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SAMHSA Grant Awards By State FY 2006
Discretionary Funds in Detail

Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)
NEBRASKA

Grantee: Mental Health Assoc of Nebraska	Lancaster, NE
Program: CMHS Statewide Consumer Network Grants	SM56331
Congressional District: NE-01
FY 2006 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
The Mental Health Consumer Network proposes to maintain and expand programs and activities in three existing regional resource centers. Based upon the principles of recovery and wellness, the project will facilitate involvement in the planning and development of a recovery based mental health system in the state of Minnesota. Specific objectives include expansion of information and communication infrastructure; expand consumer/family training on policy making at state, county and local levels; and broaden the dissemination of data on recovery, self-help, wellness and consumer empowerment. Leadership, consumer family participation and increased collaboration among organizations will be viable strategies to measure long-term self-sufficiency of the network.

Grantee: Nebraska Dept of Hlth & Human Services	Lincoln, NE
Program: Child & Adolescent MH and SA SIGs	SM56545
Congressional District: NE-01
FY 2006 Funding: $740,206
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
Through this initiative, Nebraska will build on major behavioral health system reform efforts to develop individualized service models for challenging populations (children ages birth to 5, transition-aged youth, and youth with co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders), establish culturally and linguistically appropriate practices, and form a coalition for an integrated, family-centered system for children and families. The Nebraska Behavioral Health Services Act provides a framework to improve access to care, enhance consumer involvement in service planning and delivery, and to develop research-based services. Resources from this grant will help develop infrastructure built upon the efforts of current system of care communities and to replicate these models across the State. The coalition partnering on this project will establish a formal management structure designed to bring about sustainable, positive changes in the existing behavioral health system. Partners include state and local government agencies representing the major child-serving systems, family and youth organizations, universities, service provider organizations, and cultural and community groups.

Grantee: Nebraska Dept Health/Human Services	Lincoln, NE
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants	SM56617
Congressional District: NE-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: Nebraska Federation of Families for	Lincoln, NE
Program: CMHS Statewide Family Network Grants	SM56410
Congressional District: NE-01
FY 2006 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
The Nebraska Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health (NE-FFCMH) seeks powerful voices for families and youth in deciding future directions for Nebraska's Behavioral Health System. This proposal increases the number of families and youth participating in state and local planning, secures a range of training for youth and family supports, and assures that children, youth, and families are effectively represented in state level decision making.

Grantee: Nebraska Dept Health/Human Services	Lincoln, NE
Program: Disaster Relief	SM00227
Congressional District: NE-01
FY 2006 Funding: $257,339
Project Period: 04/01/2006 - 12/31/2006
Funds were jointly administered by FEMA and CMHS to provide short-term crisis counseling to individuals affected by Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita.

Grantee: UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA KEARNEY	Kearney, NE
Program: Campus Suicide	SM57869
Congressional District: NE-03
FY 2006 Funding: $74,963
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
The University of Nebraska Kearney (UNK), founded in 1905, is Nebraska's public, residential university that is distinguished by its commitment to be the state's premier institutions of undergraduate education. UNK is home to 6,382 undergraduate students from 37 states and 50 countries. The target population for this project is first and second year students along with the international student population living on campus. The goals of the UNK Comprehensive Suicide Prevention program are to: (1) increase the number of students seen for mental health issues by 10 percent through physically connecting UNK's Counseling and Health Care offices; (2) enhance UNK's current crisis response plan through training opportunities for the UNK community and those who are actively involved with executing the plan; 93) enhance students services by creating a networking infrastructure to link UNK with at least two providers from the broader community who can treat mental and behavioral health problems; (4) recruit and train nineteen peer counselors; (5) to create a National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) campus organization in order to diminish the stigma and barriers associated with help-seeking behaviors for mental and behavioral health issues. To meet these objectives, we propose to conduct gatekeeper training; develop and implement education seminars; provide wellness training to undergraduate peer counselors, disseminate information to parents, and create linkages to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
NEBRASKA

Grantee: Beatrice Public Schools	Beatrice, NE
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP13010
Congressional District: NE-01
FY 2006 Funding: $99,809
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: NEBRASKA STATE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR	Lincoln, NE
Program: Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants	SP13937
Congressional District: NE-01
FY 2006 Funding: $2,093,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
The purpose of the Nebraska Strategic Prevention Framework initiative is to produce sustained outcomes in preventing the onset and reducing the progression of substance abuse and related mental health disorders and other problems among all Nebraskans, by developing sustainable, coordinated, and data-driven prevention systems at the State, sub-state, and local levels that will conduct effective assessment, mobilization, planning, implementation and evaluation processes.

Grantee: Lancaster County	Lincoln, NE
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12199
Congressional District: NE-01
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: Omaha Nation Cmnty Response Team	Macy, NE
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP13081
Congressional District: NE-01
FY 2006 Funding: $92,066
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: People United for Families	Nebraska City, NE
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12049
Congressional District: NE-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 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: Panhandle Partnership for H.H.S.	Chadron, NE
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP13887
Congressional District: NE-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: Buffalo County Community Partners	Kearney, NE
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12906
Congressional District: NE-03
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: Comm Connections of Lincoln, Co., Inc.	North Platte, NE
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP13707
Congressional District: NE-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.

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)
NEBRASKA

Grantee: HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE	Omaha, NE
Program: Pregnant/Post-Partum Women	TI18334
Congressional District:
FY 2006 Funding: $465,699
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
Heartland Family Service proposes developing a residential substance abuse treatment center for pregnant women and women who are parenting young children. The program will serve twenty women and their children through a joint effort with Nebraska Health and Human Services and the Separate Juvenile Courts of Douglas and Sarpy Counties. The program will promote stable sobriety, economic self-sufficiency, and protective mother-child relationships. The program will use a therapeutic community model to provide clinically managed medium intensity residential treatment for low-income women who are dependent on drugs and/or alcohol. In addition to the mother's chemical dependency treatment, the mothers and children will participate in therapeutic and educational interventions to develop parenting skills, strengthen the mother-child bond, and improve social and family functioning. Women will receive assistance in obtaining vocational training, employment, and other social services. Following the initial treatment and halfway house phases, families will move into transitional or independent housing while continuing in aftercare support for up to one year. Mothers and their children who are referred through local Juvenile Courts or Child Protective Services will be able to reside together during the treatment process, thus preserving and strengthening the attachment which is so critical to the safety, health, and lifelong well being of the children. Priority will be given to pregnant women and mothers of children who are birth to five years old. The program will have a daily capacity of seventeen women and thirty children in residential treatment and three women and six children in a halfway house. The program is designed to meet the needs of low income and minority women, and is built on principles of a nurturing, supportive, therapeutic treatment community. This holistic approach considers the participants' physical and mental health, spiritual and emotional well being.

Last Update: 9/24/2008