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SAMHSA Grant Awards By State FY 2006
Discretionary Funds in Detail

Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)
MISSISSIPPI

Grantee: Mississippi Dept of Mental Health	Jackson, MS
Program: Child Mental Health Initiative	SM57025
Congressional District: MS-01
FY 2006 Funding: $999,713
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
The Pine Belt System of Care project will establish a system of coordinated, individualized care for children affected by severe emotional disturbance (SED) or co-occurring SED and substance misuse, in a region of Mississippi that has high need for, but low availability of, services. In addition to meeting a salient local need, this project will serve as a national model for systems of care in rural areas, with focus on meeting the needs of underserved, dually diagnosed youth and their families. The proposed project is 1) responsive to the goals of the Center's Children's Mental Health Initiative; 2) grounded in the Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health's 14 Implementation Factors for Effective Systems of Care; 3) based in a State with a longstanding statutory commitment to the local development and implementation of SOC principles and practices; and 4) sponsored by the three Mississippi organizations most optimally positioned to ensure its successful execution.

Grantee: Mississippi Dept of Mental Health	Jackson, MS
Program: SAMHSA Emergency Response - Hurricane Katrina	SM00208
Congressional District: MS-01
FY 2006 Funding: $300,000
Project Period: 09/11/2005 - 03/10/2007

Grantee: Mississippi Dept of Mental Health	Jackson, MS
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants	SM56647
Congressional District: MS-01
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: Mississippi Families as Allies, Inc	Jackson, MS
Program: CMHS Statewide Family Network Grants	SM56462
Congressional District: MS-03
FY 2006 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
Mississippi Families as Allies for Children's Mental Health, Inc. ( MS FAA) will build on its twelve year record of partnering with agency administrators, service providers, policy makers families and legislators to continue reform of the Mississippi System of Care for children and youth with serious mental health needs. Increasing our training and technical assistance capacity for families, for the youth themselves and for our professional colleagues will be a major focus of grant activities.

Grantee: MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY- MERIDIAN	Meridian, MS
Program: Campus Suicide	SM57854
Congressional District: MS-03
FY 2006 Funding: $34,925
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
This grantee's suicide prevention program proposes to implement substance abuse/depression/suicide campus screenings and suicide prevention workshops to faculty, staff, and students. Program aims to reduce mental health stigma, promote conducive help-seeking attitudes, early identify at-risk students, and facilitate referral to the campus's mental health provider prior to development of suicidal ideation, planning and behaviors. This grantee plans to develop a text-based version of the suicide prevention and conducive helping seeking workshop and place it on the campus' suicide prevention website. Additionally, workshops for students will be delivered by Meridian Counselor Education graduate students trained in suicide prevention/intervention, depression awareness, substance abuse awareness, promoting help-seeking behavior, and reduction of mental health stigma. All workshops will be supervised by a Meridian Counselor Education graduate faculty member.

Grantee: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI	Hattiesburg, MS
Program: Campus Suicide	SM57868
Congressional District: MS-04
FY 2006 Funding: $74,110
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
The University Counseling Center (UCC), a comprehensive mental health service provider of the University of Southern Mississippi (USM), plans to improve and enhance its educational, training, and evaluation components needed to promote suicide prevention. This project focuses on educational and training interventions that will promote suicide awareness and decrease the occurrence of suicidal attempts and suicide of students at USM. This project includes campus activities that will highlight mental health issues and decrease the stigma surrounding asking for help. In addition, the gatekeepers of the University will receive training to improve response to students in crisis. This Suicide Prevention Project will include the formation of a collaborative task force that will create and implement a campus response plan to reduce suicide on campus. Through this project, the UCC will also improve data collection and evaluation that will guide its clinical, educational, and training responsibilities around the issues of mental health at USM.

Grantee: Mississippi State Dept of Mental Health	Jackson, MS
Program: Disaster Relief	SM00217
Congressional District: MS-04
FY 2006 Funding: $13,316,778
Project Period: 02/15/2006 - 05/15/2007
Funds were jointly administered by FEMA and CMHS to provide short-term crisis counseling to individuals affected by Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita.

