SAMHSA Fiscal Year 2004 Discretionary Funds

SAMHSA State Grant Awards FY 2004
Discretionary Funds in Detail
ARKANSAS

Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)

ARKANSAS

Grantee: DHS/Division of Behavioral Hlth Svcs	Little Rock, AR
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants	SM56609
Congressional District: AR-01
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: Kiwanis Activities, Inc	Little Rock, AR
Program: Youth Violence Prevention	SM55652
Congressional District: AR-53
FY 2004 Funding: : $150,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2006
Goals of the project are: (1) To provide a residential educational program called the Alternative Classroom Experience, that fosters academic growth, improves social behavior, increases self worth and acceptance of personal and group responsibility, provides awareness of social issues, improves parenting skills, provides long term follow up and summer camp opportunities (2) To provide yearly a free summer residential and recreational camping program for economically disadvantaged and/or at risk youth that improves social behavior increases self worth and acceptance of personal and group responsibility, and provides long term incentives for leadership growth and development (3) To provide yearly a follow up component for 3rd through 7d' grade ACE graduates that will enhance, implement, and evaluate strategies to reduce the number and duration of student suspensions/expulsions and to improve the overall academic and behavioral performance of the students and (4) To develop an extended outreach program through a coalition of individuals and organizations committed to youth violence prevention and youth empowerment through the advancement within the community of methods generally used in ACE such as but not limited to Character Building through Organized Play (CBOP), Reality Therapy, and Reciprocal Teaching.

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)

ARKANSAS

Grantee: City of Berryville	Berryville, AR
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12202
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $124,926
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: Harbor House, Inc	Fort Smith, AR
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12358
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $98,340
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: Huntsville School District	Huntsville, AR
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12398
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $99,919
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: Community Resource Agency	Pine Bluff, AR
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12397
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $99,991
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: Rogers Development Foundation	Rogers, AR
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12069
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $74,660
Project Period: 10/01/2001 - 09/30/2004
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: Creative Action Network for Youth	Springdale, AR
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11298
Congressional District: AR-03
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.

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)

ARKANSAS

Grantee: Arkansas State Hospital	Little Rock, AR
Program: Treatment of Persons w/Co-Occuring Substance Related and Mental Disorders	TI15360
Congressional District: AR-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $1,100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
To meet the needs of Arkansans dually diagnosed with substance abuse and mental health illness, the State of Arkansas, under the leadership of the Governor and his staff, will institute standardized universal screening and assessment as a first step in its attempt to integrate the presently divided systems of substance abuse and mental health care.

Grantee: UAMS	Little Rock, AR
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment	TI15467
Congressional District: AR-02
FY 2004 Funding: : $243,884
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will increase provision and effectiveness of alcohol and drug abuse treatment for adolescents with comorbid psychiatric disorders in central Arkansas through dissemination of two types of therapy-motivational enhancement and cognitive behavioral therapy or MET/CBT 5.