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SAMHSA Grant Awards By State FY 2007
Discretionary Funds in Detail

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MINNESOTA

Grantee: MENTAL HEALTH CONSUMER SURVIVOR/NET/MN St. Paul, MN
Program: Statewide Consumer Network SM056359
Congressional District: MN-01
FY 2007 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2010
The Mental Health Consumer/ Survivors Network of Minnesota (CSN) proposes to maintain and expand programs and activities in eight regional resource centers to facilitate consumer involvement in the planning and development of a recovery based mental health system in the state of Minnesota. CSN seeks to ensure that all Minnesotans with mental health can access appropriate and dignified mental health services. With eight regional resource centers CSN seeks to expand and maintain infrastructure and services to support a statewide network of mental health consumers providing leadership and transformation.
  
Grantee: MINNESOTA ASSN/CHILDRENS'S MENTAL HEALTH St Paul, MN
Program: Statewide Family Networks SM057921
Congressional District: MN-04
FY 2007 Funding: $60,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
The Family Catalyst Project (FCP) will provide a structure, training, resources, and ongoing mentoring and support so parents can enhance state capacity to better meet the needs of chidren with mentl health disabilities and their families. By first advancing the work of a new Infant Mental Health Competency Task Force, parents will gain experience as change agents and build the networks necessary for further systems change work. The Minnesota Association for Children's Mental Health (MACMH), its board and staff, are committed to the follwoing goals for the Family Catalyst Project: 1. Strengthen the capacity of families to influence the type, quality and amount of services provided, and to ensure their mental health care is consumer and family driven; 2. Strengthening coalitions among families and between family and community-based disabitity organizations and between family members, policy-makers, and serivce providers; 3. Fostering leadership, financial, and management skills in the selected parents and 4. Identifying and addressing the technical needs and gaps that remain unmet for these parents and their children with mental health disorders.
  
Grantee: MINNESOTA STATE DEPT OF HUMAN SERVICES St. Paul, MN
Program: State Data Infrastructure Grants (2007) SM058090
Congressional District: MN-04
FY 2007 Funding: $142,200
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
The Minnesota State Mental Health Authority is applying for funds to a) strengthen collection of data for the URS Tables and the NOMs; b) improve its data infrastructure to enhance reporting and planning processes at Federal, State, and local Levels. This grant will provide Minnesota with more timely, accurate, and complete data when generating the URS Tables and NOMs and improve the use of data and information for planning policy, managing programs, and administering services for persons with a mental illness in Minnesota.
  
Grantee: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES Minneapolis, MN
Program: Community TX & Service Ctrs of the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative SM056177
Congressional District: MN-05
FY 2007 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 12/30/2005 - 09/29/2009
The Minnesota Child Response Initiativeproposes to develop the Minnesota Child Response Center (MCRC) to raise the standard of care for traumatized minority, homeless and formerly homeless children by embedding evidence-based treatment models into the community system of care. The goals of this project are to 1. Increase access to trauma-informed services through acute intervention, screening, and referral of traumatized children in our target community 2. Adapt and disseminate two best practice treatment approaches: Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Parenting Through Change 3. Establish broad community and provider consensus on the mental health needs of traumatized children and the best practices to address these needs 4. Create sustainable change 5. Work with NCTSN to expand reach throughout Minnesota and the upper Midwest. The MCRC will work closely with the National Network and its treatment services and community treatment sites to disseminate and expand the use of best practices, to offer knowledge regarding uptake of best practice treatments in the target community, and to significantly contribute to network efforts to implement screening in order to enhance the capacity of frontline providers to access mental health services for traumatized children.
  
Grantee: CENTRAL MINNESOTA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER St. Cloud, MN
Program: Child Mental Health Initiative SM057034
Congressional District: MN-07
FY 2007 Funding: $2,055,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2011
Benton, Sherburne, Stearns, and Wright Counties, through their joint powers agreement have authorized Central Minnesota Mental Health Center to develop a comprehensive, integrated children¿s mental health delivery system across four rural counties. This seamless system of care is community-based, mobile, and culturally and linguistically competent. Interventions providing comprehensive/timely assessments are child-centered, family-based, and parent-driven. We utilize evidence-based practice models, including the Hawaii Model. We partner with the Minnesota Department of Human Services to promote and provide a broad array of resources while eliminating barriers to access.
  
Grantee: COUNTY OF POLK Crookston, MN
Program: Child Mental Health Initiative SM057051
Congressional District: MN-07
FY 2007 Funding: $1,415,868
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2012
Our Children Succeed Initiative is a comprehensive strategy of the 44 member Northwest Council of Collaboratives (www.councilofcollaboratives.org) in six very rural counties in the northwestern corner of Minnesota. The Initiative brings our System of Care to full scale, extending an emerging network of core services focusing on the early childhood population, youth in placement and young adults in transition to adulthood. A six county affiliation, the Northwest Council of Collaboratives joins the Collaboratives together in a unified strategy to increase capacity, improve quality and integrate services. When the system has developed to full scale: 1) the network will have matured to better serve children and families and deliver intended outcomes; 2) service capacity will have expanded to address 200 more families per year in all communities; 3) parents will be included as equal partners; 4) youth will be involved in designing services, and in shaping their transitions to adulthood; 5) minority families will be better served with earlier interventions, no longer over- represented among children in out-of-home placement and/or having dropped out of school.
  

