SAMHSA Fiscal Year 2004 Discretionary Funds

SAMHSA State Grant Awards FY 2004
Discretionary Funds in Detail
ALASKA

Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)

ALASKA

Grantee: Alaska Young Family Network	Anchorage, AK
Program: CMHS Statewide Family Network Grants	SM56409
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $69,999
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
Alaska Youth and Family network provides an informative interactive website, support groups, answer questions and network parents of severely emotionally disturbed children about mental health and substance abuse treatment system of care for their child. An outreach component teaches youth to advocate for their own needs. AYFN facilitates professionals, parents and youth to be equal partners in policymaking about the Alaskan behavioral health system.

Grantee: NAMI Alaska	Anchorage, AK
Program: CMHS Statewide Consumer Network Grants	SM56429
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $69,934
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
For three years, NAMI of Alaska has played a fundamental role in developing consumer networks, supporters and service providers in regional Alaskan communities. NAMI proposes to link its 12 affiliates as a means to strengthen consumer networks in rural communities that require additional community specific development. With the involvement of Native Alaskans, cultural adaptations have been made to implement training in leadership, personal empowerment, advocacy, organizational development and board and commission membership in previous years. To further facilitate the consumer network, NAMI proposes to implement a training curriculum that will meet the needs of the rural communities and supporters. Consumers are primed from previous related trainings to share knowledge with their peers in other communities. In order to proceed, the efforts in place by NAMI will continue to be needed to implore their continued input on consumer based programs and initiatives in otherwise inaccessible areas of rural Alaska.

Grantee: Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation	Bethel, AK
Program: Children's Services	SM52906
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $1,269,717
Project Period: 09/30/1999 - 08/31/2005
The Yuut Calilrut Ikaiyuquulluteng/ People Working Together Program will establish a culturally-based system of early identification, appropriate assessment and diagnosis, and interventions for children with SED and their families, targeting the Yup'ik/Cup'ik Eskimo and Athabaskan Indian people of Alaska. This program will establish partnerships across relevant agencies to create a single system of care; establish multi-disciplinary teams at the sub-regional level; ensure family support and engagement; develop a model for managed care for rural Alaska that links all stakeholders in service delivery for children and adolescents with SED.

Grantee: Fairbanks Native Association	Fairbanks, AK
Program: Children's Services	SM54481
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $2,500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2008
The Ch'eghutsen project will build on a completed Circles of Care planning grant to provide mental health care to children and families in the Fairbanks regional area, and 42 villages in the interior region of the state. Program partners include Tanana Chief's Conference, and the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. The program will also build on the state's Rural Human Services Program, involving training of paraprofessional community members to provide behavioral health care with a network of clinical consultation, supervision, training, and tele-psychiatry

Grantee: Alaska Dept Hlth & Social Services/DMHDD	Juneau, AK
Program: Jail Diversion	SM55098
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $269,237
Project Period: 06/01/2003 - 05/31/2006
This pre-trial jail diversion project will divert individuals with a major mental illness who have committed non-violent misdemeanors into appropriate community-based services and is a collaborative effort involving a mental health service provider, the Alaska Dept. of Corrections, the Anchorage Municipal Attorney, the local affiliate of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), with coordination by the Alaska Div. of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities. The largest city in Alaska (pop. 260,283), Anchorage has found a large percentage of its incarcerated population, who have committed non-violent misdemeanors, have serious mental illness. The behavior that leads to arrest is symptomatic of their mental illness and, rather than providing appropriate services, they are often processed through the court system and sentenced to incarceration. The proposed project will intervene in the process by screening individuals before they go to trial and, if considering their illness and the nature of their crime, they are found to be appropriate, their prosecution is deferred while they are provided with community-based services coordinated through Southcentral Counseling. Services are built around the Assertive Community Treatment model and features multi-disciplinary teams. Upon successful participation, a decision is made by the regarding dismissal of charges. For those who are not able to participate in services, the Municipal Attorney will determine an alternative course, such as referral to the Mental Health Court or District Court for trial. This program can serve 40 individuals at a time with an est. annual capacity of 122 clients from the Anchorage area. In the past 4 years, the city has est. a mental health court and offers alternatives to incarceration. The purpose of this project is to intervene earlier in the process and provide a component in a continuum of intervention and care whose primary goal is to decriminalize mental illness.

Grantee: State of Alaska	Juneau, AK
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants	SM56619
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $142,200
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
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: Alaska Dept Hlth & Social Services/DMHDD	Juneau, AK
Program: Emergency Response	SM55217
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $98,392
Project Period: 06/01/2003 - 05/31/2005
The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services/Division of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities (DMHDD) and Division of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse (ADA) are partnering with mental health and substance abuse services providers statewide to develop the Alaska Integrated Disaster Emergency Response Plan, which is based upon a solid baseline Mental Heath Disaster/Emergency Response Plan already in place. Funding will be utilized to support and monitor the development of local emergency response implementation plans based upon the updated standards at the state level. Specific activities under the grant include technical assistance, training support on a statewide community level, and integration of bioterrorism/terrorist events into the current local plans. A final goal is to ensure the ongoing maintenance/sustainability of State-level and local-level integrated emergency response capacity.

