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SAMHSA Grant Awards By State FY 2006
Discretionary Funds in Detail

Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)
NORTH CAROLINA

Grantee: NC Dept of Hlth & Human Services	Raleigh, NC
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants	SM56633
Congressional District: NC-01
FY 2006 Funding: $142,200
Project Period: 08/23/2004 - 08/22/2007
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: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill, NC
Program: Campus Suicide	SM57534
Congressional District: NC-04
FY 2006 Funding: $50,871
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will address in meeting national “best practice” guidelines as well as University recommended initiatives to prevent suicide on campus. The goals highlight the importance of making suicide prevention a community effort and priority, taking it beyond the realm of a purely mental health problem. The first goal is the development of a formal infrastructure of key campus leaders to liaison with Counseling and Psychological Service (CAPS) professionals in a community effort to decrease suicidal behavior. As part of this initiative, a 'train-the-trainer' model will be utilized to extend the responsibility of students’ psychological and physical well being on campus to non-mental health campus specialists who see students in their natural environments. The second goal is to develop a peer-education program in an effort to reach and train those individuals, students, who are often the most entrusted with the suicidal concerns and behaviors of their peer students at-risk. The third goal is to expand existing web-based information on suicide prevention as part of a multimodal, multicultural approach to reach students, parents, faculty and staff who may feel more comfortable accessing information in this venue and who need information on a 24-hour a day basis. The fourth goal is to expand and integrate an email behavioral health screening program to outreach to at-risk students who are not wanting or able to take the step of making an appointment at CAPS or with a community mental health provider. The fifth goal is to develop an alliance with and provide information to parents who often have a unique role in knowing their own children’s mental and behavioral health vulnerabilities prior to entering college, and along with peers, being a first line of contact for their distressed children.

Grantee: Child & Parent Support Services	Durham, NC
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children	SM56124
Congressional District: NC-04
FY 2006 Funding: $399,490
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2007
Child & Parent Support Services as a Community Practice Center will 1) improve access to care for traumatized children in Durham, 2) heighten community provider response to trauma in children, 3) implement three new best practices interventions considered ready for replication and evaluation, and 4) work collaboratively with Network sites. The grantee will work through a collaboration of a community non-profit agency and three universities designed to unify previously fragmented community services for traumatized children. The project utilizes a comprehensive approach to child trauma including forensic assessment, child and parent treatment, intensive in-home services, and school-based interventions. This continuum of services was developed and implemented to respond to the complex needs of families experiencing trauma in addition to chronic psychosocial adversity. Utilizing evidence-based treatment approaches and working with network partners to identify screening tools and training strategies, the grantee will increase its capacity to provide state-of-the-art best practices in trauma treatment to children in their community.

Grantee: ECAC for NC Families United	Davidson, NC
Program: CMHS Statewide Family Network Grants	SM56457
Congressional District: NC-09
FY 2006 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
NC Families United's mission is to link families of children with serious emotional, behavioral mental health challenges to state and community partners for improving the lives of these children and their families. Funding has allowed NC Families United to develop and grow into a statewide voice for children and families with serious emotional, behavioral, and mental health challenges.

Grantee: Mecklenburg Co. Area Mental Health	Charlotte, NC
Program: Child Mental Health Initiative	SM57065
Congressional District: NC-12
FY 2006 Funding: $1,499,403
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2011
Building on a strong local collaborative effort and a pilot System of Care (SOC) project, Mecklenburg CARES applies the lessons learned from North Carolina's prior projects to build a System of Care in a divested state environment that will: (1) Unify service planning to have "One Family, One Team, One Plan"; (2) Build upon TJNC Charlotte's growing capacity to merge data longitudinally; (3) Guide state efforts to expand SOC practice throughout the state; (4) Explore ways to blend funding to maximize flexible service delivery for families; (5) Decrease disparities in service delivery and outcomes. Funding through this initiative will help the community increase its capacity to work collaboratively, improve service delivery to children and families, and mobilize the broader community to develop resources to address the needs of children and families. Through a team approach, each family will develop a greater capacity to use community resources to help each child be successful in school, home and the community.

