Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
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Grantee: COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS, INC
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Washington, DC |
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Program: AIDS TCE-Service Capacity Bldg in Minority Communities |
SM057654 |
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Congressional District: DC-00 |
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FY 2007 Funding: $522,846
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Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011 |
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The purpose of the Isis Project is to improve the mental and physical health of African American women in the District of Columbia who are HIV positive. The project will both increase the accessibility of the needed services and provide an array of culturally competent, gender specific, HIV-informed mental health services. The project's target population includes three groups: HIV-positive women who have severe mental disorders; HIV-positive women whose mental health status has not been evaluated or who do not have a DSM-IV diagnosis and; those individuals who are part of these women's natural networks. Two of the program's primary goals are to identify mental health concerns among African American women and providers; and to provide a full range of community supports through a newly developed Wellness Intensive Case Management team.
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Grantee: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
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Washington, DC |
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Program: Campus Suicide |
SM057512 |
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Congressional District: DC-00 |
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FY 2007 Funding: $74,951
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008 |
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To meet the major challenge of reaching students at risk for suicide but unknown to campus mental health agencies, the GW Counseling Center proposes to empower students through a multidimensional awareness/educational campaign; to build a web of supportive and skilled faculty, staff and student leaders through comprehensive training/consultative programs; and to sustain a caring community through enhanced identification, referral, and emergency services. GW will engage existing resources across campus to create a multifaceted approach to reaching at-risk students. Multiple media will be used to permeate the campus community with constructive messages each semester. Repetition within poster, flyer, newspaper, radio and electronic billboard publicity will be designed to create a strong positive connection with University Counseling Center (UCC) services. Key faculty, academic advisors, university police, residential life staff, student service staff, and student leaders will be trained to recognize symptoms of students in distress, to respond skillfully and to refer appropriately those students to campus resources.The intention and hope of this proposal is to reach GW students by providing education about mental health issues, empowering a web of community members to identify and respond to students in need, encouraging and supporting these students in taking responsibility for their mental health care by accessing appropriate services, and strengthening campus services to address perceived needs. Evaluation of this suicide prevention project will focus on the impact of the proposed interventions, both in terms of number of individuals meaningfully served as well as new learning and behavior resulting from project interventions.
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Grantee: HOWARD UNIVERSITY
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Washington, DC |
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Program: Campus Suicide |
SM057520 |
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Congressional District: DC-00 |
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FY 2007 Funding: $75,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008 |
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Howard University's Department of Psychiatry and the University Counseling Service will collaborate and establish a comprehensive suicide prevention program. Goals and Objectives: The overall goals for this project is to increase help seeking behavior, to decrease suicidal behavior, and decrease stigma associated with students seeking mental health treatment. Objectives include the following: (1) Training for recognition of at risk behavior and delivery of effective treatment. Each training module is intended to meet specific needs throughout the campus community by developing programs for students, campus personnel and mental health personnel including those in the emergency division of the Howard University Hospital; (2) Improve our existing strategies of education and outreach to new and existing students and parents by developing supplementary informative literature to be disseminated. Further outreach will be executed by organizing a one day symposium for students once a year, and developing a video by and for students on help seeking behavior and stigma of mental disorders to be shown inTarget audience will be, but not exclusively, vulnerable student populations in an effort to reach at risk populations after training sessions and receiving informative materials, we anticipate a more educated faculty and staff on how to recognize a student in suicidal crisis and how to obtain help for that student in a careful and sensitive way that will not traumatize the student and the faculty or staff involved. We expect an outcome of more students being open about their mental health and uncover the dilemma of seeking help without feeling stigmatized.
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Grantee: DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DEPT OF MENTAL HLTH
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Washington, DC |
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Program: State Data Infrastructure Grants (2007) |
SM058111 |
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Congressional District: DC-00 |
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FY 2007 Funding: $142,200
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Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010 |
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The District of Columbia needs to engage in a comprehensive data cleaning that will serve to enhance quality and accuracy of data reporting. Specific areas of focus include missing data and addressing definitional matching from reporting entities. Additionally, a need exists to provide appropriate training and use of data for reporting entities. A major undertaking, as well, will include inventory of independent databases, documenting contents, and preparing them for linking of information systems across the mental health system. There will be continued exploration of additional reporting of evidence based practices.
