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SAMHSA Grant Awards By State FY 2006
Discretionary Funds in Detail

Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)
SOUTH DAKOTA

Grantee: Yankton Sioux Tribe	Marty, SD
Program: Child Mental Health Initiative	SM57064
Congressional District: SD-00
FY 2006 Funding: $802,699
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2011
The Yankton Sioux Tribe is seeking Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) assistance to develop and implement a system of care for all youth living within the historic boundary of the Yankton Sioux Reservation. The program will be operated under the Behavioral Health Department of the Indian Health Services clinic in Wagner, South Dakota. A holistic system of care will be established that will focus on the youths' physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. Although the program will be targeted at Native Americans, all persons under the age of 21, regardless of race, will be eligible to receive services under the program. Funding will be used to: o Provide mental health service to reservation youth with a serious emotional disturbance and their families. o Provide training to the caregivers who will provide the mental health service to the youth and their families. o Hire a psychiatrist and a clinical psychologist on a contract basis to provide professional mental health treatment to the youth. The Yankton Sioux Tribe anticipates that this initiative will serve approximately 100 youth and their families annually in system of care service. The service will be comprehensive, holistic, and intensive. The program is much needed because there are no mental health services available on the reservation for youth with a serious emotional disturbance.

Grantee: Sinte Gleska University	Mission, SD
Program: Circles of Care American Indian & Alaskan Native Children	SM56781
Congressional District: SD-00
FY 2006 Funding: $319,714
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
Sinte Gleska University, of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, SD, will build the infrastructure for a culturally relevant and appropriate behavioral health service model for students, families of students, and the extended reservation community. The project will also enhance the masters level counseling degree program offered by the university. The project is titled "Circles of Care"

Grantee: SOUTH DAKOTA STATE DEPT OF HUMAN SRVS	Pierre, SD
Program: Youth Suicide Prevention & Early Intervention - Cooperative Agreement State-Sponsored	SM57845
Congressional District: SD-00
FY 2006 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
The purpose of South Dakota's suicide prevention program is to reduce suicide attempts and completions in South Dakota for youths aged 14 - 24. The project will implement early intervention and prevention programs in 14 high schools and two universities, targeting students, staff, parents, and community gatekeepers. In addition to offering a series of targeted suicide awareness and gatekeeper trainings, the initiative will use an online youth gatekeeper course from the National Center for Suicide Prevention Training, and promote the 1-800-273-TALK crisis line and materials. The project will also develop linkages among schools, mental health centers, and substance abuse treatment providers by creating treatment referral and postvention protocols. Among its partners are Sinte Gleska University on the Rosebud Indian Reservation and Wakanyeja Pawicayapi on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

Grantee: SOUTH DAKOTA STATE DEPT OF HUMAN SRVS	Pierre, SD
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants	SM56627
Congressional District: SD-00
FY 2006 Funding: $140,317
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: Wakanyeja Pawicayapi, Inc.	Porcupine, SD
Program: Community TX & Service Ctrs of the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative	SM57166
Congressional District: SD-00
FY 2006 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2009
Wakanyeja Pawicayapi, Inc. (Children First, Inc.) is requesting support to develop a Community Treatment and Services Center (CTS) that would serve children and youth aged 3-18 who have experienced trauma on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota. Lakota children and youth experience traumatic events at much higher rates than the general population in the United States, but resources for treating trauma are seriously limited in quality and scope. The increased, local capacity and expertise that a CTS would offer could help insure that evidence-based trauma interventions arc made available to the target population. Wakanyeja Pawicayapi, an Oglala Sioux Tribally chartered organization is headquartered in the community of Porcupine in the heart of the reservation. Among the services it provides are culturally based mental health interventions for children and youth diagnosed with Serious Emotional Disturbance. The demonstrated leadership of the organization in local and national collaborations, and in strengthening the system of care on the reservation, makes it an excellent candidate for developing and sustaining a Community Treatment and Services Center.

Grantee: SD School Mines and Technology	Rapid City, SD
Program: Campus Suicide	SM57509
Congressional District: SD-00
FY 2006 Funding: $75,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
The goals of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (School of Mines) suicide prevention plan are to decrease the stigma and barriers to help-seeking behaviors for mental/behavioral health issues and increase overall mental health among students, thereby aiding the successful completion of their studies. The plan features three major components: Prevention Education, Gatekeeper Intervention Training, and Assessment and Treatment. These components are aimed at reducing risk factors and increasing protective factors as they relate to suicidality. Prevention Education includes seminars targeted to the student. Seminars will address the risk factors and protective factors in smaller groupings of students to maximize interaction and reinforce a social support structure.Prevention Education will also include the development and dissemination of informational material that address the warning signs, risk factors, and protective factors of suicidal behavior as well as appropriate action steps for students to act upon for themselves or on behalf of fellow students. Informational material will also publicize a suicide hotline and be disseminated to students, students’ families and staff. Gatekeeper Intervention Training will address mental/behavioral health problems, risk factors and protective factors and will instruct in the implementation of the crisis response protocol.The final component is the development of an Assessment and Treatment/referral system. Assessment of mental health and suicidal risk will be achieved through the suicide prevention office and will include pre- and post-treatment evaluations.

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
SOUTH DAKOTA

Grantee: Rural America Initiatives	Rapid City, SD
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP13193
Congressional District: SD-00
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: Chiesman Foundation for Democracy	Rapid City, SD
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP14184
Congressional District: SD-00
FY 2006 Funding: $100,000
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.

Last Update: 9/24/2008