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SAMHSA Grant Awards By State FY 2009
Discretionary Funds in Detail

Table 1 - FY 2009 Discretionary Funding for states

Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)

RHODE ISLAND

Grantee: GATEWAY HEALTHCARE, INC. Pawtucket, RI
Program: 2009 CMHS EARMARKS SM059360
Congressional District: RI-01
FY 2009 Funding: $190,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2010
Working in collaboration with the Family Readiness Group of RI National Guard and the Yellow Ribbon Support Group will provide access to comprehensive wrap-around systems of care for families. Gateway will provide two therapeutic liaisons to assess needs and link families to care, provide therapeutic outdoor adventure programming for youth and provide specialized training to families and staff in MH first Aid training and Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASSIST).
  
Grantee: RHODE ISLAND STATE DEPT OF HEALTH Providence, RI
Program: Youth Suicide Prevention & Early Intervention - Cooperative Agreement State-Sponsored SM058373
Congressional District: RI-01
FY 2009 Funding: $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2011
The RI Youth Suicide Prevention Project (RIYSPP) will implement evidence-based suicide prevention education programs in selected public schools and community-based organizations that serve adolescents and their families. The project will provide a safety net for at risk youth by instituting screening, identification, and referral protocols, training gatekeepers, and providing a media campaign about who is at risk and how to respond. The proposed project will focus on adolescents and young adults living in Rhode Island's "core" cities. These cities are characterized by high rates of children living in poverty (15% or more), large minority populations, and other risk factors such as an over-representation of youth involved with juvenile justice and child welfare systems, higher rates of child abuse, neglect and domestic violence, higher rates of witnessing domestic violence, higher rates of incarcerated parents, and higher rates of homelessness. The cities are Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls, Woonsocket, Newport, and West Warwick. The project goals are: 1) To build state agency infrastructure and capacity required to successfully execute all aspects of the proposed project, including program implementation and evaluation. 2) To improve coordination and delivery of effective suicide prevention programs in schools, institutions of higher education, and youth serving community-based organizations. 3) To reduce the stigma associated with seeking treatment. 4) To build public health data systems to monitor and evaluate funded youth suicide prevention strategies and project performance.
  
Grantee: RHODE ISLAND STATE DEPT OF HEALTH Providence, RI
Program: LAUNCH - Linking Actions for Unmet Needs in Children's Health SM058854
Congressional District: RI-01
FY 2009 Funding: $915,992
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
The purpose of RI LAUNCH is to build on the RI Successful Start Initiative to ensure that all children (birth to 8) succeed in school by building social-behavioral capacities into community based early childhood systems of care that promote and integrate physical and behavioral health wellness. RI LAUNCH targets Providence, RI, the main urban core of the state.
The goals of RI LAUNCH at the State level are to I) Implement early childhood systems building activities as described in the Successful Start strategic plan focused on aligning state policies, reducing redundancies in service deliveries, and securing sustainable funding for needed programs; 2) Develop and support an organizational structure that facilitates the implementation of all components of Rhode Island's Early Childhood Systems plan goals and intervention; 3) Evaluate the implementation of RI LAUNCH activities as conducted at the local level to inform expansion of the program statewide.
The goals of RI LAUNCH at the Local level are to use mental health consultation to improve the quality of care delivered within pediatric and child care arenas, and strengthen their protective capacity in the context risk related to poverty. This will be accomplished by 1) Building mental health consultation (MHC) into primary care medical; 2) Linking parent support and education within the context of the medical home; and 3) Expanding mental health consultation (MHC) in child care settings.
  
