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SAMHSA Grant Awards By State FY 2006
Discretionary Funds in Detail

Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)
NEW JERSEY

Grantee: Collaborative Support Programs of NJ,Inc	Freehold, NJ
Program: CMHS Statewide Consumer Network Grants	SM56417
Congressional District: NJ-01
FY 2006 Funding: $69,856
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
In New Jersey, the Collaborative Support Program proposes to establish a training program for consumer leadership in state hospitals and as consumer advocates in the community. The project will increase consumer capacity to perform outreach into the community and broaden access to peer support activities. Consumers will be trained on leadership skills that will enhance and develop advocacy skills in a network created by consumers who live in the community. These same consumers will have opportunities to educate consumers and staff of state institutions about recovery and recovery related resources in the community.

Grantee: UMDNJ-School of Osteopathic Med.	Stratford, NJ
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children	SM56228
Congressional District: NJ-01
FY 2006 Funding: $399,635
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2007
The overall goals of this grant are to enhance public and professional efforts toward early identification and protection of potential abuse victims and to improve children's access to evidence based as well as developmentally and culturally sensitive treatment services. Through this initiative, The Center for Children's Support, at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - School of Osteopathic Medicine will disseminate its Model Program (Trauma-focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)) on a statewide and national basis. In addition, the Center will further its efforts and collaborate with other network members in the development and refinement of evidence-based treatments for other populations including families with a history of physical and/or domestic violence, and high risk adolescents who engage in self-destructive behaviors. The Center will collaborate with local constituencies (i.e. child protective, law enforcement, school and medical personnel, parents, youth and the public) as well as national network members to increase awareness, identify obstacles, and improve access to effective mental health services for children who have suffered abuse or other violent crime.

Grantee: ST. PETER'S COLLEGE	Jersey City, NJ
Program: Campus Suicide	SM57860
Congressional District: NJ-09
FY 2006 Funding: $71,451
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
The primary goals of the project are to prevent suicide among students, and reduce problems associated with suicide including depression and alcohol abuse. These goals will be achieved through the implementation of the following activities: an enhanced and more culturally sensitive training program for peer educators, faculty and staff to respond to students with mental ehalth and substance abuse problems; a cadre of trained peer educators to assist current counseling staff in the implementation of project activities including a suicide response plan patterened after the University of Idaho's Suicide Behavior Response Plan; annual ethnic diversity and mental ehalth wellness fair; and educational workshops on suicide prevention, identification, and reduction of risk factors. A unique feature of the project is an active outreach to families of Hispanic students to educate them on the college experience; and to teach them skills to reduce parent-child conflicts (a major cause of suicidal behaviors among adolescent Hispanic females). A two part evaluation, process and outcome, will be conducted.

Grantee: New Jersey Division of Mental Health	Trenton, NJ
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants	SM56625
Congressional District: NJ-12
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: New Jersey State Dept of Human Services	Trenton, NJ
Program: Disaster Relief	SM00216
Congressional District: NJ-12
FY 2006 Funding: $244,842
Project Period: 02/15/2006 - 11/14/2006
Funds were jointly administered by FEMA and CMHS to provide short-term crisis counseling to individuals affected by Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita.

Grantee: International Institute of N.J.	Jersey City, NJ
Program: Community TX & Service Ctrs of the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative	SM57262
Congressional District: NJ-13
FY 2006 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2009
The New Jersey International FACES program promotes the well-being of refugee children and their families in Northern New Jersey through culturally and linguistically accessible holistic services designed to mitigate the effects of trauma associated with the refugee experience and acculturation in resettlement. Intervention is offered at multiple levels, with children, their families, their schools, and their communities to encourage individual and systemic understanding of the multiple cultural and psychosocial challenges facing refugee children and families, and to foster pathways to healing and adaptation. This comprehensive continuum of caring support services includes: On-site Bilingual/Bicultural Case Management Services; Individual and Family Counseling; Psychiatric Assessment and Treatment; New Americans Club Support Groups; Tutoring; Parent Workshops; Professional Development and Multicultural Training for Communities. Referrals are facilitated to community resources for a variety of practical concerns, as needed.

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
NEW JERSEY

Grantee: Center for Prevention and Counseling	Newton, NJ
Program: Drug Free Communities Support Program - Mentoring	SP13984
Congressional District: NJ-01
FY 2006 Funding: $75,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2008
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: Cape May Cty Council on Alcoholism & DA	Wildwood, NJ
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12291
Congressional District: NJ-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: NEW JERSEY STATE DEPT OF HUMAN SERVICES	Trenton, NJ
Program: Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants	SP13945
Congressional District: NJ-04
FY 2006 Funding: $2,093,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
The New Jersey Governor's Office, through the Department of Human Services/Division of Addiction Services (DHS/DAS), proposes to implement a Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) utilizing a common set of goals, expectations and accountabilities throughout its substance abuse prevention infrastructure. DHS/DAS is the Single State Authority on substance use, and as such currently implements and monitors the Federal Substance Abuse Prevention and treatment Block Grant, as well as multiple other research oriented projects.

