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SAMHSA Grant Awards By State FY 2007
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Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)
MASSACHUSETTS
Grantee: UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST	Amherst, MA
Program: Campus Suicide	SM057865
Congressional District: MA-01
FY 2007 Funding: $74,972
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
This project will work with Syracuse Univ to adapt their gatekeeper training and build capacity to deliver it to core campus constituencies. Some mental health staff will participate in AAS Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk: Workshop for College and Univ Counseling Center Staff. Activities include providing a 1 to 2 hour focused training for Residential Assistants as potential frontline gatekeepers, and a 2.5 hour suicide prevention training curriculum to other identified campus constituents. Specific activities include training of select mental health staff who already have significant experience with suicidal behavior int he gatekeeper training curriculum developed by staff at Syracuse Univ, and training of all mental health staff to build capacity for the assessment and management of mental health. A 1-day training curriculum for mental health professionals will focus on competencies that encompass clusters of knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes or perceptions required for people to be successful in their work.

Grantee: Commonwealth of Massachusetts	Boston, MA
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants	SM56640
Congressional District: MA-01
FY 2007 Funding: $15,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2008
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: WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE	Worcester, MA
Program: Campus Suicide	SM057873
Congressional District: MA-03
FY 2007 Funding: $73,175
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
Grantee currently has in place many important components of a comprehensive suicide prevention plan. Lacking are two essential elements: a system to identify and train key individuals within the community in recognizing and responding effectively to students at risk; and a means by which to impact a broad range of students with knowledge of mental health issues and awareness of available resources for help. To meet the need for training will adopt the QPR Institute Suicide Risk Reduction Program in order to support a comprehensive education and training program for gatekeepers. Grantee will address the need for increased student awareness by developing a peer education program to provide widespread student programming on issues related to mental ehalth and to encourage and support help seeking when necessary. The WPI Student Development and Counseling Center will coordinate a campus based approach involving all levels of the community in efforts to recognize and respond effectively to students in distress.

Grantee: EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER, INC.	Newton, MA
Program: Technical Assistance Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention	SM054865
Congressional District: MA-04
FY 2007 Funding: $3,998,897
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
The National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention (the TA Center) supports Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) grantees. The TA Center helps grantees to plan, implement, evaluate, and sustain activities that foster resilience, promote mental health, and prevent youth violence and mental and behavioral disorders. Grantees' work focuses on carrying out evidence-based interventions (EBIs) to foster well-being and resilience at the individual, family, and community levels. This application requests supplemental funding to expand the provision of TA services to approximately 20 new SS/HS grantees not accounted for in the original budget and to develop additional resources for grantees to use as they implement their grants. The goal of this Supplement is to expand and enhance services for all SS/HS grantees.

Grantee: EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER, INC.	Newton, MA
Program: Suicide Resource Center	SM057392
Congressional District: MA-04
FY 2007 Funding: $3,595,990
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) has operated SPRC since 2002. With supplemental funding, SPRC will expand its capacity to provide technical assistance to the increasing number of State, Tribal, Territorial, and Campus grantees funded under the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act by adding professional staff to its cadre of experts. SPRC will also expand its suicide prevention support among Native Americans and Alaskan Natives and in U.S. Territories through both staff expansion and Tribal partnerships. SPRC will convene a group of experts to create a process and plan to develop guidelines for suicide risk assessment in health and mental health care settings (National Strategy for Suicide Prevention [NSSP] Objective 7.2) and for aftercare treatment for persons who have exhibited suicidal behavior (NSSP Objective 7.4). In partnership with the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators, SPRC will develop and deliver suicide prevention workshops and curricula in correctional settings. Finally, in partnership with the State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association, SPRC will develop strategies for delivering training, developing community suicide prevention capacity, and for dissemination of suicide prevention resource materials in rural settings. organizations representing communities of color encouraging that coalitions represent the demographic and cultural diversity of the states. Resources will also be developed to advance the understanding of the cultural context of suicide and suicide prevention among racial and ethnic minorities, and support services for survivors of suicide. Recognizing the important role faith communities can play in suicide prevention, SPRC will develop and expand relationships with faith-based stakeholder groups to collaborate on developing resources to support prevention efforts by clerics and lay leaders.

Grantee: NATIONAL EMPOWERMENT CENTER, INC.	Lawrence, MA
Program: Consumer/Comsumer Supporter TA Centers (2007)	SM056680
Congressional District: MA-05
FY 2007 Funding: $463,360
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2010
The National Empowerment Center (NEC) will help mental health consumers acquire the knowledge, skills & confidence to participate in the transformation to a dynamic, effective, & consumer-driven mental health system focused on recovery & community integration. It will strengthen statewide consumer networks & help them to engage in service delivery & support, training, evaluation, & planning & policy formation activities in states. NEC will provide in-depth, & ongoing consultation to two states that have nonexistant or underserved statewide consumer-run organizations. They will help establish & strenghten consumer-run organizations & networks by developing business & management skills training & resources based on its manual, Voices of Transformation. NEC will build leadership skills through its training program, Finding Our Voice, to enhance consumer participation in recovery transformation initiatives at all levels. NEC will develop materials & pilot training for peers to become group facilitators of peer-run support and wellness groups. It will develop a set of materials to promote consumer involvement in the planning & provision of peer support in disaster response, called 'From Relief to Recovery.' NEC will develop training resources to teach consumer-run approaches for evaluation of consumer operated & traditional service programs. NEC will enhance the shift to recovery by creating an updated compilation of exemplary consumer-run programs in each of the four fundamental areas of transformation: services & supports, training, evaluation & policy.

Grantee: CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE	Cambridge, MA
Program: AIDS TCE-Service Capacity Bldg in Minority Communities	SM057650
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $525,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
The Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), a safety-net health care system and teaching hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School that serves the primarily low-income, ethnically diverse Massachusetts communities of Cambridge, Somerville, Malden, Chelsea, Revere, Everett and Winthrop, proposes an outreach program to provide HIV/AIDS-related mental health services to minority populations in CHA's service area. The proposed program is based upon an evidence-based treatment model known as Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), which consists of multi-disciplinary teams (psychiatrist, clinical nurse specialist, psychiatric social workers, substance abuse counselors and case managers) utilizing extensive outreach into the community including home visiting and meetings in community settings such as drop-in centers and informal gathering places for a target population of persons who may have difficulty accessing and adhering to treatment in traditional mental health settings.

