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MARYLAND

Grantee: ON OUR OWN OF MARYLAND, INC. Baltimore, MD
Program: Statewide Consumer Network SM056448
Congressional District: MD-03
FY 2008 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2010
On Our Own of Maryland, (OOOMD) Maryland's Statewide consumer organization, will work with consumer group at the county level to build, strengthen and further develop our statewide network. OOOMD will host quarterly meeting between consumers and Mental Health Transformation Project (MHTP) staff in different regions of the state, participate on the various sub-committees of the MHTP, and transform our consumer network of drop in centers into wellness and recovery centers. "Hands-on" technical assistance from skilled staff and consultants in organizational development will be provided at the sub-committee level. Cultural Competency & Minority Issues will be addressed by a Planning Committee comprised of OOOMD Board of Directors/staff, TEA Arthur (a consultant), MHA Cultural Competence Committee and MHA Office of Consumer Affairs focusing on how minorities view the public mental health system.
  
Grantee: AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION Silver Spring, MD
Program: Minority Fellowship Program SM058566
Congressional District: MD-04
FY 2008 Funding: $778,470
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
The goal of the American Nurses Association Minority Fellowship Program is to develop ethnic minority nurses who are recognized for excellence in creating, transmitting, and utilizing knowledge and skills to improve the health of people in local and global communities. The intent of this project is to increase the number of PhD prepared nurses from underrepresented ethnic minority groups. Project Goals and Measurable Objectives: To achieve the goals of the MFP, the staff will develop and strengthen the MFP infrastructure that will include a paperless office that has all aspects of its components automated and password protected to ensure privacy and confidentiality. The staff will computerize all documents that will allow for safe and efficient retrieval. These documents will be used for evaluation purposes and future planning of the project. The evaluation component will be developed that requests data from the Fellows, their advisors, their employers, their peers, and the MFP staff. Activities such as the infrastructure components of the project, the learning activities, and the communication processes that are associated with the MFP will be evaluated through electronic media. The Fellows will also be asked to participate in evaluating all aspects of this project. The Measurable Objectives Include: (1)Increase the pool of ethnic minority PhD trained nurses with expertise in MH/SA disorders practice, research and health policy, (2) Achieve its work through the professional organization, the American Nurses Association, and by the Fellows' matriculation at a variety of accredited colleges and universities, and (3) Assure that Fellows assume leadership roles in translating science to service, reducing mortality and morbidity through excellence in direct care, and enhancing well-being among ethnic minority populations.
  
Grantee: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PK CAMPUS College Park, MD
Program: Campus Suicide SM057879
Congressional District: MD-05
FY 2008 Funding: $74,894
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
The University of Maryland proposes the Suicide Awareness Health Educationa and Training project, a comprehensive suicide prevention program that will unite a variety of stakeholders, namely administrators, clinicians, student representatives and researchers toward a common goal: to address and reduce suicidal behaviors among students. The project will: create and implement a comprehensive strategic suicide prevention plan with guidance from a Campus Advisory Board; create research-based written and web-based informational materials to increase awareness among the campus community of the magnitude of suicidal behavior, recognition, risk assessment, social, family and mental health correlates, and materials that promote the reduction of stigma associated with help-seeking behaviors; hold structured training programs for a broad spectrum of campus progessionals who come in contact with students; and hold educational seminars for students and their parents on suicide prevention, risk assessment and crisis response.
  
Grantee: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE Baltimore, MD
Program: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder-Adaptation Centers (2007) SM058147
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2008 Funding: $600,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2011
The goal of the Family-Informed Trauma Treatment (FITT) Center is to develop, implement, evaluate, and disseminate theoretically sound, family-based interventions for underserved urban and military populations that apply accepted methods of trauma treatment within a systemic model of family process to support positive outcomes for children and families. This Center builds upon an empirically supported, family-centered abuse prevention model and two emergent trauma-focused, family systems intervention strategies to fill the void in the child trauma field for standardized, trauma-specific family therapies. Our Family-Informed Trauma Treatment Model will embed the core components of trauma-informed care within a comprehensive framework of service delivery for families. This Center represents a unique collaboration among Baltimore's major academic and service institutions including the University of Maryland's Schools of Medicine and Social Work and the Kennedy Krieger Family Center.
  