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
NORTH CAROLINA

Grantee: Eastern N Carolina Cncl on Subst Abuse	Greenville, NC
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11499
Congressional District: NC-01
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: MHA in North Carolina AKA MHS in Orange	Carrboro, NC
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP14188
Congressional District: NC-04
FY 2006 Funding: $97,360
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: Duke University	Durham, NC
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework	SP13283
Congressional District: NC-04
FY 2006 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
FirstSigns: Integration of Prevention In Primary Care Through Training, Testing and Education proposes a comprehensive program of substance abuse (SA) and HIV/hepatitis prevention and education to be integrated into routine primary care at the Lincoln Community Health Center, a federally qualified community health center, and a Duke Health Center Outpatient Clinic in Durham, North Carolina. The patients cared for in these facilities will be offered free, confidential OraQuick and OraSure Rapid HIV-1 antibody testing, along with pre and post-test counseling by qualified peer educators, chaplains and health educators. As part of this continuum of care, all patients will be offered follow-up interventions: Healthy Choices (HC), for those testing negative for HIV, and Positive Connections (PC), a prevention with positives (who are being discharged from the North Carolina Department of Corrections and PWP) program, for those testing positive for HIV. In addition, Durham County residents Durham County Jail will be offered access to these programs as a component of the reentry process. Persons testing positive for HIV will receive immediate on-site counseling from trained peer educators, chaplains and health educators. They will also be linked to HIV specialty care on a priority basis. The project will target minority and reentry populations who are disproportionately affected by SA/HIVHep. Following the five-step SAMHSA Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF), FirstSigns will increase the capacity of health and human service agencies in Durham to provide a seamless continuum of SA/HIV/Hep prevention through same day testing for HIV disease. PLWHA completing the PWP intervention will be offered Modified Directly Observed Therapy (MDOT) to facilitate substance abuse prevention while encouraging medication and medical adherence.

Grantee: Office of the Secretary, State of NC	Raleigh, NC
Program: Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants	SP11201
Congressional District: NC-04
FY 2006 Funding: $2,332,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2010
The State of North Carolina has received a five year Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant (SPF SIG). The purpose of the North Carolina SPF-SIG is a five-step process that will enhance state, regional, and local capacity to plan, assess, implement, evaluate, and sustain efforts to build a substance abuse prevention infrastructure. It recognizes the successes of the original NC-SIG by establishing regional Centers of Prevention Excellence which serve as "HUBs" that will reach out to "SPOKEs" in local communities to build capacity. The three primary goals of the NC SPF SIG project are to (1) Build prevention capacity and infrastructure at the State and community levels; (2) Prevent the onset and reduce the progression of substance abuse, including childhood and underage drinking; and (3) Reduce substance abuse-related problems in communities.

Grantee: Moses Cone Wesley Long Cmnty Hlth Fndn	Greensboro, NC
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11471
Congressional District: NC-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: Coalition for Drug Abuse Prevention	Winston Salem, NC
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12429
Congressional District: NC-05
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: Gastonia Housing Authority	Gastionia, NC
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11292
Congressional District: NC-09
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: Hinton Rural Life Center, Inc.	Hayesville, NC
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12870
Congressional District: NC-11
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: Sickle Cell Dis Assoc-Piedmont	Greensboro, NC
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 4 Services	SP10526
Congressional District: NC-12
FY 2006 Funding: $350,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The Sickle Cell Disease Association of the Piedmont (SCDAP) in Greensboro, NC has received a 5 year grant to provide integrated substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention services to minority and underserved populations. This program will provide three new HIV and substance abuse prevention interventions to African-American high risk communities in Greensboro and High Point, NC.

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)
NORTH CAROLINA

Grantee: Regional HIV/AIDS Consortium	Charlotte, NC
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS	TI14512
Congressional District: NC-01
FY 2006 Funding: $283,848
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To enhance the current case management system to include access to substance abuse professionals and connect clients who are dually diagnosed with treatment options and support during treatment and aftercare. African-American's comprise 71 percent of the 180 individuals that will be served during this grant period.

Grantee: North Carolina Dept of Hlth & Human Srvc	Raleigh, NC
Program: State Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Coordination	TI17387
Congressional District: NC-01
FY 2006 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 08/01/2005 - 07/31/2008
The proposed project will develop a sustainable infrastructure for substance abuse treatment coordination that will strengthen the capacity of the North Carolina Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services (DMH/DD/SAS) to serve youth in need of substance abuse treatment and their families. The project will build on existing collaborative efforts between parents and youth, the Division of MH/DD/SAS, the Department of Public Instruction (DPI), the Administrative Office of the Courts, the Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (DDJJDP), and other child serving public and private agencies, particularly as operationalized in the implementation of the legislatively-mandated and State-funded Comprehensive Treatment Services Program (CTSP) for youth with serious emotional and behavioral disorders and their families and the Managing Access for Juvenile Offender Resources and Services (MAJORS), which provides substance abuse treatment within a system of care context to adjudicated youth with substance abuse problems.

Grantee: Duke University	Durham, NC
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS	TI14386
Congressional District: NC-04
FY 2006 Funding: $486,693
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To ensure that an additional 400 people have access to culturally sensitive substance abuse and HIV prevention and treatment services. The target population of this intervention are African-American women, including women with children, African-American men who inject drugs, including men who have sex with men (MSM) and at-risk, non-injecting MSM and African-American men and women who have been released from prisons and jails.

Last Update: 9/24/2008