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)

Grantee: PARENTING RESOURCE CENTER, INC. Austin, MN
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012405
Congressional District: MN-01
FY 2007 Funding: $99,900
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: PARENTING RESOURCE CENTER, INC. Austin, MN
Program: Drug Free Communities Support Program - Mentoring SP013976
Congressional District: MN-01
FY 2007 Funding: $74,850
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: CARVER-SCOTT EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE Chaska, MN
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012408
Congressional District: MN-02
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: NORTHFIELD HOSPITAL Northfield, MN
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012242
Congressional District: MN-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: GOODHUE COUNTY Red Wing, MN
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012869
Congressional District: MN-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: HOPKINS SCHOOL DISTRICT 270 Hopkins, MN
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013797
Congressional District: MN-05
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: ASIAN MEDIA ACCESS Minneapolis, MN
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013462
Congressional District: MN-05
FY 2007 Funding: $75,700
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: ASIAN MEDIA ACCESS Minneapolis, MN
Program: Drug Free Communities Support Program - Mentoring SP014518
Congressional District: MN-05
FY 2007 Funding: $75,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2009
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: MINNEAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE Minneapolis, MN
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP013322
Congressional District: MN-05
FY 2007 Funding: $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
Minneapolis Urban League in Minneapolis, MN 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. Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN has one of the fastest growing populations of African-born people in the U. S and is of concern to CDC. African-born comprised 27% of the new infections in 2003 (55 of203 cases) while making up only 1 % of the total population. Further, rates among African-born women were comparable to those seen in Sub-Saharan Africa, 51 % of all the cases between African immigrant and refugees were women. Following the SAMHSA Strategic prevention Framework, prevent and reduce the transmission of HIV and hepatitis and the onset of substance abuse among African-born people living in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota metropolitan area. We will conduct a community needs assessment for the target population. A needs assessment has been done for African Americans but African-born are considered an emerging risk. A Strategic Plan will emerge from the Community Needs Assessment. In the meantime, we will use our contacts with mosques and evangelical churches to gain trust of the African-born population and deliver prevention messages through respected leaders. Cable television and ethnic newsletters will be another vehicle. A recognized effective prevention intervention will be adapted to serve the needs of African-born adults will be selected. Evaluation: There are four major components: a needs assessment; an examination of outcomes; an exploration of process issues; and an assessment
  
Grantee: RESOURCE, INC. Minneapolis, MN
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP013298
Congressional District: MN-05
FY 2007 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
Resource Incorporated in Minneapolis, MN 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 in partnership with Minnesota AIDS Project and Access Works will provide Twin Cities HOPE, annuity-based substance abuse, HIV, and Hepatitis prevention program targeting communities of color (especially African American & American Indian) and reentry population's metropolis-St. Paul, MN- WI MSA, consisting of 11 Minnesota and 2 Wisconsin counties.
  
Grantee: UPPER MIDWEST AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER Minneapolis, MN
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services SP010474
Congressional District: MN-05
FY 2007 Funding: $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The Upper Midwest American Indian Center in Minneapolis, MN has received a 1 year planning grant to develop and improve the infrastructure in minority communities to provide integrated substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention services. The program will work with adolescents, women, runaway and homeless youth and adults, commercial sex workers and individuals and partners of individuals returning to the community from prison, jail or juvenile justice facilities. This will be accomplished by assessing the needs in the community and collaborating with community agencies that now focus on substance abuse prevention and HIV prevention services. A strategic plan will be developed that integrates both of these services and is culturally appropriate to the minority community they serve.
  
Grantee: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES TASK FORCE Minneapolis, MN
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services SP010775
Congressional District: MN-05
FY 2007 Funding: $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Indigenous Peoples Task Force, Minneapolis, MN has received a 1 year planning grant to develop and improve the infrastructure in minority communities to provide integrated substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention services. The grantee will work with American Indian youth and women, primarily in urban areas who are at high risk for HIV/AIDS infections due to high rates of substance use and unprotected sexual behaviors. This will be accomplished by assessing the needs in the community and collaborating with community agencies that now focus on substance abuse prevention and HIV prevention services. A strategic plan will be developed that integrates both of these services and is culturally appropriate to the minority community they serve.
  
Grantee: CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ST. CLOUD DIOCESE St. Cloud, MN
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012231
Congressional District: MN-06
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: WARREN ALVARADO OSLO SCH DISTRICT #2176 Warren, MN
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014277
Congressional District: MN-07
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: COUNTY OF POLK Crookston, MN
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012432
Congressional District: MN-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: COUNTY OF WILKIN Breckenridge, MN
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012889
Congressional District: MN-07
FY 2007 Funding: $81,652
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: MEEKER-MC LEOD-SIBLEY CMTY HLTH SRVS Hutchinson, MN
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012409
Congressional District: MN-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: COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP/YOUTH & FAMILIES North Branch, MN
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012401
Congressional District: MN-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: NORTH COUNTRY HEALTH SERVICES Bemidji, MN
Program: Drug Free Communities SP011420
Congressional District: MN-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.
  

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)

Grantee: MINNESOTA STATE DEPT OF HUMAN SERVICES St. Paul, MN
Program: Co-Occurring State Incentive Grants TI018386
Congressional District: MN-04
FY 2007 Funding: $1,050,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
Minnesota COSIG will expand current standardized screening and assessment to quadrants 2 and 3 with infrastructure development activities in mental health centers and substance abuse agencies that are co-located and dually licensed as mental health centers and substance abuse agencies; they will collaborate with primary care partners. The project will build upon the extensive work currently underway by a mental health public-private partnership action group to conduct an analysis of the fiscal framework specifically targeted on services for quadrants 2 and 3 to significantly increase the likelihood that services will be available for persons with co-occurring disorders. Expected results include: a formal state policy for Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment (IDDT) across a wide range of stakeholders who are invested in implementing and maintaining the IDDT infrastructure; a pool of educated and competent clinicians to provide IDDT and in the case of primary care physicians, knowledge about dual disorders and referral resources; clients with dual disorders will receive services consistent with evidence-based principles/practice that result in improved client outcomes and recovery.
  

Last Update: 9/24/2008