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SAMHSA Grant Awards By State FY 2006
Discretionary Funds in Detail

Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)
FLORIDA

Grantee: Department of Children/Family Services Tallahassee, FL
Program: Disaster Relief SM00200
Congressional District: FL-01
FY 2006 Funding: $1,770,216
Project Period: 03/30/2005 - 03/29/2006
 
     
Grantee: Florida Dept of Children & Families Tallahassee, FL
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants SM56610
Congressional District: FL-01
FY 2006 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: Department of Children/Family Services Tallahassee, FL
Program: Disaster Relief SM00195
Congressional District: FL-01
FY 2006 Funding: $2,068,915
Project Period: 12/06/2004 - 02/05/2006
FEMA funds that were awarded for providing crisis counsiling to individual affected by Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita.
     
Grantee: Department of Children/Family Services Tallahassee, FL
Program: Disaster Relief SM00201
Congressional District: FL-01
FY 2006 Funding: $785,732
Project Period: 03/30/2005 - 03/29/2006
Regular services grant funding was provided to the State of Florida through the Crisis Counceling Assistance and Training Program. Funds from the President's Disaster Fund supported outreach, counseling, and public education services to community members affected by the Hurricane Ivan disaster in Florida. The program is supported through an interagency agreement between the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
     
Grantee: Florida Institute for Family Involvement Crawfordville, FL
Program: CMHS Statewide Family Network Grants SM56451
Congressional District: FL-02
FY 2006 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
This project is to develop and enhance the Florida service system infrastructure for children and youth with severe emotional disturbance and their families in a manner that will facilitate mental health service delivery which is family driven and built upon the principles of a sound system of care.
     
Grantee: FLORIDA STATE DEPT OF CHILDRN & FAMILIES Tallahassee, FL
Program: Disaster Relief SM00226
Congressional District: FL-02
FY 2006 Funding: $8,246,808
Project Period: 03/15/2006 - 12/14/2006
Funds were jointly administered by FEMA and CMHS to provide short-term crisis counseling to individuals affected by Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita.
     
Grantee: FLORIDA STATE DEPT OF CHILDRN & FAMILIES Tallahassee, FL
Program: Disaster Relief SM00225
Congressional District: FL-02
FY 2006 Funding: $5,277,647
Project Period: 03/15/2006 - 12/14/2006
Funds were jointly administered by FEMA and CMHS to provide short-term crisis counseling to individuals affected by Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita.
     
Grantee: Orange County Government Orlando, FL
Program: Jail Diversion SM55063
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2006 Funding: $256,227
Project Period: 04/01/2004 - 03/31/2007
In an effort to provide more appropriate treatment for those with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders, and in order to reduce the strain these individuals place on the system, Orange County will develop a Post-Booking Treatment Diversion Program for individuals who have been arrested for a non-violent offense and who are in need of mental health and substance abuse treatment. The Orange County Jail Diversion Forensic PACT Team will work through the various "Treatment Diversion Courts", as well as jail staff to identify individuals diagnosed with chronic, severe mental illnesses and severe chemical dependency and divert them from the jail and into community treatment services where they will be able to receive treatment that is unavailable to them while in jail. When fully operational, the Forensic PACT Team will be able to serve 40 individuals diagnosed with chronic, severe mental illness and severe chemical dependency, and who have a record of frequent incarceration and/or inpatient placement in a mental health hospital and poor adherence to treatment.
     
Grantee: Daytona Beach Comm. College Daytona Beach, FL
Program: Campus Suicide SM57528
Congressional District: FL-07
FY 2006 Funding: $25,670
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
Daytona Beach Community College (DBCC), in collaboration with Bethune-Cookman College (B-CC) and the University of Central Florida (UCF), will provide suicide prevention education and information to college students, faculty, and staff in Volusia and Flagler Counties. The Campus LIFE (Life Is For Everyone) Project will create a mental and behavioral health services network and provide suicide prevention training and education. In 2004, there were 110 suicides among the 500,000 residents of the two-county area on the central east coast of Florida.The Campus LIFE project will change suicide prevention efforts from reactive to proactive in the following ways. The Campus LIFE Project will develop a resource network of mental and behavioral health services available to college students at free or reduced rates.The Campus LIFE project will conduct educational training and seminars to inform students, faculty, and staff, and reduce stigmas associated with seeking help for mental and behavioral needs. The project will train the trainer, train a student peer group, provide educational seminars for staff, and provide educational seminars for students.A counselor will attend each educational seminar to conduct crisis intervention and refer participants to the resource network if the need arises. The Campus LIFE project will provide suicide prevention educational seminars for 25% of each partner’s faculty and staff; approximately 348, and 200 students each year of the grant.
     
Grantee: Hillsborough County Board of County Comm Tampa, FL
Program: TCE Jail Diversion SM57310
Congressional District: FL-09
FY 2006 Funding: $396,806
Project Period: 04/30/2006 - 04/29/2009
This project will expand and systematize a community based post-booking diversion intervention and establish a modified Assertive Community Treatment team to affect diversions and manage the care of repeat offenders with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders. The Hillsboro County Public Safety Coordinating Council will conduct the six-month strategic transformation planning and project evaluation and provide project specific professional development opportunities for stakeholders. Following the strategic planning phase, the project will maintain a continuing caseload of 30 consumers.
     
Grantee: University of South Florida Tampa, FL
Program: Linking Adolescents at Risk to Mental Health Services Grant Program SM57442
Congressional District: FL-11
FY 2006 Funding: $236,938
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2007
This application from the University of South Florida will serve approximately 8900 students in four high schools in the Albuquerque, New Mexico school district. Among youth between the ages of 15 and 24, New Mexico has the third highest suicide rate in the nation. Furthermore, one-third of all of the suicides by youth between the ages of 15 and 19 in New Mexico occur in Bernalillo County, the location of the Albuquerque Public School district. The applicant proposes the integration of three prevention programs into one comprehensive suicide prevention program. These three programs include: the QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) Institute Gatekeeper Training Program, the Jason Foundation Working to Give Our Youth a Promise for Tomorrow curriculum (JFC), and a multiple stage screening program based on the Columbia University Teen Screen Program. Family involvement is a critical component of the proposed approach. The applicant identifies 12 main objectives related to increasing awareness of risk factors for parents, students, and school personnel, gatekeeper training, increased referrals of at risk youth to school mental health personnel, screening of referred youth, the promptness of further assessment, evaluation of referral effectiveness to emergency services, the investigation of mediators and moderators that could affect the referral process, and the evaluation of whether those students referred for mental health treatment improve.
     