Grantee: CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOSTON	Boston, MA
Program: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder-Adaptation Centers (2007)	SM058141
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $599,998
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2011
We, at Children's Hospital Boston, propose a Treatment and Service Adaptation Center for the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative focused specifically on refugee children and families. Our center's primary role will be dedicated to helping other Network Centers in the adaptation, evaluation and dissemination of effective interventions and services for children with refugee trauma. The primary goals of this application are to: 1) Develop a 'toolkit' to help refugee resettlement agencies, schools, and other service systems that better identify and understand the mental health needs of refugee youth, 2) Develop evaluation methodologies and instruments appropriate to refugees, and 3) Adapt Trauma Systems Therapy and the Refugee Family Preventative Intervention to be appropriate to a variety of communities/service settings

Grantee: LATINO HEALTH INSTITUTE, INC.	Boston, MA
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-Treatment Centers (2007)	SM058196
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $399,999
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2011

Grantee: PARENT/PROFESSIONAL ADVOCACY LEAGUE	Boston, MA
Program: Statewide Family Networks	SM057929
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $60,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
The Massachusetts Parent/Professional Advocacy League (PAL) will provide training and support to its statewide network of family run support groups in order to promote a strong family voice to advocate for quality services for children and adolescents with mental health needs. The training and support will enhance the ability of these families to participate as equal partners in developing policies and programs for their children. PAL provides support and technical assistance to a large network of Family Support Specialists. These Specialists, in turn, provide support, information and advocacy resources to thousands of families acrosss Massachusetts whose children have serious emotional disturbance. PAL has access to many state agencies, legislative committees, policy makers and others who create programs and services for these famiies. As the state organization of the Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health, PAL is positioned to use new resources to increase its ability to support famiies so that they can use their experiences and uniqe perspectives to impact others locally, regionally and across the state. PAL proposes to build upon the existing training capacity, in order to foster the ability of families to be agents of change thus enhancing the Sate capacity and infrastructure to be more oriented to the needs of children with SED and their families.

Grantee: PINE STREET INN, INC.	Boston, MA
Program: Supportive Housing (2007)	SM058291
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $375,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
The applicant provides HUD-supported Shelter Plus Care, Single Room Occupancy, and Supportive Housing permanent housing, in addition to a full continuum of services. The project will help chronically homeless individuals attain stability in permanent housing, using such approaches as outreach, engagement, and retention strategies to ensure that participants have the skills and individualized supports necessary to function in housing.

Grantee: M-POWER, INC.	Roxbury, MA
Program: Statewide Consumer Network	SM057943
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $69,314
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
The Massachusetts Statewide Latino Consumer Network is a consumer-driven peer support model and network designed by and for the Latino peer mental health consumer community. Local peer support networks across the commonwealth will be linked to a statewide network of information sharing and collaboration, providing the opportunity for the Latino voice to join the peer support network at the state wide policy advocacy table. The creation of a multicultural informal stakeholder group will drive the development of peer recovery and support among multiple cultural groups. Partners that will assist to make this project successful include the Transformation Center, Peer Counseling Project, Boston University center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Consumer Quality Initiative, Inc., Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership, Vinfen, and the Department of Mental Health.

Grantee: CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOSTON	Boston, MA
Program: Adolescents at Risk	SM58360
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $227,814
Project Period: 11/30/2006 - 09/30/2008
Children's Hospital Boston in collaboration with Boston Public Schools proposes to further develop and evaluate its current project with the goal of developing a model youth-based high schoolsuicide prevention program that will be ready for empirical testing and eventual dissemination across schools in Massachusetts and the nation. Activities include: 1) the development and utilization of a school-based 4-session crisis intervention as an addition to the range of clinical services already provided in the community, 2) the development and implementation of a Peer Support "Signature" Course Curriculum for Peer Support Leaders to receive credit toward graduation for their involvement in the program, and 3) the engagement of Peer Support Leaders as co-teachers on topics related to mental health issues to be presented in classroom settings and at school-wide events.

Grantee: CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION	Cambridge, MA
Program: TCE-Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Older Adults	SM057088
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
The Cambridge Health Alliance, a public health hospital system, is proposing to expand access to underserved elderly residents of its new adjacent service area in the Metronorth area of Boston, Massachusetts. The project has three components. First it will expand accessible mental health services to functionally-homebound elderly persons with serious mental illness in the four-city region of Malden, Everett, Revere, and Medford, MA by means of a program, modeled on Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) evidence-based practice, that has been in operation for twenty-five years in the adjoining cities of Cambridge and Somerville, MA,. The second component is infrastructure development in the form of developing a collaborative network among community agencies providing social services to the elderly in the catchment area. The third component is an evidence- base practice, known as Enhanced Referral Care, designed to improve quality by integrating mental health and primary health care, and studied in the SAMHSA- sponsored PRISM-E multi-site evaluation. The project will include a needs assessment and action plan for transportation options, which informants have identified as a major obstacle to care. The evaluation will be conducted by the Human Services Research Institute. The implementation evaluation will include fidelity measures for the ACT and Enhanced Referral models. The outcomes evaluation will measure client functioning, symptoms, satisfaction (using the Press-Ganey survey) and self-report assessment of r cultural competence using the Cultural Assessment of Treatment Services, an instrument developed and currently pilot tested.

Grantee: MASSACHUSETTS STATE DEPT OF MENTAL HLTH	Boston, MA
Program: Child Mental Health Initiative	SM057006
Congressional District: MA-09
FY 2007 Funding: $2,000,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2011
Central Massachusetts Communities of Care (CMCC) is a collaboration of youth with Serious Emotional Disturbance (SBD) and their families; community and state child serving agencies; and the MA Executive Office of Health and Human Services, under the leadership of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Its goal is to promote system transformation in Central MA to divert youth with SED from unnecessary juvenile justice involvement. CMCC will promote coordinated, family-driven, youth-guided care that is individualized, community-based, culturally competent and data driven, based on Child and Adolescent service System values and principles, as refined and elaborated by the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. CMCC will support the establishment of 2 Family Centers located in the North and in the South areas of the region. The Family Centers will serve as sites for family-professional partnership responsible for training, screening for enrollment into the CMCC project, creating child and family teams for individualized service planning, and administering flexible funds. In addition, CMCC will provide services necessary to create a system of care in Central Massachusetts to collaborate with the Family Centers in providing family directed, youth guided and culturally competent care:

Grantee: MASSACHUSETTS STATE DEPT OF MENTAL HLTH	Boston, MA
Program: State Data Infrastructure Grants (2007)	SM058114
Congressional District: MA-09
FY 2007 Funding: $142,200
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/30/2008
The goal for the use of the Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grant is twofold: (1) Enhance existing systems to enable collection of the measures which fall outside the realm of the Mental Health Information System and to create mechanisms to match data to the coding structure of the measures as defined in the proposal. (2) Continue the implementation and analysis of a statewide consumer satisfaction survey in order to improve the quality of care at all levels of the organization. The SMHA intends to use the award from this grant to continue the implementation and analysis of an annual statewide consumer satisfaction survey.

