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![]() Date: 9/26/2007 Almost $17.5 Million Awarded to Help Homeless Individuals and FamiliesThe Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration announced today that it is awarding nine grants totaling almost $17.5 million over five years to local organizations working to end chronic homelessness in their communities. This program has a targeted focus to serve chronically homeless individuals with serious psychiatric conditions and those with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders who live in supportive housing settings. In these settings, the new grant funds will support intensive individualized services that are known to improve residential stability and reduce psychiatric symptoms. “These grants are designed to enhance the mental health and substance abuse services provided in supportive housing programs,” said Terry Cline, Ph.D., SAMHSA administrator. “This initiative will provide chronically homeless individuals and families additional services and treatment needed to remain housed in a permanent setting.” The following services, through direct provision or by collaborative arrangement with other providers, will be provided through the new grants:
Each grant recipient will receive up to $450,000 per year for up to 5 years. Continuation of these awards is subject to both availability of funds and progress achieved by the awardees. Total funding for year one is $3 million. This grant program will be administered by SAMHSA’s Center for Mental Health Services. Grants were awarded to:
Cook Inlet Housing Authority, Anchorage, Alaska -- $374,663 in the first year, to create Welcome Home, a supplemental housing program that will assist primarily Alaska Natives/American Indians with serious mental illnesses and/or co-occurring disorders and who are chronically homeless with securing permanent housing and linkage to a network of health, and social service providers. St. Vincent de Paul Village, Inc., San Diego, Calif. -- $375,000 in the first year, to launch the Village ACT Project to expand and enhance onsite supportive services. This project will serve 57 chronically homeless adults with serious mental illness or co-occurring disorders and a total of 85 individuals over the life of the grant.
Community Connections, Inc., Washington, D.C.-- $418,835 in the first year, to provide a comprehensive package of evidence-based services for chronically homeless individuals with severe mental disorders through their Creating Communities project. This project will also provide integrated services in a residential community enriched by professional and peer support. Phoenix Programs, Inc., Columbia, Mo. -- $413,820 in the first year, to implement an evidence-based long-term modified therapeutic community system of care that combines existing housing assistance and intensive individualized support services for rural chronically homeless individuals. Vocational Instruction Project County Services; New York City -- $375,000 in the first year, to provide culturally competent, bilingual mental health services to chronically homeless single adults and families living in permanent supportive housing funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Project Renewal, Inc., New York City- $426,655 in the first year, to create an intensive case management service team that will serve 72 formerly homeless chronically relapsing individuals residing in HUD-funded apartments throughout Manhattan and the Bronx. Central City Concern; Portland, Ore.-- $375,000 in the first year, to use its Community Engagement Program to provide continued supportive services for 75 individuals with serious mental illnesses and/or co-occurring disorders who also have experienced chronic homelessness to help them achieve residential stability. SAMHSA is a public health agency within the Department of Health and Human Services. The agency is responsible for improving the accountability, capacity and effectiveness of the nation's substance abuse prevention, addictions treatment, and mental health services delivery system. |
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