Grantee: Sarasota County Government Sarasota, FL
Program: Child Mental Health Initiative SM57026
Congressional District: FL-13
FY 2006 Funding: $1,500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2011
The Sarasota Early Childhood Mental Health Partnership will improve and increase mental health and non-mental health services and supports provided for infants and very young children consistent with system-of-care principles and best practices. Over the six year finding period, the project will link the existing elements of the children’s mental health system with those of the early childhood system to [1] create an early childhood mental health system of care; [2] expand key services needed to improve the behavioral health of these children; and [3] deliver comprehensive training and technical assistance to ensure cross-training of system-of-care staff from the two systems. The infrastructure needed to support the newly created system of care will be built by bringing together child-serving agencies, organizations, professionals, families of children with emotional disturbance, and others with an interest in the funding and delivery of services to children with serious emotional disturbance in a cooperative effort to improve and increase mental health services and supports for children and their families. A structured outreach and referral mechanism will be developed to ensure appropriate access to services, with particular emphasis being placed on reaching those populations, which have been underserved or inappropriately served in the past, such as ethnically, and racially diverse children and children living in rural areas of the county. Children meeting the criteria for services will be enrolled and offered the services of a parent advocate to assist them in selecting a care coordinator, service providers, and others as members of theft child/family team. Between 400 and 500 children and their families will be served over the six-year project period.
     
Grantee: FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY Ft. Myers, FL
Program: Campus Suicide SM57859
Congressional District: FL-14
FY 2006 Funding: $12,500
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
Florida Gulf Coast University proposes an information and education project around suicide and two of its main contributors, alcohol abuse and depression. The project will begin by contracting with an expert trainer to educate the front line gatekeepers: Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) and Housing and Residence Life. The second group will be second line gatekeepers, including Student Affairs, medical, interested faculty, police, student leaders, and other identified groups. During the course of the year, CAPS and Prevention & Wellness Services will develop and present small education outreach style programs to living groups, classes, faculty meetings, or other groups on request. Grantee will also develop promotional items and advertisements to increase awareness of the National Suicide Prevention Hotline and campus resources for mental health services. The program will also develop two pamphlets, one for students and one for parents educating them on warning signs, what to say, and how to refer.
     
Grantee: BROWARD COUNTY BOARD/CNTY COMMISSIONERS Ft Lauderdale, FL
Program: Children's Services SM54475
Congressional District: FL-19
FY 2006 Funding: $1,000,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2008
Broward County, FL will redesign children's mental health services into a comprehensive, coordinated SOC to support SED children in the least restrictive & most clinically appropriate environment. The project mission & goals were identified, during a 2-year planning process, in a document entitled "Broward County's Children's Services Strategic Plan, A Framework for Action". Child serving agencies such as education, child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health, primary health care and substance abuse were involved. Government & private funders, child & family service providers, child advocates, parents & youth participated. The mission is "To create and participate in a collaborative planning, funding & service delivery system that is integrated, culturally competent and focused on empowering families to create measurable change in the lives of their children." This project will create an infrastructure that supports on-going collaboration among local stakeholders, & addresses systemic issues, service gaps & barriers that prevent SED children from remaining within their natural family & community environments. The governing body will be comprised of community stakeholders, 3 SED parents & 2 youths. The local SED Network (SEDNET) will provide expertise specific to the needs of SED families. Family will be provided with TA to create a Family-Run Organization and to enhance parent advocacy skills. Service initiatives include developing a comprehensive, integrated, non-duplicative and strengths-based single "front-door" allowing access to the SOC through behavioral health & primary healthcare providers. A research-based model of intensive wraparound services will be implemented to prevent residential placement. The One Community Partnership will create a drop-in center for older teens & enhance child care & respite to support SED families.
     

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
FLORIDA

Grantee: School Board of Miami-Dade County, Fl Miami, FL
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP13249
Congressional District: FL-01
FY 2006 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS), a public, non-profit school district, in Miami, FL. 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. Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) proposes the Promoting Our Students' Success through Informed Behavior, Learning and Self-Efficacy (POSSIBLE) Project. Project POSSIBLE will operate within a geographically underserved, urban area of Miami-Dade County. Within the Feeder Pattern, the race and ethnicity of students is as follows; 74% Black, 24% Hispanic, 1 % White, and 1 % Other. The zip code where the majority of Miami Central Senior High School students reside (33147) is ranked #1 in the county for juvenile offenses. According to the Miami-Dade County Health Department, Office of HIV/AIDS since 1980, Miami-Dade has reported 27,047 adult AIDS cases and since July 1997, 9,577 cumulative adult HIV cases have been reported (Miami- Dade County Health Department, Neighborhood Profiles, 2004). This zone represents 9% of the county's total population but over 20% of the reported AIDS cases and over 18% of the reported HIV cases. While the rate of ATOD incidents was about half the state rate, Miami Central's rate at 6.37 per 1,000 students was more than double the county's rate for all high schools (Florida DOE, 2005). The evaluation plan will provide both process and outcome measures, with both qualitative and quantitative data.
     
Grantee: Clay Behavioral Health Center Middleburg, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13658
Congressional District: FL-01
FY 2006 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
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: Lakeview Center, Inc. Pensacola, FL
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP13262
Congressional District: FL-01
FY 2006 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The Substance-abuse, HIV/Hepatitis Assessment & Prevention Education (SHAPE) in Pensacola, FL 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 referall services to African Americans adults.
     
