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SAMHSA Grant Awards By State FY 2006
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Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)
NEW MEXICO

Grantee: New Mexico Office of the Governor	Santa Fe, NM
Program: 2004 COSIGS	SM56588
Congressional District: NM-01
FY 2006 Funding: $1,071,376
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
New Mexico will expand implementation of the evidence-based practice of integrated treatment for co-occurring disorders to increase the identification and assessment of persons with this condition, and to increase provision of integrated treatment services known to positively impact consumer outcomes. The Behavioral Health Services Division of the State's Department of Health will enhance the capacity of its provider networks to screen, assess, and treatment individuals with co-occurring substance use and mental disorders, conduct systems evaluations, and measure client outcomes. The Division will serve as the lead agency to oversee the implementation of integrated treatment for co-occurring disorders throughout a new State system that will provide services under contract through a single behavioral health entity. During the statewide implementation of integrated treatment, several provider sites will be selected for intensive training and technical assistance support. The State Incentive Grants Policy Steering Committee, representing multiple agencies, consumer advocates, and other stakeholders, will provide project oversight.

Grantee: New Mexico Department of Health	Santa Fe, NM
Program: Youth Suicide Prevention & Early Intervention - Cooperative Agreement State-Sponsored	SM57385
Congressional District: NM-01
FY 2006 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
A public-private partnership led by the New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) proposes to implement and evaluate a comprehensive model for suicide prevention and early intervention that incorporates eight Universal, Selective, and Indicated strategies. The proposed Initiative will serve four diverse rural communities that have experienced a rash of youth suicides, reflecting the State’s disproportionate rate which is twice the national average. The proposed Initiative has seven specific objectives. (1) Signs of Suicide (SOS): Train high school teachers and staff to provide the Signs of Suicide education program to serve 850 youth per year; (2) Train approximately 25 high school students from each community per year to implement this peer strategy; (3) Refer students and community youth of high school age (grades 9-12) and screen at least 680 youth per year; (4) Provide ongoing case management to at least 170 youth identified as at risk to link them with appropriate behavioral health and social services; (5) Offer bi-weekly case consultation, support for crisis intervention, and ongoing in-service training by replicating the effective ECHO model that is based on telehealth technology; (6) develop a Crisis Response Plan in each school that incorporates training, education, ongoing support, and post-vention plans; (7) Provide more intensive 2-day gatekeeper training to at least 4-5 teachers, other school staff, parents, community behavioral health providers, and community advocates from each of the four communities.

Grantee: Grant County	Silver City, NM
Program: TCE Jail Diversion	SM57322
Congressional District: NM-02
FY 2006 Funding: $393,000
Project Period: 04/30/2006 - 04/29/2009
The Southwestern New Mexico Continuum of Care program will address the needs of consumers in the rural area of Catron, Hidalgo, Grant, and Luna Counties. An already established pre-booking diversion program will receive support from the proposed program to train more officers on crisis intervention methods. The new post-booking program will provide gender-sensitive and culturally appropriate services to 175 unduplicated individuals over the three year span of the project. Ninety-five of those individuals will receive Assertive Community Treatment. The remainder of the consumers will be enrolled in community based treatment services.

Grantee: Parents for Beh. Diff Children	Albuquerque, NM
Program: CMHS Statewide Family Network Grants	SM56353
Congressional District: NM-02
FY 2006 Funding: $59,997
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
Parents for Behaviorally Different Children (PBDC) has served families throughout New Mexico since 1983. The purpose of the PBDC project is to improve the quality of mental health and behavioral health services, systems, and advocacy for children with neurobiological (NBD, i.e. mental illness), emotional and behavioral disorders (SED) and their families in the State of New Mexico, PBDC's mission is to support and strengthen families with children and youth with NBD/SED by advocating for systems change.

