.P.R.) and lethality assessment, who will impact at least 180,000 high risk youth; State agency memorandum of understandings (MOU) mandating gatekeeper training; regional resource directories and materials developed and distributed; statewide Taskforce completion of a needs assessment with policy/legislative recommendations; at least 15 professional organizations and 5 State advisory boards/commissions educated; Youth Suicide Advisory Council involved throughout the project; development of a sustainability plan, and completion of three project evaluations, coordinated with National Evaluation.
     
Grantee: Family & Children's Service Nashville, TN
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children SM56082
Congressional District: TN-05
FY 2005 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2007
The Childhood Trauma Intervention Center (CTIC) is a partnership between Family & Children's Service and the Nashville Child Advocacy Center, two agencies with expertise and experience in responding to children who have experienced trauma. This Center will increase early identification, expand access, and improve effective intervention for highly vulnerable, traumatized children through unique collaborations with child welfare (child protective and foster care services), law enforcement (including domestic violence intervention) and public education (school student services and a family resource center). The key collaborating agencies of CTIC are the Davidson County Department of Children's Services, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, and the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools.
     
Grantee: Centerstone Comm MH Centers, Inc Nashville , TN
Program: TCE-Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Older Adults SM56910
Congressional District: TN-05
FY 2005 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
Centerstone’s initiative, IMPACT Nashville, will build a solid foundation for delivering and sustaining mental health outreach, treatment, and prevention services for adults age 60+ in Davidson County. The project will collaborate with primary care physicians, implement the IMPACT model for late life depression, form a community workgroup, enhance an Electronic Medical Record system, and build stakeholder consensus to support/expand collaborative care. The manualized, evidence-based model, Improving Mood-Promoting Access to Collaborative Treatment for Late Life Depression (IMPACT), will be implemented within a primary care clinic. Together clinic and mental health staff will make up a Treatment Team and deliver services including: screenings: antidepressant medications and/or brief psychotherapy; medication management; consumer/family education; and intensive follow-up. To support infrastructure development, the project will establish an Advisory Council and a Community Workgroup comprising consumers, healthcare professionals, and others interested in or familiar with the target population’s needs. Combined, these groups, along with project healthcare and technical staff will ensure ongoing consumer project input, build community support, and establish stakeholder consensus, as well as sustained infrastructure for the maintenance and expansion of collaborative care. The project will also enhance and customize an electronic medical record system to address age specific issues and support the IMPACT model.
     
Grantee: Shelby County Government Memphis, TN
Program: Jail Diversion SM55058
Congressional District: TN-07
FY 2005 Funding: $299,769
Project Period: 06/01/2003 - 05/31/2006
This project addresses jail diversion for consumers with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. The county government, Pretrial Services, and the Public Defender's Office are working with Foundations and local providers in the Mayor's Jail Mental Health Network to build an outcome-based model leveraging the successes of previous efforts and best-practice concepts to improve services. Despite the success of Shelby County's highly innovative and nationally recognized police-based Crisis Intervention Teams (CIT), current resources are inadequate to stem the tide of mental health consumers entering jail. Since 1985, there has been a 507% increase in the number of inmates housed by the Shelby County Division of Corrections, bringing the total to an average of 2,900 inmates, a figure higher than 11 States. The project model builds upon the success of Shelby County's pre-booking CIT model to provide post-booking linkages among disparate systems within the criminal justice and behavioral health communities. Major project elements include: 1) facilitating early identification and timely transfer to community services; 2) developing Specialty Dual Diagnosis Services provided by Foundations Associates, the only provider of fully integrated mental health and substance abuse treatment services in Tennessee; and 3) upgrading management information systems to provide immediate notification when detainees with mental health disorders enter the system, expedite release, improve communication with providers, and reconnect consumers with SSI and Medicaid benefits. Shelby County is in acute need of this project's expanded services.
     

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention

Grantee: Johnson City Public Schools Johnson City, TN
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12323
Congressional District: TN-01
FY 2005 Funding: $99,970
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: Johnson County Safe Haven, Inc Mountain City, TN
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12980
Congressional District: TN-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: State of Tennessee Nashville, TN
Program: Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants SP11214
Congressional District: TN-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. Tennessee's Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant will use a data-based problem-solving within a systems change model and provide the framework and resources for state government and communities to partner effectively to target scarce resources and build capacity, making each more effective in their efforts to prevent substance use across the lifespan.
     
Grantee: Community House Cooperative, Inc. Newport, TN
Program: Drug Free Communities SP10806
Congressional District: TN-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 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: Metropolitan Drug Commission Knoxville, TN
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12074
Congressional District: TN-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: Loudon County Health Improvement Council Loudon, TN
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12896
Congressional District: TN-02
FY 2005 Funding: $99,609
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: Alcohol & Drug Council of Middle Tenn Nashville, TN
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11439
Congressional District: TN-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: Murfreesboro Housing Authority Murfreesboro, TN
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11609
Congressional District: TN-06
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: Humphreys County Drug Alliance, Inc Waverly, TN
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12324
Congressional District: TN-08
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.
     

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

Grantee: State of Tennessee Nashville, TN
Program: Access to Recovery TI16832
Congressional District: TN-01
FY 2005 Funding: $5,925,988
Project Period: 08/03/2004 - 08/02/2007
The goal of the Tennessee program is to maintain abstinence by supplying vouchers for assessment, substance abuse clinical treatment and/or recovery services. The program will provide client choice among substance abuse clinical treatment and recovery support providers while expanding access to service options, including faith-based options, and increasing the number of state-authorized substance abuse providers.
     