Grantee: Suwannee Valley Youth Advoc. Partn. Live Oak, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13703
Congressional District: FL-02
FY 2006 Funding: $99,844
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
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: Council of Church-Based Health Programs Marianna, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13678
Congressional District: FL-02
FY 2006 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
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: Basic NW FL, Inc Panama City, FL
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services SP10576
Congressional District: FL-02
FY 2006 Funding: $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2008
BASIC Planning for Integrated SA/HIV Prevention Services is a one-year planning and capacity building project, implemented by Bay AIDS Services & Information Coalition, Inc. , which will eventually lead to the establishment of integrated substance abuse (SA) and HIV prevention services for primarily African American residents who display high risk behavior and live in underserved communities in a six-county area in the Northwest Florida Panhandle. The envisioned planning project will rely heavily upon a consensus building process and will be directed toward two goals: 1) to develop and implement a planning structure that will result in a more accurate determination of community need for substance abuse and HIV prevention services, the capacity of the current system, and the gaps in meeting recognized comprehensive needs; and 2) to establish a programmatic and cost-effective, culturally sensitive model of care for the provision of integrated SA/HIV prevention services to all residents of the service area. The project will also include an assessment of current service capacity and the development of core competencies, where needed, so that integrated prevention services can be implemented the end of the planning process. BASIC, a minority-serving, community-based organization located in Panama City, Florida, will implement the planning project. BASIC has a 13-year history of providing HIV prevention and case management activities in predominantly rural communities in a six-county area of the Northwest Florida Panhandle through the identification of basic innovations and solutions to addressing complex issues. BASIC will rely on its existing cooperative partnerships with other prevention providers as well as other collaborative community partners to ensure the development of a model care that is not only responsive to the needs of African Americans, but that will also ensure the best possible client outcomes.
     
Grantee: FLORIDA STATE DEPT OF CHILDRN & FAMILIES Tallahassee, FL
Program: Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants SP11178
Congressional District: FL-02
FY 2006 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. The Florida Strategic Prevention Alliance will complete the development of integrated state and community-level strategic processes. Both levels will be supported with the assistance of epidemiology, community readiness, resource assessment, strategic planning and organizational development resources for evidence-based programming, and a web-based performance data system that tracks both coalition and program activities.
     
Grantee: Alpha Educ. & Leadership Foundation,Inc. Tallahassee, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13727
Congressional District: FL-02
FY 2006 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
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: Health Promotion Program Initiatives Inc Tallahassee, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP10807
Congressional District: FL-02
FY 2006 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: Stewart-Marchman Center, Inc Daytona Beach, FL
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP13368
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2006 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
Stewart-Marchman Center's Prevention on the Move and its community partners will form a work group to perform a community needs assessment, create an inventory of available services, and identify gaps in and barriers to available services. NIDA's Community-Based Outreach Model, an evidence-based design to facilitate behavior changes needed to reduce transmission risks of HIV, Hepatitis and other communicable diseases will be used. The target population for Prevention on the Move includes African American residents in the general and reentry population in the Metropolitan Statistical Area of Daytona Beach Florida. The geographic region represents both the highest prevalence of HIV / AIDS in county and the largest concentration of African American's. Within this population in the geographic area, this project will target injection drug users, men who have sex with men, commercial sex workers, heterosexuals, bi-sexuals, former inmates, abusers of alcohol and other substances, and homeless individuals. Prevention on the Move will reduce the incidence of infection of HIV, Hepatitis, and other communicable diseases caused by, or developed in conjunction with substance abuse by bringing the services and linkages to care to the community where the clients live, work and socialize. Since drug abuse is usually a covert activity, drug users and their sex partners rarely access services through traditional health and social service agencies. Indigenous outreach workers who are familiar with the drug use subcultures and local neighborhoods in their communities have been shown to be particularly effective agents of behavior change. Peer outreach workers will be utilized as part of the prevention strategy, to serve as opinion leaders and educate and influence their peers to reduce their risks for HIV, Hepatitis, and other communicable diseases in Daytona Beach, Florida.
     
Grantee: Community Rehabilitation Center, Inc. Jacksonville, FL
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP13456
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2006 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The Community Rehabilitation Center Inc. in Jacksonville, FL 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 target an African-American population of approximately 100,000 to participate in an evidence-based prevention models. This program is designed to produce measurable outcomes that demonstrate the effectiveness that community inclusion has when dealing with severe persistent mentally ill persons as well as the effectiveness in a community treatment model for high HIV infection rates of other STD's and the presence of Hepatitis.
     
Grantee: Marion County Ocala, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12326
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2006 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: Safe Climate Coalition of Lake Co., Inc. Yalaha, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13888
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2006 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
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: Healing Balm Ministries, Inc Jacksonville, FL
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services SP10477
Congressional District: FL-04
FY 2006 Funding: $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2008
The Healing BALM Ministries of Northeast Florida, Inc. proposes a rural area SAP and HIVP planning grant for Nassau County, Florida, especially for the communities of Yulee, Callahan, and Fernandina Beach. The planning grant will develop a community-based intervention/prevention approach to SAP and HIVP led by Healing BALM Ministries. Yulee, the temporary Nassau County seat, will serve as the centrally based target community, but the community-based intervention will stretch fifteen miles east of Yulee to Fernandina Beach and fifteen miles west to Callahan. The target population will include high-risk substance abuse youth ages 15-19 and adults ages 20-39 including both low-income Black and low-income White substance abusers. The Healing BALM Ministries will provide a needs assessment of the target communities of Yulee, Fernandina Beach, and Callahan and developmental and supportive work in the school and community to formulate community-based support for SAP and HIVP in these communities. The work of the community-based support for SAP and HIVP in Fernandina Beach and Callahan will be sustained by the infrastructure development and SAP and HIVP leadership in this SAMHSA planning grant of the Healing BALM Ministries, Inc. which is strategically located in Yulee, Florida.
     