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Grantee: COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS, INC
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Washington, DC |
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Program: Supportive Housing (2007) |
SM058316 |
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Congressional District: DC-00 |
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FY 2007 Funding: $418,835
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Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012 |
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The proposed Creating Communities project will provide a comprehensive package of evidence-based services for chronically homeless individuals with severe mental disorders. The purpose of the project is to assist these individuals in finding and keeping stable housing by providing integrated services embedded in a residential community enriched by professional and peer support. A newly developed Residential Community Intensive Case Management team will utilize the SAMHSA-developed evidence-based service models in Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment, Illness Management, and Supported Employment.
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Grantee: AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
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Washington, DC |
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Program: Minority Fellowship Program (2007) |
SM056564 |
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Congressional District: DC-00 |
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FY 2007 Funding: $959,854
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Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2008 |
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The principal aim of the American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program (APA-MFP) in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services is to identify, select, and support the training of 30 doctoral level ethnic minority students and 1 postdoctoral trainee whose prior experiences and clearly stated career goals suggest they will make significant contributions to the mental health and substance abuse services needs of ethnic and racial minorities. The APA-MFP has two target populations at the center of its efforts: the members of ethnic and racial minorities in need of mental health and substance abuse services and ethnic minority doctoral students in psychology. The MFP selects individuals with promise and a commitment to careers that address mental health and substance abuse service needs of ethnic minorities. The program is designed to meet its goals and specific aims by providing stipend support, ancillary training experiences, mentoring and career guidance, and access to an outstanding network of professional contacts. An expert advisory committee provides oversight and program guidance as well as mentoring and professional leadership. The program works collaboratively with leading doctoral degree granting training institutions in psychology as well as organizations and programs that provide specialized training in substance abuse services and cultural competence. As a result, the MFP provides significant training experiences to its Fellows.
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Grantee: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
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Washington, DC |
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Program: NTTAC-National Training & TA Assistance Ctr for CCHld and Adoles MH |
SM056495 |
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Congressional District: DC-00 |
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FY 2007 Funding: $3,327,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2010 |
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The National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health in the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development was established in 1984. NTAC was established to strengthen the capacity of states, territories, tribes and communites to transform their mental health systems to meet the diverse and complex needs of children and adolescents with or at risk for serious emotional disturbances and their families. Using the blueprint for transforming mental health provided by the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, NTAC will respond to the needs of states, with a specific focus on state mental health agencies, partner child-serving agencies, statewide family organizations, and youth leaders. Individualized coaching to states and territories will focus on the following priority areas: strengthen capacity for system transformation; state planning, policy development and financing; improving systems of care and service delivery and incorporating evidence-based /promising practices; early intervention and early childhood mental health services; reducing disparities and improving cultural/linguistic competence; integrating services across child-serving systems and serving vulnerable populations; workforce and leadership development; and data management, accountability, and technology.
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Grantee: DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
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Washington, DC |
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Program: 2004 COSIGS |
SM056574 |
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Congressional District: DC-00 |
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FY 2007 Funding: $1,097,802
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Project Period: 09/01/2005 - 08/31/2010 |
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The Districe of Columbia is using the opportunity of the COSIG program to accelerate the steps already underway to establish an integrated service delivery approach, screen all individuals that present for treatment in partner agencies, provide integrated clinical assessments, provide treatment for co-occuring disorders consistent with current science and best practices, create financial incentives and programmatic infrastructure to sustain services, and build a learning network for continuous quality improvement extending across historical service gaps. Using the Comprehensive Continuous Systems of Care model, the goal is to have "no wrong door" in the District's mental health service system by 2007. George Washington University will assist in creating pay-for-performance and value-based purchasing strategies that align financial incentives to support and sustain high quality assessment and treatment of co-occuring disorders.
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Grantee: District of Columbia Dept of Mental Hlth
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Washington, DC |
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Program: Adolescents at Risk |
SM57432 |
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Congressional District: DC-00 |
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FY 2007 Funding: $227,887
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008 |
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STOP Suicide at Eastern (SSE), proposed as a supplement to the STOP Suicide grant/Linking Adolescents at Risk for Suicide, will evaluate the use of a comprehensive, pervasive suicide screening program at one D.C. public high school. By conducting suicide screening in one school all year, it will allow for greater opportunities to engage parents for more consent return as well as greater compliance with referral recommendations. Eastern was chosen because it is a school with high needs 64% are eligible for free and reduced lunch. Many youth have significant exposure to crime and violence. SSE will target adolescents in 9-l2 grade who attend Eastern High School. The project goal is to screen a total of 50% of the student body (approximately 400). We anticipate that at least 45% will have a positive screen and be in need of a referral. We expect to link at least 50% of these youth one-month post-screen and 75% by six-months after the screen.