Grantee: FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND, INC. Providence, RI
Program: Community TX & Service Ctrs of the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative SM059647
Congressional District: RI-01
FY 2009 Funding: $399,789
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 07/31/2012
The Children's Treatment and Recovery Center (CTRC) would develop a Rhode Island treatment network for children exposed to physical and sexual abuse and/or neglect and their families. Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) would expand to the continuum of home-based clinical and case management services, foster care, education/child care programs and emergency services for children and families. Family Service of Rhode Island (FSRI) is a Child Development-Community Policing (CD-CP) replication site providing trauma informed crisis intervention services for children exposed to violence or abuse in collaboration with the Providence police and the RI Department of Children, Youth, and Families. TF-CBT and culturally modified TF-CBT would balance our treatment options by offering an effective treatment for adolescents and pre-adolescents that has been adapted to multiple service delivery systems including foster care, residential services and home-based services as well as outpatient. This approach borrows from the SAMHSA "No Wrong Door" treatment approach used in substance abuse and HIV/AIDS to engage hard to reach individuals and families. The target population is African American and Latino children suffering from complex trauma.

  
Grantee: RHODE ISLAND STATE DEPT MH, RETARD & HOS Cranston, RI
Program: State Data Infrastructure Grants SM058108
Congressional District: RI-02
FY 2009 Funding: $142,200
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
DBH will continue to collect and report on the established URS tables, while developing mechanisms to collect remaining URS Developmental/Optional Measures, which include the NOMs. We also will continue our work to establish a Behavioral Healthcare Data System. Additionally, DBH plans to use additional DIG funding to develop a more comprehensive and interactive method of information dissemination. The Data Infrastructure Grant for quality improvement provides an important opportunity to assess the integrity of our current data collection systems; enhance ongoing efforts to meet emerging needs; and strengthen collaborative efforts with stakeholders and other governmental entities.
  
Grantee: RHODE ISLAND STATE DEPT MH, RETARD & HOS Cranston, RI
Program: Jail Diversion SM059269
Congressional District: RI-02
FY 2009 Funding: $312,081
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
The Jail Diversion and Trauma Recovery Program is a comprehensive approach to transforming systems into those that are trauma informed. The program will pilot a diversion program building upon the Kent County Court Clinic and implement the Trauma Addition, Mental health And Recovery (TAMAR) approach delivering treatment and recovery support services. Training in trauma informed care is a major focus of the project, accomplished through a "train the trainers" program of the National Center on Trauma Informed Care. Building from Kent County, the project expects to expand to at least one more site within the project period and to divert an estimated 645 persons over the course of the grant period.
  
Grantee: PARENT SUPPORT NETWORK OF RHODE ISLAND Johnston, RI
Program: Statewide Family Networks SM057972
Congressional District: RI-02
FY 2009 Funding: $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
Parent Support Network of Rhode Island (PSN) believes in utilizing the strengths of youth, families, and community, while providing services designed to empower, support, and educate youth and families, so that they can live in a healthy interdependence within their communities. PSN is a statewide family network organization dedicated to the well being and needs of children, youth and young adults at high risk for or who have serious emotional disturbance and their families. PSN continues to have the need to further build an organizational infrastructure that ensures our families and youth will have ongoing opportuities, skills and resilience to pursue their goals for success in life. PSN will contunue to increase the leadership capacity of families and youth to be effective catalysts in transforming the Rhode Island system of care for children, youth, young adults and their families.

This proposed statewide family network project, "Transforming Netowrks", will enable PSN to contunnue the successful development, implementation and evaluation of local family and youth driven natural support networks; increase the leadership skills and capacity of families, youth and young adult leaders to participate in state and local system reform activities at all levels, and provide ongoing training and technical assistance opportuities that will ensure families, youth and young adults are empowered and self sufficient leaders. Families and youth who participated in our planning meeetings and ongoing focus groups have identified access to a nutural support network, respite care, youth mentor, and "family-friendly" parenting education opportunities as most needed services. These non-clinical services and supports are some of the most difficlut to access for youth an d families and there is a need for increased system capacity in all of the identified service areas.
  