Grantee: JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE	Boston, MA
Program: Community TX & Service Ctrs of the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative	SM056175
Congressional District: MA-09
FY 2007 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 05/01/2005 - 09/29/2009
The Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute (TC-JRI), in collaboration with the Child Trauma Recovery Foundation (CTRF) proposes to utilize the Trauma Center's extensive expertise and leadershipto establish the New England Trauma Services Network (NESTN) within the larger NCTSN. The NETSN will expand the training and services of the TC's CTS site during the initial four years of the NCTSN to high-need, under-resourced communities. The project will focus on the training, adaptation, pilot implementation, evaluation and dissemination of clinical interventions designed by Category II NCTSN colleagues and the TC to treat complex trauma, as well as interventions specifically designed CTRF to respond to school and community violence. The NETSN will emphasize dissemination and implementation of trauma-focused evidence based practices (EBPs) within primary service sites of Mental Health, Education, Child Protection, and Juvenile Justice state services agencies in New England (NE) that serve trauma exposed youth.We will target five pilot sites that represent the full range of State Service Systems dealing with traumatized youth: (1) a child protection-designed and Dept. of Education approved residential school for girls, (2) a juvenile justice facility for boys, (2) a juvenile justice facility for boys, (3) a residential DMH treatment program for girls, (4) a trauma specialty outpatient clinic, and (5) a public school district.

Grantee: MASSACHUSETTS STATE DEPT OF PUB HEALTH	Boston, MA
Program: Youth Suicide Prevention & Early Intervention - Cooperative Agreement State-Sponsored	SM057402
Congressional District: MA-09
FY 2007 Funding: $399,787
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2008
The Y.E.S. Project will be a three-pronged effort to decrease suicide and suicidal behavior in Massachusetts youth. Y.E.S. will create a safety net for youth in foster-care, foster family support services enabling juvenile offenders to return to a better environment after a suicide attempt, and introduce suicide prevention education in Schools of Social Work. Massachusetts (MA) surveillance for suicides will also be enhanced. The proposed project will be housed in the MA Department of Public Health's Suicide Prevention Program and will implement 17 objectives of the MA Strategic Plan (which is based on the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention) for this proposed target population. Implementation will be through interagency agreements with the Departments of Social Services and Youth Services and through a contract with a university-based School of Social Work. Foster parents and staff in the foster care system will be trained as gatekeepers by the Department of Social Services (DSS). Families of suicide attempt survivors and suicide completers will be connected to community support and prevention resources through the Department of Youth Services (DYS). Trained gatekeepers for both these populations will ensure that any young person who exhibits warning signs is referred for further assessment by a clinician. The MA Suicide Prevention Program, which has trained clinicians on suicide risk assessment and treatment for the past year, will ensure that DSS and DYS physicians are also trained. A contract with a School of Social Work will provide the structure and content for integrating suicide prevention into their Master of Social Work curriculum. Suicide and suicide attempt data in this population will be collected as part of the evaluation.

Grantee: MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME ACADEMY	Buzzards Bay, MA
Program: Campus Suicide	SM057823
Congressional District: MA-10
FY 2007 Funding: $75,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
Funds from this grant will be used to support a comprehensive suicide prevention program with the goals of educating the campus community on suicide risk behavior prevention, recognition, and intervention, developing and supporting healthy coping mechanisms among students to reduce suicide risk factors, and enhancing institutional resources for students at risk, strengthening the college's capacity to respond effectively to students in need. The objectives of the program are to: train key personnel as gatekeeper trainers; create a critical incident response plan and networking infrastructure including a suicide hotline and a comprehensive website; create a full time position for a counselor on campus increasing intervention options and to provide educational seminars and mental health awareness opportunities; implement a comprehensive Freshman 101 course focusing on developing healthy coping skills; and prepare and disseminate suicide risk informational and educational materials for students and their families.

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
Grantee: FRANKLIN REGIONAL COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS	Greenfield, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP012262
Congressional District: MA-01
FY 2007 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
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: GIRLS INC. OF HOLYOKE	Holyoke, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP011396
Congressional District: MA-01
FY 2007 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: NORTHERN BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY COALITION	North Adams, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP012075
Congressional District: MA-01
FY 2007 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2011
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: BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY	Pittsfield, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP014463
Congressional District: MA-01
FY 2007 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
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: FRANKLIN REGIONAL COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS	Greenfield, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities Support Program - Mentoring	SP013978
Congressional District: MA-01
FY 2007 Funding: $75,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2008
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: LIGHT OF RESTORATION MINISTRIES	Holyoke, MA
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework	SP013377
Congressional District: MA-01
FY 2007 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The Light of Restoration Ministries, Inc. in Holyoke 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. Emphasizing a holistic approach that incorporates physical, psychological, social and spiritual domains, Project ORO will bring together members of the community, service providers, and the faith community to build on the Communities that Care model. Services to prevent substance abuse, HIV and Hepatitis will be targeted to high risk Latinos, youth and individuals re-entering Holyoke from the correctional system.

Grantee: LIGHT OF RESTORATION MINISTRIES	Holyoke, MA
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 4 Services	SP010529
Congressional District: MA-01
FY 2007 Funding: $349,805
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The Light of Restoration Ministries (LRM) in Holyoke, Massachusetts has received a 5 year grant to provide integrated substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention services to minority and underserved populations. This program is a collaboration between the Center for Education Prevention and Action (CEPA) and the Holyoke Community Technology Center (HCTC). The major goal of the program is to increase access to substance abuse prevention and HIV prevention services for traditionally undeserved women, i.e., commercial sex workers, women of color, homeless women, women who are intravenous drug users or partners of intravenous drug users, and other women at risk, in the Holyoke area.

Grantee: HAMPSHIRE EDUCATIONAL COLLABORATIVE	Northampton, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP012238
Congressional District: MA-02
FY 2007 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2012
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: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. COMMUNITY CENTER	Springfield, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP011667
Congressional District: MA-02
FY 2007 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: NEW NORTH CITIZEN'S COUNCIL	Springfield, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP012938
Congressional District: MA-02
FY 2007 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: NEW NORTH CITIZEN'S COUNCIL	Springfield, MA
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework	SP013364
Congressional District: MA-02
FY 2007 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The New North Citizens' Council Inc. has received a five year grant to provide substance abuse prevention and HIV and hepatitis prevention services to minority populations and minority populations re-entering the community from incarceration This program will target injection drug users from these populations in Springfield, Massachusetts. The program is designed to create the leadership, infrastructure, and a knowledge base to sustain the development and integration of SA/HIV/Hep prevention services.

Grantee: Community Counseling of Bristol County	Taunton, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12287
Congressional District: MA-03
FY 2007 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 10/01/2005 - 09/30/2008
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: STANLEY STREET TREATMENT AND RESOURCES	Fall River, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP011411
Congressional District: MA-04
FY 2007 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: TOWN OF BROOKLINE	Brookline, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP012290
Congressional District: MA-04
FY 2007 Funding: $99,949
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: TOWN OF MIDDLEBOROUGH	Middleboro, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP014232
Congressional District: MA-04
FY 2007 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
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: GREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HLTH CENTER, INC	Lawrence, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP011662
Congressional District: MA-05
FY 2007 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: FAMILY SERVICE, INC.	Lawrence, MA
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 4 Services	SP010674
Congressional District: MA-05
FY 2007 Funding: $200,148
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The Family Service, Inc. in Lawrence, MA has received a 5-year grant to provide integrated substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention services to minority and underserved populations. The program will work with adult women and service providers from the community, to initiate the implementation of an integrated substance abuse prevention and HIV prevention intervention aimed at adult Latino women.

