SAMHSA Announces Grant Awards
For Fiscal Year 2004, SAMHSA awarded grants totaling
$300 million over 3 years as part of an innovative new
initiative, Access to Recovery, announced by President
George W. Bush in August to provide people seeking drug
and alcohol treatment with vouchers for needed services
(see SAMHSA News, September/October
2004). SAMHSA also awarded its first Strategic Prevention
Framework State Incentive grants to 21 states for a total
$230 million over 5 years (see SAMHSA News,
21 States, 2 Territories Awarded
Strategic Prevention Framework Grants).
Other grant awards continue to reflect the Agency's
commitment to build resilience and facilitate recovery
for people with or at risk for substance abuse and mental
illness. With these grants, SAMHSA assists a wide range
of populations from homeless persons to pregnant and
postpartum women and their children. The Agency also
awarded grants to fund peer-to-peer recovery support
services, prevention services to fight the spread of
ecstasy and other club drugs, and fellowships to minorities
to encourage workforce development in the field.
Selected grant awards include:
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Ecstasy and Other Club Drugs Prevention
Services. $23 million. 17 cooperative agreement
grant awards over 5 years to fight the spread of
ecstasy and other club drugs through culturally appropriate
prevention services at the state and local level.
The funds, awarded to programs in 11 states and the
Jamul Indian Village in California, foster development
of prevention projects through schools, local health
departments, and community-based organizations. This
year's grant award totals $4.9 million. [SP 04-004]
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State Incentive Grants for Treatment of
Persons with Co-Occurring Substance Related and Mental
Disorders. $19.3 million. 4 grant awards
over 5 years to Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and
Virginia to increase state and local capacity to
provide accessible, effective, comprehensive, coordinated,
integrated, and evidence-based treatment services
to persons with co-occurring substance abuse and
mental disorders. This year's grant award totals
$3.8 million. [SM 04-012]
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Young Offender Reentry Program. $23.3 million.
12 grant awards over 4 years to expand and enhance
substance abuse treatment and reentry services for
juveniles and young adult offenders returning to
the community from the correctional system, including
prisons, jails, or juvenile detention centers. This
year's grant award totals $6 million. [TI 04-002]
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Peer-to-Peer Recovery Support Program. $11.2
million. 8 grant awards over 4 years to
deliver and evaluate peer-to-peer recovery support
services to help prevent relapse and promote sustained
recovery from alcohol and drug use. The program helps
people seeking to recover from an alcohol or drug
problem along with their family members and significant
others who will be both the providers and recipients
of recovery support services. Services will be developed
and delivered under SAMHSA's Recovery Community Services
Program. This year's grant award totals $2.8 million.
[TI 04-008]
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State Incentive Grants To Build Capacity
for Alternatives to Seclusion and Restraint. $5.3
million. 8 grant awards over 3 years to
support state efforts to adopt best practices to
reduce and eliminate the use of restraint and seclusion
in institutional and community-based settings that
provide mental health services. People receiving
services include those with co-occurring substance
use and mental disorders. Grantees: Hawaii, Illinois,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri,
and Washington. This year's grant award totals $1.9
million. [SM 04-007]
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Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Substance
Abuse State Infrastructure Development. $26 million.
7 grant awards over 5 years to expand and
strengthen the capacity of states, territories, and
American Indian tribal governments to support coordinated
treatment services for children, adolescents, and
youth in transition with serious emotional disturbances,
substance abuse disorders, or co-occurring disorders,
and their families. This year's grant award totals
$5.1 million. [SM 04-006]
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Drug/Alcohol/Mental Health Treatment Services
for Homeless Persons. $67.6 million. 34
grant awards over 5 years to expand and strengthen
treatment services for homeless individuals with
substance use disorders, mental illness, or co-occurring
disorders. This year's grant award totals $13.5 million.
[TI 04-001]
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Targeted Capacity Expansion Grants. $35
million. 24 grant awards over 3 years to
expand or enhance the ability of states, local governments,
and tribal organizations to provide comprehensive,
integrated, and community-based substance abuse treatment
services in communities facing serious, emerging
substance abuse problems. Funds are awarded in four
categories: minority populations, rural areas, methamphetamine
treatment, and innovative approaches to treatment
capacity expansion. This year's grant award totals
$12 million. [TI 04-003]
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Statewide Consumer Network Grants. $3.9
million. 19 grant awards over 3 years to
facilitate involvement of consumers of mental health
services in the development of mental health programs.
The focus is on adults with serious mental illness.
This year's grant award totals $1.3 million. [SM04-003]
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Statewide Family Network Grants. $8.5 million.
43 grant awards over 3 years to facilitate involvement
of families in mental health policies and programs
affecting their children. The focus is on families
of children and adolescents with serious emotional
disturbances. This year's grant award totals $2.8
million. [SM04-004]
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Networking and Certifying Suicide Prevention
Hotlines. $6.6 million. 1 grant award over
3 years to the Mental Health Association of New York
to manage a toll-free national suicide prevention
hotline network of local crisis centers linking callers
to local emergency, mental health, and social services
resources. The funds also will be used to increase
the number of crisis centers certified in suicide
prevention services. This year's grant award totals
$2.2 million. [SM 04-013]
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Youth Transition into the Workplace. $4
million. 13 grant awards over 2 years to
provide substance abuse prevention programs for youth
age 16 to 24 who are transitioning into the workplace.
Recipients will document and evaluate innovative
practices that address critical substance abuse and
mental health service gaps not yet evaluated formally.
This year's grant award totals $2.2 million. [SP
04-006]
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Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for
Pregnant and Postpartum Women and Their Children.
$21 million. 14 grant awards over 3 years
in 9 states to provide or expand the availability
of comprehensive, high-quality, residential substance
abuse treatment services to low-income pregnant and
postpartum women, as well as other mothers with minor
children. Services also will be provided to children
suffering from the effects of maternal alcohol and
drug use while their mothers receive care. This year's
grant award totals $7 million. [TI 04-004]
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Minority Fellowship Program. $3 million.
4 grant awards to facilitate entry of minority students
into careers in mental health and substance abuse
services. Grantees are the American Nurses Association,
American Psychological Association, American Psychiatric
Association, and the Council on Social Work Education.
[SM 04-001]
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National Technical Assistance Centers on
Consumer/Peer-Run Programs. $1.9 million.
5 grant awards to fund 5 National Technical Assistance
Centers to assist in the transformation of the mental
health system by providing consumers with the necessary
skills to foster self-determination and recovery,
and help people with severe mental illness decrease
their dependence on expensive social services and
avoid psychiatric hospitalization. [SM 04-011]
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Intervention and Evaluation Centers for
the Child Traumatic Stress Initiative. $3 million.
5 cooperative agreement grant awards to refine specialized
treatment approaches to child traumatic stress, tailor
practice manuals for new service settings, and update
procedures to disseminate related products. [SM 04-009]
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Community Treatment and Services Centers
of the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative.
$4.7 million. 12 cooperative agreement grant
awards to improve treatment and services for children
and adolescents who have experienced traumatic events
and to increase access to effective trauma treatment
and services. [SM 04-010]
For ongoing updates on SAMHSA grant awards or funding
opportunities, visit the SAMHSA Web site at www.samhsa.gov/grants.
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