Grantee: HUGO W. MOSER RES INST KENNEDY KRIEGER Baltimore, MD
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-Treatment Centers (2007) SM056215
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2008 Funding: $397,095
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2011
The Kennedy Krieger Family Center-Integrated Trauma Approaches (KKFC-ITA) Center will provide comprehensive local and statewide services for high-risk, underserved children with traumatic childhood exposures that include implementation, evaluation, and adaptation of trauma-informed (TI) practices and expansion of the Trauma Training Academy to provide education on TI treatments. Specifically, the KKFC-ITA Center will target children with trauma and 1) neglect, 2) adolescent substance abuse, and 3) parental incarceration. KKFC-ITA Center will provide services for a predominantly African American population living in Baltimore, MD. The three goals of the KKFC-ITA Center are to: 1) increase TI service delivery to children with traumatic exposures, 2) evaluate and adapt TI practices at KKFC for children with trauma and neglect, and 3) expand the Trauma Training Academy (TTA) to provide education on TI treatment models for children and families with histories of childhood trauma.
  
Grantee: MD COALITION FAM 4 CHILDRENS MENTAL HLTH Columbia, MD
Program: Statewide Family Networks SM057904
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2008 Funding: $60,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
This Statewide Family network appplication proposes to develop infrastructure in three distinct areas:
Building capacity to address the needs of families caring for transition-age youth with mental health needs
Building family leadership capacity
Building youth leadership capacity

Funds from the grant will be used to support a half-time Transition Specialist to provide one-to-one information and support to families caring for transition-age youth. Additionally, the Transition Specialist will develop a curriculum to educate families caring for youth with mental helth needs who are graduating from high school. Using the curriculum, a six-session training for family members will be held annually throughout the lifetime of the grant. In the second year of the grant a handbook for families on trasition will be developed.

Finally, the Coalition's Youth Leadership weekend, held in July at a camp on the Eastern Shore, will strengthen the youth movement in Maryland. It is expected that fifteen youth will participate in the program. The University of Maryland Innovations Institute has received fuding to develop Youth MOVE in Maryland. The Youth Leadership weekend will further sloidify the youth movement in Maryland.
  
Grantee: MARYLAND STATE DEPT OF HLTH/MENTAL HYG Catonsville, MD
Program: Child Mental Health Initiative SM058522
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2008 Funding: $974,081
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2014
This proposal, Maryland crisis and At Risk for Escalation diversion Services for children (MD CARES), will cement a cross-agency partnership that blends family-driven, evidence-based practices within mental health and child welfare to better serve this high risk population. In Maryland there are approximately 10,100 children in foster care, of which approximately 6,100 are from Baltimore City ("the City"). Therefore, service dollars awarded under this cooperative agreement will be targeted to the neighborhoods in the City, where the majority of the youth and families in foster care reside. To most effectively leverage the systems change in the City and adapt the model for statewide implementation, MD CARES also incorporates statewide infrastructure and sustainability strategies which include:
crisis response and stabilization; completion of the statewide rollout of Maryland Youth Motivating Others through Voices of Experience (MOVE); and cross-agency fiscal and policy analysis.
  
Grantee: MARYLAND STATE DEPT OF HLTH/MENTAL HYG Catonsville, MD
Program: State Data Infrastructure Grants SM058099
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2008 Funding: $142,200
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
Maryland will continue to collect and refine URS and NOMS data. Funding will also be used to support evaluation and quality improvement efforts based upon the data which have come from Maryland's fee-for-service Public Mental Health Systems. Data will be assembled from other sources with the PMHS and from sources external to the PMHS to extend these outcome evaluations and quality improvement efforts. The series of Data Training Seminars which are targeted to administrators, providers, and advocates will be continued and its focus broadened. Technical assistance will be provided to the mental health Core Service Agencies, the local mental health authorities, in order to assist them with obtaining data from current sources, and presenting and analyzing data for inclusion in the planning documents that are prepared annually.
  
