SAMHSA Fiscal Year 2004 Discretionary Funds

SAMHSA State Grant Awards FY 2004
Discretionary Funds in Detail
GEORGIA

Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)

GEORGIA

Grantee: Georgia Department of Human Resources	Atlanta, GA
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants	SM56629
Congressional District: GA-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: Georgia Mental Hlth Consumer Network	Decatur, GA
Program: CMHS Statewide Consumer Network Grants	SM56333
Congressional District: GA-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $45,560
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
The Georgia Mental Health Consumer network requests grant funds to train consumers with co-occurring diagnoses in the development and utilization of the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP). The agency plans to develop a self-directed wellness recovery plan using the WRAP Model and train Certified Peer Specialists to aid in the process of sustaining consumers in treatment. Under the auspices of the Georgia Self-directed Recovery Project, the network seeks to improve consumer knowledge about individualized needs and increase the capacity to apply appropriate skills conducive to sustaining recovery. The WRAP Model will be designed in two workbooks that will address wellness/recovery issues and vocational issues. One workbook will address wellness in daily living activities and train consumers in developing and sustaining peer led support groups. The second workbook will address wellness in the workplace on issues such as workplace stress and increase job placement success. Each workbook will be adapted for culturally sensitive groups as well as the visually impaired. Certified Peer Specialist will be trained to continuously assist consumers in the facilitation of their recovery plan. The network will also provide information via web site that lists treatment and recovery information, training and support group opportunities and other resources for self-directed care.

Grantee: Georgia Parent Support Network, Inc	Atlanta, GA
Program: CMHS Statewide Family Network Grants	SM56441
Congressional District: GA-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
Georgia Parent Support Network, Inc. (GPSN) is proposing to strengthen organizational relationships, improve collaborations, and develop closer relationships with child-serving advocacy organizations to enable families to strive toward independence, foster leadership skills, and continue assessing the technical assistance needs of family-controlled organizations, as well as increasing youth involvement in every facet of the organization's operation.

Grantee: Open Arms, Inc.	Albany, GA
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children	SM56202
Congressional District: GA-02
FY 2004 Funding: : $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2007
Open Arms, Inc., a non-profit child abuse prevention and treatment organization with a residential facility and a child advocacy center, is establishing a Community Treatment Center in Albany, Georgia to provide services for children in a rural and economically depressed region. Open Arms, Inc. is integrating all local agencies--child welfare, the school system, juvenile justice and law-enforcement agencies--into its mission to help those children and adolescents who have been victims of child abuse. One of those local agencies, The Sunshine Center, provides the client base for children who have been exposed to violence in the home, at school or at play. This comprehensive therapeutic treatment center is developed to prevent future suffering and break the cycle of abuse in this community.

Grantee: Positive Impact, Inc	Atlanta, GA
Program: AIDS TCE-Service Capacity Bldg in Minority Communities	SM53953
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2004 Funding: : $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 09/29/2006
The Georgia Comprehensive HIV-AIDS Minority Psychosocial Services (CHAMPS) Project will utilize a series of synergistic outreach, engagement, treatment and evaluation strategies to enhance the extent to which comprehensive, quality HIV-related mental health services are available and appropriate to address the mental health needs of African American and Latino individuals living with HIV in Georgia. The project will have two primary components: 1) an urban project to enhance access and engagement in mental health services for individuals living with HIV in metropolitan Atlanta, and 2) a rural project, to assess and enhance two of Georgia's highly HIV impacted rural areas to respond to the mental health care needs of ethnic minorities living with HIV.