Grantee: RHODE ISLAND STATE DEPT FOR CHILD/FAMILY Providence, RI
Program: Child Mental Health Initiative SM057060
Congressional District: RI-02
FY 2009 Funding: $1,500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2011
Over the last decade and in partnership with the Child, Adolescent and Family Branch/SAMHSA, the RI Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) has built a sophisticated system of care for children and youth with serious emotional disturbances (SED). The DCYF, the RI Department of Education and school departments statewide are committing to Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) as an approach to improving school climate and supports for all students. We propose to: build a shared infrastructure to support collaboration between RICASSP and PBIS; increase access to RICASSP wraparound planning and supports; Identify and develop additional supports and services using evidence based practices; infuse CASSP values, especially cultural competence and child and family voice into the structure and approach of child educational programming; and improve the behavioral health and educational outcomes for all children. We anticipate that an additional 700 children with SED will benefit from services and infrastructure developed through this grant. By creating and integrating this new and shared RICASSP/PBIS infrastructure, we will be able to serve all children better and to offer the preventative and early interventions that the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health called for.
  
Grantee: CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND Providence, RI
Program: 2009 CMHS EARMARKS SM059366
Congressional District: RI-02
FY 2009 Funding: $95,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2010
Crossroads Rhode Island is creating a full-time staff Position for a licensed clinical psychologist or social worker to provide counseling and psycho-theray to chronically homeless adults with histories of trauma and severe mental ilness. The mission of Crossroads Rhode Island is to assist the homeless and disconnected as they journey toward a better quality of life, through the provision of essential Life services, referrals and Advoccy.
  

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)

Grantee: TOWN OF BARRINGTON Barrington, RI
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014840
Congressional District: RI-01
FY 2009 Funding: $124,131
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: CAPITAL CITY COMMUNITY CENTERS Providence, RI
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013873
Congressional District: RI-01
FY 2009 Funding: $99,997
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: DRUG AND ALCOHOL TREATMENT ASSN OF RI Providence, RI
Program: Minority HIV Prevention SP015040
Congressional District: RI-01
FY 2009 Funding: $335,333
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
The Rhode Island Community Re-entry Partnership for Substance Abuse and HIV Prevention will serve 1600 adult persons over five years by enhancing its capacity to create a sustainable, culturally appropriate, evidence-driven system that will serve this risk re-entry clientele. The project will prevent the onset and reduce the incidence of new cases of HIV Infection, reduce the incidence of substance abuse or relapse into active substance abuse and reduce the recidivism back into the prison system. Delivery of services will take place at the Department of Corrections Reintegration Center and throughout the local community.
  
Grantee: CITY OF WOONSOCKET Woonsocket, RI
Program: Drug Free Communities SP012974
Congressional District: RI-01
FY 2009 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 WOONSOCKET Woonsocket, RI
Program: Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act Grants SP015296
Congressional District: RI-01
FY 2009 Funding: $50,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2012
The Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act (STOP Act) grants is a program to prevent and reduce alcohol use among youth in communities throughout the United States. It was created to strengthen collaboration among communities, the Federal Government, and State, local and tribal governments; to enhance intergovernmental cooperation and coordination on the issue of alcohol use among youth; to serve as a catalyst for increased citizen participation and greater collaboration among all sectors and organizations of a community that first demonstrates a long-term commitment to reducing alcohol use among youth; and to disseminate to communities timely information regarding state-of-the-art practices initiatives that have proven to be effective in preventing and reducing alcohol use among youth.
  
Grantee: INITIATIVES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Cranston, RI
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014859
Congressional District: RI-02
FY 2009 Funding: $123,336
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: TRI-TOWN ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COMMITTEE Johnston, RI
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014926
Congressional District: RI-02
FY 2009 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: CITY OF PROVIDENCE Providence, RI
Program: Drug Free Communities SP015869
Congressional District: RI-02
FY 2009 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
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 SOUTH KINGSTOWN Wakefield, RI
Program: Drug Free Communities SP013840
Congressional District: RI-02
FY 2009 Funding: $99,294
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: CHARIHO TRI-TOWN TASK FORCE Warwick, RI
Program: Drug Free Communities SP014256
Congressional District: RI-02
FY 2009 Funding: $99,980
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: RHODE ISLAND EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM Warwick, RI
Program: Drug Free Communities SP015709
Congressional District: RI-02
FY 2009 Funding: $125,000
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2014
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: CHARIHO TRI-TOWN TASK FORCE Warwick, RI
Program: Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act Grants SP016105
Congressional District: RI-02
FY 2009 Funding: $48,296
Project Period: 09/30/2009 - 09/29/2013
The Chariho Tri-Town Task Force on Substance Abuse Prevention Services the rural communities of Charlestown, Richmond, Hopkinton and the Narragansett tribe.