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)

ALASKA

Grantee: Alaska Council of School Administrators	Douglas, AK
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12110
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $75,000
Project Period: 10/01/2001 - 09/30/2005
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: Fairbanks North Star Borough School Dist	Fairbanks, AK
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12170
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $66,204
Project Period: 10/01/2001 - 09/30/2005
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: Sitka School District	Sitka, AK
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12421
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $75,086
Project Period: 10/01/2003 - 09/30/2005
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: Yakutat Healthy Community Coalition	Yakutat, AK
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12246
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $99,558
Project Period: 10/01/2002 - 09/30/2005
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: Stone Soup Group	Anchorage, AK
Program: CSAP 2004 EARMARKS	SP10837
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $198,820
Project Period: 07/15/2004 - 07/14/2005
This project has been developed to enhance access to Positive Behavioral Supports (PBS) as a behavioral intervention for Alaskan children ages 3-18 years who experience fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and exhibit significant problem behaviors. Additionally, this project will begin to develop a network of PBS Technical Assistance Providers who will be able to offer ongoing community-based PBS support to communities served by the FASD Diagnostic Teams. The project will target between two and five teams of professionals and family members at each of eight sites who support children. Each cohort of two to five teams will participate in an intensive, three-day training based in their community. In addition this project will train at least one PBS Technical Assistance Provider in four of the regions. The Technical Assistance Providers will participate in one PBS training at their home site.

Grantee: United Way of the Tanana Valley	Fairbanks, AK
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11622
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2005
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: State of Alaska	Juneau, AK
Program: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Effects	SP09198
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $5,777,580
Project Period: 09/30/2000 - 09/29/2005
The Comprehensive, Integrated Approach to Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Prevention, Intervention, and Service Delivery in the State of Alaska is a $5.8 million Congressionally earmarked project that is jointly funded by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. The project will provide prevention activities, including education and training of service providers, public school students and their families, and the general public. Interventions will include family planning, alcohol treatment, and other services for women of childbearing age at high risk for having a child with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Alcohol Related Birth Defects (FAS/ARBD). Screening and diagnosis for FAS/ARBD will be performed for all children in State custody. The project will also develop a centralized FAS Information and Evaluation Center which will provide a new infrastructure which will coordinate more than twelve FAS/ARBD data reporting systems.

Grantee: City of Saxman	Ketchikan, AK
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12264
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $74,900
Project Period: 10/01/2002 - 09/30/2005
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: Valdez Regional Health Authority, Inc	Valdez, AK
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12099
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $70,874
Project Period: 10/01/2001 - 09/30/2005
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)

ALASKA

Grantee: Municipality of Anchorage	Anchorage, AK
Program: CSAT 2004 EARMARKS	TI16107
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $497,050
Project Period: 07/15/2004 - 07/14/2005
This project would fund the Pathways to Sobriety Project including: voluntary outreach to and engagement with chronic public inebriates into detox and treatment, increasing access to therapeutic court, and employing the State's involuntary alcohol commitment process.

Grantee: Municipality of Anchorage	Anchorage, AK
Program: Targeted Capacity Expansion	TI13528
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
To increase access and availability of comprehensive substance abuse treatment services for hard-to-reach women with children. This project will provide short-term residential treatment, primary and mental health, child developmental, permanent housing, employment, and vocational services.

Grantee: Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc.	Anchorage, AK
Program: Targeted Capacity Expansion	TI13817
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 06/01/2003 - 05/31/2006
Cook Inlet Tribal Council (CITC) will implement a "tribal application" for implementation of "Family Treatment" for Alaska Natives in Anchorage. Through a home-visit model of outpatient care, CITC will increase access and availability of services to Alaska Native families by taking treatment "to" families. This represents an expansion of existing treatment capacity of CITC's Ernie Turner Center Recovery Programs by 16 outpatient slots.

Grantee: Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc.	Anchorage, AK
Program: Targeted Capacity Expansion	TI13525
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 05/01/2002 - 04/30/2005
This project will expand the treatment capacity of its addictions programs operating under its Family Services Department. The project will develop and implement a home-visit model of outpatient services, specifically designed to assist Alaska Native women with children under supervision by the Department of Family and Youth Services (for abuse or neglect).

Grantee: Southcentral Foundation	Anchorage, AK
Program: Recovery Community Service	TI13221
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $220,000
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 09/29/2006
The purpose of this grant is to foster participation of people in recovery and their family members in the public dialogue about addiction, treatment and recovery. The term "recovery community" is a broad and encompassing term that includes persons having a history of alcohol and drug problems who are in recovery or recovered, those currently in treatment, those seeking treatment, as well as their family members, and other supporters and allies. Recovery community organizations help people in recovery, their families and supporters work together to identify, develop, and support needed treatment and recovery policies, systems, and services.