Grantee: Hamilton County School District Jasper, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12314
Congressional District: FL-04
FY 2006 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: Holmes County Sheriff Department Bonifay, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11305
Congressional District: FL-05
FY 2006 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: One Voice for Volusia, Inc Daytona Beach, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12247
Congressional District: FL-05
FY 2006 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2007
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: Citrus County Sheriff's Office Iverness, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13592
Congressional District: FL-05
FY 2006 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 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: Focus on Flagler Youth Coalition Bunnell, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP14181
Congressional District: FL-07
FY 2006 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 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: Putnam County Anti-Drug Coalition, Inc. Palatka, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13634
Congressional District: FL-07
FY 2006 Funding: $98,699
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
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: Epic Community Services Inc St. Augustine, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11664
Congressional District: FL-07
FY 2006 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: OPERATION PAR, INC. Pinellas Park, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13502
Congressional District: FL-09
FY 2006 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: Metropolitan Charities Community Service St. Petersburg, FL
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP13439
Congressional District: FL-09
FY 2006 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The Minority Empowerment Through Risk-Reduction and Outreach (METRO) program, administered by Metropolitan Charities, Inc. (MCI) targets minority and minority reentry adults over the age of 18 in Pinellas County Florida. MCI main goal is to prevent the onset of substance abuse and reduce the transmission of HIV and Hepatitis through substance abuse, HIV and Hepatitis prevention services, outreach, prevention case management, Motivational Enhancement Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Substance Abuse Counseling.
     
Grantee: Informed Families/The FL Family Prtnrshp Miami, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12426
Congressional District: FL-11
FY 2006 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: Florida Inst for Community Studies, Inc Tampa, FL
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services SP10469
Congressional District: FL-11
FY 2006 Funding: $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2008
Proyecto Prevencion, a partnership between the FL Institute for Comunity Studies (FICS), a CBO, and the Hillsborough County Parks and Recreation Department, fills a void in the Latino community of Town N Country, which is documented to have a high teen birth rate (62% of all births), new cases of HIV, problems with substance abuse and a 33% prevalence rate for youth fighting, attributed to family disintegration and gangs. This five year intervention includes a community approach in which the community will decide which science based prevention model to implement in the nine centers of the Hillsborough County Parks in the area. A matched case design will enable the evaluator to determine the effectiveness of this multi-pronged approach.
     
Grantee: Hillsborough County Anti Drug Alliance Tampa, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities Support Program - Mentoring SP13585
Congressional District: FL-11
FY 2006 Funding: $75,000
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: Hillsborough County Anti Drug Alliance Tampa, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11730
Congressional District: FL-11
FY 2006 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: Mid-Florida Center, Inc Avon Park, FL
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP13367
Congressional District: FL-12
FY 2006 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The Mid-Florida Center for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Inc., a certified minority 501(c) 3 not for profit behavioral health organization seeks funding to establish a partnership with the local Departments of Health, and community-based and faith-based organizations to provide effective prevention programs in communities of color within DCF#14, Florida. The target area includes Polk, Highlands and Hardee counties, an area of central Florida, halfway between Tampa and Orlando, containing a number of communities of color (African-American and Hispanic). Specific areas with prominent communities of color in these counties include: Polk -Cities of Lake land, Winter Haven, Auburndale and Bartow, and rural areas of Frostproof and Fort Meade Highlands -south-side Avon Park, Washington Heights in Sebring, Highway Park and Sambo's Migrant Camp in Lake Placid Hardee -Zolfo Springs and Wauchula. Within the target communities, culturally sensitive and competent substance abuse, HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis prevention programming is very limited or altogether non-existent. In most instances, prevention services are not accessible to communities of color. This is especially the case in overlooked and highly neglected rural and semi-rural areas of Florida, which is the definition of the proposed target communities. More specifically, the Mid-Florida Center will partner with the Department of Health's Regional Minority Office in Tampa, three local Health Departments in Polk, Highlands, and Hardee Counties, CUSH (Churches United to Stop the Spread of HIV), Refugee Church of Our Lord, Central Florida Health Care, local circuits of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice Florida Department of Correction. This partnership will become the Steering Committee for proposed prevention programming and will direct the required activities to supplement the Area 5, 6 & 14 Community Partnership Plan (Needs Assessment Section).
     
Grantee: Substance Abuse Coalition of Collier Co. Naples, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13650
Congressional District: FL-14
FY 2006 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
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: Charlotte Allnce for Safe&Drug Free Cmty Port Charlotte, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13051
Congressional District: FL-14
FY 2006 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: The Center for Drug-Free Living, Inc. Orlando, FL
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services SP10686
Congressional District: FL-15
FY 2006 Funding: $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The Holden Heights Empowerment Project (HHEP) is a collaborative among The Center for Drug-Free Living, Inc. and grassroots community organizations to provide substance abuse and HIV prevention programming for populations who are disproportionately impacted by the AIDS epidemic. An application of social norms using Club Hero, a CSAP promising prevention model, the project enables individuals, families, and communities to strengthen their relationships of support and their protection against substance abuse and HIV/AIDS. It is anticipated that this project will result in the development of an effective prevention model for nationwide replication among other community-based agencies. The program targets the Holden Heights area of Orlando, Orange County, Florida, a community determined to thwart the economic and social forces that have contributed to the deterioration of urban neighborhoods nationwide. The project will complement existing neighborhood improvement initiatives, providing a much-needed component to improve family functioning and mitigate the risks of deviant behavior among the community's youth. The project will serve a minimum of 50 children, ages 6 to 17, and their parents each year for a total projected participation of 250 youth and their families. Youth will receive training in life skills such as ATOD education, HIV/AIDS education, conflict resolution, peer relations, community service, and goal setting. Parents will participate in community service projects with their children and serve as targets of a social norms campaign to enhance awareness of parental roles in appropriate youth development and behavior. Both parents and youth may participate in experiential education and individual family life skills training. The project's goals are to increase enhance self-efficacy among youth, increase attachment to community and school, reduce the incidence and severity of substance use among youth, and improve parental competence.
     
