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SAMHSA Grant Awards By State FY 2006
Discretionary Funds in Detail

Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Grantee: District of Columbia Dept of Mental Hlth	Washington, DC
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants	SM56637
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2006 Funding: $156,700
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: American Psychological Association	Washington, DC
Program: Minority Fellowship Program	SM56564
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2006 Funding: $958,256
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
The principal aim of the American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program (APA-MFP) in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services is to identify, select, and support the training of 30 doctoral level ethnic minority students and 1 post-doctoral trainee whose prior experiences and clearly stated goals suggest they will make significant contributions to the mental health and substance abuse services needs of ethnic and racial minorities. This project will continue the MFP summer training institute and efforts to partner with a program designed to steer community college students toward doctoral degrees in psychology. The program provides stipend support, ancillary training experiences, mentoring career guidance, and access to an outstanding network of professional contacts. An expert advisory committee provides oversight and program guidance as well as mentoring and professional leadership.

Grantee: Howard University	Washington, DC
Program: Campus Suicide	SM57520
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2006 Funding: $75,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
Howard University’s Department of Psychiatry and the University Counseling Service will collaborate and establish a comprehensive suicide prevention program. Goals and Objectives: The overall goals for this project is to increase help seeking behavior, to decrease suicidal behavior, and decrease stigma associated with students seeking mental health treatment. Objectives include the following: (1) Training for recognition of at risk behavior and delivery of effective treatment. Each training module is intended to meet specific needs throughout the campus community by developing programs for students, campus personnel and mental health personnel including those in the emergency division of the Howard University Hospital; (2) Improve our existing strategies of education and outreach to new and existing students and parents by developing supplementary informative literature to be disseminated. Further outreach will be executed by organizing a one day symposium for students once a year, and developing a video by and for students on help seeking behavior and stigma of mental disorders to be shown inTarget audience will be, but not exclusively, vulnerable student populations in an effort to reach at risk populations after training sessions and receiving nformative materials, we anticipate a more educated faculty and staff on how to recognize a student in suicidal crisis and how to obtain help for that student in a careful and sensitive way that will not traumatize the student and the faculty or staff involved. We expect an outcome of more students being open about their mental health and uncover the dilemma of seeking help without feeling stigmatized.

Grantee: George Washington University	Washington, DC
Program: Campus Suicide	SM57512
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2006 Funding: $74,951
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
To meet the major challenge of reaching students at risk for suicide but unknown to campus mental health agencies, the GW Counseling Center proposes to empower students through a multidimensional awareness/educational campaign; to build a web of supportive and skilled faculty, staff and student leaders through comprehensive training/consultative programs; and to sustain a caring community through enhanced identification, referral, and emergency services. GW will engage existing resources across campus to create a multifaceted approach to reaching at-risk students. Multiple media will be used to permeate the campus community with constructive messages each semester. Repetition within poster, flyer, newspaper, radio and electronic billboard publicity will be designed to create a strong positive connection with University Counseling Center (UCC) services. Key faculty, academic advisors, university police, residential life staff, student service staff, and student leaders will be trained to recognize symptoms of students in distress, to respond skillfully and to refer appropriately those students to campus resources.The intention and hope of this proposal is to reach GW students by providing education about mental health issues, empowering a web of community members to identify and respond to students in need, encouraging and supporting these students in taking responsibility for their mental health care by accessing appropriate services, and strengthening campus services to address perceived needs. Evaluation of this suicide prevention project will focus on the impact of the proposed interventions, both in terms of number of individuals meaningfully served as well as new learning and behavior resulting from project interventions.

Grantee: Georgetown University	Washington, DC
Program: NTTAC-National Training & TA Assistance Ctr for CCHld and Adoles MH	SM56495
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2006 Funding: $3,259,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2010
The National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health in the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development was established in 1984. NTAC was established to strengthen the capacity of states, territories, tribes and communites to transform their mental health systems to meet the diverse and complex needs of children and adolescents with or at risk for serious emotional disturbances and their families. Using the blueprint for transforming mental health provided by the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, NTAC will respond to the needs of states, with a specific focus on state mental health agencies, partner child-serving agencies, statewide family organizations, and youth leaders. Individualized coaching to states and territories will focus on the following priority areas: strengthen capacity for system transformation; state planning, policy development and financing; improving systems of care and service delivery and incorporating evidence-based /promising practices; early intervention and early childhood mental health services; reducing disparities and improving cultural/linguistic competence; integrating services across child-serving systems and serving vulnerable populations; workforce and leadership development; and data management, accountability, and technology.

