SAMHSA Grant Awards by State FY 2005

Discretionary Funds in Detail

UTAH

Center for Mental Health Services

Grantee: Utah State Dept of Human Services Salt Lake City, UT
Program: Child & Adolescent MH and SA SIGs SM56533
Congressional District: UT-01
FY 2005 Funding: $750,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
The Utah Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health will implement UT CAN (Utah Transformation of Child and Adolescent Network) that will transform the child and adolescent mental health and substance abuse infrastructure to deliver effective, coordinated, and accountable services. Project development involved a broad range of public/private organizations and community members including mental health, substance abuse, education, child welfare, juvenile justice, health, ethnic/racial communities, parent organizations, and youth. The target population of the transformed infrastructure is children, adolescents, and youth age from 0-21 and their families. Through strategic planning, consensus building, and community mobilization, UT CAN will design a statewide master plan of infrastructure transformation that consists of four core components: improved practice field, technology/data, financing structure, and planning/governance/system management. At the local level, each of the 14 Community Mental Health/Substance Abuse Centers in Utah will conduct needs assessment and community mapping to develop a local infrastructure transformation plan. The process evaluation will assess the effectiveness of the strategic planning and the implementation of the statewide master plan and local infrastructure transformation plans. The outcome evaluation will evaluate the scope of implementation and the ability of the transformed infrastructure to deliver effective and coordinated services and to be accountable for them.
     
Grantee: Utah Department of Human Services Salt Lake City, UT
Program: Partnerships for Youth Transition SM54439
Congressional District: UT-01
FY 2005 Funding: $480,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2006
The Utah Division of Mental Health Project RECONNECT is designed to assist youth, between the ages of 14-21 and with serious emotional disturbances or emerging mental illnesses, to successfully transition from childhood to adulthood. Various government/private entities and community and business members are and will continue to be involved in the development of project concept. They include service providers in mental health, substance abuse, education, child welfare, health, and homeless youth shelters. In addition, representatives from ethnic/racial communities, parent organizations, and youth also provide their valuable input. The project proposes to target multiple counties (Summit, Salt Lake, Tooele, Davis, Weber, Morgan, Box Elder, Cache, and Rich) served by four community mental health centers (Valley, Davis, Weber, and Bear River). The overall goal is to mobilize and coordinate community resources to assist these youth to successfully transition to adulthood and achieve full potential in life. The project will organize a coordinated and collaborative partnership to accomplish proposed objectives. It bases the program design on the Transition to Independence Process (TIP) model, which is strong in youth involvement and skills development. Intensive case management/ coordination and mentoring through Transition Facilitators is a core component of the TIP model to assist youth gain meaningful and relevant skills to function as adults. The evaluation design includes process and outcome evaluation to address accountability, quality assurance, and the tracking of youth goal achievements to continue system improvement.
     
Grantee: Utah Department of Human Services Salt Lake City, UT
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants SM56635
Congressional District: UT-01
FY 2005 Funding: $160,718
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: Allies with Families North Salt Lake City, UT
Program: CMHS Statewide Family Network Grants SM56460
Congressional District: UT-02
FY 2005 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
Allies with Families, has had a major role in the development of mental health policy and services for Utah's children with SED and their families. Allies' staff support and organize voices of families who love and want to raise their children in their homes, assures their access to all levels of planning, service delivery and evaluation. Allies insists that individual treatment plans are owned by the family, are strength baed, and reflective of the family's values and culture.
     

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention

Grantee: Brigham City Corporation Brigham City, UT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13033
Congressional District: UT-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: Salt Lake City Salt Lake City, UT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12433
Congressional District: UT-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: Indian Walk in Center Salt Lake City, UT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11687
Congressional District: UT-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: Office of the Governor Salt Lake City, UT
Program: State Incentive Cooperative Agreements SP10366
Congressional District: UT-01
FY 2005 Funding: $750,000
Project Period: 09/15/2003 - 09/14/2006
Utah plans to expand the implementation of the Risk & Protective Factor Model of substance abuse prevention and its emphasis on implementing data-driven, science-based programs to impact college and university students, ages18-25, who are enrolled at Utah's nine public higher education institutions. Key objectives are to: enhance their prevention data infrastructure and capacity to collect and analyze prevention data, redirect and leverage resources directed toward those institutions, and increase the institutions' capacity to implement science based prevention and early intervention programs.
     
Grantee: University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services SP10585
Congressional District: UT-02
FY 2005 Funding: $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The University of Utah is partnership with Centro de la Familia and Utah AIDS Foundation developed Nuevo Dia II to concurrently prevent HIV/substance abuse in 360 high-risk Hispanic girls (ages 12-13) and their 360 mothers/guardian. This gender specific and culturally adapted program, with meetings 2 times a week for 6 months, will integrate 2 "model" programs namely; the Nuevo Dia Program (New Day) and the Being a Responsible Teem Program (BART) for implementation. This family skills based approach will conduct similar "theme" sessions for mothers and daughters at the same time for one hour once a week; and then mothers and daughters will meet to discuss the topic of the session for an additional 30 minutes. During the second meeting of the week, academic tutoring will be provided for the youth while mothers have an optional session to learn English skills, work towards a G.E.D. or another academic oriented endeavor. Recreational, educational, cultural and other activities will also be integrated into the program. Sessions are taught in small groups of 10-15 mother/daughters pairs. Youth/mothers will be recruited primarily by referrals from school counselors in target schools. The project will be evaluated utilizing a quasi-experimental design with random assignment to either the intervention group or a wait-list control group. Eight cohorts of 45 youth/mothers will enroll in the project intervention and another 45 will enroll as a comparison group for a total enrollment of 360 daughters and 360 mothers. With attrition, it is anticipated that 70% will complete the intervention. Youth and their mothers will be pre-tested at a program orientation; assigned to either the current treatment group or wait-list control; post-tested at the end of the 6 month program. The youth in the wait-list control group will then begin the program. This process will be repeated for the duration of the program so that services are available to all those recruited.
     
Grantee: University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12437
Congressional District: UT-02
FY 2005 Funding: $99,989
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: Utah Council for Crime Prevention Salt Lake City, UT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11675
Congressional District: UT-02
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: Utah Federation for Youth Inc. Salt Lake City, UT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11485
Congressional District: UT-02
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: Millard School District Delta, UT
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12102
Congressional District: UT-03
FY 2005 Funding: $99,997
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.
     

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

Grantee: Asian Association of Utah Salt Lake City, UT
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI14384
Congressional District: UT-01
FY 2005 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To expand substance abuse treatment services to serve 60 additional clients per year. And enhance services by including an intensive HIV outreach component for 200 persons among immigrant and refugee groups, i.e. Asian and Pacific Islander immigrants, African refugees from Somalia, Sudan, and Cameroon, Middle-Eastern refugees from Iran and Iraq, and Eastern European refugees from Bosnia.
     
Grantee: Utah County Provo, UT
Program: Adult Juvenile and Family Drug Courts TI14314
Congressional District: UT-03
FY 2005 Funding: $325,738
Project Period: 06/01/2003 - 05/31/2006
Utah County Division of Human Services (UCDHS), a division of Utah County Government, will expand the number of juveniles (ages 17 and under) accessing treatment through its juvenile treatment drug courts