Grantee: Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc.	Anchorage, AK
Program: State TCE Screening Brief Intervention Referral Treatment	TI15969
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $2,176,494
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Connections SBIRT, a tribal project, will serve Anchorage, Alaska. It will enhance screening, referral, brief intervention and treatment services for adults and add those services for adolescents. Its overarching goal is to reduce substance use by participating patients as defined by GPRA outcome measures.

Grantee: Akeela, Inc	Anchorage,, AK
Program: CSAT 2004 EARMARKS	TI16102
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $198,820
Project Period: 06/30/2004 - 06/30/2005
This project has a two-fold purpose: 1) to increase treatment retention at Akeela House by reestablishing a cultural component, and 2) to enhance successful transition of inmates moving from prison-based programs at Akeela House and then back into the community,

Grantee: Fairbanks Native Association	Fairbanks, AK
Program: Targeted Capacity Expansion	TI14915
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $477,149
Project Period: 06/01/2003 - 05/31/2006
The goal of the Insights to Healing program is to address a critical gap in Alaska's treatment capacity for clients with co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders by establishing an innovative residential program integrating substance abuse and mental health treatment with a focus on cultural reintegration to heal the intergenerational trauma underlying these disorders among Alaska Natives.

Grantee: Fairbanks Native Association	Fairbanks, AK
Program: Residential SA TX	TI14214
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
The Life Givers program provides gender-specific adolescent treatment services within a bio-psycho-social-spiritual system of care approach to pregnant and parenting and non-pregnant and parenting adolescent females ages 13 to 18. Ninety-three percent of clients will be native Alaskans.

Grantee: Fairbanks Native Association	Fairbanks, AK
Program: Pregnant/Post-Partum Women	TI16880
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $499,986
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
The grant funds the Fairbanks Native Associations' Women and Children's Center for Inner Healing. The Center will expand its services through the Healthy Women - Healthy Children project. It provides critical medical and substance abuse treatment services, including residential services, particularly to Alaskan Native women in isolated rural areas with limited health care available.

Grantee: Fairbanks Native Association	Fairbanks, AK
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment	TI16461
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
This program will provide a residential modified therapeutic community using culturally appropriate integrated substance abuse and mental health treatment and intensive case management for homeless persons.

Grantee: Fairbanks Memorial Hospital	Fairbanks,, AK
Program: CSAT 2004 EARMARKS	TI16094
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $695,870
Project Period: 07/15/2004 - 07/14/2005
The Chronic Inebriate Program is an infrastructure/systems change effort to improve the provision of prevention, intervention, and treatment services to meet the needs of the chronic inebriate population. Outreach case managers will work with the local substance abuse treatment providers to guide the medical and social service needs of an average of 50 chronic inebriates to reduce the use of emergency services, increase participation in rehabilitative services, and increase sober living environments.

Grantee: Health & Soc Svcs, St of Alaska	Juneau, AK
Program: State Data Infrastructure	TI14638
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
This project is to enable Alaska to meet the treatment performance reporting requirements of the SAPT Performance Partnership Grant by development and integration of an administrative, client-level data collection, analysis, and reporting system. The Alaska SSA will use the CSAT sponsored State Modular Data Infrastructure Toolkit, which integrates GPRA and PPG measures into the administrative data system. Alaska intends to integrate the substance abuse and mental health data reporting systems used by direct service providers and the SSA

Grantee: State of Alaska	Juneau, AK
Program: Treatment of Persons w/Co-Occuring Substance Related and Mental Disorders	TI15354
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $1,071,750
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
To improve the identification and treatment of individuals with co-occurring disorders throughout a diverse service delivery system, Alaska has committed to addressing SAMHSA goals of improved screening, assessment, treatment, and training, which will be accomplished through infrastructure development, focusing on staffing competency, credentialing, and licensure; financial planning and reimbursement; and information sharing and data collection.

Grantee: Cook Inlet Coun Alcoh&Drug Abuse	Kenai,, AK
Program: CSAT 2004 EARMARKS	TI16092
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $198,820
Project Period: 07/15/2004 - 07/14/2005
The purpose of this grant is to enhance outpatient treatment services for women and their children who have become involved with the Office of Children's Services resulting from reports of child neglect and/or abuse.

Grantee: New Hope Counseling Center	Soldotna,, AK
Program: CSAT 2004 EARMARKS	TI16103
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $149,115
Project Period: 07/15/2004 - 07/14/2005
New Hope Counseling will provide a multi-modal treatment approach to providing individual counseling, support groups, academic education, and education pertaining to emotional and mental health issues in a supportive community environment.

Grantee: Wrangell Community Services	Wrangell, AK
Program: CSAT 2004 EARMARKS	TI16090
Congressional District: AK-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $99,410
Project Period: 07/15/2004 - 07/14/2005
The project will support Avenues, a division of Wrangell Community Services, in providing a system of substance abuse screening, assessment, and treatment services for the community of Wrangell, including treatment services for individuals with co-occurring disorders. Treatment services will include adult early intervention, adult treatment and aftercare, youth outpatient education and treatment, and emergency care services.