Grantee: LOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER	Lowell, MA
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services	SP010485
Congressional District: MA-05
FY 2007 Funding: $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The grantee had a HIV/AIDS prevention planning grant to serve the Cambodian community in Lowell, Mass. They involved the community in this process and developed a community-based prevention model for adolescents ages 12-18 in their community. They identified key community partners such as the Un. of Mass. at Lowell and the Middlesex Comm. College, Big Brothers and Sisters and the Health and Addictions Research group. They trained 15 peer youth leaders and will now deliver the model to the community.

Grantee: GIRLS INC. OF LYNN	Lynn, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP012288
Congressional District: MA-06
FY 2007 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: HEALTH AND EDUCATION SERVICES	Beverly, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP011688
Congressional District: MA-06
FY 2007 Funding: $98,804
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: TOWN OF READING	Reading, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP014280
Congressional District: MA-06
FY 2007 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
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: CITY OF NEWBURYPORT	Newburyport, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP012886
Congressional District: MA-06
FY 2007 Funding: $75,307
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: HEALTHY MALDEN, INC.	Malden, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP012360
Congressional District: MA-07
FY 2007 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: WAYSIDE YOUTH/FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK	Farmington, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP013102
Congressional District: MA-07
FY 2007 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: CITY OF MELROSE- - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH	Melrose, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP013855
Congressional District: MA-07
FY 2007 Funding: $81,259
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
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: TOWN OF WINCHESTER	Winchester, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP013211
Congressional District: MA-07
FY 2007 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: COMMUNITY AGAINST SUBSTANCE ABUSE	Winthrop, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP013731
Congressional District: MA-07
FY 2007 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
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: WAYSIDE YOUTH/FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK	Farmington, MA
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services	SP010613
Congressional District: MA-07
FY 2007 Funding: $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2008
Wayside Youth and Family Support Network proposes to initiate a one-year project of Community Action Planning for Substance Abuse Prevention (SAP) and HIV Prevention (HIVP) in Public Housing. During this period, Wayside will conduct a community needs assessment, select science-based SAP and HIVP curricula, and build infrastructure to begin programming in several public housing developments, targeting youth ages 9 to 19, and their families in public housing developments in Somerville and Waltham, Massachusetts. These developments house dramatically higher rates of minority and immigrant populations than do the cities as a whole. These communities have experienced rapid demographic change. From nearly all-white populations in the early 1980's, the developments have become multi cultural communities where 69-percent of the residents are newcomers to the United States (45-percent Haitian, 16-percent Latino, and 8-percent Asian). Only 31-percent are native-born and white. Single women head 82-percent of families in Somerville Housing; and 75-percent of residents in these developments are under 21. The citywide statistic of youth age 9 to 21 is 15-percent of the total population (Census, 2000). Waltham Housing statistics are closely comparable with Somerville, with approximately 33-percent of residents being Latino and 33-percent Haitian. Housing residents in both cities have identified drug dealing and its use as the biggest problem in the community, particularly, crack cocaine, heroin and OxyContin. The recent overdose deaths of five youth in the Somerville area have moved residents to look for help in preventing more fatalities. Most disturbing is the recent rise in the popularity of heroin use, due to low cost and easy supply. This resurgence in intravenous drug use has brought higher risk of HIV/AIDS exposure to a community already at high risk.

Grantee: CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION	Somerville, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP011519
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 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: CARITAS ST. ELIZABETH'S MEDICAL CENTER	Boston, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP011647
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 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: CITY OF CAMBRIDGE	Cambridge, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP012289
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 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: PROJECT R.I.G.H.T., INC	Grove Hall, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP013900
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 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: CITY OF SOMERVILLE	Somerville, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP013002
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 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: ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT	Boston, MA
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework	SP013405
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The Entre Nosotras/Between Us, in Boston, MA 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. Entre Nosotras/Between Us seeks to address the high levels of HIV, hepatitis and substance abuse among Boston Latinas and their families, including women re-entering the community after incarceration, through a multi-agency program of risk reduction, screening and counseling and testing. The project will reach a minimum of 800 at-risk women and their partners and family members per year. The proposed project builds on a highly successful pilot program of peer-led risk reduction interventions for Latinas, developed by ABCD and its partner agencies through a demonstration grant from the U.S. Office of Minority Health. The project's prevention activities use the CDC's evidence-based Read AIDS Prevention Project (RAPP) model.

Grantee: CAMBRIDGE CARES ABOUT AIDS, INC.	Cambridge, MA
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework	SP013443
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The Cambridge Cares about AIDS in Cambridge, MA 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 service for substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, and Hepatitis Risk Among Youth of Color to serve Black and Latino youth who are re-entering the community from incarceration, transitioning out of foster care, or are homeless in the community. To address the identified barriers to substance abuse, HIV, and hepatitis among the priority population, an evidence-based prevention program model will be delivered to a least 115 young people annually. Additionally, substance abuse screening, rapid HIV testing, and hepatitis screening will be provided to at least 175 youth annually. At least 220 youth annually will receive support referrals to medical care, substance abuse treatment, hepatitis vaccination, and mental health treatment. 200 referrals to other support services will occur.

Grantee: DIMOCK COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER, INC.	Roxbury, MA
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework	SP013344
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
The Risk Reduction Education and Adherence Counseling for Health (RREACH) program targets an underserved, minority, prison re-entry population at high risk for co-occurring HIV/Hepatitis and addictions disorders. RREACH integrates treatment modalities Health, Behavioral Health and Case Management utilizing a Stages of Change model. Dually trained, culturally competent providers, professional counselors and case managers will provide primary care, specialty referral, counseling intervention, client health education, and follow up support for up to 300 clients annually. The RREACH model promotes self-efficacy and incorporates dimensions of cultural/ethnic identity in service delivery for dual and tri-diagnosed clients. RREACH providers, counselors and case managers reflect the cultural, linguistic and ethnic diversity of the community. A Community-based Advisory Board provides planning and support. Dimock Community Health Center (DCHC) is an independent, federally qualified community health center. Our mission is to provide high quality primary health and behavioral health care regardless of financial circumstances in Boston's inner city neighborhoods of Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan and Jamaica Plain where the minority population exceeds 70% and is home to 65% of Boston's African Americans. Our vision is to ensure that all people have access to affordable primary healthcare including adult and HIV medical care, OB/GYN, pediatrics, dental care, eye care, mental health, substance abuse, podiatry and orthopedics. DCHC's model of multidisciplinary care is designed specifically for urban families; services that are fully accessible (geographically, linguistically, culturally, and financially) and fully integrated. The interdisciplinary team will provide initial contact for treatment in our Adult Medical and Behavioral Health Departments. Adult Medicine currently treats over 300 PLWH/As from an annual patient base of 10,000.