Grantee: VILLAGE SOUTH, INC. Miami, FL
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 4 Services SP10564
Congressional District: FL-17
FY 2006 Funding: $350,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The Village South, Inc. in Miami, FL has received a 5 year grant to provide integrated substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention services to minority and underserved populations. This program will expand and enhance prevention services to impact 7,000 vulnerable youth ages 10-13, of primarily Haitian and Caribbean descent.
     
Grantee: VILLAGE SOUTH, INC. Miami, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11288
Congressional District: FL-17
FY 2006 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: King David Foundation Inc Aventura, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP13118
Congressional District: FL-18
FY 2006 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: AIDS Help, Inc Key West, FL
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services SP10463
Congressional District: FL-18
FY 2006 Funding: $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The applicant, AIDS Help Inc. (AHI) the only full service community based AIDS service organization and sole recipient of Ryan White CARE Act funds serving the Florida Keys, partnered with Human Services Associates (HAS), a premiere substance abuse provider with experience implementing science based prevention programs, for the provision of effective, multi-level and integrated substance abuse prevention and HIV prevention services in three high risk minority communities in Monroe County, Florida. The population of Monroe County is diverse consisting of a rich multi-cultural mix of US and exotic Caribbean cultures of various ages, ethnicities, and socioeconomic groups. Approximately 25% of the general population represents racial and ethnic minorities with the largest minority group comprising Hispanic/Latinos. These racial and ethnic minority populations are concentrated in specific communities that will be the sites of our proposed HIV and substance abuse preventive interventions in this project. The project will consist of three phases: community planning; integrated HIV and substance abuse prevention service delivery; on-going evaluation and sustainability planning. While this application proposes a suggested framework for integrated HIV and substance abuse prevention services, the final selection of program services will be achieved through formal and on-going community consensus-building and planning activities to ensure that priority HIV and substance abuse prevention needs are determined based on a thorough needs assessment and strategic plan.
     
Grantee: The Miami Coaltn for Safe/Drug Free Cmty Miami, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12399
Congressional District: FL-18
FY 2006 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: BROWARD COUNTY BOARD/CNTY COMMISSIONERS Ft Lauderdale, FL
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP13378
Congressional District: FL-19
FY 2006 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
Broward's Collaboration to Reduce Use of Substances, HIV/AIDS, and Hepatitis has carefully considered the cultural make-up of the community, identified a realistic project target population based on the funder's objectives, corroborated by community needs assessments and focus group results. Using countywide analyses and reports Broward CRUSHH is able to adequately assess the magnitude of substance use/abuse, HIV, and hepatitis in the catchment area. Extensive planning occurred, engaging stakeholders, policy makers, funders, consumers and included consultation with evaluators throughout the application development process. As a result, Broward CRUSHH has adopted a four-prong prevention approach, focusing on outreach, training and technical assistance, cultural diversity, and prevention. As the first step in the development of Broward's Strategic Community Framework, a workgroup of providers, stakeholders, and policy makers, advocates and funders will convene. The strategic planning framework (SPF) for implementing culturally appropriate services to the target population will be based on documented needs; evidence-based practice for minority and reentry populations; resources/strengths of the community; measurable objectives; baseline data, and; enhancing hepatitis screening and linkages to services that provide immunizations for hep A and/or B.
     
Grantee: Partnership for a Drug Free Cmty of S FL Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP11399
Congressional District: FL-19
FY 2006 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: United Way of Broward County Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12315
Congressional District: FL-20
FY 2006 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: Lee Cnty Coalition for a Drug-Free SW FL Cape Coral, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12907
Congressional District: FL-25
FY 2006 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: Lee Cnty Coalition for a Drug-Free SW FL Cape Coral, FL
Program: SAMHSA Conference Grants SP13619
Congressional District: FL-25
FY 2006 Funding: $25,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2007
The Lee County Coalition for A Drug Free Southwest Florida proposes to coordinate a one-day conference to meet an identified training nedd to strengthen the community's capacity to reduce substance abuse by providing training in the integration of research-based prevention initiatives into actual practice. The proposed conference will provide affordable training primarily in the prevention of substance abuse and secondarily in rleated treatment and co-occurring discord3ers to 650-700 professional providers, community leaders, researchers, advocates, consumers, cna parents from across the state of Florida.
     
Grantee: City of Homestead Homestead, FL
Program: Drug Free Communities SP12317
Congressional District: FL-25
FY 2006 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 (CSAT)
FLORIDA

Grantee: CENTER FOR DRUG-FREE LIVING, INC. Cocoa, FL
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment TI17830
Congressional District:
FY 2006 Funding: $300,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
In an effort to address alcohol, drug use and the co-occuring treatment needs of adolescents and their families in the Central Florida - Brevard County Area, The Center For Drug - Free Living, Inc. proposes to increase access to outpatient treatment through the expansion and enhancement of an existing outpatient treatment program. Project 321 will offer services to adolescents and their families/primary caregivers using the family centered ACRA model. Project 321 will add capacity to serve one-hundred and twenty (120) adolescents per year, (three-hundred and sixty [360] over the life of the grant). The project will target adolescent males and females between the ages of 12 and 18 with Substance Use Disorders (SUD) and those with SUD and co-occuring mental health disoders and their families. The initiative will target those who are at highest risk of substance abuse or dependence and who are experiencing problems associated with substance use including emotional, physical, legal, social familial or academic issues. The initiative will target adolescents and their families meeting the critieria for the Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (ACRA). The Central Florida - Brevard County area, once a quite community known only for its attractions, beaches and tourists, has become one of the major hubs for illegal drug use and trafficking in the Nation. As a result, adolescent drug overdoses, juvenile crime, HIV/AIDS cases and drug related arrests are at alarmingly high rates. Because of the tremendous level of need and shortage of adolescent treatment programming, The Center For Drug - Free Living, Inc. is proposing Project 321 in order to expand and enhance services for adolescents with substance use disorders and their families.
     