Grantee: MARYLAND STATE DEPT OF HLTH/MENTAL HYG Catonsville, MD
Program: Mental Health Transformation State Incentive Grants SM057459
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2008 Funding: $2,713,887
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
Maryland's Mental Health Transformation provides a set of strategies to bring the vision of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health closer to reality for citizens of Maryland.The proposal brings together the experience of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and its evolving history of transforming mental health services in Maryland with the newly created Maryland Department of Disabilities, which is charged with service integration and system reform for people with disabilities. The Transformation Work Group brings together a powerful coalition of Cabinet Secretaries, senior State officials, leaders in the consumer, family, and mental health advocacy movements and representatives of the highest echelon of executive leadership in our State to facilitate deep and lasting change in the way services are delivered. The proposal also features enhancement of already strong public-academic and public/private provider partnerships in the areas of evidence based practices and emphasis on a recovery focused approach to service. The University of Maryland, Center of Mental Health Services Research, located in the School of Medicine, plays a prominent role in the proposed activities. Overall, the proposed transformation activities take stock of the current strengths of the system with a realistic appraisal of areas needing change and brings together the resources and people needed to effect meaningful and lasting change in the system.
  
Grantee: MARYLAND STATE DEPT OF HLTH/MENTAL HYG Catonsville, MD
Program: Youth Suicide Prevention & Early Intervention - Cooperative Agreement State-Sponsored SM058409
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2008 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
Maryland's Linkages to Life Youth Suicide Prevention Program proposes an array of promising awareness, intervention, and postvention services for the entire State of Maryland. Special focus is placed on enhanced efforts in rural counties where mortality rates are highest in the State. The program is founded on a partnership of State and local government agencies, Medical Schools at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, and numerous private sector partner agencies. The goals of the project are directly from the State's Youth Suicide Prevention Plan: 1) AWARENESS-Maryland youth, their families and the professionals who work with them understand that suicide is preventable; 2) INTERVENTION-Culturally competent, effective and accessible community based intervention services and programs for youth are in place; 3) POSTVENTION-Effective, culturally competent professional services are accessible to youth who have attempted suicide and/or to other people affected by the suicide attempt or completion. The project will conduct broad State and local infrastructure development and service improvements in local schools statewide, providing enhancements related to suicide prevention within the state's Health Curriculum for students in the 8th grade and high school. An estimated 28,000 students are expected to take these courses. The project will also provide statewide training for a wide variety of educational personnel, including teachers, administrators, and those in the pupil support and paraprofessional workforce on suicide prevention and intervention. Local partnerships of schools, behavioral health authorities, juvenile justice and child welfare officials, and a wide range of private providers and advocacy groups will be created.
  
Grantee: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY Baltimore, MD
Program: Youth Suicide Prevention & Early Intervention - Cooperative Agreement State-Sponsored SM057835
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2008 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009
In partnership with Johns Hopkins University, the White Mountain Apache Tribe proposes to expand its suicide prevention initiative, "Celebrating Life," by sanctioning an Inter-Agency Coalition of public/private agency leaders to launch an integrated three-tiered prevention approach. Evidence-based interventions addressing risk and protective factors on an individual, family and community basis will be culturally adapted, piloted, and evaluated. The first tier will increase tribal leadership's capacity to educate the community regarding suicidal behavior and to enhance the tribe's effectiveness at promoting protective factors that can broadly reduce youth suicide risk community-wide. The second tier addresses the needs of youth who have not yet made a suicide attempt, but who have risk factors identified by community gatekeepers. The final tier will serve youth who have made a suicide attempt.
  