Grantee: ROCA INC./N SUFFOLK MTL HLTH ASSOCIATION	Chelsea, MA
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services	SP010656
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Roca, Inc. proposes to address the alarming connection between substance abuse, HIV/AIDS risky behavior, and violence in minority communities, resulting from a number of inter- related social problems and conditions, including: high teen pregnancy rates, school drop out rates, and unemployment rates, and low self esteem and personal understanding of life choices and accountability. The model program, the Roca Holistic Prevention Project will serve 150 high risk minority youth and young adults, ages 16-24, who exhibit numerous risk factors and few protective factors and reside in Chelsea, Revere, East Boston and Lynn, MA. This innovative project will reach the highest risk minority youth and young people and result in measurable and positive changes in personal behavior, substance abuse and HIV- related knowledge and attitudes among the target population through an integrated curriculum, multifaceted interventions targeting participant needs and a reduction of risk factors and an increase in specific protective factors affecting participants' lives. The Project will build community capacity to provide HIV/ AIDS and SA prevention by engaging project participants, community residents and leaders, and area professionals in the Project. The project will serve the highest risk and hardest to reach youth and young adults with high incidence rates of substance abuse and HIV infection, through effective, integrated substance abuse & HIV prevention services. The target population includes: runaway and homeless youth and young adults, individuals re-entering the community from the juvenile and criminal justice system, street and/or gang involved youth, pregnant and parenting teens, individuals with a history of sexual abuse, and immigrant populations living away from home for extended periods of time and others identified in the RFR.

Grantee: ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT	Boston, MA
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services	SP010957
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Women in Transition: Health and Hope (WITHH), is a multiagency reduction program to combat HIV and substance abuse among women of color in Boston. It will provide intensive, ongoing risk reduction interventions for 1,000 women a year through group education, short-term case management, individual counseling and service referrals. The project focuses on women in substance abuse treatment, active substance users, newly discharged ex-offenders and women visiting incarcerated partners. It has two main goals: Risk Reduction: slow the spread of HIV infection through interventions designed both to increase knowledge of HIV risk reduction and to help women incorporate this knowledge into action to reduce their HIV risk. Service Integration: reduce the impact of HIV and substance abuse through collaborative activities that link at-risk women to health and social services to support health and self-sufficiency

Grantee: FENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER	Boston, MA
Program: Prevention of Methamphetamine Abuse	SP014142
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $344,441
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
Fenway Community Health requests funding for the New Champions Project, an evidence-based methamphetamine prevention intervention targeting men who have sex with men (MSM) in Boston. Through individual and group level interventions employing the CDC approved Popular Opinion Leader (POL) model, the project will directly engage 2,100 MSM over the project period. It will reach thousands more through a social marketing component

Grantee: HARBOR HEALTH SERVICES	Dorchester, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP014345
Congressional District: MA-09
FY 2007 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
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: PLYMOUTH COUNTY DISTRICT ATTY'S OFFICE	Brockton, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP013148
Congressional District: MA-09
FY 2007 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: BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON	Boston, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP013728
Congressional District: MA-09
FY 2007 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
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: SOUTH BOSTON ACTION COUNCIL	South Boston, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP011646
Congressional District: MA-09
FY 2007 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: MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL	Boston, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP011378
Congressional District: MA-09
FY 2007 Funding: $78,318
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: TOWN OF STOUGHTON	Stoughton, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP013126
Congressional District: MA-09
FY 2007 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: MASSACHUSETTS STATE DEPT OF PUB HEALTH	Boston, MA
Program: Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants	SP013943
Congressional District: MA-09
FY 2007 Funding: $2,093,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
MassCALL2's complementary goals are to: * prevent the onset and reduce the progression of substance abuse including childhood and underage drinking * reduce substance abuse and related problems and promote mental health in communities; and * build prevention capacity and infrastructure at the state and community level.

Grantee: BAY STATE COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC.	Quincy, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP012285
Congressional District: MA-10
FY 2007 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: PLYMOUTH PUBLIC SCHOOLS	Plymouth, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP013889
Congressional District: MA-10
FY 2007 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
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: TOWN OF WEYMOUTH	Weymouth, MA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP013724
Congressional District: MA-10
FY 2007 Funding: $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
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.

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)
Grantee: LUK CRISIS CENTER	Fitchburg, MA
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment	TI017779
Congressional District: MA-01
FY 2007 Funding: $300,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
LUK Crisis Center, Inc. (LUK) in partnership with Youth Opportunities Upheld, Inc. (Y.O.U. Inc.) will offer the Continuous Learning for Youth in Recovery (CLYR) Program to adolescents (12 - 18 years old) and their caretaker(s) to treat substance use disorders. LUK and Y.O.U., Inc., will expand the ambulatory substance abuse treatment services available to youth living in the sixty-five cities and towns in the Central Massachusetts area. This will be accomplished by utilizing two evidenced based practices; the Assertive Community Reinforcement Approach (ACRA) coupled with the Assertive Continuing Care (ACC) program model to serve up to 70 youth per year. The ACRA and ACC models are designed to fit together into a coherent whole addressing individual treatment with the identified youth, skill-building with the Parent(s)/caretaker(s) and the cooperative development of relationship skills between the youth and caretaker(s). The CLYR Program will deliver the ACRA/ACC models on an outreach basis with the youth and caretaker(s) in their communities. The CLYR Program will be part of a comprehensive continuum of substance abuse services provided by LUK and Y.O.U., Inc. The CLYR Program is intended to be a continuing care service for youth with substance abuse disorders who are transitioning from residential substance abuse treatment programs and other out-of-home placements to their families. CLYR is also be appropriate for youth living in the community who have had substance abuse treatment and who are at risk for out-of-home placement at least in part due to their substance use disorder.

Grantee: RIVER VALLEY COUNSELING CENTER	Holyoke, MA
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS	TI018897
Congressional District: MA-01
FY 2007 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
River Valley Counseling Center, Inc. (RVCC) and its affiliate, Holyoke Medical Center (HMC), propose to expand substance abuse services in Holyoke and Springfield, MA. Using the evidence-based practice for Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment (IDDT) model, this program expansion will deliver an innovative combination of outreach, screening, pre-treatment, treatment services and access to rapid testing services to a population especially impacted by gaps in-services and highly affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic: homeless African-American and Latina women struggling with co-occurring psychiatric and substance abuse disorders ("COD"). Targeting 65 women annually (325 over the entire project period), the proposed program will work in conjunction with RVCC's long-standing HIV/AIDS Project and incorporate a comprehensive outreach case management component providing wrap-around social services including transportation and child care.