Grantee: Lakeview Center, Inc. Pensacola, FL
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI15822
Congressional District: FL-01
FY 2006 Funding: $495,111
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Lakeview Center's Inc. (LCI) Drug and Alcohol Counseling Service, in collaboration with Community Information Network, a local minority community based organization, proposes to expand substance abuse outreach, assessment, treatment and aftercare and enhance pretreatment, all in conjunction with HIV/AIDS services. We will serve 8550 African Americans over a 5-year period from the three zip code areas in Escambia County Florida with the largest number of HIV cases. Our target population members include African Americans who fit into one or more of the following risk categories: Women, including women and their children; and/or Individuals who have been released from prisons and jails within the past 2 years.
     
Grantee: Lakeview Center, Inc. Pensacola, FL
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment TI16451
Congressional District: FL-01
FY 2006 Funding: $398,184
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
This project will provide outreach, assessment, case management, outpatient, residential, aftercare, vocational training and linkage to housing for homeless individuals.
     
Grantee: Florida Certification Board Tallahassee, FL
Program: Addiction Technical Transfer Center TI13590
Congressional District: FL-01
FY 2006 Funding: $810,534
Project Period: 03/31/2002 - 09/29/2007
The Southern Coast ATTC (SCATTC), operated by the Florida Certification Board, provides state-of-the-art addiction education and training programs in the states of Florida and Alabama for health care professionals, state and local governments and community organizations.
     
Grantee: Office of the Governor Tallahassee, FL
Program: Access to Recovery TI16811
Congressional District: FL-01
FY 2006 Funding: $6,729,902
Project Period: 08/03/2004 - 08/02/2007
This program will focus on individuals involved with the criminal justice system, families putting children at risk, or other high-risk populations such as persons with co-occurring disorders and individuals, including older adults, who abuse prescription drugs. The Florida program involves partnerships with Florida's Faith-Based Association, the Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association, the Southern Coast Addiction Technology Transfer Center, and the NET Training Institute
     
Grantee: FLORIDA STATE DEPT OF CHILDRN & FAMILIES Tallahassee, FL
Program: Strengthening Treatment Access and Retention-State Implementation Coop. Agreements TI17620
Congressional District: FL-02
FY 2006 Funding: $325,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
Florida's Department of Children and Families Substance Abuse Program Office (SAPO), in collaboration with the Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association, four provider networks, and six provider agencies, has developed a proposal to help address the state’s challenges to the provision of outpatient treatment. A strong team with extensive management and quality improvement experience has been established to manage and support the success of the project and plans have also been established to ensure the ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the process improvements implemented through the project. This group will work together to implement the NIATx process improvement model within the provider agencies and to track the impact of these improvements through monitoring specific state outcomes. This process would enhance provider abilities to continuously identify and reduce client barriers to accessing and remaining in treatment service as well as enhance state efforts to build an infrastructure that supports client access and evaluate/improve its services.
     
Grantee: FLORIDA STATE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR Tallahassee, FL
Program: SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral & Treatment) TI18306
Congressional District: FL-02
FY 2006 Funding: $2,800,000
Project Period: 09/15/2006 - 08/14/2011
This project proposes the use of SBIRT funds to implement an intervention program for older adults at risk for substance abuse, create new partnerships with primary care service providers, and address current systemic and policy practices that create barriers for older adults in need of substance abuse treatment. Florida ranks fourth in total population in the United States in addition to leading the nation in median age, with more than 3.5 million residents aged 60 and older. The rate of penetration for publicly-funded substance abuse services by older adults in this age group is less than 2% of all adults served each year. Minorities and underserved populations (e.g., Medicaid eligible individuals) represent a very small proportion of older adults served. The State of Florida Substance Abuse Program Office is committed to improving the identification of older adults with substance abuse problems through this project. To implement the services outlined above, Florida plans to use SBIRT funds to promote the following: 1) Florida will enhance and expand an innovative evidence-based pilot project (Brief Intervention and Treatment for the Elders-BRITE project) currently providing outreach services in four sub- state regions allowing Florida to add four additional sub-state regions as well as migrating the pilot projects into full implementation. 2) Florida will partner with primary care and emergency care physicians who come into regular contact with older adults at-risk or in need of substance abuse services. Older adults will be screened in "non-traditional" sites such as primary and emergency health care settings, public health clinics, and senior nutrition programs. 3) Florida will appoint a Systems and Policy Steering Committee that will work to identify systemic and policy impediments to treatment for older adults.
     
Grantee: Florida Office of Drug Control Tallahassee, FL
Program: State Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Coordination TI17378
Congressional District: FL-02
FY 2006 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 08/01/2005 - 07/31/2008
The State of Florida’s Office of Drug Control, in close partnership with Florida’s Substance Abuse Program Office, the Florida Certification Board (FCB) and many statewide partners, seeks funding to build enhanced capacity in Florida to provide effective, accessible, and affordable substance abuse treatment for adolescents and their families. While effective and strong in many ways, the adolescent system can be improved. The expected outcomes of this initiative are: - An expanded and trained workforce with specialty knowledge in youth substance abuse and co-occurring disorders will be in place. - A more effective adolescent service system will result from the incremental shift away from less desirable and less effective services to more evidence-based treatment. - Expanded treatment capacity will be in place within existing resources resulting from the unprecedented levels of cross system coordination, and from new resources made available through Medicaid expansions. The state also expects to reduce its current adolescent treatment readmission rate by 20% or greater in Year 2, and 30% or greater in Year 3 through system improvements and efficiencies to be gained through our project. The ultimate result will be an approximate net gain of 1348 additional adolescents that will be served withinexisting resources. Achievement of the goals outlined above will have a profound affect on Florida’s adolescent treatment system.
     