Grantee: Catholic Charities, Inc.	Jackson, MS
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children	SM56091
Congressional District: MS-04
FY 2006 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2007
The Mississippi Child Trauma Therapeutic Services Collaborative is a strengths and resilience-based partnership that includes State mental health, State disaster management, a major faith-based provider, a prominent family organization, and a network of accessible, community- based services. Catholic Charities of Hope Haven Crisis Services will lead a four-year project to develop the multi-agency, child-/family-centered Child Trauma Therapeutic Services Center, based in Jackson, and serving a three-county area. This project will serve a wide-range of primarily rural and geographically isolated child trauma survivors, including those who have experienced physical, emotional or sexual abuse, rape, neglect, refugee trauma, community violence, domestic violence, violent crime, disaster, and the traumatic loss of loved ones.

Grantee: MISSISSIPPI STATE DEPT OF MTL HLTH	Jackson, MS
Program: Youth Suicide Prevention & Early Intervention - Cooperative Agreement State-Sponsored	SM57886
Congressional District: MS-04
FY 2006 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
This project addresses the serious need to strengthen Mississippi's response to post-Hurricane Katrina mental health needs for youth by implementing an awareness campaign for suicide prevention and intervention, training gatekeepers in effective practices for screening and practitioners in trauma-focused evidence based practices, and facilitating a local infrastructure that will promote access, input, and support. Under the leadership of the MS Interagency Coordinating Council for Children and Youth, the prevention of youth suicide will be a prominent feature of local systems of care in the state. First priority will be placed on the six Coastal counties most directly impacted by the storm and remain most vulnerable to youth suicide due to the impacts on socio-economic status and breakdowns in local social structures. By expanding on the structure of existing local Making A Plan (MAP) Teams and including other key stakeholders in their respective communities throughout the state, we will ensure that information and resources are spread consistently and inclusive of age, race, ethnicity, culture, language, sexual orientation, disability, literacy and gender diversity in the target population.

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
MISSISSIPPI

Grantee: North Delta Planning & Development, Inc	Batesville, MS
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12436
Congressional District: MS-01
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: Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians	Choctaw, MS
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12926
Congressional District: MS-02
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: Southwest MS Rural Health Coalition	Tylertown, MS
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11834
Congressional District: MS-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 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: Behavioral Health Fndn of Central MS	Vicksburg, MS
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP13123
Congressional District: MS-02
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: Warren Yazoo Mental Health Service , Inc	Yazoo City, MS
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12092
Congressional District: MS-02
FY 2006 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2011
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: Partnership for a Healthy Scott County	Forest, MS
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12061
Congressional District: MS-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 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: Region XII Commission on Mental Health	Hattiesburg, MS
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework	SP13415
Congressional District: MS-04
FY 2006 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
Pine Belt Mental Healthcare Resources will provide targeted outreach, counseling/testing/ referral and prevention interventions to African Americans residing in Mississippi Public Health District who abuse substances and are at risk for HIV and/or hepatitis infection. The HIP HOP (HIV Intervention Project-HIV Outreach and Prevention) Project will employ faith based and other culturally appropriate outreach workers to recruit and engage African Americans who are at risk for infection or disease transmission due to risk behaviors, including those reentering the community after incarceration. Two evidence based prevention interventions, VOICES and Holistic Harm Reduction will be utilized to reduce risk behaviors. With its partners, Family Health Center, Gateway Baptist Church, Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Southeast Mississippi Rural Health Initiative and 1-2-1 Haven House, Pine Belt Mental Healthcare Resources expects to reduce the HIV/AIDS prevalence rate of African Americans in the Mississippi Public Health District through the reduction of behaviors that put individuals at risk. The objectives to be achieved by the end of the project periods are: 1) within five years, 2500 African Americans in Region XII will know the status of their HIV serostatus; 2) within five years, 6, 105 African Americans in Region XII will increase their understanding of modes of HIV transmission; 3) within five years, 1210 African Americans in Region XII will report the reduction or elimination of high risk behaviors that may lead to HIV infection or transmission; and 4) within five years, 99% of newly confirmed African Americans with HIV infection will access healthcare.

