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SAMHSA State Grant Awards FY 2004 |
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Discretionary Funds in Detail |
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Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)
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| Grantee: State of Maine | Augusta, ME | |
| Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants | SM56620 | |
| Congressional District: ME-01 | ||
| FY 2004 Funding: : $142,000 | ||
| 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: Healthreach Network | Augusta, ME | |
| Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children | SM55249 | |
| Congressional District: ME-01 | ||
| FY 2004 Funding: : $288,259 | ||
| Project Period: 01/01/2003 - 08/31/2005 | ||
| The Mid-Maine Child Trauma Community Practice Center of Maine General Medical Center advances community-based services and treatment for children and adolescents who have experienced or witnessed traumatic events, with a focus on children entering the foster care system and their foster families. The project will demonstrate a decentralized model suited to the needs of rural and small town settings and will develop and evaluate a support system for community treatment and service providers including professional education and training, peer supervision, and model treatment guidelines and protocols. It will implement and evaluate a multi-modal system of assessment, treatment and services that makes use of complementary therapies such as expressive arts, massage, other body-mind stress reduction techniques, therapeutic riding and gardening in conjunction with traditional empirically supported therapies. Assessment and treatment planning will be resilience and family-strengths based. The project includes screening and assessment for attachment issues, with capacity for serving children from birth-to-three. The project builds upon the Center's nationally-recognized excellence in collaboration among pediatric programs, child welfare, early intervention services, mental health agencies, schools, domestic violence programs, and other community organizations serving children and families in the mid-Maine area. The project will continue its collaboration and knowledge-sharing with The Arbour Institute and CIVITAS trauma clinic of Baylor College of Medicine as well as collaborate with the Child Traumatic Stress Initiative regional and national centers on network participation, clinical data collection protocols, knowledge development activities; training and professional development. | ||
| Grantee: Maine Dept of Behavioral | Augusta, ME | |
| Program: Emergency Response | SM55223 | |
| Congressional District: ME-01 | ||
| FY 2004 Funding: : $99,785 | ||
| Project Period: 06/01/2003 - 05/31/2005 | ||
| The Maine Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services, which contains both the State Mental Health Authority and the State Alcohol and Drug Agency, will administer the grant and direct the planning process. This planning and capacity expansion process will take place within the disaster planning structure of the Maine Emergency Management Administration (MEMA), ensuring coordination at the State, county, and local levels. The process will be conducted in cooperation with the Bureau of Health, local service providers, and a wide range of groups representing the people being served. Work at the State level to strengthen the current State Disaster Response Capability will be complimented by the development of local plans in two pilot counties. Funding will be further utilized to strengthen the current State Disaster Response Capability by: 1) establishing a statewide and local service management structure, 2) recruiting and training community education, outreach and emergency support workers, and 3) testing the response capability in at least two counties. Specific planning documents that will be developed as part of the project will include a revised State Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disaster Services Plan and a template for the development of the Local Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disaster Services Plans. As part of the State's overall disaster planning process, a funding strategy for the continuation of planning and system development after the end of Federal funding will be developed. | ||
| Grantee: Maine Parent Federation | Augusta, ME | |
| Program: CMHS Statewide Family Network Grants | SM56363 | |
| Congressional District: ME-01 | ||
| FY 2004 Funding: : $70,000 | ||
| Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007 | ||
| Maine Patent Federation, Inc. will carry out a project called Project CANDO, Creating A Network for Diverse Opportunities. The activities of the project will be carried out regionally baed on cultural differences and the needs of families within each region. Maine families will act as catalysts for change to ensure supports and services are available as well as family and consumer driven. | ||
| Grantee: Dept of Behavioral & Dev Servs (DBDS) | Augusta, ME | |
| Program: Partnerships for Youth Transition | SM54464 | |
| Congressional District: ME-01 | ||
| FY 2004 Funding: : $499,890 | ||
| Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2006 | ||