Grantee: Office of Mayor, District of Columbia	Washington, DC
Program: 2004 COSIGS	SM56574
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2006 Funding: $1,097,506
Project Period: 09/01/2005 - 08/31/2010
The Districe of Columbia is using the opportunity of the COSIG program to accelerate the steps already underway to establish an integrated service delivery approach, screen all individuals that present for treatment in partner agencies, provide integrated clinical assessments, provide treatment for co-occuring disorders consistent with current science and best practices, create financial incentives and programmatic infrastructure to sustain services, and build a learning network for continuous quality improvement extending across historical service gaps. Using the Comprehensive Continuous Systems of Care model, the goal is to have "no wrong door" in the District's mental health service system by 2007. George Washington University will assist in creating pay-for-performance and value-based purchasing strategies that align financial incentives to support and sustain high quality assessment and treatment of co-occuring disorders.

Grantee: COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS, INC.	Washington, DC
Program: AIDS TCE-Service Capacity Bldg in Minority Communities	SM57654
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2006 Funding: $522,234
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
The purpose of the Isis Project is to improve the mental and physical health of African American women in the District of Columbia who are HIV positive. The project will both increase the accessibility of the needed services and provide an array of culturally competent, gender specific, HIV-informed mental health services. The project's target population includes three groups: HIV-positive women who have severe mental disorders; HIV-positive women whose mental health status has not been evaluated or who do not have a DSM-IV diagnosis and; those individuals who are part of these women's natural networks. Two of the program's primary goals are to identify mental health concerns among African American women and providers; and to provide a full range of community supports through a newly developed Wellness Intensive Case Management team.

Grantee: District of Columbia Dept of Mental Hlth	Washington, DC
Program: Linking Adolescents at Risk to Mental Health Services Grant Program	SM57432
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2006 Funding: $236,510
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2007
STOP Suicide, which is being proposed in collaboration with the District of Columbia Public Schools and public charter schools, will evaluate the efficacy of two methods of indicated suicide prevention (TeenScreen and School-Based Crisis Intervention) for the identification, engagement and referral to the mental health service system of urban, minority youth at risk of suicide. Both approaches, guided by clinically informed measures and procedures, are designed to reduce the incidence of suicidal behavior among youth who display risk factors by having trained professionals screen youth for suicidal ideation, plans, or past attempts and then link them to clinically indicated services.If a mental health concern arises from either indicated approach, an additional assessment is conducted to determine the need for less intensive outpatient services, more intensive outpatient services, or inpatient hospitalization. Students and their families will be seen and/or referred to the appropriate services that are fully accessible for all students. D.C. Department of Mental Health School-based Mental Health Program (SMHP) clinicians will provide follow-up.STOP Suicide will target adolescents ages 15-21 who attend one of thirty D.C. public or public charter schools with an SMHP clinician. The project goal is to have a total of 510 students complete a mental health screen each year (using both approaches). We anticipate that follow-up information will be successfully collected from 80% of families and students each year who indicate a positive screen (N=120 per year; N=240 for grant period).

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Grantee: Washington Area Consortium HIVY	Washington, DC
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services	SP10588
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2006 Funding: $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Metro TeenAIDS (MTA) and City Year Washington DC (CYDC) will provide integrated substance abuse prevention and HN prevention services to youth ages 13 through 17 attending District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) through the DC Students Making Proud Choices! (DCSMPS!) project. MTA is a community-based organization whose mission is to prevent new HIV infections among young people and improve the quality of life for young people already affected by and infected with HIV. CYDC is a local site of the national City Year organization, whose mission is to demonstrate, improve, and promote the concept of national service as a means of building a stronger democracy. MTA and CYDC expect to reach over 26,000 junior, middle, and senior high school students over the five-year period of DCSMPS! MTA and CYDC seek to promote the adoption and maintenance of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors by District of Columbia youth that support them in abstaining from substance use and sexual activity or reducing risks when engaging in such activities. DCSMPS! responds to the shortfall in SAP and HIV prevention services targeted to District youth, a deficit recognized by local health agencies, community-based organizations, and young people themselves. Young residents of the national capital seeking information and support in order to make wise choices regarding substance use and sexuality are instead confronted by little or none of either service. DCSMPS! redresses this service gap on a major scale. MTA and CYDC's evidence-based prevention intervention consists of two components. In the first, teams of CYDC corps members-youth and young adults who have volunteered to contribute one or two years of community service-will bring the Making Proud Choices! integrated SAP/HIVP curriculum to DCPS students in grades 7 through 12. In the second, corps members will identify, train and support a subset of students from within those classes which have received the curriculum and establish them

Grantee: Latin American Youth Center	Washington, DC
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework	SP13391
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2006 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The Latin American Youth Center in Washington, DC has received a 5 year Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) grant to provide substance abuse prevention and HIV and Hepatitis prevention services to minority populations and minority reentry populations. The grantee will deliver integrated prevention services for substance abuse, HIV, Hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections as well as counseling, testing and referral services to African American and Latino youth and young adults, ages 13 - 24 years, in DC Wards 1 and 4, and to DC youth exiting the juvenile justice system. Services will be provided in both school-based and community-based settings. The evidence-based, group-level, multi-session curriculum will focus on building resiliency.

