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SAMHSA News Bulletin

Date: 10/28/2008
Media Contact: SAMHSA Press Office
Telephone: 240-276-2130

SAMHSA Awards More Than $91 Million in Community Substance Abuse and HIV/AIDS Prevention Grants to Help At-Risk Racial/Ethnic Minority Populations

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) today announced the award of 55 new grants totaling more than $91 million over the next five years to community-based organizations providing integrated substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention services to at-risk minority populations.  

 

Grantees will use SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework, a prevention process based on community needs, to build substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention capacity for traditionally underserved communities.  Traditionally underserved communities include African-American, Latino, and other racial or ethnic populations residing in geographic areas with high rates of substance abuse and HIV prevalence. 

 

“These grants are designed to help communities combat the inter-related problems of substance abuse and HIV/AIDS,” said SAMHSA Acting Administrator Eric Broderick, D.D.S., M.P.H.  “In particular, these grants will help communities in areas of greatest need effectively prevent substance abuse and exposure to HIV/AIDS.”  

 

The programs selected for these grants can receive up to $400,000 each year, over the course of five years.  The actual award amounts may vary, depending on the availability of funds and the progress achieved by the awardees.  The funds are awarded and administered by SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. 

 

The grant awardees and their projected yearly grant amounts are:

 

Grantee

First-Year Grant Award

Centerstone Community Mental Health Centers, Inc. of Nashville, Tenn. 

$335,333 

Institute for Health Recovery, Cambridge, Mass.

$335,333

University of Texas  Health  Science Center, San Antonio

$335,333

Fundacion Latino Americana Contra El Sid, Houston, Texas

$333,533

 

Access Community Health Network, Chicago

$335,333

Bienvenidos Children’s Center, Inc. Altadena, Calif.

$335,333

 

 

Coastal Bend AIDS Foundation, Corpus Christi, Tex.

$335,333  

BIENESTAR Human Services, Inc., Los Angeles

$335,333

Bronx AIDS Services, Inc., New York City

$335,333

Public Health Institute, Oakland, Calif.

$335,333

Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio

$335,333

COPE Community Services, Inc., Tucson, Ariz.

$335,333

Washington Area Consortium on HIV in Youth, Washington, D.C.

$335,333

Recovery Consultants of Atlanta, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.

$335,333 

Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.

$335,333

Gay Men’s Health Crisis, New York City

$335,333

Tampa Hillsborough Action Plan, Inc., Tampa, Fla.

$335,333

Health Services Center, Inc. Hobson City, Ala.

$335,333

New Horizons Community Service Board, Columbus, Ga.

$335,333

Adult Well-Being Services, Detroit

$335,333

Asian American Drug Abuse Program, Inc.,  Los Angeles

$291,726

Serving Children and Adolescents in Need, Laredo, Texas

$335,333

Higher Dimension Church, Houston, Texas

$335,333

Montrose Counseling Center, Inc., Houston, Texas

$335,333

Kansas City Free Health Clinic, Kansas City, Mo.

$335,333

Wholistic Stress Control Institute, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.

$335,333

Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles

$335,333

Positive Efforts, Inc., Houston, Texas

$335,333

Council on Substance Abuse – NCADD, Montgomery, Ala.

$335,333

Northern Ohio Recovery Association, Cleveland, Ohio

$335,333

 

La Clinica de la Raza, Inc., Oakland, Calif.

$335,333

Iris House, New York City

$335,333

Vocational Instructional Project Community Services, New York City

$335,333

 

 

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.

$335,333

AIDS HELP, Inc., Key West, Fla.

$335,333

Renz Addiction Counseling Center, Elgin, Ill.

$335,333

 

Montclair State University,  Montclair, N.J.

$335,333

Strategic Community Services, Inc., Glenarden, Md.

$335,333

Latino Community Services, Inc., Hartford, Conn.

$335,333

Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, S.C.

$335,333

Valley AIDS Council, Inc., Harlingen, Texas

$335,333

Wayside Youth Family Support Network, Framingham, Mass.

$335,333

Southwest Louisiana Area Health Education Center, Lafayette, La.

$335,333

Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force, Pittsburgh, Pa.

$335,333

 

Hope Action Care (HAC), San Antonio, Texas

$335,333

Community Prevention Partnership/Berks County, Reading, Pa.

$335,333

The Drug & Alcohol Treatment Association of Rhode Island, Providence

$335,333

Seven Hills Behavioral Health, New Bedford, Mass.

$335,333

Detroit Recovery Project, Inc., Detroit, Mich.

$335,333

 

Clifford W. Beers Guidance Clinic, Inc., New Haven, Conn.

$335,333

 

River Region Human Services, Inc., Jacksonville, Fla.

$335,333

 

Tapestry Health, Florence, Mass.

$335,333

Roca, Inc., Chelsea, Mass.

$335,333

Community Education Group, Washington, D.C.

$335,333

Special Health Resources for Texas, Inc., Longview, Texas

$335,333


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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