Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)
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PUERTO RICO
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Grantee: UNIVERSITY OF PR CAYEY UNIVERSITY COLL
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Cayey, PR |
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Program: Campus Suicide |
SM057822 |
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Congressional District: PR-00 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $64,322
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Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009 |
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The Univ of Puerto Rico proposes a program to develop a comprehensive support network and college action plan for attending potential and serious cases of suicide. The focus of this program entails training through workshops and information materials for the campus body, in its informational aspect and a smaller number in direct services. Also, a comprehensive network strategy will be implemented through a crisis hotline and a referral program. The project will be implemented over 3 years, beginning with a basic and direct approach, with training and preparation of inventories of resources, to the creation of more student focused imformational materials and more elaborate presentations, culminating in efforts to document success for institutionalization and replication. The expected results of the program calendar will be the guide to both proces and outcome objectives to be assessed. The evaluation will include quantitative measures on how many individuals in each category were reached by the program's efforts and qualitative measures on how they react.
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Grantee: UNIVERSIDAD DEL TURABO - SUAGM
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San Juan, PR |
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Program: Campus Suicide |
SM057880 |
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Congressional District: PR-00 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $73,372
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Project Period: 09/30/2006 - 09/29/2009 |
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Grantee's Suicide Prevention Program will include 3 main activities: the development of a systematic training program for student's organizational leaders, faculty, counselors, athletic coaches, and security personnel; development and implementation of an institutional crisis response plan; and data collection of risk factors as identified by the administration of a validated screening test that will be used to develop statistics and informational material related to suicide prevention strategies. The purpose of the training program is to develop institutional direct service personnel with increased knowledge concerning mental health and behaviroal conflicts, strengthen the ability to recognize and identify high risk behaviors, and promote the ability to respond effectively and make the necessary referrals for direct services as appropriate. This project will permit data collection on suicide risk factors and the identification of effective institutional resources in suicide prevention management.
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Grantee: PUERTO RICO DEPT OF MNTL HLTH & ANTI-ASA
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San Juan, PR |
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Program: State Data Infrastructure Grants |
SM058098 |
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Congressional District: PR-00 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $71,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2010 |
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The principal goals are to improve data quality for planning & decision-making; ensure more efficient/effective use of scarce resources; achieve more effective knowledge management; and train management and providers on data collection, reporting and use. Measurable objectives are to: Improve capacity for analysis and reporting; improve capacity to monitor performance & outcome measures through an electronic information system linked to QA; carry out spatial analysis of information through GIS; build QI into clinical practice by statistical reports by center; continue to increase capacity for completing URS Tables; upgrade skills of provider level staff through T/TA on systems changes; and improve service quality of Web-based information MH system.
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Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
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Grantee: ASPIRA OF PUERTO RICO, INC.
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San Juan, PR |
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Program: Drug Free Communities |
SP013176 |
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Congressional District: PR-00 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $100,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2005 - 09/29/2010 |
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The grantee will: (1) reduce substance abuse among youth and over time, among adults by addressing factors in the community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promote factors to minimize the risk of substance abuse; (2) establish and strengthen citizen participation and collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support community efforts to deliver effective substance use prevention strategies for youth; (3) use the Strategic Prevention Framework of evidence based prevention strategies to assess needs, build capacity, plan, implement and evaluate community prevention initiatives; and (4) assess and report on the effectiveness of community prevention initiatives to reduce age of onset of any drug use, frequency of use in the past 30 days, increased perception of risk or harm, and increased perception of disapproval of use by peers and adults.
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Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)
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Grantee: UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DEL CARIBE
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Bayamon, PR |
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Program: Addiction Technology Transfer Center |
TI013588 |
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Congressional District: PR-00 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $700,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012 |
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The Universidad Central del Caribe and its School of Medicine propose an Addiction Technology Transfer Center to serve Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The application aims to continue addressing the training needs of the Region's drug treatment workforce and help sister ATTCs address the needs of the workforce treating Hispanic drug users in the U.S. mainland through the proposed "Hispanic Center of Excellence." The target population of the Region (Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands) is expected to be comprised by counselors (26%), social workers (18%), psychologists (10%), managers/directors (9%), physicians (8%), government officials (5%), clinical supervisors (5%) and nurses (4%), among other professions (15%). The application addresses all the goals and activities suggested in the RFA emphasizing local and national collaborations to prevent duplication of efforts and resources. In addition, emphasis is provided to help organizations adapt new treatment models such as the recovery management model; train supervisors and administrators in clinical supervision; address providers' compassion and work fatigue; and enhance the Center's curriculum with new science-based information, treatment programs, pharmacotherapy, and culturally appropriate products.
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Grantee: INICIATIVA COMUNITARIA DE INVESTIGACION
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Hato Rey, PR |
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Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS |
TI018620 |
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Congressional District: PR-00 |
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FY 2008 Funding: $500,000
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Project Period: 09/30/2007 - 09/29/2012 |
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Over the next five years, Iniciativa Comunitaria de Investigación (ICI) Project Turning Point will expand and enhance its capacity to provide outreach, pretreatment (including rapid testing) and residential 10-day substance abuse treatment in conjunction with HIV/AIDS services to Puerto Rican high-risk substance abusers, their sex partners and substance/abusing people living with HIV/AIDS. Specifically, high-risk substance abusing heterosexual men and women and men who have sex with men who inject drugs, will be targeted. For Project Turning Point, ICI will team up with its fellow non-profit community-based organization Lucha Contra El SIDA, Inc. (LCS), a current TCE/HIV grantee with a good track record of effective residential substance abuse treatment services to hard-core, chronic, multiple drug users, and people at high- risk and/or living with HIV/AIDS. Through the resources provided by the TCE/HIV Program, ICI's Project Turning Point will meet the following essential goals: 1) expand current substance abuse treatment services to no less than 70 new eligible (substance abusers who are high-risk and/or living with HIV/AIDS) individuals annually throughout the 5-year period, for a total of at least 350 new participants over the five-year period; and 2) expand current outreach and pretreatment (including rapid testing) services to no less than 350 new eligible (substance abusers who are high-risk and/or living with HIV/AIDS) individuals annually throughout the 5-year period, for a total of at least 1,750 new participants over the five-year period.
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