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Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
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Grantee: INTERNATIONAL CITY/CNTY MGMT ASSOCIATION
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Washington, DC |
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Program: SAMHSA Conference Grants |
SP014208 |
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Congressional District: DC-00 |
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FY 2007 Funding: $25,000
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Project Period: 08/01/2007 - 07/31/2008 |
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The International City/County Management Association, the Arizona Prevention Resource Center at Arizona State University, and the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies have joined together to plan a knowledge dissemination conference and training seminar, "Embracing Interdependence for Effective Prevention," to be held in early summer of 2007 in Washington, DC. The event will introduce policy makers and other government oficials to a new comprehensive process and model, the Performance and Resource Management System, being developed to provide policy makers with a new set of tools for reviewing and assessing the effectiveness of subtance abuse and violence prevention programs that are currently funded by the public sector. This highly interactive conference will introduce participants to the new system and train them on the use of its fundamental elements as well as accept feedback on how those elements can be better refined for use by local governments.
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Grantee: BRIDGING RESOURCES IN COMMUNITIES, INC.
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Washington, DC |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP014459 |
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Congressional District: DC-00 |
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FY 2007 Funding: $100,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012 |
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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.
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Grantee: SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK, INC.
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Washington, DC |
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Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework |
SP013276 |
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Congressional District: DC-00 |
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FY 2007 Funding: $254,320
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010 |
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Sasha Bruce Youthwork, Inc. (SBY) in Washington, DC has received a 5 year Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) grant to provide substance abuse prevention and HIV and Hepatitis prevention services to minority populations and minority reentry populations. Targeting African American re-entry populations 21 years of age and younger, SPY will collaborate with the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL) to provide comprehensive, culturally competent outreach, prevention and referral services to promote positive attitude and behavioral changes in the areas of substance abuse, HIV and Hepatitis. Youth will be accessed through SBY's shelter and transitional living programs, under DC's juvenile justice rehabilitation network, as well as through street- and venue-based outreach. Counseling, testing and referral (CTR) services will also be provided.
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Grantee: LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER, INC.
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Washington, DC |
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Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework |
SP013391 |
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Congressional District: DC-00 |
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FY 2007 Funding: $254,320
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010 |
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The Latin American Youth Center in Washington, DC has received a 5 year Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) grant to provide substance abuse prevention and HIV and Hepatitis prevention services to minority populations and minority reentry populations. The grantee will deliver integrated prevention services for substance abuse, HIV, Hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections as well as counseling, testing and referral services to African American and Latino youth and young adults, ages 13 - 24 years, in DC Wards 1 and 4, and to DC youth exiting the juvenile justice system. Services will be provided in both school-based and community-based settings. The evidence-based, group-level, multi-session curriculum will focus on building resiliency.
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Grantee: WASHINGTON AREA CONSORTIUM/HIV INFEC YTH
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Washington, DC |
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Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services |
SP010588 |
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Congressional District: DC-00 |
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FY 2007 Funding: $250,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008 |
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Metro TeenAIDS (MTA) and City Year Washington DC (CYDC) will provide integrated substance abuse prevention and HN prevention services to youth ages 13 through 17 attending District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) through the DC Students Making Proud Choices! (DCSMPS!) project. MTA is a community-based organization whose mission is to prevent new HIV infections among young people and improve the quality of life for young people already affected by and infected with HIV. CYDC is a local site of the national City Year organization, whose mission is to demonstrate, improve, and promote the concept of national service as a means of building a stronger democracy. MTA and CYDC expect to reach over 26,000 junior, middle, and senior high school students over the five-year period of DCSMPS! MTA and CYDC seek to promote the adoption and maintenance of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors by District of Columbia youth that support them in abstaining from substance use and sexual activity or reducing risks when engaging in such activities. DCSMPS! responds to the shortfall in SAP and HIV prevention services targeted to District youth, a deficit recognized by local health agencies, community-based organizations, and young people themselves. Young residents of the national capital seeking information and support in order to make wise choices regarding substance use and sexuality are instead confronted by little or none of either service. DCSMPS! redresses this service gap on a major scale.
