Success Stories From SAMHSA's Co-Occurring State Incentive Grant (COSIG) Program

SAMHSA convened the Fifth Annual COSIG Grantee Meeting on May 28–30, 2008 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Bethesda, MD. Attendees included 170 members of the 19 COSIG States, Federal and Co-Occurring Center for Excellence (COCE) representatives, and invited guests. The meeting focused on the successes of the COSIG program, with special attention given to the first cohort of seven grantees that are in their final year of funding. Key themes were leadership; workforce development; screening, assessment, and treatment planning; peer issues; information systems; and sustaining change.

SAMHSA initiated the Co-Occurring State Incentive Grant program in 2003 to develop and enhance the infrastructure of States and their treatment service systems to increase their capacity to provide accessible, effective, comprehensive, coordinated/integrated, and evidence-based treatment services to persons with co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders and their families.

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