Grantee: NATIONAL FEDERATION FAM FOR CHILDREN MH Rockville, MD
Program: SAMHSA Conference Grants SM058855
Congressional District: MD-08
FY 2008 Funding: $50,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2009
The national, family driven, youth guided conference "Hope on the Horizon for Children, Youth And Families: Re-visioning Mental Health Housing Using a Public Health Approach to Promotion and Prevention" is scheduled for November 20-21 in Atlanta, Georgia. Over 400 families, providers, researchers and policy makers are expected to attend. The conference will highlight the latest evidence-based practices and research finding about strengthening families and communities and building resilience, hope and other protective factors.
  

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)

Grantee: CAROLINE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT Denton, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014304
Congressional District: MD-01
FY 2008 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 KENT Chestertown, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012095
Congressional District: MD-01
FY 2008 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: QUEEN ANNE'S CNTY CMTY PRTNRSHP/CHLDRN Centreville, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP011629
Congressional District: MD-01
FY 2008 Funding: $99,948
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: COMMUNITY SERVICES AND RESEARCH CENTER Princess Anne, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013058
Congressional District: MD-01
FY 2008 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: WICOMICO COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT Salisbury, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014335
Congressional District: MD-01
FY 2008 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: FIRST STEP, INC. Baltimore, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012066
Congressional District: MD-02
FY 2008 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: COUNTY OF HARFORD Bel Air, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012940
Congressional District: MD-02
FY 2008 Funding: $99,721
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: LOCAL MGMT BOARD OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY Annapolis, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013459
Congressional District: MD-03
FY 2008 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: FRIENDS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC. Baltimore, MD
Program: HIV/Strategic Prevention Framework SP013321
Congressional District: MD-03
FY 2008 Funding: $254,320
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010
Now, and for many decades, drug and alcohol use and abuse problems have continued to occur in Native American communities. More recently, HIV/AIDS and hepatitis have appeared in all but a few of these communities. Along with the frustration, pain, and senseless deaths that result from these problems, Native Americans must struggle with treating and preventing a problem that doesn't seem to fit within its own traditional healing systems. This proposal seeks to build a foundation for delivering and sustaining effective and culturally relevant services to prevent and reduce the onset of substance abuse (SA), and transmission of HIV/ AIDS and hepatitis among urban Native Americans and Native American reentry populations in Baltimore, MD. The overall purpose of the proposed project is to implement a culturally responsive HIV/AIDS/Hepatitis program that will increase and sustain service capacity to Native Americans in order to address SA, HIV, and hepatitis problems. The increases in service capacity are designed to: (1) build skills and knowledge; (2) promote new peer group norms of preventive communications and behaviors; and (3) help sustain new health promoting habits. Using the Strategic Prevention Framework as a model to develop culturally relevant service capacity specifically for urban Native Americans, the five goals of the project are to: (1) Conduct a community needs assessment; (2) Mobilize and build capacity to address SA/HIV and hepatitis prevention needs; (3) Develop a comprehensive strategic plan; (4) Implement evidence based prevention programs and infrastructure development activities; and, (5) Assess program effectiveness. Service capacity will be enhanced through partnership with an urban Native American program, LifeLines Foundation that serves substance abusing Native Americans in Maryland. Through this partnership, we will develop workgroups that provide syntheses of state and local indicator data specifically on Native Americans.
  
Grantee: DANYA INSTITUTE, INC. Silver Spring, MD
Program: SAMHSA Conference Grants SP014574
Congressional District: MD-04
FY 2008 Funding: $25,000
Project Period: 08/01/2008 - 07/31/2009
The Danya Institute, Inc. will hold the 2008 Keeping It Real conference at Princeton Marriott Hotel & Conference Center at Forrestal, Princeton, NJ, 9/22 to 9/24. Highlighted will be research findings and evidence-based practices for community-based prevention and intervention professionals. Sessions will address effective substance abuse prevention, mental health intervention, and the overlap between these issues and the HIV and hepatitis epidemic. The 2008 conference will include three full days of programming, with plenary and concurrent sessions, serving an expanded audience of 150 to 200 professionals from around the country. The goals of the conference are to: 1) provide cutting edge information on addiction and co-infection with HIV and Hepatitis to outreach workers, prevention professionals, and substance abuse counselors, 2) improve efforts to find and assist hard-to-reach special populations, 3) infuse evidence-based practices into outreach, and 4) to improve prevention of co-infection through knowledge dissemination activities.
  
