SAMHSA Fiscal Year 2004 Discretionary Funds

SAMHSA State Grant Awards FY 2004
Discretionary Funds in Detail
NEW MEXICO

Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)

NEW MEXICO

Grantee: Albuquerque Public Schools	Albuquerque, NM
Program: Youth Violence Prevention	SM55640
Congressional District: NM-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $150,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2006
The goals of Steps to Violence Prevention are: 1. To build self sustaining, culturally competent Neighborhood Action Teams and community-based coalitions to decrease and prevent violence. 2. To implement an evidence based violence prevention curriculum, Second Step, in ten elementary schools. 3. To institutionalize proactive, culturally relevant violence prevention initiatives in the larger Albuquerque community.

Grantee: New Mexico Office of the Governor	Santa Fe, NM
Program: 2004 COSIGS	SM56588
Congressional District: NM-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $1,100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
New Mexico will expand implementation of the evidence-based practice of integrated treatment for co-occurring disorders to increase the identification and assessment of persons with this condition, and to increase provision of integrated treatment services known to positively impact consumer outcomes. The Behavioral Health Services Division of the State's Department of Health will enhance the capacity of its provider networks to screen, assess, and treatment individuals with co-occurring substance use and mental disorders, conduct systems evaluations, and measure client outcomes. The Division will serve as the lead agency to oversee the implementation of integrated treatment for co-occurring disorders throughout a new State system that will provide services under contract through a single behavioral health entity. During the statewide implementation of integrated treatment, several provider sites will be selected for intensive training and technical assistance support. The State Incentive Grants Policy Steering Committee, representing multiple agencies, consumer advocates, and other stakeholders, will provide project oversight.

Grantee: New Mexico Human Services Dept	Santa Fe, NM
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children	SM52237
Congressional District: NM-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $326,480
Project Period: 07/01/2003 - 09/29/2005
NewMACTS is a collaborative of local, state, tribal, and non-profit agencies and organizations dedicated to improving and expanding services for traumatized children. Housed within the Human Services Department of the State of New Mexico, NewMACTS is uniquely positioned to enhance New Mexico's capacity to identify, assess, and improve systems of care for children who experience traumatic stress as a result of traumatic events in their living environments. The next phase of NewMACTS seeks to expand statewide and has three goals: 1. To create and build a statewide New Mexico collaborative network composed of providers, schools, law enforcement, state agencies, pueblo governments and tribal entities, and other policy- makers that function as part of the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative. 2. To use the knowledge gained in building a clinical collaborative of providers in Santa Fe County to inform state-level policy in the ongoing New Mexico behavioral healthcare system redesign.. 3. To create therapeutic models for traumatic stress among Native American children that are culturally responsive to the specific needs of traumatized children living in tribal and pueblo areas of New Mexico. NewMACTS will work to leverage its positioning in state agency to funnel local learning to impact state level policy in dealing with children's trauma including informing with the statewide committee redesigning behavioral health care systems in the state. Moreover, NewMACTS will seek to increase the knowledge base through the creation of culturally appropriate therapeutic models and school based interventions for Native American children.

Grantee: Department of Health	Santa Fe, NM
Program: Emergency Response	SM55175
Congressional District: NM-02
FY 2004 Funding: : $99,506
Project Period: 06/01/2003 - 05/31/2005
The Behavioral Health Services Division of the New Mexico Department of Health will enhance the State's capacity to respond to the behavioral health needs of disaster survivors with this grant. Working closely with the DOH Public Health Emergency Response Preparedness program that is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the project will institutionalize the responsibility of statewide behavioral health emergency response planning that will integrate the agencies and organizations participating in response activities, train a cadre of individuals in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) crisis counseling model, provide input into the State's risk communication plan, and establish a technical assistance resource in emergency response planning for behavioral health care providers.

Grantee: Parents for Beh. Diff Children	Albuquerque, NM
Program: CMHS Statewide Family Network Grants	SM56353
Congressional District: NM-02
FY 2004 Funding: : $69,998
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
Parents for Behaviorally Different Children (PBDC) has served families throughout New Mexico since 1983. The purpose of the PBDC project is to improve the quality of mental health and behavioral health services, systems, and advocacy for children with neurobiological (NBD, i.e. mental illness), emotional and behavioral disorders (SED) and their families in the State of New Mexico, PBDC's mission is to support and strengthen families with children and youth with NBD/SED by advocating for systems change.