Grantee: UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST	Amherst, MA
Program: TCE- Campus Screening/Colleges & Universities	TI017268
Congressional District: MA-01
FY 2007 Funding: $458,365
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2008
The project targets students between 18 and 24 years of age who are charged with violating certain campus alcohol policies or identified through referrals from health care providers, campus and town police, or housing. Students participating in BASICS (Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention of College Students) will attend two one-hour interview sessions with a trained prevention specialist and complete personal assessments of their drinking patterns and attitudes after the first session. Interviews will rely upon motivational interviewing which has been shown to be effective in prompting students to change their drinking patterns. The anticipated program enrollment is 1000 students per year. Prevention specialists will also work to create linkages with community treatment facilities in order to refer students who present with alcohol dependence.

Grantee: TAPESTRY HEALTH, INC.	Florence, MA
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS	TI018449
Congressional District: MA-02
FY 2007 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
The program will expand the services of Tapestry Health's La Voz (the Voice) HIV prevention and substance abuse treatment program fo Latino injection drug users (IDUs). The project will be evidence based using NIDA's Community-Based Outreach Models. The expansion will allow the project to add mobile van services for all of Springfield, Massachusetts and surrounding suburbs. Outreach workers trained in Motivational Interviewing Techniques (MIT) will refer potential clients to the van for medical and mental health services. A nurse practitioner on the van will provide rapid HIV testing (using on-site State approved protocols), as well as screening for STDs and hepatitis. A mental health clinician on the van will provide mental health screening, counseling, substance abuse treatment readiness screening and referral to psychiatric care and substance abuse treatment. The mobile health clinic will provide HIV and medical services, as well as substance abuse treatment referral to 200 clients annually.

Grantee: TAPESTRY HEALTH, INC.	Florence, MA
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS	TI015768
Congressional District: MA-02
FY 2007 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008


Grantee: BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK, INC.	Springfield, MA
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS	TI018894
Congressional District: MA-02
FY 2007 Funding: $497,767
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
The PASOS (STEPS) Program will provide community-based substance abuse treatment and wrap-around support services for 120 young men and women ages 18-25 with a history of substance abuse/IDU and at risk of HIV infection. The purpose of the program is to expand substance abuse capacity and to enhance services delivery through greater access, service coordination and the introduction of medication-assisted treatment. PASOS services will include assessments, information and referrals, HIV/AIDS/hepatitis counseling, testing and pretreatment, restoration groups, individual, group and family counseling, specialized groups for men and women, introduction to 12- step programs and crisis intervention. The lead agency, Behavioral Health Network (BHN) will provide clinical treatment for substance abuse and support for buprenorphine treatment. Light of Restoration Ministries (LORM) will provide intensive case management, access to spiritual programs, prevention education, a drop-in center and support and access to a range of basic need programs to meet program participants' social needs. Holyoke Health Center (HIIC) offers buprenorphine administration and HIV/hepatitis services.

Grantee: HENRY LEE WILLIS COMMUNITY CENTER	Worcester, MA
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment	TI016713
Congressional District: MA-03
FY 2007 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
This program will address the needs of person 16 years of age and older who are chronically homeless and have mental illness and/or physical disability and substance abuse problems.

Grantee: STANLEY STREET TREATMENT AND RESOURCES	Fall River, MA
Program: Pregnant/Post-Partum Women	TI018329
Congressional District: MA-03
FY 2007 Funding: $600,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
SStarbirth is a comprehensive residential treatment program that utilizes evidence based programming to improve treatment outcomes for both women and children. If funded they will offer a flexible length of stay [6 to 9 months], expansion from 12 to 14 beds, and an aftercare program that will include integrated treatment services, both pre and post residential care will be provided. SStarbirth will partner with Eastman House, a short-term residential treatment program for women, in this project establishing a technical transfer of programmatic components to extend the number of women served. SStarbirth currently provides on-site or coordinates services to provide comprehensive services for women and their children. Community partners provide on-site HIV risk education, GED and job readiness classes, and early intervention services for children. The program philosophy is based on the relational model of treatment, offering a more supportive and nurturing treatment approach than traditional treatment. A primary objective of this project will be to provide integrated assessments for substance abuse, mental health, and trauma issues. We will offer Najavits' "Seeking Safety" trauma treatment model, and train and continually supervise staff to promote an ongoing safe and empowering treatment milieu. Staff will also be trained to further facilitate cultural competency. Children (in conjunction with their caregivers) when indicated will be provided treatment by a consultant. The "Nurturing Families Affected by Substance Abuse, Mental Illness and Trauma" and "Parenting Wisely" will enhance client's parenting skills. Counseling approaches will also embrace a best practice approach through training in Motivational Interviewing and use of a structured cognitive-behavioral manualized treatment. SStarbirth staff, with the Program Evaluator, has a well established protocol for the collection of data that included GPRA compliance for past SAMHSA projects.

Grantee: HENRY LEE WILLIS COMMUNITY CENTER	Worcester, MA
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS	TI015750
Congressional District: MA-03
FY 2007 Funding: $328,284
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The Willis Center's Project WORLD (Women's Out Reach for Life Development) will address the critical public health concern of increasing HIV infection among minority women in Worcester. Project WORLD will enhance outreach efforts geared specifically to women.

Grantee: STANLEY STREET TREATMENT AND RESOURCES	Fall River, MA
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS	TI015783
Congressional District: MA-04
FY 2007 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Stanley Street Treatment and Resources (SSTAR) will assist these adolescents and women to achieve a better likelihood of entering and/or sustaining drug treatment by expanding our capacity to outreach and support individual's treatment readiness through our HIV/Hepatitis/STD, mental health and MEDI-Call referral and medical access programs, and through collaboration with the local Family Planning Clinic to reach women who may have no other access to services due to issues of access or payment.

Grantee: BRISTOL COMMUNITY COLLEGE	Fall River, MA
Program: TCE- Campus Screening/Colleges & Universities	TI017401
Congressional District: MA-04
FY 2007 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2008
The proposed program, Campus Out-Reach and Enhancement (CORE) Strategies for Substance Abuse Treatment, will augment health services available on a large, public community college campus by providing access to substance abuse screening and treatment services at no cost to students. The program will annually serve 21,304 college-aged adolescents and adults who are students at Bristol Community College in Fall River, MA. CORE Strategies represents a partnership between the primary substance abuse treatment center in Fall River, MA, Stanley Street Treatment and Resources (SSTAR), and Bristol Community College, a MA State School serving the 524,000 residents of Bristol County MA.