Grantee: MISSISSIPPI STATE DEPT OF MTL HLTH	Jackson, MS
Program: Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants	SP13939
Congressional District: MS-04
FY 2006 Funding: $2,093,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
Led by the Governor and the Mississippi Department of Mental Health's Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse (DADA), SPF SIG will build on Mississippi's recent success of cross-agency collaboration at both the state level and the grassroots level. Priorities of the SPF SIG are to further address Mississippi's identified gaps by strengthening the Strategic Prevention State Plan, utilizing the State Epidemiology and Outcomes Workgroup (SEOW), improving cultural competencies, intiating an underage concumption of alcohol intitiative, and targeting resources to areas of need.

Grantee: Jackson State University	Jackson, MS
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11729
Congressional District: MS-04
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: Long Beach School District	Long Beach, MS
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11383
Congressional District: MS-04
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: Mississippi Gulf Coast YMCA	Ocean Springs, MS
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11418
Congressional District: MS-04
FY 2006 Funding: $99,950
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: The Nominal Group, Inc	Jackson, MS
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services	SP10791
Congressional District: MS-04
FY 2006 Funding: $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
This proposal, from The Nominal Group, Inc., requests $349,482.00 to sustain an effective substance abuse prevention (SAP) and HIV prevention (HIVP) program for African-American at risk youth in West Jackson (Hinds County) Mississippi. The proposed program, "Reducing the Risk to West Jackson Youth" (hereafter, Reducing the Risk) will target 80 African-American youth, males and females, ages 10-19, in West Jackson, Mississippi, who are binge drinking, or using alcohol or drugs and engaging in unprotected sex, having sex without a condom, or other unsafe sexual practice that may lead to contracting HIV and a sexually transmitted disease. Today, alcohol and other drug use and crime among African-American youth in West Jackson continues to be one of the most serious public health problems facing the city. The earlier a youth begins to drink alcohol and to use other drugs, the greater the likelihood of later alcohol and other drug problems, and the participation in risky behaviors that will place them at risk for contracting an STD or HIV. The proposed program, Reducing the Risk, will target 80 African-American males and females, ages 10-19, in West Jackson, Mississippi, who are binge drinking, or using alcohol or drugs and engaging in unprotected sex, having sex without a condom, or other unsafe sexual practice that may lead to contracting, HIV and, a sexually transmitted disease because of social, economic, and environmental (neighborhood characteristics), factors, and who exhibit behaviors that place them at high risk. The educational intervention sessions, of the program, will be implemented at the Hosanna Missionary Baptist Church 3475 Jayne Ave., Jackson; and " meetings with the parents and/or legal guardians will be held at the nearby Jayne Community Center. The Nominal Group believes that the proposed program can elicit changes in behavior.

Grantee: DREAM of Hattiesburg, Inc.	Hattiesburg, MS
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP13642
Congressional District: MS-05
FY 2006 Funding: $85,148
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.

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)
MISSISSIPPI

Grantee: Coastal Family Health Center, Inc.	Biloxi, MS
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS	TI14611
Congressional District: MS-05
FY 2006 Funding: $229,234
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
Coastal Family Health Center, Biloxi, MS -- $252,969 -- to expand and enhance services that will provide day and evening individuals and group counseling for substance abuse treatment and HIV/AIDS prevention. The center goal is to provide substance abuse treatment for 150 patients and their families, providing early intervention and prevention services to 2,000 adolescents and 20 former prison inmates living in the Mississippi area. The program will use Targeted Capacity Expansion TCE/HIV to target adolescents and criminal justice individuals from the Latino population.

Last Update: 9/24/2008