Grantee: Georgia Department of Human Resources	Atlanta, GA
Program: Child & Adolescent MH and SA SIGs	SM56548
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2004 Funding: : $625,252
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
The overall purpose of the Child and Adolescent State Infrastructure Grant Project is to strengthen the capacity, from a state level, to develop, expand and sustain mental health, substance abuse and co-occurring services and supports at the community-based level for youth who have serious emotional disturbances, substance abuse and co-occurring disorders and their families. Strategies addressed include: development of a trained workforce, funding strategies, policies and practice guidelines and web resource development and improved data infrastructure development. As lead agency, the Department of Human Resources, Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Addictive Diseases (DMHDDAD) will administer project activities including the establishment of a State level Children's Behavioral Health Service Collaborative (CBHS Collaborative). The CBHS Collaborative will develop a statewide vision for behavioral health services across all child-serving agencies, develop a state strategic plan for building capacity to provide behavioral health services including provider and network development, mapping financial resources currently being spent on BHS services across the child-serving systems and maximizing use of all funding streams. The project will also include development of a trained workforce, development of policy and practice guidelines to support service improvements and development of a mechanism for statewide information on resources available to serve youth with behavioral health needs. Achievement of these goals will lead to an improved service delivery system for youth and their families. The DMHDDAD will build upon the System of Care Quality Improvement project currently underway across the state with stakeholders that have formed into Action Teams and developed Action Plans.

Grantee: Rockdale Co Board of Commissioners	Conyers, GA
Program: Children's Services	SM52900
Congressional District: GA-11
FY 2004 Funding: : $260,000
Project Period: 07/01/2000 - 06/30/2006
The Gwinnett, Rockdale, Newton Community Service Board (GRN), Georgia Parent Support Network, and community-based agencies have formed a partnership to create new opportunities for children and families. The initiative will be implemented initially in Rockdale County, ultimately reaching into Gwinnett county. A multi-layered vision guides the initiative: children and families from the center of the system; recognition that child and family strengths is the key to facilitating good outcomes; and children thrive in environments that allow them to be connected to their families and communities. Specific goals are to:1)enhance the infrastructure of the system by strengthening interagency collaboration; 2)achieve full, meaningful involvement of families in the system's governance, service decisions and provisions, and evaluation; 3)develop an intensive care coordinated system; 4)increase formal and informal supportive services for children and families; improve cultural competence; and 5)develop training and education modules for families, staff, and administrators.

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)

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Grantee: Genesis Prevent Coalition of Atlanta Inc	Atlanta, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11994
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $75,000
Project Period: 10/01/2000 - 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: Augusta Richmond Com Part Child & Fam	Augusta, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12087
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: Memorial Health Trust, Inc	Savannah, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12220
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $100,000
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: Bulloch County Board of Education	Statesboro, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12138
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $74,422
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: Wholistic Stress Control Institute	Atlanta, GA
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 4 Services	SP10476
Congressional District: GA-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $350,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The Wholistic Stress control Institute in Atlanta, GA has received a 5 year grant to provide integrated substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention services to minority and underserved populations. The grantee through the Pointing African-Americans Towards Health Project (PAATH) will serve 600 of the most in need male and female African-American youth in the city of Atlanta. The youth attend the Community Education Partnership Program and are students who have been removed from their neighborhood school, for disciplinary problems, including violence, chronic absenteeism and/or academic failure. The PAATH project will significantly reduce the high risk behaviors of these students related to substance abuse and HIV infection, and expand SAP and HIVP services being offered to this population.

Grantee: CVI	Camilla, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11489
Congressional District: GA-02
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: Dekalb Prevention Alliance	Decatur, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11482
Congressional District: GA-04
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: The Council on Alcohol & Drugs	Norcross, GA
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 3 Services	SP10279
Congressional District: GA-04
FY 2004 Funding: : $349,993
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
The Council on Alcohol and Drugs, in partnership with AID Atlanta and Unity Program, a Minority SA prevention and HIV prevention services program, will serve African American youth, ages 11-18 who are exposed to multiple, multilevel risk factors for substance abuse and/or HIV and their parents/parent surrogates. Main target communities will continue to be located in the City of Atlanta, Fulton County and DeKalb County. Program goals include a)reducing the incidence and prevalence of substance abuse and HIV/AIDS in the target population to be served; via b) reducing the behaviors that put community members at risk; c) reducing the strength of risk factors and d) increasing the strength of protective factors associated with substance abuse and HIV and e) building the capacity of the Atlanta community to prevent HIV and substance abuse insuring effectiveness and sustainability of the effort.