Grantee: University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN
Program: TCE- Campus Screening/Colleges & Universities TI17175
Congressional District: TN-02
FY 2005 Funding: $381,310
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2008
The proposed program, representing a collaborative effort between the College of Social Work, the University Chancellor's Office, and university and community substance abuse service providers, is intended to enhance and expand treatment services to undergraduate students in Knoxville at risk for the consequences of substance use and abuse. This unique collaboration provides a computer-based screening and intervention program based on the BASICS (Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students) alcohol treatment intervention for college students developed by Dimetr, Baer, Kivlahan, & Marlatt (1999).
     
Grantee: Tennessee Dept of Mental Hlth & Dev Dis Nashville, TN
Program: TCE Rural Populations TI16356
Congressional District: TN-04
FY 2005 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
The grant supports targeted outreach to older adults who are abusing alcohol or other drugs including prescription and over-the-counter medication. Outpatient culturally sensitive care services will be provided for 260 persons.
     
Grantee: Tennessee Dept of Mental Health Nashville, TN
Program: TCE Rural Populations TI17232
Congressional District: TN-04
FY 2005 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 08/15/2005 - 08/14/2008
Tennessee's Targeted Capacity Expansion project, "Methamphetamine Evidence-based Treatment & Healing" (METH), targets adults ages 18+ who are abusing methamphetamine and other emerging drugs in six rural counties. Utilizing the Matrix Model, support services (outreach, assessment, case management), and community education, the Rural METH Initiative will expand access to structured, culturally competent care for 180 persons over the 3 year grant program. Forty (40) clients will be served in year 1, sixty (60) clients will be served in year 2 and eighty (80) clients will be served in year 3. The target population is anticipated to reflect the general county demographics and will be socio-economically diverse, white males and females between 20 and 29 years of age with a higher percentage of women using stimulants. Hispanics and African Americans will also be served by this program.
     
Grantee: Meharry Medical College Nashville, TN
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI15862
Congressional District: TN-05
FY 2005 Funding: $492,903
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The Treatment Access Project for African American Women is designed to expand substance abuse treatment and outreach capacity, and enhance treatment services to serve African American women living in Nashville minority communities who are infected or affected by HIV/AIDS.
     
Grantee: Metropolitan Interdenominational Church Nashville, TN
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI13151
Congressional District: TN-05
FY 2005 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 09/29/2006
To strengthen an existing community-based collaboration, which eliminate gaps in the current set of community resources.
     
Grantee: Alcohol & Drug Council of Middle Tenn Nashville, TN
Program: Recovery Community Service TI13202
Congressional District: TN-05
FY 2005 Funding: $200,000
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.
     
Grantee: Centerstone Comm MH Centers, Inc Nashville , TN
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment TI16562
Congressional District: TN-05
FY 2005 Funding: $396,800
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
This program will provide integrated mental health and substance abuse services through adoption of an ACT team co-located in a shelter for adults with substance abuse and/or mental health disorders.
     
Grantee: Shelby County Government Memphis, TN
Program: TCE Minority Populations TI16384
Congressional District: TN-07
FY 2005 Funding: $499,836
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
The grant supports the expansion of treatment and services for Shelby county detainees with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders. The program focuses on minority populations that are involved in the criminal justice system who frequently cycle through the justice system and individuals who are committed to mental hospitals through the criminal justice system who are frequently sent through the state hospital system for stabilization.
     
Grantee: Foundations Associates Memphis, TN
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI15791
Congressional District: TN-07
FY 2005 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The project represents synergies among lead Memphis providers in the co-occurrence and HIV/AIDS community to address the city's greatest infrastructure gap-treatment for ex-offenders with complex co-occurring SA/MI and seropositive or high risk status. It integrates evidence based practices of NIDA, Drake, CDC, & SAMHSA for SA/MI treatment and HIV/AIDS prevention/care to deliver a comprehensive, integrated recovery management model.
     
Grantee: Foundation Associates Memphis, TN
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment TI16485
Congressional District: TN-07
FY 2005 Funding: $396,191
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
This program will provide culturally competent, integrated Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) for homeless persons with co-occurring disorders.
     
Grantee: City of Jackson Jackson, TN
Program: CSAT 05 Earmarks TI17407
Congressional District: TN-12
FY 2005 Funding: $238,080
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2006
The primary goal of the City of Jackson Drug Treatment Court is to promote safety, while reducing recidivism, illegal activities, drug and alcohol use, and incarceration among adults arrested for non-violent criminal offenses. A secondary goal is to improve the criminal justice system through a collaborative and coordinated drug treatment program. Objectives of the program include: providing an integrated continuum of judicial supervision, substance abuse treatment, drug/alcohol screening, and case management that meets the standards established by the National Drug Court Institutes (NDCI) 10 Key Components of Drug Courts; having a minimum of 80% of the graduates of the City of Jackson DTC being crime free; demonstrating the cost effectiveness of a holistic 'Drug Court' approach in treating primary drug and/or alcohol offenders as compared to traditional approaches currently being utilized. The target population for the City of Jackson Drug Treatment Court is permanent residents of Jackson-Madison County, Tennessee, aged eighteen years or older, with a drug and/or alcohol problem and a pending legal matter in Jackson City Court