The goals of the Coalition is 1) Mobilize an Underage Drinking subcommittee that will work together with youth leadership force to deliver a community alcohol survey and GIS mapping for updated needs assessment. 2) Train youth leadership force for advocacy and information dissemination to legislature community sectors. 3) Collaborate with the Narragansett Tribe to provide culturally sensitive underage drinking information at schools and health service centers throughout the area. 4) Enhance the efforts of the Charlestown, Richmond, Hopkinton, Narragansett Tribal Police Departments and local DEM by supporting additional hours for the collaborative efforts of party patrol, social host law enforcement, shoulder tap stings, and efforts in collaborating with retail outlets for investigations on large alcohol purchases. 5) Enhance our media campaign in efforts of changing society norms and increasing citizen participation in all 12 sectors and organizations in the community to foster long-term commitment to reduce underage drinking among youth.

The Chariho Tri-Town Task Force will coordinate information dissemination and services with the Narragansett Tribal health Center and the Wood River health Center to provide resources that are culturally sensitive to the needs of community members we serve.
  

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)

Grantee: BROWN UNIVERSITY Providence, RI
Program: Addiction Technology Transfer Center TI013418
Congressional District: RI-01
FY 2009 Funding: $600,000
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012
The Addiction Technology Transfer Center of New England (ATTC-NE; serving ME, NH, VT, MA, CT, RI), located within Brown University's Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, promotes system change, workforce enhancement and treatment effectiveness throughout the regional substance use disorders treatment industry. The ATTC-NE proposes to: (1) employ an expanded range of cutting-edge organizational change and technology transfer methods to promote the adoption and sustained implementation of culturally appropriate evidence-based practices tailored to both clinicians and supervisors; (2) support the successful New England Leadership Development Institute for Substance Abuse Treatment Program Managers, which actively promotes the growth of new leaders in the substance use disorders treatment field; (3) support initiatives in the area of educational programming to develop and enhance the use of research-based curricula in the training of substance use disorders treatment professionals; and (4) develop linkages between treatment and recovery oriented systems of care that are consistent with the view that effective recovery from substance use disorders requires a long-term commitment on the part of both individuals and the communities in which they live.
  
Grantee: RIVERWOOD MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES Warren, RI
Program: Treatment for Homeless Supportive Services TI020618
Congressional District: RI-01
FY 2009 Funding: $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2008 - 09/29/2013
Riverwood Mental Health Services proposes to expand it's Housing First Rhode Island (HFRI) Supportive Services Program. The purpose of this project is to provide housing and integrated primary health, substance abuse, and mental health services to chronically homeless individuals who have mental and/or substance abuse issues. Evidence-based practices to be implemented include Assertive Community Treatment, to provide integrated behavioral health services, and Motivational Interviewing as a therapeutic/counseling approach.
  
Grantee: RHODE ISLAND STATE DEPT MH, RETARD & HOS Cranston, RI
Program: Access to Recovery TI019455
Congressional District: RI-02
FY 2009 Funding: $2,713,467
Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010
Rhode Island Governor Donald Carcieri, in collaboration with the Department of Mental Health, Retardation and Hospitals, Division of Behavioral Healthcare will implement the Rhode Island Access to Recovery Program to expand access to an array of behavioral health treatment and recovery support options, including those provided by faith-based organizations and other non-traditional providers. The project will target individuals being released from RI's Adult Correctional Institution and from the RI Training School for Youth, as well as parents/guardians involved with the Department of Children, Youth, and Families. The project seeks to provide expanded service options for these traditionally underserved populations, ensuring that they have free and independent choice to select service providers that best meet their identified needs.
  

Last Update: 10/29/2009