SAMHSA Fiscal Year 2004 Discretionary Funds

SAMHSA State Grant Awards FY 2004
Discretionary Funds in Detail
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Grantee: District of Columbia Dept of Human Srvs	Washington, DC
Program: Emergency Response	SM55214
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $98,144
Project Period: 06/01/2003 - 05/31/2005
The District of Columbia Department of Health, Addiction Prevention and Recovery Administration (APRA) and the District Department of Mental Health will work in partnership on a project to develop an All-Hazards response plan and strengthen the emergency preparedness infrastructure of both organizations. Major activities planned for the upcoming year include enhancing the lead organizations' capacity for a coordinated response in the aftermath of large-scale disasters, developing an All-Hazards response plan, and building an increased capacity of non-governmental substance abuse and mental health providers with contracts from the APRA and the District Department of Mental Health. The joint All-Hazards plan and the strengthening of the emergency preparedness infrastructure will augment Washington, D.C. ability to carry out its own recently developed District Response Pl.

Grantee: American Nurses Association	Washington, DC
Program: Minority Fellowship Program 2004	SM56572
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $675,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
The Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) at the American Nurses Association (ANA) is designed to facilitate the entry of ethnic minority nurses into careers in mental health and substance abuse by offering a program that recruits and supports them in their pursuits to attain advanced degrees. It proposes a rigorous pre-doctoral training program to support 20 highly qualified ethnic minority fellows to pursue careers in mental health and substance abuse disorders. This program includes academic and professional support and supervision for the fellows and their course of study in mental health and substance abuse. An ethnically diverse group of nurses serve on the MFP advisory. This program will continue to strengthen its relationship with consumers, ethnic minority communities and professionals, deans and directors of nursing programs and leaders in service institutions.

Grantee: La Clinica del Pueblo, Inc	Washington, DC
Program: Elderly Mental Health Outreach	SM54738
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
La Clinica del Pueblo and EOFULA (Educational Organization of United Latin Americans) will increase comprehensive, culturally and linguistically appropriate mental health services available to Latinos in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, age 65 and above. The agencies will develop a model of care for serving this population and publish their findings in a comprehensive manual for service providers. "La Clinica" is a non-profit health clinic providing culturally and linguistically appropriate comprehensive health care, mental health care, social services, interpreter services and health education and outreach to primarily low-income, uninsured and underinsured Latinos and others in need throughout the Washington, DC metropolitan area. EOFULA, the Educational Organization of United Latin Americans, provides outreach, information and referrals, counseling, social services, case management, health screening, social activities and congregate meals, transportation, and assistance with translation and interpretation to elderly Latinos in the area. With funding from SAMHSA's Older Adult Mental Health Services program, La Clinica and EOFULA will increase the amount, quality and accessibility of services available to Latino adults age 65 years and older. The agencies will also build the system infrastructure required to support these increases. Finally, the agencies will collaborate to create an integrated model of care for the Latino elderly that will be accessible to service providers across a continuum of care. Program activities will include a comprehensive needs assessment during year one of the program, an expansion of local services, community outreach activities, service linking activities and ongoing program evaluation.

Grantee: Latin American Youth Center	Washington, DC
Program: Youth Violence Prevention	SM55411
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $148,925
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2005
The LAYC community is comprised of a significant number of immigrants, primarily from Central America, and also from Africa, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia. Many families struggle economically, most without the aid of any form of government assistance, and the parents must work two or more jobs to make ends meet. Sixty percent of the young people in LAYC programs are from single parent households; twenty-four percent report living in totally unsupervised situations. Many turn to the street, gangs, drugs, or sexual activity to numb their sense of isolation. The project is designed to educate girls within the community about the risks and costs of violence, and to empower each individual to protect herself and others against violent acts. The project will also teach critical life skills, build self-esteem and peer support, and encourage girls to care for themselves and others who are victimized by violence.