Grantee: CAB HEALTH AND RECOVERY SERVICES, INC.	Peabody, MA
Program: Juvenile Drug Courts	TI017490
Congressional District: MA-06
FY 2007 Funding: $399,643
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
CAB Health and Recovery Services, Inc. (CAB), in conjunction with the Essex County Juvenile Courts in Salem and Lynn, Massachusetts, proposes to both expand and enhance the Juvenile Drug Court Program (JDC) to serve 70 substance abusing youth per year. The youth (ages 13-18) are either on probation or court-involved due to status offenses. This expansion and enhancement will increase access to those in need; help participants to achieve abstinence from drugs and alcohol; enable participants to avoid being sent to lock-up or removed from their families, help to improve family functioning and enable parents to maintain their parental rights; and improve participants' overall quality of life.

Grantee: CAB HEALTH AND RECOVERY SERVICES, INC.	Peabody, MA
Program: Young Offender Reentry Program (YORP) 2004	TI016952
Congressional District: MA-06
FY 2007 Funding: $388,305
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2009
CAB Health & Recovery (CAB) proposes to establish the Responsible Recovery program (RR), a community re-entry program for young adults, age 18 through 24, who are approaching release from the Middleton House of Corrections, a medium security facility serving Essex County. The community re-entry program will operate within the facility prior to release and in treatment, residential and community settings in the cities and towns of Essex County, Massachusetts. It will serve approximately 80 young offenders a year. The target population will be young adult offenders ages 18 through 24 with a history and/or current abuse of either drugs or alcohol or both who are at highest risk for recidivism. This will include individuals with a dual diagnosis of mental illness and substance abuse, and those whose biopsychosocial assessment indicates that they are in need of most intensive substance abuse treatment interventions. The proposed RR program will include a comprehensive substance abuse service array with the capacity for treating individuals with a co-occurring mental health problem. CAB's substance abuse service continuum available to RR participants includes residential services at several levels of intensity, methadone treatment, an intensive outpatient program, and outpatient services. These service options will be coupled with the probation department's strong incentive/sanction program to encourage positive behavior and progress toward achieving service plan goals. In addition, RR case managers will accompany offenders on the vulnerable first day of release to provide transportation, encouragement, and assistance in accessing needed housing and services. Grant funds will also pay for wrap around services including transitional mental health treatment, bus passes, tuition and Department of Labor bonding.

Grantee: INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND RECOVERY	Cambridge, MA
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment	TI017788
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $300,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
The Institute for Health and Recovery, Inc. (IHR), in collaboration with Dimock Community Health Center (Dimock), and North Suffolk Mental Health Center (North Suffolk), propose to implement the SAFE (Strengthening Adolescents and Family Empowerment) Project to serve youth in Suffolk County and their families. This project, sited at Dimock and North Suffolk, will assess adolescents for treatment using the Global Appraisal of Individual Needs (GAIN) and will utilize the Assertive Community Reinforcement Approach (ACRA) coupled with Assertive Continuing Care (ACC). These are all evidence-based interventions with proven effectiveness in building community capacity for family centered treatment. The proposed project will employ 2 full time Youth Engagement Specialists, who will be trained to utilize GAIN, ACRA, and ACC, to provide services to adolescents and their families. A Project Director will oversee all aspects of the project. Additional services will include prosocial groups for adolescents and parenting groups for caretakers. The project will be evaluated by Advocates for Human Potential, a research and consulting firm located in Sudbury, MA. IHR will build on its unique position as Central Intake Coordinator for Massachusetts' adolescent residential treatment programs to implement and sustain this project. In addition to Central Intake services, IHR has recently initiated the Suffolk County Adolescent Pilot Project (SCAPP), funded through the Massachusetts Department of Public Health/Bureau of Substance Abuse Services (MDPHJBSAS). This project provides comprehensive outreach and engagement to youth and their families in Suffolk County, allowing adolescents to receive an appropriate level of substance abuse treatment individualized to their needs.

Grantee: LATINO HEALTH INSTITUTE, INC.	Boston, MA
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment	TI017778
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $300,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
The proposed program will expand the substance abuse treatment services offered by Latin American Health Institute (LHI) to Latino adolescents with substance use disorders (SUD) and their families in the city of Boston. The program will target adolescents and their adult caregivers by implementing the ACRA/ AAC evidence-based model for intervention.

Grantee: CASA ESPERANZA, INC.	Roxbury, MA
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment	TI016675
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
This program will develop aftercare services for persons of the Latino population in an existing residential treatment program.

Grantee: INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND RECOVERY	Cambridge, MA
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment	TI016581
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2010
Provides integrated and trauma informed clinical case management using motivational interviewing and integrated dual diagnosis treatment to homeless mothers in homeless shelters who have substance abuse and/or co-occurring disorders.

Grantee: PINE STREET INN, INC.	Boston, MA
Program: Treatment for Homeless - Chronic	TI018215
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
Pine Street Inn, a provider of homeless services in Boston, Massachusetts, proposes to implement the culturally competent Challenge Project using effective programs Enhancing Motivation for Change and Comprehensive Case Management. This program will serve chronically homeless men and women . PSI will offer these interventions in partnership with two licensed substance abuse treatment providers. The Challenge Project aims to break the cycle of homelessness contributing to substance abuse and substance abuse contributing to homelessness.

Grantee: FRIENDS OF THE SHATTUCK SHELTER	Jamaica Plain, MA
Program: Treatment for Homeless - Homeless	TI018225
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $356,787
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
Friends of the Shattuck Shelter, plans to establish Project Genesis: New Beginnings for Women to serve women who are homeless in Boston, MA. The project will expand access to gender-specific, integrated, culturally sensitive, trauma informed substance abuse and mental health treatment. Direct services are the primary focus of the project; infrastructure development in area homeless shelters will result in systems transformation.

Grantee: BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION	Boston, MA
Program: Pregnant/Post-Partum Women	TI16787
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2008
The purpose of this application is to expand the availability of comprehensive, high quality residential substance abuse treatment services for low-income inner-city Latina women, age 18 and over, who are pregnant, postpartum women, or other parenting women, and their minor children, age 17 and under, who have limited access to quality health services. The proposed enhancements in this application are based on evidence-based methods, existing service needs and lessons learned from our past experience providing services to this population. The goals and objectives are: a) to enhance client treatment motivation and readiness for behavioral change at every stage of treatment; b) to foster and strengthen provider client therapeutic alliance; and c) to enhance client satisfaction with treatment. The program evaluation will focus on process, outcomes, and cost.