Grantee: New Mexico Department of Health	Santa Fe, NM
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants	SM56646
Congressional District: NM-03
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)

NEW MEXICO

Grantee: Rio Arriba Family Care Network	Espanola, NM
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12001
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $50,000
Project Period: 10/01/2000 - 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: San Juan County Partnership Inc	Farmington, NM
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12438
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: Natl Indian Yth Leadership Develpmt Proj	Gallup, NM
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12440
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: City of Las Cruces	Las Cruces, NM
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12187
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $74,884
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: Southern NM Human Development Inc	Las Cruces, NM
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12146
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: Las Vegas, City of, Off of the City Mngr	Las Vegas, NM
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12046
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $46,487
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: Pojoaque Valley School District	Santa Fe, NM
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP12056
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: North Central Community Based Services	Chama, NM
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11301
Congressional District: NM-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $97,781
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: Torrance County	Estancia, NM
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11727
Congressional District: NM-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $97,450
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: Lea County	Lovington , NM
Program: CSAP 2004 EARMARKS	SP10835
Congressional District: NM-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $347,935
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2005
Lea County is requesting federal funds to facilitate the operation of a substance abuse program with the Lea County Detention Facility. The program is targeted at the facility population. The program will be implemented thru the Nor Lea Hospital staff contracted with Lea County. Nor Lea will occupy a clinic within the detention center offering one on one counseling with inmates through a number of options. Volunteer AA sessions and counseling with outside agency's such as the Guidance Center of Lea County and Zia Counseling. Guards from the detention facility transport inmates to and from counseling sessions with this program. Nor Lea staff utilizes office space, computers, and other County equipment in the implementation of this program. The staff that is contracted by Lea County is from the local Nor Lea Hospital care area.

Grantee: New Mexico Office of the Governor	Santa Fe, NM
Program: State Incentive Cooperative Agreements	SP10363
Congressional District: NM-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $750,000
Project Period: 09/15/2003 - 09/14/2006
New Mexico will implement an evidence-based substance abuse prevention program directed at reducing risks and promoting resiliency and school preparedness in children age 0 to 6. The primary goals of this project are to strengthen existing capacity for prevention data collection and collect additional follow-up data in currently funded SIG communities and address gaps in prevention and early intervention programs and services to meet the needs of 0 to 6 year olds.

Grantee: New Mexico Office of the Governor	Santa Fe, NM
Program: Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants	SP11208
Congressional District: NM-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $2,350,965
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/30/2009
Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants (SPF SIG)-New Mexico 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. The New Mexico Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive grant will reduce substance abuse among youth, families, and adults by reducing risk and increasing protective factors in individuals, schools, families, neighborhoods, and communities throughout New Mexico through an extensive statewide needs assessment, the creation of a New Mexico Comprehensive Strategic Plan for Prevention, and implementation of substance abuse prevention activities.

Grantee: New Mexico Voices for Children	Albuquerque, NM
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11678
Congressional District: NM-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: City of Carlsbad	Carlsbad, NM
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11315
Congressional District: NM-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: Dona Ana County	Las Cruces, NM
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11409
Congressional District: NM-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: Lea County	Lovington, NM
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11380
Congressional District: NM-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: Border Area Mental Health Svcs	Silver City, NM
Program: Prevention of Meth and Inhalant Use	SP10797
Congressional District: NM-02
FY 2004 Funding: : $331,856
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006
Border Area Mental Health Services (BAMHS) will use a comprehensive approach to address the growing problem of Methamphetamine and inhalant abuse in Southwestern New Mexico. The project consists of 3 strategies: 1) school-based prevention in elementary and middle schools using Lions-Quest and Protecting You/Protecting Me curricula; 2) community awareness and 3) home-based family support services based on the "HOME BUILDERS" model. The project targets residents of Catron, Hidalgo, Grant and Luna Counties, a very rural and culturally diverse area of the state with high poverty and unemployment rates. A community awareness campaign will target parents and other caring adults. Information will be available through print, radio, and television media in all four counties.

Grantee: Hands Across Cultures Corporation	Espanola, NM
Program: Drug Free Communities	SP11260
Congressional District: NM-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.