Grantee: GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC. Jacksonville, FL
Program: Treatment for Homeless - Chronic TI18264
Congressional District: FL-03
FY 2006 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
The Seeking Treatment and Recovery (STAR) for Chronically Homeless program plans to expand and strengthen treatment services for chronically homeless individuals with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders (CHCOD) in Jacksonville Duval County), Florida. Gateway Community Services is partnering with Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless, and Clara White Mission to provide comprehensive, integrated services to CHCOD.
     
Grantee: River Region Human Services, Inc. Jacksonville, FL
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI14438
Congressional District: FL-04
FY 2006 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To expand and enhance the agency's existing services. The program will provide outreach services including: HIV/TB risk assessments, pre and post counseling, HIV/TB testing, treatment readiness assessments, and referrals to community resources. The program targets injection drug users, women, and women and their children from African-American populations.
     
Grantee: Gateway Community Services Jacksonville, FL
Program: Pregnant/Post-Partum Women TI16889
Congressional District: FL-04
FY 2006 Funding: $441,467
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
Gateway Community Services will partner with public sector and private social service-oriented organizations to develop an integrated residential and continuing care program for mothers and their children who are in danger of being separated due to substance abuse and child abuse and neglect. Fifty-nine percent of children in Florida's Foster Care system came from families where substance abuse was an issue.
     
Grantee: Gateway Community Services Jacksonville, FL
Program: Family Drug Courts TI17512
Congressional District: FL-04
FY 2006 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
Gateway Community Services, Inc. will expand the existing Dependency Drug Court Program in Duval County by enhancing services to provide more treatment services and judicial monitoring to substance-abusing parents who have been charged with abuse and/or neglect of their minor children. This project will serve 65 individuals annually for three years, for a total of 195 overall.
     
Grantee: OPERATION PAR, INC. Pinellas Park, FL
Program: Young Offender Reentry Program (YORP) 2004 TI16928
Congressional District: FL-09
FY 2006 Funding: $450,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2009
The Bay Area Young Offender Reentry Program (YORP) will provide a comprehensive continuum of care focused on family reintegration and self-sufficiency for 390 sentenced substance abusing juveniles ages 14-18 reentering the community from a residential commitment program. This includes 60 in Year 1, 120 Year 2, 3 and 90 in Year 4. The program emphasizes an evidence-based substance abuse treatment model - MET/CBT 12 + FSN. The lead agency for the Bay Area YORP project is Operation PAR, Inc., the largest and most established substance abuse treatment agency in the Tampa Bay area. Operation PAR will work collaboratively with ACTS, Inc. and the Greater Tampa Metropolitan YWCA, Inc. to deliver the substance abuse treatment, case management and vocational readiness services provided to project participants. The extensive history between Operation PAR, ACTS and the local community stakeholders will assure that ancillary services for youth and their families are available via referral.
     
Grantee: OPERATION PAR, INC. Pinellas Park, FL
Program: Pregnant/Post-Partum Women TI16878
Congressional District: FL-09
FY 2006 Funding: $495,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/30/2007
The Family Achievement in Recovery (FAIR) project is an initiative of Operation PAR, Inc., which is the largest treatment provider in West Central Florida. Funds will be used to increase residential treatment slots for women by 10 and add 5 more slots for children.
     
Grantee: OPERATION PAR, INC. Pinellas Park, FL
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment TI17761
Congressional District: FL-09
FY 2006 Funding: $300,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
Operation PAR, Inc. will implement PAR Adolescent Recovery Intervention Services (PARIS), using Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (ACRA) and Assertive Continuing Care (ACC), evidence-based approaches designed specifically for youth with substance abuse and mental health problems and their families. Operation PAR will work collaboratively with the long established Citizens Alliance for Progress, housed in the Union Academy. The PARIS program will serve 144 youth during the three year funding period who are between the ages of 10-17 and their families in the Union Academy neighborhood of Tarpon Springs, Florida. PARIS will serve 32, 64, and 50 youth and families in years one, two, and three respectively. This neigborhood is predominantly African American but with an emergin Hispanic population. Many of the new Hispanic families have monolingual parents and grandparents, further exacerbating the ability to access quality substance abuse and mental health services. ARCA's individual and family services will be delivered at the Union Academy and ACC will be delivered in homes and at other consumer friendly environments encouraged in the manuals. The Pinellas County Juvenile Welfare Board, a government entity, describes the Union Academy Neighborhood as having multiple risk factors. Poverty, high crime rate, exposure to domestic violence, poor academic performance, and substance abuse are some of the issues that impact youth on a regular basis. Since the town has no substance abuse treatment programs except for a few private therapists that are not substance abuse oriented who only take insurance or full fees, the baseline for treatment services is zero availability. The PARIS project will bring much needed outpatient treatment and continuing care to youth and their families.
     
Grantee: Westcare Florida St. Petersburg, FL
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI15778
Congressional District: FL-09
FY 2006 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The WestCare Florida Substance Abuse Treatment and HIV/AIDS Services project is located in St. Petersburg and will provide services in Pinellas County, Florida. The target population is African American and Hispanic transgender individuals who abuse or are dependent on drugs and alcohol, with my risk factors of male to male sex and/or injecting drug use. The enhancement services of this project include targeted outreach, pretreatment and HIV prevention interventions and expansion services consist of additional slots for outpatient substance abuse treatment.
     
Grantee: Westcare Florida St. Petersburg, FL
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment TI16510
Congressional District: FL-09
FY 2006 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
This program will provide integrated health, substance abuse and mental health treatment to homeless adults with dual disorders
     
Grantee: Mental Health Care, Inc Tampa, FL
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment TI16630
Congressional District: FL-09
FY 2006 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2010
Mental Health Care, Inc. will provide modified Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) to persons who are considered chronically homeless, (individuals who have been homeless for a year or more) with severe and persistent mental illness who may have a co-occurring disorder. The program will collaborate with existing community services coordinating primary care with Tampa Community Health Center and accessing low-income housing through Tampa Housing Authority.
     
