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SAMHSA Grant Awards By State FY 2006
Discretionary Funds in Detail

Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)
UTAH

Grantee: UTAH STATE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES	Salt Lake City, UT
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants	SM56635
Congressional District: UT-01
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.

Grantee: Utah State Dept of Human Services	Salt Lake City, UT
Program: Child & Adolescent MH and SA SIGs	SM56533
Congressional District: UT-01
FY 2006 Funding: $740,206
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
The Utah Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health will implement UT CAN (Utah Transformation of Child and Adolescent Network) that will transform the child and adolescent mental health and substance abuse infrastructure to deliver effective, coordinated, and accountable services. Project development involved a broad range of public/private organizations and community members including mental health, substance abuse, education, child welfare, juvenile justice, health, ethnic/racial communities, parent organizations, and youth. The target population of the transformed infrastructure is children, adolescents, and youth age from 0-21 and their families. Through strategic planning, consensus building, and community mobilization, UT CAN will design a statewide master plan of infrastructure transformation that consists of four core components: improved practice field, technology/data, financing structure, and planning/governance/system management. At the local level, each of the 14 Community Mental Health/Substance Abuse Centers in Utah will conduct needs assessment and community mapping to develop a local infrastructure transformation plan. The process evaluation will assess the effectiveness of the strategic planning and the implementation of the statewide master plan and local infrastructure transformation plans. The outcome evaluation will evaluate the scope of implementation and the ability of the transformed infrastructure to deliver effective and coordinated services and to be accountable for them.

Grantee: UTAH STATE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES	Salt Lake City, UT
Program: Disaster Relief	SM00212
Congressional District: UT-01
FY 2006 Funding: $244,508
Project Period: 02/15/2006 - 01/13/2007
These 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 Utah	Salt Lake City, UT
Program: Youth Suicide Prevention & Early Intervention - Cooperative Agreement State-Sponsored	SM57413
Congressional District: UT-02
FY 2006 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 06/01/2006 - 05/31/2009
The purpose of this proposal is to expand family-centered suicide prevention services and evaluate service outcomes in the juvenile court system for all youth assigned to probation. Prior research conducted by our team on this offending population demonstrated an increased risk for suicide with increased offenses. As young offenders commit delinquent acts they are more likely to recidivate with each subsequent court referral-risk for suicide increases with recidivism with a rate of 4:9:1. Goals of this proposal include (1) Improve mental health status of juvenile offenders and decrease suicide risk factors among Utah’s highest risk youth through an expansion of the existing service delivery system, including mental health screening and referral for familycentered suicide prevention services; (2) Improve juvenile offender recidivism and suppression rates through a coordinated expansion of family-centered suicide prevention services; and, (3) Improve resource allocations for mental health services for juvenile offenders to decrease rate of adolescent suicide in Utah. The primary objective: to determine if screening and referral for family-centered suicide prevention services will improve functioning; increase employment, school enrollment, family stability, access to services, social support; and, decrease involvement with the criminal justice system, and utilization of psychiatric inpatient beds.

Grantee: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH	Salt Lake City, UT
Program: Campus Suicide	SM57877
Congressional District: UT-02
FY 2006 Funding: $49,612
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
Grantee plans to address suicide prevention by accomplishing the following goals: 1. improve on-campus gatekeeper skill in risk assessment and protective factor referral making; 2. measure efficiency and quality of protective factor referral making on-campus; 3. develop online materials for target populations that address warning signs of suicide, address specific cultural related issues, promote help seeking behavior, and reduct stigma associated with care seeking; 4. develop online materials for families of students that increase awareness of risk and protective factors for suicide; and 5. increase student awareness and use of protective factors available on campus. Methods of achieving these goals include gatekeeper training; creation of uniform forms for tracking and making protective factor referrals; content development for online materials for target populations; content development for online materials for families of students; and a professional promotion campaign.

Grantee: Allies with Families	North Salt Lake City, UT
Program: CMHS Statewide Family Network Grants	SM56460
Congressional District: UT-02
FY 2006 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
Allies with Families, has had a major role in the development of mental health policy and services for Utah's children with SED and their families. Allies' staff support and organize voices of families who love and want to raise their children in their homes, assures their access to all levels of planning, service delivery and evaluation. Allies insists that individual treatment plans are owned by the family, are strength baed, and reflective of the family's values and culture.