Grantee: Community Connections, Inc.	Washington, DC
Program: Youth Violence Prevention	SM55566
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $149,516
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2005
Community Connections, the lead agency, will build on its current collaboration with the Department of Mental Health, to develop a coalition with both systemic and individual goals. At the systems level, our aims are several: (1) to increase the understanding of trauma, its impact, and the recovery process among core constituencies (Department of Mental Health clinicians, school administrators ana teachers, youth, and parent groups; (2) to facilitate the identification and referral of girls with histories of violent victimization for mental health services; (3) to minimize the often implicit barriers to participating in services; (4) to decrease the possibility of inadvertent retraumatization of survivors by the educational and human service systems; and (5) to train DMH clinicians working in the schools to use a time-limited manualized intervention for adolescent girls with histories of violent victimization so that trauma services may become self- sustaining after the funding period. At the individual level, for 120-150 girls, we will implement a new trauma-focused group intervention whose goals are (1) to enhance key trauma recovery and coping skills such as self-protection, self-soothing, emotional modulation, maintaining interpersonal boundaries, and developing relational mutuality; (2) to decrease risk of revictimization; and (3) to strengthen girls' overall functioning.

Grantee: Georgetown University	Washington, DC
Program: NTTAC-National Training & TA Assistance Ctr for CCHld and Adoles MH	SM56495
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $3,600,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2005
The Goergetown University National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health (TA Center) proposes a three-level approach to training, technical assistance and knowledge distribution - universal, targeted, and intensive. The universal level comprises the widest outreach with activities and publications timely to current and emerging issues, including the National Training Institues, TA Ceter Conference Call Series, policy briefs and web-based resources. The targeted level consists of more intensive activities for selected groups, such as policy academies, leadership academies and Primer Hands On Strategic Planning. The intensive involves on-site technical assistance for a smaller number of sites, including State Infrastructure Grantees and Safe Schools/Healthy Students communities. Family and youth involvement and cultural competence are infused at each level. This three level approach is highly relationship-based, tailored to the needs of our target audiences and utilizes our wide network of national partners as resources.

Grantee: Us. Helping Us, Inc	Washington, DC
Program: AIDS TCE-Service Capacity Bldg in Minority Communities	SM53944
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 09/29/2006
Us Helping Us, Inc., (UHU) will provide HIV-related group and individual psychotherapy, and psychiatric services, for black gay and bisexual men, and transgender persons in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. This project will allow UHU to expand its existing capacity and hire full-time staff psychotherapists. UHU has a 15 year history of providing culturally appropriate and culturally competent prevention and support services for black gay and bisexual men.

Grantee: SEE Forever Foundation	Washington, DC
Program: CMHS 2004 EARMARKS	SM56471
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $397,640
Project Period: 07/12/2004 - 07/11/2005
See Forever's school-based mental health program at the Maya Angelou Public Charter School will expand comprehensive individual, group, and family mental health services to its students. The funding will enable support of three full-time mental health professionals, two residential counselors, one youth development counselor, and one transition and career counselor.

Grantee: District of Columbia Dept of Human Srvs	Washington, DC
Program: Children's Services	SM54498
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $1,919,973
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2008
The D. C. Children Inspired Now Gain Strength (D.C. CINGS) project's major goal is to reduce reliance on out-of-home and out-of-state residential treatment centers for care of D.C. youth with SED through the creation of a comprehensive array of community-based services and supports to that are accessible, available, culturally appropriate and of high quality with families. The project will be governed by the Mental Health System of Care Sub-Council of the District Intergovernmental Youth Investment Collaborative which includes the directors of all key child-serving agencies, the Presiding Judge of the newly mandated District Family Court, the Superintendent of the D.C. Public Schools, the director of the Protection and Advocacy agency and four family members. Through a public/university partnership, professors from the Howard University School of Social Work will head the local evaluation team for the project. Following an interagency strategic planning process during year one, the project management team will be responsible for providing comprehensive services to over 800 youth and their families during the six-year grant period. The target population will be youth meeting criteria for SED between the ages of birth and 22. The District will begin with youth who are currently in costly out-of-state placements, eventually addressing the needs of youth who are also at-risk of such placements. Particular strategies will include the development of intensive home-based services, wraparound case management, an array of crisis responses for youth, and the development of a cadre of family liaisons to support families as they move through the system and identify/develop needed community supports.

Grantee: American Psychological Association	Washington, DC
Program: Minority Fellowship Program 2004	SM56564
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $904,200
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
The principal aim of the American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program (APA-MFP) in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services is to identify, select, and support the training of 30 doctoral level ethnic minority students and 1 post-doctoral trainee whose prior experiences and clearly stated goals suggest they will make significant contributions to the mental health and substance abuse services needs of ethnic and racial minorities. This project will continue the MFP summer training institute and efforts to partner with a program designed to steer community college students toward doctoral degrees in psychology. The program provides stipend support, ancillary training experiences, mentoring career guidance, and access to an outstanding network of professional contacts. An expert advisory committee provides oversight and program guidance as well as mentoring and professional leadership.

