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Iowa, Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Wyoming and Puerto Rico will each receive roughly $3 million this year -- and each of the following two years -- to support statewide planning and strategies to reach youth, parents and families at the community level with effective substance abuse prevention programs.

"This money will support these innovative state programs to help our children reject drugs and choose a brighter future," Secretary Thompson said. "We are building on the kind of proven strategies that have worked elsewhere in reaching young people and their families in their communities, and that's our best hope for increasing the number of young people who make healthy decisions."

"The State Incentive Grant program has changed standards for substance abuse prevention nationwide," said Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Acting Administrator Dr. Joseph H. Autry III. "Today more than ever, as a result of the incentive grant program, community-based prevention programs seeking state funds -- not just federal funds -- must demonstrate they are using strategies proven by research to be effective."

A full 85 percent of funds awarded through the incentive grant program are directed to support the work of community-based programs. With today's announcement, a total of 35 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia have joined the program. In total, over 1,500 communities across the country now are implementing science-based prevention models reaching nearly 700,000 young people.

"We are partnering with governors to ensure that substance abuse prevention aimed at youth remains a high priority," said SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) Director Ruth Sanchez-Way, Ph.D. "Through cooperative agreements such as the State Incentive Grant program, we encourage states to systemically integrate a comprehensive statewide drug prevention effort."

Funds also will help the states use measures, including state-level data from SAMHSA's National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, to establish benchmarks and to report progress in reducing substance use.

Funds will be awarded to the following governors' offices:

Iowa, Thomas J. Vilsack--($2,962,611)
Maine, Angus S. King Jr.--($3,020,00)
Mississippi, Ronnie Musgrove--($3,019,928)
Nebraska, Mike Johanns--($2,972,624)
Pennsylvania, Tom Ridge--($3,020,00)
Puerto Rico, Sila M. Calderon--($3,020,00)
Rhode Island, Lincoln Almond--($3,020,00)
Wisconsin, Scott McCallum--($3,020,00)
Wyoming, Jim Geringer--($3,020,00)

CSAP is a component of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). SAMHSA, a public health agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the lead federal agency for improving the quality and availability of substance abuse prevention, addiction treatment and mental health services in the United States. Information on SAMHSA's programs is available on the Internet at www.samhsa.gov. News media requests should be directed to Media Services at (800) 487-4890.

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