Grantee: UTAH VALLEY STATE COLLEGE	Orem, UT
Program: Campus Suicide	SM57872
Congressional District: UT-03
FY 2006 Funding: $75,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
Utah Valley State College will undertake a comprehensive approach to suicide prevention on the campus with community gatekeepers and stakeholders.Multiple strategies and activities will be implemented, targeted at both the general campus population and identifiable at risk pupulations over a 3 year time period. Engagement of key players in the college community in planning, assessment, design, implementation, and evaluation will be incorporated. The following activities will be utilized: training programs; networking; educational seminars; local and college-based hotlines; informational materials; and educational materials for families and students. The major goals of the project are centered and aligned on informing, engaging, training and educating the community in best practices aimed at improving early recognition, treatment, help seeking, and consistent care for the at risk student population. The project further incorporates a comprehensive ongoing process evaluation and annual self and external evaluations as integral components of the project.

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
UTAH

Grantee: Brigham City Corporation	Brigham City, UT
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP13033
Congressional District: UT-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: UTAH STATE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES	Salt Lake City, UT
Program: Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants	SP13929
Congressional District: UT-01
FY 2006 Funding: $2,093,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
Through the proposed Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant Project for 2006 (SPF SIG), the State of Utah and its Governor, Jon M. Huntsman Jr., will continue to transform the state's prevention sevices into a statewide comprehensive, data-driven, culturally competent, seamless and sustainable system that is based upon the six Guiding Principles and utilizes the Five Steps of SAMHSA's Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF). With the implementation of the SPF, Utah can accomplish both the SAMHSA/CSAP goals and the Utah- specific goals at both the State and community levels by ensuring that all prevention activities and services are available to all populations in need.

Grantee: Salt Lake City	Salt Lake City, UT
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12433
Congressional District: UT-01
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: Indian Walk in Center	Salt Lake City, UT
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11687
Congressional District: UT-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: University of Utah	Salt Lake City, UT
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12437
Congressional District: UT-02
FY 2006 Funding: $99,989
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: Utah Council for Crime Prevention	Salt Lake City, UT
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11675
Congressional District: UT-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: University of Utah	Salt Lake City, UT
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services	SP10585
Congressional District: UT-02
FY 2006 Funding: $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The University of Utah is partnership with Centro de la Familia and Utah AIDS Foundation developed Nuevo Dia II to concurrently prevent HIV/substance abuse in 360 high-risk Hispanic girls (ages 12-13) and their 360 mothers/guardian. This gender specific and culturally adapted program, with meetings 2 times a week for 6 months, will integrate 2 "model" programs namely; the Nuevo Dia Program (New Day) and the Being a Responsible Teem Program (BART) for implementation. This family skills based approach will conduct similar "theme" sessions for mothers and daughters at the same time for one hour once a week; and then mothers and daughters will meet to discuss the topic of the session for an additional 30 minutes. During the second meeting of the week, academic tutoring will be provided for the youth while mothers have an optional session to learn English skills, work towards a G.E.D. or another academic oriented endeavor. Recreational, educational, cultural and other activities will also be integrated into the program. Sessions are taught in small groups of 10-15 mother/daughters pairs. Youth/mothers will be recruited primarily by referrals from school counselors in target schools. The project will be evaluated utilizing a quasi-experimental design with random assignment to either the intervention group or a wait-list control group. Eight cohorts of 45 youth/mothers will enroll in the project intervention and another 45 will enroll as a comparison group for a total enrollment of 360 daughters and 360 mothers. With attrition, it is anticipated that 70% will complete the intervention. Youth and their mothers will be pre-tested at a program orientation; assigned to either the current treatment group or wait-list control; post-tested at the end of the 6 month program. The youth in the wait-list control group will then begin the program. This process will be repeated for the duration of the program so that services are available to all those recruited.

Grantee: Utah Federation for Youth Inc.	Salt Lake City, UT
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11485
Congressional District: UT-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.

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)
UTAH

Grantee: Asian Association of Utah	Salt Lake City, UT
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS	TI14384
Congressional District: UT-01
FY 2006 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To expand substance abuse treatment services to serve 60 additional clients per year. And enhance services by including an intensive HIV outreach component for 200 persons among immigrant and refugee groups, i.e. Asian and Pacific Islander immigrants, African refugees from Somalia, Sudan, and Cameroon, Middle-Eastern refugees from Iran and Iraq, and Eastern European refugees from Bosnia.

Last Update: 9/24/2008