Grantee: Administrative Office of the Court Tampa, FL
Program: Family Drug Courts TI17534
Congressional District: FL-09
FY 2006 Funding: $399,854
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
The Tampa Dependency Drug Court (DDC) Program is a collaboration effort between the judicial circuit court and a substance abuse treatment program, along with a university based research institute. The purpose of the Tampa DDC program is to 1) provide enhanced services to parents alleged to have neglected their children as a result of alcohol or other drug use, 2) ensure the safety and well being of children, and 3) family unification. The 13th Judicial Circuit Court began the first adult drug court in early 1992 with a current census of 300 participants.
     
Grantee: Mid-Florida Center, Inc Avon Park, FL
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment TI15458
Congressional District: FL-12
FY 2006 Funding: $198,688
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
This program is designed for youth age 12- 21 who meet medical criteria for substance abuse or dependence. The program will adopt or expand use of a treatment protocol that combines two types of therapy, Motivational Enhancement Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy. This Motivational Enhancement Therapy/Cognitive Behavior Therapy, a five-session protocol, was previously proved to be effective with substance abusing youth.
     
Grantee: COASTAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, INC. Sarasota, FL
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI14560
Congressional District: FL-13
FY 2006 Funding: $328,676
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To provide outreach, HIV testing, outpatient substance abuse and intensive HIV case management. Services will be expanded to target African-American and Hispanic men and adolescents. Service will be expanded to reach 6,240 new persons during the funding period and services will be enhanced to better serve 1,300 persons.
     
Grantee: First-Step of Sarasota, Inc Sarasota, FL
Program: Pregnant/Post-Partum Women TI16776
Congressional District: FL-13
FY 2006 Funding: $495,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
First Step will expand the availability of residential treatment services for low-income women by increasing its Mothers and Infants program through the addition of a Transitional Living Program component. The program will provide up to eight mothers and their infants per year.
     
Grantee: COASTAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, INC. Sarasota, FL
Program: Treatment for Homeless - Chronic TI18019
Congressional District: FL-13
FY 2006 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
The Charlotte County Home 2 Recovery project is a collaborative effort led by Coastal Behavioral Healthcare, Inc. (CBH) and the Charlotte County Homeless Coalition (CCHC) to implement a comprehensive and integrated system of evidence-based mental health and substance abuse recovery services that are tailored to the unique needs of the chronically homeless population in Charlotte County, Florida.. CBH will promote a comprehensive system of care for chronically homeless persons with co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders through extensive collaboration with community partners.
     
Grantee: The Center for Drug-Free Living, Inc. Orlando, FL
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI14406
Congressional District: FL-15
FY 2006 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To expand and strengthen treatment services for people with substance abuse and co-occurring disorders. The program will provide detoxification, methadone, long term residential treatment, short term residential treatment, outpatient/aftercare and service linkages. The program services will target Latinos who are injection drug users, people from the criminal justice system, and people with co-occurring disorders.
     
Grantee: Camillus House, Inc. Miami, FL
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI15730
Congressional District: FL-17
FY 2006 Funding: $427,560
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Camillus House, Inc.will expand capacity of Camillus' substance abuse treatment program, increasing treatment capacity by 25% and increasing success rate to 65%. Over the five- year grant, 156 new clients would be admitted for treatment, and another 576 would receive enhanced services.
     
Grantee: VILLAGE SOUTH, INC. Miami, FL
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI14462
Congressional District: FL-17
FY 2006 Funding: $358,999
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To expand and enhance an intensive in-home treatment program for an additional 285 adolescents and their family. The program will use Targeted Capacity Expansion TCE/ HIV to target adolescents and men who have sex with men populations.
     
Grantee: VILLAGE SOUTH, INC. Miami, FL
Program: Pregnant/Post-Partum Women TI18371
Congressional District: FL-17
FY 2006 Funding: $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
The Village, a community based agency in Miami, Florida will expand its Families in Transition Program by making comprehensive, evidence based residential treatment services available for 60 pregnant and postpartum women and 120 of their infants and children impacted by the perinatal, environmental and physiological effects of maternal substance abuse. The primary goals are to reduce maternal substance abuse, increase the number of drug-free births, decrease the incidence of developmental and behavioral problems among the children, improve the physical and mental health of the women and children, improve family functioning, and decrease involvement in crime. The evidence-based program will provide cultural and gender sensitive services that are specific to the needs of pregnant and postpartum women, their children and families. The target population is African-American and Hispanic. In addition, the program will provide opportunities for spouses, significant others and extended family members to participate in the treatment process to increase family knowledge of addiction and family support. Expansion of the Families in Transition Program will result in (1) reduced substance abuse during the prenatal and postnatal periods, (2) decreased occurrence of drug-exposed births, (3) decreased incidence of developmental and behavioral problems among the children, (4) improved maternal, infant and child physical and mental health, (5) increased economic self-sufficiency among the women, (6) improved family functioning evidenced by enhanced family cohesion and decreased family conflict, and (7) decreased involvement in and exposure to crime. The enhancement to the Families in Transition Program will provide trauma-related services to the women through the Seeking Safety Program. Both process and outcome evaluations are integrated into the project utilizing the GPRA mandates and CSAT standard outcome requirements to demonstrate treatment effectiveness and efficiency.
     
Grantee: BROWARD COUNTY BOARD/CNTY COMMISSIONERS Ft Lauderdale, FL
Program: Treatment for Homeless - Homeless TI18185
Congressional District: FL-19
FY 2006 Funding: $301,113
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
The Substance Abuse and Health Care Services Division of the Human Services Department of Broward County, Florida along with agency partners propose a project to adopt the exemplary practice of Integrated Dual Diagnosis Treatment for use with adults who are unsheltered homeless or are living in emergency shelter and experiencing co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
     
Grantee: Broward House, Inc. Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS TI14460
Congressional District: FL-23
FY 2006 Funding: $498,987
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To expand intervention and case management services. The program will provide outreach and education, link individuals to case managers, provide referrals and linkages for long term substance abuse treatment, housing, and vocational assistance to people in the criminal justice system from African-American and Latino populations.
     


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