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SAMHSA Grant Awards By State FY 2006
Discretionary Funds in Detail

Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)
WEST VIRGINIA

Grantee: West Virginia State Dept Hlth/Human Rscs	Charleston, WV
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants	SM56636
Congressional District: WV-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: Mountain State Parents Children	McMechen, WV
Program: CMHS Statewide Family Network Grants	SM56437
Congressional District: WV-01
FY 2006 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
The Mountain State Parents, Children & Adolescents Network (MSPCAN) also known as the West Virginia Federation of Families for Children's Mental health proposes to provide a statewide training and support program to empower parents of children with Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED) how to obtain the services they need to help their children live healthy and successful lives.

Grantee: WEST VIRGINIA STATE DEPT HLTH/HUMAN RSCS	Charleston, WV
Program: Youth Suicide Prevention & Early Intervention - Cooperative Agreement State-Sponsored	SM57847
Congressional District: WV-02
FY 2006 Funding: $398,254
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
West Virginia's ASPEN project proposes to serve youth in Kanawha County schools by providing a mobile quick response team and awareness training to students, faculty, and staff regarding the signs and symptoms of suicidal behavior. ASPEN will increase access to clinical services for children and adolescents; increase awareness of the impact of risk factors on suicide among educators, mental health and substance abuse counselors, foster care, and the juvenile justice system; provide awareness training for signs of suicide and suicidal tendencies; conduct train-the-trainer sessions to increase the pool of qualified trainers to provide awareness training for the networks of child serving agencies; organize a network of support for survivors and parents of youth who have attempted suicide; and increase the number of child serving agencies and organizations that routinely screen for suicidal thoughts and tendencies.

Grantee: WV Mental Hlth Consumers Assoc	Charleston, WV
Program: Grants for National Technical Assistance Ctrs on Consumer/Peer-Run Programs	SM56670
Congressional District: WV-02
FY 2006 Funding: $346,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
The Consumer Organization and Networking Technical Assistance Center (CONTAC) will assist in transforming the mental health system by providing skill-building opportunities that foster consumer/peer-run programs, specifically in areas of recovery and grassroots program administration/management, emphasizing self-help, mutual support, and empowerment. Project activities will include skill development training; strategic planning events; curriculum development in self-management/self-help approaches; and increasing consumer participation in forming transformative policy. CONTAC will utilize a cultural advisory council for its ongoing efforts and will elicit indigenous involvement in developing trainings and translations. CONTAC will be available to a range of stakeholders, including consumers, state mental health systems, consumer supporters, service providers, family, and the general public.

Grantee: Youth Health Service, Inc	Elkins, WV
Program: Community TX & Service Ctrs of the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative	SM57144
Congressional District: WV-02
FY 2006 Funding: $388,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2009
'Strength Builders' is a quality improvement program developed by the Youth Health Service, Inc., of Elkins, West Virginia, as a National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative, Community Treatment and Services Center. The goals of Strength Builders are to improve the mental health status of children and adolescents who have experienced complex trauma and to improve community practices and collaborations for the care of traumatized children and adolescents. An array of trauma-specific best practices is integrated into an already broad range of resiliencebuilding, prevention, early intervention and treatment mental health services for children (ages 2-17 years) and their families. These services are offered in a community outpatient setting. The program enhances local expertise in trauma-focused outreach, diagnosis and care by infusing evidence-based interventions for children suffering from post-traumatic stress or post-traumatic stress symptomology and traumatic grief. Training, public education and community collaboration are combined to create an environment that supports and sustains the delivery and use of effective best practices for trauma-focused treatment and care services. The program builds on the expertise, training and resources available through the National Child Traumatic Stress Network and expands the reach of the Network into the Appalachian Highlands where poverty, child maltreatment and other forms of child and adolescent trauma are prevalent.

Grantee: WV Dept of Health & Human Resources	Charleston, WV
Program: Emergency Response	SM00211
Congressional District: WV-03
FY 2006 Funding: $35,000
Project Period: 04/25/2006 - 04/24/2007

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
WEST VIRGINIA

Grantee: State of West Virginia	Charleston, WV
Program: Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants	SP11191
Congressional District: WV-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. West Virginia will use the grant to complete and implement a comprehensive system that will allow the state to: 1) better coordinate alcohol, tobacco and other drug prevention funding; 2) improve the overall quality of prevention programs and the state's prevention workforce; and 3) increase the availability of prevention services to communities statewide.

Grantee: Jefferson Co Coalition on Subs Abuse Inc	Charles Town, WV
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11253
Congressional District: WV-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: Randolph County Family Resource Network	Elkins, WV
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP13076
Congressional District: WV-02
FY 2006 Funding: $64,970
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: McDowell Co Fmly Agn Chldrn Enhancing Sv	Welch, WV
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11655
Congressional District: WV-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.

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)
WEST VIRGINIA

Grantee: PRESTERA CENTER FOR MENTAL HLTH SERVICES	Huntington, WV
Program: Young Offender Reentry Program (YORP) 2004	TI17046
Congressional District: WV-03
FY 2006 Funding: $419,448
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2008
The program is designed to improve the likelihood that juveniles aged 14-21 who are transitioning back to their Appalachian communities will become successful members of society. The target clientele is offenders under the supervision of the West Virginia Juvenile Justice System

Grantee: PRESTERA CENTER FOR MENTAL HLTH SERVICES	Huntington, WV
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment	TI17728
Congressional District: WV-03
FY 2006 Funding: $300,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
STARS is a school-bases substance abuse treatment, wrap around program developed for the purposes of improving the likelihood that substance abusing adolescents will become successful members of society. The project focuses upon one of the most rural and impoverished areas of West Virginia and proposes to serve students from one High School (Tolsia) and two feeder middle schools (Fort Gay and Crum). The STARS project team will serve 48 students per year for a total of 144 students over the life of the award. In addition to serving the adolescents, the project is also designed to serve their respective families with home-based services. Specific services provided by STARS for students and their families include school bases substance abuse treatment services utilizing the ACRA treatment model; case management services in the home utilizing the proven ACC model; and replacement activities, which are intended to utilize community resources as well as expose participants to new cultural events. Adolescents will be engaged in the program for 12-14 weeks of intensive therapy while case management services are being provided to the participant and the family. Referrals and other services will be provided according to the individual and family need. Community stakeholders have joined forces and have agree to actively serve on the STARS steering committee to guide the project. Parents, principals, the Superintendent of the Wayne County Board of Education, the Wayne County Sheriff, the Wayne County Chief Probations officer; Valley Health Systems, faith-based organizations, and DHHR, in addition to the Safe and Drug Free Schools Program and the West Virginia Prevention Resource Network have all joined forces with the project.

Last Update: 9/24/2008