Grantee: Sasha Bruce Youthwork, Inc.	Washington, DC
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework	SP13276
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2006 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
Sasha Bruce Youthwork, Inc. (SBY) in Washington, DC has received a 5 year Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) grant to provide substance abuse prevention and HIV and Hepatitis prevention services to minority populations and minority reentry populations. Targeting African American re-entry populations 21 years of age and younger, SPY will collaborate with the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL) to provide comprehensive, culturally competent outreach, prevention and referral services to promote positive attitude and behavioral changes in the areas of substance abuse, HIV and Hepatitis. Youth will be accessed through SBY's shelter and transitional living programs, under DC's juvenile justice rehabilitation network, as well as through street- and venue-based outreach. Counseling, testing and referral (CTR) services will also be provided.

Grantee: National Association of Social Workers	Washington, DC
Program: SAMHSA Conference Grants	SP13618
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2006 Funding: $25,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2007
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW), in partnership with the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia (CSOSA) is proposing to develop and present a two-day regional conference that will focus on issues associated with offenders in the criminal justice system who are re-entering the community after a period of incarceration. The target group for the proposed conference is the public sector and private sector workforce that is primarily responsible to providing a range of services for reentrants as they transition from prison to the community.

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Grantee: NASADAD	Washington, DC
Program: NASADAD State Collaborative Activity	TI17116
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2006 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
This grant facilitates collaborative activities between SAMSHA and the States and will focus on areas of mutual interest and will help support States' ability to respond to changes brought about by the transition of management of the SAPT Block Grant to a performance and outcomes focus.

Grantee: COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS, INC.	Washington, DC
Program: Treatment for Homeless - Homeless	TI17912
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2006 Funding: $399,386
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
The Options Plus project will provide a comprehensive package of evidence-based services for homeless individuals with severe mental disorders who are part of a postbooking jail diversion program in the District of Columbia. The purpose of Options Plus is to assist these individuals find and keep stable housing by providing integrated services that simultaneously address co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, unemployment, and trauma.

Grantee: District of Columbia Dept of Health	Washington, DC
Program: State Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Coordination	TI17397
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2006 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 08/01/2005 - 07/31/2008
The District government will strengthen and coordinate the youth treatment system by: - Developing a continuum of evidence-based youth treatement services; - Leading annual multi-agency planning of services; - Developing quality and performance standards and a certification process for providers; - Expanding capacity of youth-serving organizations; - Developing systems to monitor and evaluate the quality and effectiveness of treatment services; - Identifying and disseminating research findings to the provider community; - Developing a certification program for youth substance abuse treatment specialists; and - Improving the continuity and effectiveness of the publicly funded youth substance abuse treatment programs in the District of Columbia.

Grantee: Institute for Behav Change & Res, Inc	Washington, DC
Program: Young Offender Reentry Program (YORP) 2004	TI17055
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2006 Funding: $450,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2009
The Institute for Behavioral Change and Research, Inc. (IBCR) propose to implement a project, entitled Young Offender Reentry Services (YORS), which will be uniquely tailored to Washington, DC female offender needs and resources. The target population will be fifty (50) Washington, DC female reentry residents, aged 10-17, all females who have been detained or committed with the criminal justice system and scheduled to be released back into the community to any of the 8 Wards of the city, low-or high-risk offenders, with any cultural or ethnic background. The purpose of YORS is to develop and implement a successful substance abuse reentry treatment system for female juvenile offenders. YORS will strengthen the female's resistance against delinquency. Components of YORS will integrate the Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT) Model to address coping skills, relapse prevention, skills training, relational building, and communication skills development. Ultimately, the offender will obtain the skills by actively developing new ways of interpreting and responding to inter- and intrapersonal situations

Grantee: La Clinica del Pueblo, Inc	Washington, DC
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS	TI15727
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2006 Funding: $495,390
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Puerta Abierta (Open Door) seeks to develop creative, integrated strategies of care leading to reduced HIV transmission among substance-abusing Latino immigrant men who have sex with men in the Washington metropolitan area, building on the expertise of its partners working in many capacities with the target population over 20 years. The partnering of La Clinica del Pueblo and Neighbors' Consejo will strengthen existing resources for the Latino community and provide a more cohesive standard of care, as well as begin to establish a base of understanding for the overlap in substance abuse and occurrence of HIV in the Latino community in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

Grantee: Family & Medical Counseling Service, Inc	Washington, DC
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS	TI14411
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2006 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To enhance and expand outreach, and other substance abuse treatment services including: case management, nutritional services, food bank services, mental health services, treatment adherence support, primary medical care, and referrals. The program will use outreach to target women, women and their children, men who have sex with men, injection drug users, and the criminal justice populations from African-American populations.

Last Update: 9/24/2008