Grantee: BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER	Boston, MA
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS	TI018710
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $430,059
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
Boston Medical Center (BMC), the largest safety net health care delivery system in New England, proposes an innovative program to meet the substance abuse treatment and HIV prevention/risk reduction needs of Black and Latino/a injection drug users (IDUs), men who have sex with men (MSMs), and women with alcohol or drug dependence who engage in HIV risk behaviors. The proposed program, Facilitated Access to Substance Abuse Treatment with Prevention And Treatment of HIV (FAST PATH), will expand and enhance capacity for treatment of alcohol and drug dependence among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected individuals in conjunction with comprehensive HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention services. Over five years, a total of 450 unduplicated individuals are expected to receive treatment and support services, including, motivationally enhanced individual and group therapy integrated, HIV risk reduction, case management and support services. Buprenorphine treatment for opioid dependence will be provided for 180 (40%) of FAST PATH participants. These services will be delivered on-site at BMC, integrated into the HIV specialty care and the primary medical care clinics by FAST PATH teams. Each of the two teams will include a physician, nurse, and social worker who will provide substance abuse treatment and case management. The patient population at BMC is 39% Black and 15% Latino/a with a high risk for of substance abuse and HIV infection.

Grantee: BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION	Boston, MA
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS	TI018880
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
The two goals of Moving on to Recovery and Empowerment (MORE) are: (1) to reduce substance use and abuse among African American and Latina women by expanding services through a new, high quality, gender and culturally competent Intensive Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment (IOT) program; and (2) to reduce HIV infection and other infectious diseases among African American and Latina women by expanding the continuum of care. The specific objectives are: (1) to provide 300 African American and Latina women from the Boston area, comprehensive state-of-the-art substance abuse treatment using the best practices for an IOT Model based on CSAT TIP #47, with evidence-based enhancements built on the integrated trauma and mental health treatment model implemented in the SAMHSA Women Co-occurring Disorders and Violence study (WCDVS) Boston site); (2) to provide comprehensive services for HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases to African American and Latina women participating in MORE that include: HIV education and prevention, access to HIV Rapid Testing for women and their sexual/injection partners, referral for HIV/AIDS medical care and follow- up and related case management; (3) to establish a new IOT site that is easily accessible to women in need of these services in the Greater Boston area, where services like MORE are not available; (4) to collaborate with Boston Public Health Commission programs, Boston Medical Center and other key community providers to coordinate the delivery of IOT for African American and Latina women; and (5) to develop processes to identify and establish new collaborations with community agencies that provide comprehensive STD, Hepatitis B & C and HIV/AIDS services. All aspects of program planning, interventions, staff training and evaluation activities including interpretation of findings will be guided by a Project Workgroup comprised of MORE clients, managers, and counselors.

Grantee: LATINO HEALTH INSTITUTE, INC.	Boston, MA
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS	TI018952
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
Latino Health Institute (d/b/a Latin American Health Institute, LHI) proposes to offer integrated counseling services to Latino men and women with the co-morbidity of substance abuse and trauma and who are at high risk for HIV infection. HIV prevention services will also be offered. The program will specifically target Latino men who inject drugs, including men who have sex with men (MSM); and women. The program will help participants establish and/or maintain their sobriety, improve their capacity to manage trauma-related symptoms, and reduce behaviors that put them a high risk for HIV infection. The program will use the Seeking Safety treatment model that jointly treats substance abuse and trauma-related disorders. This service enhancement proposal aims at improving the quality of our existing substance abuse treatment program by adding the capacity to provide trauma specific interventions through the selected model. Referrals are expected to come from multiple sources such as courts, probation officers, community clinics, AIDS service organizations, detoxification centers, residential substance abuse programs, homeless shelters, domestic violence and other trauma-focused programs, and other social service agencies. Collaboration agreements have been established with these partner agencies to secure referrals to the program. HIV counseling and testing services will be provided to program participants by LHI's CTR program, which offers OraquickÂ® Advance (rapid testing).

Grantee: NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY	Boston, MA
Program: TCE- Campus Screening/Colleges & Universities	TI017311
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2008
The purpose of the Northeastern University Student Assistance Program (NUSAP) is to enhance and expand current efforts to reduce student alcohol and drug dependence through a comprehensive framework of evidence-based strategies targeting the: (a) overall student population through social marketing techniques, (b) students at risk through the BASICS brief screening and intervention program, and (c) students with AD dependence through an improved and expanded referral/linkage to community treatment providers.

Grantee: SPAN, INC.	Boston, MA
Program: Young Offender Reentry Program (YORP) 2004	TI016935
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $348,314
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2008
The Youth Entering Society Services Project will provide services to 700 young adult ex-offenders over four years. The program will provide substance abuse, vocational and case management services.

Grantee: BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION	Boston, MA
Program: Young Offender Reentry Program (YORP) 2004	TI017061
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2007 Funding: $291,051
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2008
The program, called the Young Offender Reentry and Recovery Network, will provide community-based substance abuse treatment and wrap-around reentry services for 132 young men per year, as they are released from the House of Corrections in Boston.

Grantee: MASSACHUSETTS STATE DEPT OF PUBLIC HLTH	Boston, MA
Program: State Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Coordination	TI017383
Congressional District: MA-09
FY 2007 Funding: $361,348
Project Period: 08/01/2005 - 07/31/2008
The MA Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Abuse Services (DPH/BSAS), will create a new Office of Youth and Young Adult Services (OYYAS) with three staff positions. The goal will be to achieve the vision of the CommonwealthÂ’s 2005 Substance Abuse Strategic Plan as it relates to adolescents. OYYAS will monitor and improve the quality of BSASÂ’s own service network, and build on existing interagency relationships to facilitate improvement in other State systems. The plan itself includes a focus on preventing SUDs among adolescents, on better screening and assessment, and on improving treatment for adolescents with SUDs and their families. The evaluation will include an inter-organizational network analysis, through which the project will quantify and map changes in structures and relationships.

Grantee: MASSACHUSETTS STATE DEPT OF PUB HEALTH	Boston, MA
Program: SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral & Treatment)	TI018311
Congressional District: MA-09
FY 2007 Funding: $2,800,000
Project Period: 09/15/2006 - 09/14/2011
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, through the Department of Public Health Bureau of Substance Abuse Services, proposes to expand and enhance the continuum of accessible substance abuse treatment services through an effective, sustainable, and replicable model of screening, brief intervention, referral and treatment. The model will be implemented at Boston healthcare settings and employ trained and culturally competent staff and innovative technology in order to institutionalize screening and brief intervention in primary care settings. The demand for substance abuse treatment continues to rise in Massachusetts. In FY 2004, there were 102,226 admissions to publicly-funded substance abuse treatment services statewide, 20% of which came from Boston. These numbers only reflect admissions and not need, estimated at 488,147 individuals. To facilitate early intervention for people at risk, MASBIRT will provide Brief Screening, Intervention, Referral and Treatment in healthcare settings people typically use. MASBIRT will be implemented at Boston HealthNet, an urban medical center that provides care to a multicultural population with high prevalence of substance use disorders. Screening and brief intervention will be carried out in the emergency department, inpatient unit and three primary care departments at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and at three affiliated Neighborhood Health Centers, located in areas of highest documented substance use. Public domain technology applications will be employed to facilitate screening, brief intervention and assessment, and trained staff will conduct brief interventions and brief treatment. Project components build on successful models being implemented at BMC.

Last Update: 9/24/2008

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