| The Maine Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services "Portfolio for Success" project will focus specialized resources for youth, 14-21, with serious emotional disturbances (SED), and newly emerging SED, in the urban community of greater Portland, and the rural community of Washington County. Systemic partners include the gubernatorial Children's Cabinet including Education, Human Services, and Corrections, as well as the Maine Medical Center. Evidence based mental health treatment services and employment services will be provided. The goal of the project is to increase high school, college graduation, and employment rates for targeted youth, decreasing homelessness, substance abuse, and criminal activities. Objectives are to ID and resolve systemic barriers, expand services to a broader range of youth at risk, and develop and model a Transition Portfolio that can be replicated in other urban and rural communities. | ||
| Grantee: Advocacy Initative Network of Maine | Bangor, ME | |
| Program: CMHS Statewide Consumer Network Grants | SM56329 | |
| Congressional District: ME-01 | ||
| FY 2004 Funding: : $70,000 | ||
| Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007 | ||
| For five years, the Advocacy Initiative Network of Maine has provided advocacy and program development for consumer of the mental health system. The agency seeks funding to strengthen consumer networks and the mental health system by combating stigma. To provide a pathway for a recovery based system of care, the project will teach leadership and self-recovery skills to consumers while discerning how consumer input can alter policy and resource allocation. With support from the state, regional and local collaborators, the project will develop peer support initiatives for partnerships in the state's mental health system. Technical assistance will train consumers about peer support initiatives; promote leadership and organizational skill development; provide in-state recovery education centers and design a fiscal plan for future network growth. The project will also expand training and telecommunication capacity. Such capacity will be provided on promising self-help/recovery models of care; connect with rural and underserved communities; and develop an accessible resource of consumer information. | ||
| Grantee: Cumberland County Govt | Portland, ME | |
| Program: Jail Diversion | SM54726 | |
| Congressional District: ME-01 | ||
| FY 2004 Funding: : $286,625 | ||
| Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005 | ||
| Cumberland County, in collaboration with several agencies, including NAMI Maine, the Co-Occurring Collaborative of Southern Maine, Volunteers of America, Maine PreTrial Services, Portland Police Department, Cumberland County's Sheriff's office, and Maine Medical Center's Access Team intends to operate the Project DOT (Divert Offenders to Treatment). The project proposes to divert at least 75 adults with serious mental illness and co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders from the Cumberland County Jail by expanding services using the Rochester NY Project Link Model and the City of Portland's Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Police Program Model. | ||
| Grantee: Healthy Community Coalition | Farmington, ME | |
| Program: Drug Free Communities | SP12172 | |
| Congressional District: | ||
| FY 2004 Funding: : $74,778 | ||
| 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: City of Gardiner | Gardiner, ME | |
| Program: Drug Free Communities | SP12223 | |
| Congressional District: | ||
| FY 2004 Funding: : $99,990 | ||
| 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: Regional Medical Center at Lubec Inc. | Lubec, ME | |
| Program: Drug Free Communities Mentoring | SP12470 | |
| Congressional District: | ||
| FY 2004 Funding: : $75,000 | ||
| Project Period: 10/01/2003 - 09/30/2005 | ||
| The grantee s to support and encourage the development of new or expansion of existing community anti-drug coalitions that are focused on the prevention and treatment of substance abuse in the new or expanded coalition's community. | ||
| Grantee: Regional Medical Center at Lubec Inc. | Lubec, ME | |
| Program: Drug Free Communities | SP12322 | |
| Congressional District: | ||
| 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: York Hospital | York, ME | |
| Program: Drug Free Communities | SP11968 | |
| Congressional District: | ||
| FY 2004 Funding: : $50,000 | ||
| 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: Office of the Governor | Augusta, ME | |
| Program: Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants | SP11190 | |
| Congressional District: ME-01 | ||
| FY 2004 Funding: : $2,350,965 | ||
| Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009 | ||
| Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants (SPF SIG)--Maine The Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants are used to advance community-based programs for substance abuse prevention, mental health promotion, and mental illness prevention. The SPF SIG implements a five-step process known to promote youth development, reduce risk-taking behaviors, build on assets, and prevent problem behaviors. The five steps are: (1) conduct needs assessments; (2) build state and local capacity; (3) develop a comprehensive strategic plan; (4) implement evidence-based prevention policies, programs and practices; and (5) monitor and evaluate program effectiveness, sustaining what has worked well. These grants will allow the programs to provide leadership, technical support and monitoring to ensure that participating communities are successful. The success of the grants will be measured by specific measurable outcomes, among them: abstinence from drug use and alcohol abuse, reduction in substance abuse-related crime, attainment of employment or enrollment in school, increased stability in family and living conditions, increased access to services, and increased social connectedness. Maine's Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant will build a statewide data-driven prevention infrastructure that provides common tools and supports for prevention and health promotion programs. | ||