Grantee: State of New Mexico	Santa Fe, NM
Program: Mental Health Transformation State Incentive Grants	SM57464
Congressional District: NM-03
FY 2006 Funding: $2,546,363
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The New Mexico behavioral health system transformation is perhaps the most ambitious transformation in progress in the United States. Impacting as many as 400,000 people, and the service systems across 121,356 square miles of urban, rural, and frontier territory, New Mexico’s transformation will bring fragmented systems into a coherent whole; integrate the behavioral health services and perspectives of fifteen state agencies; bring together critical partners locally throughout communities across the State, and expand behavioral health coverage to the most isolated corners of the State. New Mexico’s transformation has reached the launch point because of the effort and hard work of State leaders and staff, consumers and family members, advocates and service providers, who have labored to bring the State to this point with no additional resources, driven by the knowledge that their efforts are of vital importance to the future of New Mexico. For the critical next phases in transformation to succeed, strategic investment is needed to enhance staffing and consumer, family and provider capacity. The resources provided by the MHT SIG will provide that extra push to allow New Mexico to reach its goals and provide a blueprint for system transformation nationwide. New Mexico’s major purpose in applying for this grant is to gain the infrastructure support we need to continue and expand the transformation of our statewide behavioral health system into a consumer and family-driven system of care based on recovery and resilience. New Mexico is ready to take our existing transformation activities to the next level. The foundation exists, the leadership is in place, the political will is strong, and the timing is perfect.

Grantee: New Mexico Department of Health	Santa Fe, NM
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants	SM56646
Congressional District: NM-03
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.

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
NEW MEXICO

Grantee: Albuquerque Partnership	Albuquerque, NM
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP13096
Congressional District: NM-01
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: Albuquerque Partnership	Albuquerque, NM
Program: Drug Free Communities Support Program - Mentoring	SP13574
Congressional District: NM-01
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: New Mexico Voices for Children	Albuquerque, NM
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11678
Congressional District: NM-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: North Central Community Based Svcs, Inc.	Chama, NM
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11301
Congressional District: NM-01
FY 2006 Funding: $97,781
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: Torrance County	Estancia, NM
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11727
Congressional District: NM-01
FY 2006 Funding: $90,710
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: New Mexico Office of the Governor	Santa Fe, NM
Program: Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants	SP11208
Congressional District: NM-01
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 New Mexico Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive grant will reduce substance abuse among youth, families, and adults by reducing risk and increasing protective factors in individuals, schools, families, neighborhoods, and communities throughout New Mexico through an extensive statewide needs assessment, the creation of a New Mexico Comprehensive Strategic Plan for Prevention, and implementation of substance abuse prevention activities.

Grantee: Carlsbad Community Anti-Drug/Gang Coal.	Carlsbad, NM
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP10814
Congressional District: NM-02
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: Lea County	Lovington, NM
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11380
Congressional District: NM-02
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: The Wellness Coalition	Silver City, NM
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP13192
Congressional District: NM-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: Hands Across Cultures Corporation	Espanola, NM
Program: Drug Free Communities Support Program - Mentoring	SP13564
Congressional District: NM-03
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: Hands Across Cultures Corporation	Espanola, NM
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11260
Congressional District: NM-03
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: San Juan County Partnership Inc	Farmington, NM
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12438
Congressional District: NM-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: Natl Indian Yth Leadership Develpmt Proj	Gallup, NM
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12440
Congressional District: NM-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: National Indian Youth Leadrshp Proj, Inc	Gallup, NM
Program: SAMHSA Conference Grants	SP13599
Congressional District: NM-03
FY 2006 Funding: $25,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2007
This conference will convene a group of scientists, traditional leaders, and practitioners with expertise in youth development and prevention for American Indian youth. The conference's purpose will be to examine the nexus of traditional wisdom and modern prevention science to ensure that the most effective and culturally compatible programs and practices are available to AI communities. The conference will be held in October 2006 in Albuquerque, NM, and is sponsored by the National Indian Youth Leadership Project the White Bison organization and others to be named. This conference will provide an opportunity to re-examine traditional values and existing model practices addressing healthy youth development. It will provide participants with in-depth reviews and discussions of the best evidence-based programs and practices in the field designed for and by American Indian communities. Participants will explore and investigate what kinds of programs and practices are available to AI communities, how decisions are made to adopt them, and the opportunities and challenges which present themselves as they are implemented.