Grantee: Center for Prevention and Counseling	Newton, NJ
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP13023
Congressional District: NJ-05
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: Prevention Links	Clark, NJ
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11236
Congressional District: NJ-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: Montclair State University	Montclair, NJ
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services	SP10817
Congressional District: NJ-08
FY 2006 Funding: $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Due to the transfer of grant 10586-02 from the School of Social Work, Rutgers University to Montclair State University, the grant number was formally changed by Grants Management from 10586-02 (Rutgers, The State University of NJ) to 10817-03 on 6-23-05. The Paterson (NJ) Minority Substance Abuse (SA) and HIV Prevention (HIVP) Initiative seeks to expand access to SA & HIVP programs in a city vulnerable & at-risk populations and high incidence rates of SA and HIV infection. The use of CSAP and CDC endorsed prevention protocols ensures the quality of these services. Efforts will be undertaken to deliver the interventions in a culturally competent manner, addressing the particular needs of the target population. Further, a strategic plan will be developed at the inception of the project to implement sustainability activities that will ultimately contribute to the permanent expansion of integrated prevention programs in the city of Paterson.

Grantee: Philippine American Friendship Committee	Jersey City, NJ
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11584
Congressional District: NJ-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: Community Agencies Corporation of NJ	Newark, NJ
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP13068
Congressional District: NJ-10
FY 2006 Funding: $97,043
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: NCADD of Middlesex County, Inc.	E. Brunswick, NJ
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP13158
Congressional District: NJ-12
FY 2006 Funding: $93,100
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: Bernards Township Health Department	Basking Ridge, NJ
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12261
Congressional District: NJ-16
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.

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)
NEW JERSEY

Grantee: Special Audiences-New Jersey Inc	Newark, NJ
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS	TI14426
Congressional District: NJ-01
FY 2006 Funding: $398,158
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To enhance outreach through a peer-driven multi-strategy method including small group workshops, and individual counseling to the Greater Newark high risk abusers. The program will use outreach to target injection drug users, men who have sex with men, who have sex for money or drugs, and their sexual partners from the African-American and Latino population.

Grantee: UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Med School	Piscataway, NJ
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment	TI16576
Congressional District: NJ-04
FY 2006 Funding: $598,704
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
This program will support a comprehensive substance abuse and mental health service system for homeless veterans with a DSM-IV diagnosis of substance abuse and mental health diagnosis of depression, anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder.

Grantee: CPC Behavioral Healthcare	Red Bank, NJ
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment	TI15438
Congressional District: NJ-04
FY 2006 Funding: $248,776
Project Period: 09/01/2004 - 08/31/2007
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: State of New Jersey	Trenton, NJ
Program: Access to Recovery	TI16823
Congressional District: NJ-04
FY 2006 Funding: $3,999,474
Project Period: 08/03/2004 - 08/02/2007
The program will provide choice and increase outpatient treatment capacity and expand day programs. The state expects to assess those on existing waiting lists to determine appropriate interventions, and provide placements. The initiative will consist of a network of service providers inclusive of faith-based programs, licensed substance abuse treatment programs, recovery ministries, social service agencies, shelters, legal services, vocational and educational services, and others.

Grantee: E Orange Substance Abuse Treatment Prog.	East Orange, NJ
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS	TI14553
Congressional District: NJ-10
FY 2006 Funding: $484,875
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To expand and enhance services delivered to residents of Newark, East Orange, and surrounding cities. The total number of clients proposed for services during the grant period is 300 individuals. The program will use Targeted Capacity Expansion TCE/ HIV to target women and women with their children from the African-American and Latino populations.

Grantee: North Jersey Community Res Initiative	Newark, NJ
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS	TI14534
Congressional District: NJ-10
FY 2006 Funding: $499,999
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To enhance existing street level outreach services by targeting 4,000 active addicts. The program will use outreach to target criminal justice individuals, injection drug users, and individuals who have sex for money or drugs from the African-American and Latino populations.

Grantee: Urban Renewal Corporation	Newark, NJ
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment	TI16531
Congressional District: NJ-10
FY 2006 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
This program will provide intensive case management and outpatient substance abuse treatment to homeless individuals.

Grantee: Newark Dept. of Health and Human Svc	Newark, NJ
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment	TI16582
Congressional District: NJ-10
FY 2006 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2010
Provides comprehensive primary medical care, as well as assesses treatment of mental health and substance abuse needs. Coordinates public health medical teams serving homeless shelters. Offers a hospital-based continuum of treatment services for substance abuse and mental illness via a single system of care.

Last Update: 9/24/2008