| Grantee: New England Institute/Addiction Studies | Augusta, , ME | |
| Program: Prevention of Meth and Inhalant Use | SP10704 | |
| Congressional District: ME-01 | ||
| FY 2004 Funding: : $349,997 | ||
| Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006 | ||
| The New England Institute of Addiction Studies (NEIAS), in cooperation with five of the New England State Prevention Authorities and other partners will strengthen the capacity of those states to prevent inhalant abuse. This program will conduct five distinct activities designed to reduce, over time, the level of inhalant use by youth in the targeted states through implementing a plan that will increase the capacity of the existing prevention infrastructure to address this problem. NEIAS will convene a Regional Inhalant Use Prevention Work Group to promote the use of model prevention tools and strategies in five states. The group will include non-traditional prevention partners such as fire safety education representatives, poison control representatives, and retailers. It will also include national inhalant prevention experts. | ||
| Grantee: Central Maine Community Health Corp | Lewiston, ME | |
| Program: Drug Free Communities | SP11583 | |
| Congressional District: ME-02 | ||
| FY 2004 Funding: : $99,960 | ||
| 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: Millinocket Regional Hospital | Millinocket, ME | |
| Program: Drug Free Communities | SP11360 | |
| Congressional District: ME-02 | ||
| FY 2004 Funding: : $87,439 | ||
| 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: River Coalition Inc | Old Town, ME | |
| Program: Drug Free Communities | SP11317 | |
| Congressional District: ME-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: Passamaquoddy Tribe of Indians-Ind Twnsh | Princeton, ME | |
| Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 3 Services | SP10158 | |
| Congressional District: ME--02 | ||
| FY 2004 Funding: : $350,000 | ||
| Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005 | ||
| The Indian Township Health Center's Wonahkik Program is a culturally based Substance Abuse and HIV prevention program that is committed to creating resiliency and increased coping skills in Passamoquoddy youth who are at risk for substance abuse and HIV. Utilizing community pipe carriers, elders, mentors, of Washingotn Count,y who reflect the cultural core and values of the Indian township community. The Wonahkik program is an innovative, early-intervention, year-round program geared at preventing HIV and substance abuse by changing life styles and values in Passamoquoddy youth from age 12 to 18. Based on the medicine wheel, the program focuses on delivering education on HIV and substance abuse while teaching traditional ways and values to teenagers. | ||
| Grantee: Dept of Behavioral & Developmental Svcs | Augusta, ME | |
| Program: State Data Infrastructure | TI14633 | |
| Congressional District: ME-01 | ||
| FY 2004 Funding: : $100,000 | ||
| Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005 | ||
| The State Data Infrastructure (SDI) funds to accomplish the following goals: 1) update and add data items, add additional edits to, and make minor cosmetic modifications to the TDS, 2) stabilize and improve its ability to query and report out information from TDS, 3) develop a web-based reporting system based on the TDS data that will make it more readily available to provider agencies, OSA staff and the public, 4) modify an existing or create a self reported client perception of care survey, and 5) develop a fiscal and contracting component to be associated with the data entry system that will allow payments to providers based on complete reporting of required information. These goals will enhance Maine's ability to report the information obtained through its data collection efforts including the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) and Performance Partnership Grants (PPG) recommendations. | ||
| Grantee: State of Maine Judicial Branch | Augusta, ME | |
| Program: Adult Juvenile and Family Drug Courts | TI14309 | |
| Congressional District: ME-01 | ||
| FY 2004 Funding: : $394,813 | ||
| Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005 | ||
| The State of Maine District Court will establish a comprehensive substance abuse treatment with wraparound services model as a resource to Maine's pilot Family Treatment Drug Court serving a three county area of rural Maine. This rural area has high rates of multigenerational poverty, unemployment, domestic violence, substance abuse, depression and other mental health problems as well as child abuse and neglect. | ||
| Grantee: New England Institute/Addiction Studies | Augusta, , ME | |
| Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment | TI15562 | |
| Congressional District: ME-01 | ||
| FY 2004 Funding: : $249,997 | ||
| Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006 | ||
| Project Summary: The New England Institute of Addiction Studies will collaborate with the Vermont Office of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs (the Singe State Agency) and five treatment providers from across the state of Vermont in the delivery of MET/CBT5. Approximately 150 adolescents will be served, including 90 in exclusively rural settings. Youth will be assessed using the GAIN, and followed using the GAIN M-90, at 3, 6 and 12 months after intake. | ||
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