Grantee: Georgetown University	Washington, DC
Program: National Technical Assistance Center (NTTAC)	SM53029
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $99,999
Project Period: 09/30/1999 - 08/31/2005
The Center will help communities adopt best practices for systems of care for children with SED, provide information to the public and technical assistance to current Children's program grant recipients.

Grantee: Washington Very Special Arts	Washington, DC
Program: Youth Violence Prevention	SM55507
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $150,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2006
WVSA art connection will plan and implement a youth violence prevention project for African American girls ages 14-21 years with disabilities. A coalition will be established that includes the Family Court of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, National Museum of Women in the Arts, the National Crime Prevention Council, National City Christian Church, and DC Self Defense. Project Goals: WVSA's overarching goal is to reduce youth violence, substance abuse, delinquency, suicide, and other mental health and behavior problems in females with disabilities ages 14-21. We have two primary goals: 1: To mobilize the community to address the violence prevention need of females ages 14-21 with disabilities in the District of Columbia (Year 1); and 2: To provide effective violence prevention strategies for females with disabilities ages 14-21 (Year 2).

Grantee: District of Columbia Dept of Mental Hlth	Washington, DC
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants	SM56637
Congressional District: DC-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.

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Grantee: The National Org of Concerned Black Men	Washington, DC
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 2 Youth Services Cooperative Agreements	SP09858
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $63,636
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 03/31/2005
The National Organization of Concerned Black Men HIV/Substance Abuse Prevention Integration project will include 9-17 year old youth attending D.C. public schools in wards 6, 7 and 8. The project will integrate substance abuse and/or HIV prevention into three youth programs already being offered: Educated Choices for Healthy Outcomes (ECHO) which addresses HIV prevention, Saving Lives and Minds (SLAM) which addresses violence prevention, and Peer Education and Reproductive Counseling for Young Men (PERCY) addressing male reproductive health. The project goals are: to increase condom use among young people participating in the project, to reduce the number of project participants who use substances and to support abstinent behavior among participating youth.

Grantee: Publ Chrtr Schls Ctr for Stdnt Supp Svcs	Washington, DC
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12403
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $100,000
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: Government of the District of Columbia	Washington, DC
Program: State Incentive Cooperative Agreements	SP08198
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $300,000
Project Period: 07/15/1999 - 05/31/2005
The purpose of this program is to optimize the application of State and Federal substance abuse funding streams and resources enabling States to fill identified gaps with effective and promising community-based prevention approaches targeted at marijuana and other drug use by youth.

Grantee: Washington Area Consortium HIVY	Washington, DC
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services	SP10588
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Metro TeenAIDS (MTA) and City Year Washington DC (CYDC) will provide integrated substance abuse prevention and HN prevention services to youth ages 13 through 17 attending District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) through the DC Students Making Proud Choices! (DCSMPS!) project. MTA is a community-based organization whose mission is to prevent new HIV infections among young people and improve the quality of life for young people already affected by and infected with HIV. CYDC is a local site of the national City Year organization, whose mission is to demonstrate, improve, and promote the concept of national service as a means of building a stronger democracy. MTA and CYDC expect to reach over 26,000 junior, middle, and senior high school students over the five-year period of DCSMPS! MTA and CYDC seek to promote the adoption and maintenance of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors by District of Columbia youth that support them in abstaining from substance use and sexual activity or reducing risks when engaging in such activities. DCSMPS! responds to the shortfall in SAP and HIV prevention services targeted to District youth, a deficit recognized by local health agencies, community-based organizations, and young people themselves. Young residents of the national capital seeking information and support in order to make wise choices regarding substance use and sexuality are instead confronted by little or none of either service. DCSMPS! redresses this service gap on a major scale. MTA and CYDC's evidence-based prevention intervention consists of two components. In the first, teams of CYDC corps members-youth and young adults who have volunteered to contribute one or two years of community service-will bring the Making Proud Choices! integrated SAP/HIVP curriculum to DCPS students in grades 7 through 12. In the second, corps members will identify, train and support a subset of students from within those classes which have received the curriculum and establish them