Grantee: SUITLAND FAMILY LIFE/DEVELOPMENT CORP Lanham, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012377
Congressional District: MD-04
FY 2008 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2013
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: SUITLAND FAMILY LIFE/DEVELOPMENT CORP Lanhan, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities Support Program - Mentoring SP014520
Congressional District: MD-04
FY 2008 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: STRATEGIC COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC. Glenarden, MD
Program: Minority HIV Prevention SP015112
Congressional District: MD-04
FY 2008 Funding: $335,333
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
Strategic Community Services, Inc. (SCSI) proposes to implement a project entitled, "Substance Abuse and HIV Integrated Prevention Services for African American Females ('SHIPS). SHIPS is the integration of two tested, effective programs listed on NREPP; Coping with Work and Family Stress (CWFS) and Hip Hop 2 Prevent Substance Abuse and HIV (H2P). CWFS and H2P: (1) empower African American women with education and the skills critical to changing the socioeconomic climate for their lives; (2) stresses the importance of reducing the number of oneÂ’s sexual partners, (3) ensures that the participants have access to the services by offering them at their work site as well as in the community in clinical settings, and (4) the interventions encourage African American women to deal with issues pertinent to their lives such as coping with the stress in their lives and unequal power status in sexual relationships. CWFS and H2P enhance self-esteem and self-efficacy, provides changes the women can believe in, and builds skills in communication, negotiation, and assertiveness.
The prevention services will be offered to employees of the members of the Prince George's Chamber of Commerce at their work site and at the only federal qualified health center (FQHC) in the County, Greater Baden Medical Services. The goals of the project include:
Goal 1: Prevent and reduce the onset of substance abuse and transmission of HIV/AIDS
Goal 2: Reduce substance abuse in the past 30 days. Goal 3: Prevent and reduce risky sexual activity. Goal 4: Increase HIV testing, counseling and referral services.
  
Grantee: COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND, LA PLATA La Plata, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013668
Congressional District: MD-05
FY 2008 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: GARRETT COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT Oakland, MD
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014742
Congressional District: MD-06
FY 2008 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
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: CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS Rockville, MD
Program: SAMHSA Conference Grants SP015554
Congressional District: MD-08
FY 2008 Funding: $25,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2009
The National Association for Children of Alcoholics, in collaboration with Recovery Resources is planning to hold a one-day regional conference in Cleveland, Ohio, May 12, 2009, for faith leaders, social workers, and early childhood educators on how they can enhance resilience for the children most vulnerable to substance use disorders - those who live with alcohol and drug dependant parents. The intent of this conference is to address the needs of children of addicted parents (COAs) and other children with adverse childhood experiences. The goals are (1) increase capacity by educating faith leaders, social workers and early childhood professionals on COA issues; and, (2) promote prevention efforts by increasing collaboration among prevention programs, professionals, and community leaders.
  
Grantee: PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RES AND EVALUATION Calverton, MD
Program: Youth Transition into the Workplace SP011140
Congressional District: MD-08
FY 2008 Funding: $300,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
PIRE with Amtrak and Amtrak's unions propose a randomized controlled trial designed to reduce substance abuse among 1,500 Amtrak permanent employees aged 18-24 at enrollment. A grant-funded youth preventive services coordinator will develop and deliver (1) orientation training adapted from the US Navy's promising PREVENT curriculum, (2) youth-oriented materials for current prevention programs, and (3) training of a large workplace peer prevention network, Operation RedBlock, on young worker issues. Operation RedBlock, a union-operated, management supported, and company-funded peer support program was implemented in 1989. RedBlock harnesses the energy of 2,400 active volunteers to keep the workplace substance-free and steer employees with drug or alcohol problems to help. RedBlock markoff, which allows employees with substance abuse issues to "mark-off" and not get on board with confidentially without penalty and receive assistance for these issues.
  