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)
NEW MEXICO

Grantee: New Mexico Office of the Governor	Santa Fe, NM
Program: State TCE Screening Brief Intervention Referral Treatment	TI15958
Congressional District: NM-01
FY 2006 Funding: $3,300,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
New Mexico's Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment Cooperative Agreement project provides substance abuse services through primary health clinics. It targets rural and ethnic minority non-addicted populations to increase access to behavioral health services. The major strategies include motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral therapy for the brief encounters, and sequenced assessments that precede referrals for needed addiction treatment.

Grantee: Presbyterian Medical Services	Santa Fe, NM
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment	TI16587
Congressional District: NM-01
FY 2006 Funding: $399,956
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2010
Strengthens alcohol treatment services for homeless street inebriates who are predominately (Navajo) Native Americans.Uses motivational enhancement therapy models as well as traditional cultural Dine healing approaches.

Grantee: New Mexico Office of the Governor	Santa Fe, NM
Program: Access to Recovery	TI16825
Congressional District: NM-01
FY 2006 Funding: $7,499,016
Project Period: 08/03/2004 - 08/02/2007
New Mexico will increase and enhance clinical treatment and recovery support services and offer client choice through the implementation of a voucher system. The new program will enhance the City of Albuquerque's existing voucher system and replicate that system in Santa Fe County, Dona Ana County (Las Cruces) and in Five Sandoval Indian Pueblos, Inc. Catholic Charities' statewide Stone Soup Collaborative will lead an effort to increase the state's capacity to offer increased choices in recovery support services through faith-based and community-based organizations.

Grantee: Gila Regional Medical Center	Silver City, NM
Program: TCE Rural Populations	TI17180
Congressional District: NM-02
FY 2006 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 08/15/2005 - 08/14/2008
The Kokopelli Project: Methamphetamine and Other Stimulant Treatment in Adult Rural Populations will expand and strengthen outpatient treatment services to adult methamphetamine and other stimulant users in four rural counties in southwestern New Mexico. The project targets methamphetamine/stimulant users who are parents of minor children, have been involved with the criminal justice system or child protective service systems, have substance abuse and/or co-occurring disorders and have accessed any level of treatment. The program will build capacity through staff training in the Matrix Model and will strengthen partnerships with service providers in the region. The project will provide gender-sensitive and culturally appropriate treatment services to an estimated 455 clients over the 3 year grant period. The proposed project will serve 75 clients in year 1, 190 clients in year 2 and 190 in year 3. The project anticipates that 55 % to 60% of program participants will be Hispanic with 5% speaking only Spanish. Women will be 50% to 60 % of the population and men 40% to 50%. The age range is estimated to be 20 to 45 years old.

Grantee: Border Area Mental Health Svcs	Silver City, NM
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment	TI15415
Congressional District: NM-02
FY 2006 Funding: $177,801
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: New Mexico Highlands University	Las Vegas, NM
Program: TCE- Campus Screening/Colleges & Universities	TI17313
Congressional District: NM-03
FY 2006 Funding: $484,740
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2008
The proposed program at NMHU will integrate the NM Sangre-SBIRT program of screening, brief intervention, referral, and treatment services with comprehensive education, outreach, and prevention activities that will result in: • Identification and treatment of students with drinking habits that have negative impacts on their lives and the lives of their peers; • Reduction in incidence of binge drinking on campus; • Reduction in under-age drinking on campus; • Development of responsible drinking habits; • Reduction in alcohol-related incidents of dormitory disturbances, violence, underage party drinking, as reported by residence hall personnel and campus security police; • Increased knowledge among NMHU students about the nature and consequences of alcohol and drug use, including understanding of blood alcohol levels, and the risk of death by alcohol poisoning; • Development of university policies and programs that are conducive to reducing under-age drinking and alcohol abuse on campus; • Progress toward development of a campus-wide system and infrastructure for meeting the behavioral health needs of NMHU students.

Last Update: 9/24/2008