Grantee: Georgia Assoc for Prev/Trmt of Sub Abuse	Atlanta, GA
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 3 Services	SP10134
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2004 Funding: : $349,770
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
The Georgia Council on Substance Abuse (GCSA) in collaboration with the Atlanta Harm Reduction Center (AHRC) proposes to implement Street Smart, a Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Replicating Effective Programs (REP) integrated SAP/HIVP model program for homeless and runaway youth 11-18 years of age. Target youth to be served by this project are primarily African American and live in the streets, under bridges and in dumpsters in a notorious area of metro-Atlanta called the Bluff, an impoverished high-risk minority community characterized by an abundance of injection drug users and sex workers.

Grantee: Morehouse School of Medicine	Atlanta, GA
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 3 Services	SP10299
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2004 Funding: : $346,547
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
The Department of Pediatrics at Morehouse School of Medicine is proposing a targeted expansion of the IMANI Project, with the goal of increasing knowledge and understanding of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) and STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases) and thus, strengthening African American families in an urban community. The IMANI Project is designed to provide interventions in the areas of HIV/AIDS/STD education, utilizing faith-based organizations and non-traditional businesses in the Bankhead and Bowen Homes housing communities as performance sites. The target population for this Project is 300 African-American residents aged 9-22 years that live in the Bowen and Bankhead Homes in Fulton County, including 50 faith leaders and 50 non- traditional businesses.

Grantee: Wholistic Stress Control Institute Inc	Atlanta, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11365
Congressional District: GA-05
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: Cobb Community Collaborative	Marietta, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11423
Congressional District: GA-06
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: Georgia Martial Arts Foundation	Woodstock, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11601
Congressional District: GA-07
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: Bibb County	Macon, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11391
Congressional District: GA-08
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: Berrien County Collaborative Inc	Nashville, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11660
Congressional District: GA-08
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: Cook Cnty Commission for Children & Yth	Sparks, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11511
Congressional District: GA-08
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: Osborne Prevention Task Force Inc	Marietta, GA
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11679
Congressional District: GA-11
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)

GEORGIA

Grantee: Recovery Consultants of Atlanta, Inc	Atlanta, GA
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS	TI15858
Congressional District: GA-04
FY 2004 Funding: : $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The Street Team for HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, and Substance Use Risk Reduction (STARR) is a grassroots, faith and community based outreach/pretreatment program that is deeply rooted in the culture of metro-Atlanta's African American substance using community. It provides support services for individuals and families in early recovery, including linkages to addictive disorders and mental health programs, HIV, HCV, and substance use education for individuals and families at risk, HIV and substance use prevention presentations for faith institutions, transportation and child care for parents seeking both faith based and 12 step support group services, a free-monthly training for individuals in recovery interested in pursuing careers as certified addiction counselors, and transitional housing for individuals and families in early recovery.

Grantee: Recovery Consultants of Atlanta, Inc	Atlanta, GA
Program: Recovery Community Service	TI13214
Congressional District: GA-04
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: Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice	Decatur, GA
Program: Young Offender Reentry Program (YORP) 2004	TI17002
Congressional District: GA-04
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2008
The grant will allow Georgia to plan, develop, provide and evaluate substance abuse and other reentry services to sentenced juveniles aged 14-21 who are returning to the community from incarceration. The program intends to treat 525 youth over the course of four years.

Grantee: Integrated Life Center, Inc	Decatur, GA
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS	TI14385
Congressional District: GA-04
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To enhance services to an additional 110 African-American and Latino consumers through the development of an outreach program. The program will use Targeted Capacity Expansion TCE/ HIV to target co-occurring and injection drug users from the African-American and Latino populations.

Grantee: Integrated Life Center, Inc	Decatur, GA
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment	TI13883
Congressional District: GA-04
FY 2004 Funding: : $600,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
To provide a 12 week intensive outpatient co-occurring treatment program for homeless males.

Grantee: Morehouse School of Medicine	Atlanta, GA
Program: Addiction Technical Transfer Center	TI13589
Congressional District: GA-05
FY 2004 Funding: : $645,750
Project Period: 03/31/2002 - 03/30/2007
The Southeast ATTC, located at Morehouse School of Medicine, serves the states of Georgia and South Carolina with state-of-the-art addiction education and training programs for health care professionals, state and local governments and community organizations. SEATTC is unique in being located at one of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities(HBCU) and actively involves other HBCU institutions in the work of the Center.