MTA and CYDC's evidence-based prevention intervention consists of two components. In the first, teams of CYDC corps members-youth and young adults who have volunteered to contribute one or two years of community service-will bring the Making Proud Choices! integrated SAP/HIVP curriculum to DCPS students in grades 7 through 12. In the second, corps members will identify, train and support a subset of students from within those classes which have received the curriculum and establish them
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Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)
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Grantee: DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HEALTH DEPARTMENT
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Washington, DC |
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Program: State Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Coordination |
TI017397 |
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Congressional District: DC-00 |
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FY 2007 Funding: $400,000
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Project Period: 08/01/2005 - 07/31/2008 |
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The District government will strengthen and coordinate the youth treatment system by:
- Developing a continuum of evidence-based youth treatement services;
- Leading annual multi-agency planning of services;
- Developing quality and performance standards and a certification process for providers;
- Expanding capacity of youth-serving organizations;
- Developing systems to monitor and evaluate the quality and effectiveness of treatment services;
- Identifying and disseminating research findings to the provider community;
- Developing a certification program for youth substance abuse treatment specialists; and
- Improving the continuity and effectiveness of the publicly funded youth substance abuse treatment programs in the District of Columbia.
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Grantee: DC DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
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Washington, DC |
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Program: Access to Recovery |
TI019445 |
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Congressional District: DC-00 |
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FY 2007 Funding: $3,522,968
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Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010 |
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The District of Columbia (DC) Access to Recovery program plans to provide culturally-sensitive substance abuse treatment and recovery support services (RSS) over the three-year federal grant period. The key target population is the estimated 20,000 substance abusers who annually exit jail or prison and return to the District's streets. Three additional special populations will be targeted over the life of the grant: women, women with dependent children, and methamphetamine users. The ATR voucher program will provide a unique and valuable compliment ot the District's existing voucher program that currently provides client choice among substance abuse clinical treatment services only. These two concurrent voucher programs will provide CSAT with superior data to demonstrate the efficacy of adding recovery support services to a clinical treatmetn services continuum. The District plans to establish a special Voucher Program Office (VPO) that will be responsible for ensuring that the ATR Voucher program achieves its projected target number of cleints served through aggressive outreach to the community, education of eligible and potential providers, and collaboration with federal and local agencies that now manage many of the persons who are returning to the community after being incarcerated. The VPO will also vigilantly ensure non-supplantation of program funds and oversee performance measurement.
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Grantee: COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS, INC
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Washington, DC |
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Program: Treatment for Homeless - Homeless |
TI017912 |
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Congressional District: DC-00 |
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FY 2007 Funding: $399,005
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Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011 |
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The Options Plus project will provide a comprehensive package of evidence-based services for homeless individuals with severe mental disorders who are part of a postbooking jail diversion program in the District of Columbia. The purpose of Options Plus is to assist these individuals find and keep stable housing by providing integrated services that simultaneously address co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, unemployment, and trauma.
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Grantee: LA CLINICA DEL PUEBLO, INC.
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Washington, DC |
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Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS |
TI015727 |
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Congressional District: DC-00 |
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FY 2007 Funding: $499,999
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Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008 |
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Puerta Abierta (Open Door) seeks to develop creative, integrated strategies of care leading to reduced HIV transmission among substance-abusing Latino immigrant men who have sex with men in the Washington metropolitan area, building on the expertise of its partners working in many capacities with the target population over 20 years. The partnering of La Clinica del Pueblo and Neighbors' Consejo will strengthen existing resources for the Latino community and provide a more cohesive standard of care, as well as begin to establish a base of understanding for the overlap in substance abuse and occurrence of HIV in the Latino community in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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Grantee: INSTITUTE FOR BEHAVIORAL CHANGE
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Washington, DC |
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Program: Young Offender Reentry Program (YORP) 2004 |
TI017055 |
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Congressional District: DC-00 |
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FY 2007 Funding: $299,755
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Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2009 |
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The Institute for Behavioral Change and Research, Inc. (IBCR) propose to implement a project, entitled Young Offender Reentry Services (YORS), which will be uniquely tailored to Washington, DC female offender needs and resources. The target population will be fifty (50) Washington, DC female reentry residents, aged 10-17, all females who have been detained or committed with the criminal justice system and scheduled to be released back into the community to any of the 8 Wards of the city, low-or high-risk offenders, with any cultural or ethnic background.
The purpose of YORS is to develop and implement a successful substance abuse reentry treatment system for female juvenile offenders. YORS will strengthen the female's resistance against delinquency. Components of YORS will integrate the Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT) Model to address coping skills, relapse prevention, skills training, relational building, and communication skills development. Ultimately, the offender will obtain the skills by actively developing new ways of interpreting and responding to inter- and intrapersonal situations
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