Grantee: Progressive Life Center, Inc.	Washington, DC
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 3 Services	SP10079
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $348,750
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
Progressive Life Center (PLC), an African American non-profit Human Services organization, based in NW, proposes to implement through a Rites of Passage Program, comprehensive HIV and substance abuse prevention services for adolescent participants in their foster care, adjudicated youth, and family preservation programs. The goal of this project is to extend our existing Rites of Passage model to include components that target risky sexual and drug behaviors. The program targets adolescents who are involved in our foster care, adjudicated youth, and family preservation programs because these adolescents are at highest risk for drug use and risky sexual outcome such as HIV, STDs, and teen pregnancy.

Grantee: Latin American Youth Center	Washington, DC
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 3 Services	SP10221
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $300,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
The Latin American Youth Center plans to expand the Focus on Kids program, which will include the following components: 1) Institutional and Street Outreach; 2) On-site SAP/HIVP program (at LAYC); 3) Off-site SAP/HIVP program (in local junior high and high schools) and 4) HIV testing and counseling. This program provides substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention to multi-cultural young people in Washington, DC. The primary goal of this program is to recruit a minimum of 140 multi-cultural youth into an integrated, community-based HIV/AIDS and substance abuse education and prevention program. Through this program young people will increase their understanding of behaviors which increase their exposure to HIV/AIDS and abusing substances, and increase their ability to resist at-risk behavior through peer support, and the development of coping skills and self-esteem. Through extensive outreach activities, LAYC will recruit single sex groups with primary target age of 10 -15, secondary target age of 16-18.

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Grantee: La Clinica del Pueblo	Washington, DC
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS	TI15727
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $495,155
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Puerta Abierta (Open Door) seeks to develop creative, integrated strategies of care leading to reduced HIV transmission among substance-abusing Latino immigrant men who have sex with men in the Washington metropolitan area, building on the expertise of its partners working in many capacities with the target population over 20 years. The partnering of La Clinica del Pueblo and Neighbors' Consejo will strengthen existing resources for the Latino community and provide a more cohesive standard of care, as well as begin to establish a base of understanding for the overlap in substance abuse and occurrence of HIV in the Latino community in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

Grantee: Family & Medical Counseling Service, Inc	Washington, DC
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS	TI14411
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To enhance and expand outreach, and other substance abuse treatment services including: case management, nutritional services, food bank services, mental health services, treatment adherence support, primary medical care, and referrals. The program will use outreach to target women, women and their children, men who have sex with men, injection drug users, and the criminal justice populations from African-American populations.

Grantee: District of Columbia Dept of Human Srvs	Washington, DC
Program: State Data Infrastructure	TI14604
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
Currently, the DC Department of Health, Addiction Prevention and Recovery Administration (APRA) uses a character-based automated Client Data System built in 1989 to gather administrative treatment data. Over a three-year period, APRA will replace its existing Client Data System with a Web-Database Management System (WebDBMS) that has considerable improved functionality over the current configuration. In response to the inadequacies of the current mainframe system, APRA plans to standardize the administrative data.

Grantee: NASADAD	Washington, DC
Program: NASADAD State Collaborative Activity	TI17116
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2005
This grant facilitates collaborative activities between SAMSHA and the States and will focus on areas of mutual interest and will help support States' ability to respond to changes brought about by the transition of management of the SAPT Block Grant to a performance and outcomes focus.

Grantee: Community Connections, Inc.	Washington, DC
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment	TI14148
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $617,830
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
To serve individuals with mental health and/or substance use disorders who are living in time-limited housing in Washington, D.C.

Grantee: Georgetown University	Washington, DC
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment	TI15433
Congressional District: DC-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $249,989
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006
The Georgetown University department of psychiatry, in collaboration with the department of pediatrics, seeks to expand their coordinated primary health care services to address adolescent substance abuse. Through the adoption of Motivational Enhancement Therapy/Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-5 sessions (MET/CBT 5) we will provide evidence-based treatment within the comprehensive umbrella of an urban primary care and a community-based service center setting. We will provide cutting edge treatment for adolescents and their families by addressing the patients' substance abuse, physical health and mental health in a coordinated manner with a multidisciplinary treatment team that includes a pediatrician, nurse practitioner, child and adolescent psychiatrist, addiction psychiatrist, mental health and addiction counselors.