Grantee: National Indian Youth Leadrshp Proj, Inc	Gallup, NM
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 3 Services	SP10199
Congressional District: NM-03
FY 2004 Funding: : $350,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
The National Indian Youth Leaders Project (NIYLP) proposes a culturally focused Substance Abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention program for Navajo and other high-risk youth living on and around the Navajo Reservation in Gallup/McKinley County, New Mexico. The proposed interventions are aimed at reducing risk factors and enhancing protective factors related to the dual epidemic of substance use and HIV/AIDS infection. This program must be respectfully implemented in a complex cultural context which frowns on any direct communication regarding a long list of "taboo" subjects such as sex, illness, pregnancy, even ATODA. Thus, the unique project design utilizing positive, culturally and developmentally appropriate programming to improve skills which build the life-long resilience needed to have a healthy and productive life in the midst of one of the most high risk environments in the country. These interventions include a youth development program designed to improve decision-making skills and healthy relationship building skills and knowledge within the context of outdoor/ experiential education group, service-learning activities, talking circles, as well as interventions which reconnect youth with traditional activities and values involving families, elders, and the community/tribe.

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)

NEW MEXICO

Grantee: University of New Mexico Albuquerque	Albuquerque, NM
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment	TI13914
Congressional District: NM-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $600,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
To expand services to Albuquerque's runaways by expanding, linking and enhancing services for street youth. The program will offer substance abuse and mental health treatment that addresses the needs of homeless persons.

Grantee: New Mexico Office of the Governor	Santa Fe, NM
Program: State TCE Screening Brief Intervention Referral Treatment	TI15958
Congressional District: NM-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $3,346,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
New Mexico's Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment Cooperative Agreement project provides substance abuse services through primary health clinics. It targets rural and ethnic minority non-addicted populations to increase access to behavioral health services. The major strategies include motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral therapy for the brief encounters, and sequenced assessments that precede referrals for needed addiction treatment.

Grantee: New Mexico Office of the Governor	Santa Fe, NM
Program: Access to Recovery	TI16825
Congressional District: NM-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $7,591,723
Project Period: 08/03/2004 - 08/02/2007
New Mexico will increase and enhance clinical treatment and recovery support services and offer client choice through the implementation of a voucher system. The new program will enhance the City of Albuquerque's existing voucher system and replicate that system in Santa Fe County, Dona Ana County (Las Cruces) and in Five Sandoval Indian Pueblos, Inc. Catholic Charities' statewide Stone Soup Collaborative will lead an effort to increase the state's capacity to offer increased choices in recovery support services through faith-based and community-based organizations.

Grantee: Border Area Mental Health Svcs	Silver City, NM
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment	TI15415
Congressional District: NM-02
FY 2004 Funding: : $249,435
Project Period: 09/01/2004 - 08/31/2007
This program is designed for youth age 12- 21 who meet medical criteria for substance abuse or dependence. The program will adopt or expand use of a treatment protocol that combines two types of therapy, Motivational Enhancement Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy. This Motivational Enhancement Therapy/Cognitive Behavior Therapy, a five-session protocol, was previously proved to be effective with substance abusing youth.

Grantee: County of Rio Arriba	Espanola,, NM
Program: CSAT 2004 EARMARKS	TI16104
Congressional District: NM-03
FY 2004 Funding: : $149,115
Project Period: 07/15/2004 - 07/14/2005
The County of Rio Arriba, NM through its Health and Human Services Department, will provide case management services for at least 50 substance abuse offenders in the County's Espanola and Tierra Amarrilla detention facilities.

Grantee: City of Gallup	Gallup, NM
Program: Targeted Capacity Expansion	TI13807
Congressional District: NM-03
FY 2004 Funding: : $499,994
Project Period: 06/01/2003 - 05/31/2006
The City of Gallup, NM (once labeled "America's drunkest city,") has some of the country's most innovative alcohol-reduction policies. The City will expand their traditional Native American residential pilot program, through their contractor Na'nizhoozhi Center (NCI), into a life-long treatment paradigm -the Native American Wellbriety Path (based on a spiritual Community Reinforcement Model).

Grantee: Epidaurus DBA Amity Foundation	Albuquerque, NM
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS	TI13155
Congressional District: NM-03
FY 2004 Funding: : $478,853
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 09/29/2006
To engage substance abusing minority women and women with children who have or are at risk of HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases , tuberculosis or Hepatitis B or C.