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)

Grantee: DANYA INSTITUTE, INC. Silver Spring, MD
Program: Addiction Technology Transfer Center TI013427
Congressional District: MD-04
FY 2008 Funding: $724,998
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
The proposed project is designed to develop and strengthen the workforce providing addiction treatment services in the Central East region, which includes Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland and New Jersey. Project goals include: (1) Working with partners and stakeholders to assess the training and development needs of the substance use disorders workforce in the region; (2) Developing and conducting training and technology transfer activities to meet identified needs; (3) raising awareness of and improving skills in using evidence-based and promising treatment and recovery practices in recovery-oriented systems of care; (4) Continuing and expanding the Center for HIV, Hepatitis and Addiction Training & Technology (CHHATT), Central East's Center for Excellence; and (5) Raising awareness of/improving skills in using culturally competent approaches to addiction treatment and recovery.
  
Grantee: PEOPLE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE, INC. Baltimore, MD
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment TI016623
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2008 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 07/01/2005 - 06/30/2010
People Encouraging People, Inc (PEP) in collaboration with Baltimore Mental Health Systems (BMHS), Baltimore Substance Abuse Systems (BSAS), the Baltimore City of Homeless Services (OHS), the University of Maryland School of Social Work (SSW) and the Park Heights Community Health Alliance (PHCHA) is proposing to create a comprehensive dual diagnosis treatment system for persons who are homeless in Baltimore City. This new program is an integration and expansion of PEP's current community based mental health mobile treatment program and its facility based Mental Illness Substance Abuse program.
  
Grantee: BALTIMORE CITY HEALTH DEPARTMENT Baltimore , MD
Program: Treatment for Homeless - Chronic TI017958
Congressional District: MD-07
FY 2008 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2011
  
Grantee: MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARYLAND Rockville, MD
Program: Adult Treatment Drug Courts TI020002
Congressional District: MD-08
FY 2008 Funding: $300,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
Montgomery County Adult Drug Court Capacity will expand intensive outpatient substance abuse treatment services to a larger number of clients, provide more comprehensive case management and implement a unique aftercare component aimed at ensuring that graduates maintain the success they worked for in the program. To date, Drug Court participants in this program remain disproportionately African American males. Key program components include culturally sensitive, appropriate and competent engagement, substance abuse counseling and treatment, person-centered planning, and linkage with referrals to resources and follow-up.
  
Grantee: AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ADDICTION MEDICINE Chevy Chase, MD
Program: Physicians Clinical Report TI019115
Congressional District: MD-08
FY 2008 Funding: $499,814
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) will continue to administer a National Physician Clinical Support System for the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders (PCSS) to assist practicing physicians, in accodance with the Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000, in incorporating into their practices the treatment of prescription opioid and heroin dependent patients using buprenorphine. ASAM, in consortium with other specialty addiction medicine, psychiatric, pain, and general medicine societies will continue to administer the PCSS and thereby assist physicians in the appropriate treatment of opioid dependence.
  
Grantee: AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ADDICTION MEDICINE Chevy Chase, MD
Program: Physicians Clinical Support System for Methadone TI020294
Congressional District: MD-08
FY 2008 Funding: $499,026
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) proposes to create, develop, and administer a Physician Clinical Support System for the appropriate use of methadone in the treatment of pain and opioid addiction (PCSS-M) to assist practicing physicians and other health care providers in prescribing for and managing patients on methadone. Methadone prescribing has substantially and appropriately increased in recent years because increasing numbers of individuals are in need of treatment for dependence or chronic, intractable pain. Unfortunately, methadone overdoses have also concurrently increased, partly because methadone has a complex pharmacology, and few physicians or other health care providers receive any training in proper use of methadone. Therefore, ASAM proposes to create the new PCSS-M as a complementary organization to the existing Physician Clinical Support System (PCSS), which ASAM successfully developed, implemented, and maintains.
  

Last Update: 11/26/2008