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State ATR Program Descriptions

State, Tribal and District of Columbia Program Descriptions:

Arizona – Awarded approximately $8.3 million over three years. Arizona's Access to Recovery (ATR) program will develop and implement a cost-effective treatment and recovery support services voucher system for individuals with methamphetamine-related substance use disorders who are involved in one of the seven participating county-based adult drug courts and two tribal communities. Objectives include developing and implementing a voucher-driven process for methamphetamine users that offers choice of service providers and creating a broad network of eligible treatment and recovery support service providers for adult drug court-involved methamphetamine users.

California – Awarded approximately $14.5 million over three years. The state is expanding the California Access to Recovery Effort program to provide service resources to youth between 12-20 years of age, some of whom are struggling with methamphetamine problems. The new program will build on the established infrastructure, model program framework, and standards of practice that have been successfully implemented in the large metropolitan areas of Los Angeles and Sacramento counties to improve and enhance the ATR services and provider networks in those areas.

Colorado – Awarded approximately $13.9 over three years. Access Colorado will enhance treatment and recovery support services to ensure successful completion of substance abuse treatment and reduce the potential for relapse. Access Colorado will partner with a network of Employee Assistance Program (EAP) clinicians to provide an in-depth assessment and referral process based on consumer choice, while also building collaborations to increase and improve services.

Connecticut – Awarded approximately $14.5 over three years. The Connecticut ATR Program (CT ATR) provides the opportunity for genuine individual choice among a comprehensive array of clinical treatment and recovery service providers, including a full continuum of recovery-oriented services. The new CT ATR Program will further strengthen Connecticut's ability to support and sustain a statewide, comprehensive clinical and recovery system at the local community and state levels. Connecticut’s existing clinical and recovery service system includes more than 117 providers, and the state plans to expand the service array to close gaps in its continuum of care.

District of Columbia - Awarded approximately $10.6 million over three years. The District of Columbia ATR program plans to provide culturally sensitive substance abuse treatment and recovery support services over the three-year federal grant period. The key target population includes the estimated 20,000 substance abusers who annually exit jail or prison and return to the District's streets. Three additional special populations will be targeted over the life of the grant: single women, women with dependent children, and methamphetamine users.

Hawaii – Awarded approximately $8.3 million over three years. The Hawaii Access to Recovery (HI-ATR) program targets the adult population of child welfare families for the Hawaii Island of Oahu (City and County of Honolulu). The HI-ATR Project will introduce a system of vouchers managed electronically through an information technology system to improve access to treatment, ensure adequate assessment and referral to an appropriate level of care, and allow for genuine independent client choice of service providers. Provider choice will include faith-based and community organizations, especially those that have not previously received public funding.

Illinois -- Awarded approximately $13.9 million over three years. Illinois’ ATR Program will continue to expand its Pathways to Recovery ATR initiative implemented in 2004. Illinois ATR-supported services will be continued in Cook County and expanded to the 10th District in west-central Illinois. The continued program will include a methamphetamine treatment component and Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) among its voucher services. The primary emphasis will be placed on clients involved with the criminal justice system.

Indiana – Awarded approximately $14.5 million over three years. The Indiana ACCESS to Recovery program will expand the state's treatment system in seven counties to include recovery support services, creating a continuum of care that significantly improves outcomes for clients. Clients will receive vouchers to obtain services at the provider of their choice. ATR will provide a system to identify recovery support service needs of addicted clients, assist them in identifying available services and facilitate their access to services. The ATR target population includes people recently released from the criminal justice system, pregnant women, women with children, and users of methamphetamine.

Iowa – Awarded approximately $9.6 million over three years. The Iowa ATR program will be a statewide initiative that will extend new treatment and recovery options to all of Iowa's 99 rural counties through a regionally coordinated and case management approach. Iowa will give priority to women and men who are parents, individuals who have care-giving responsibilities within their family or who are adults living with children in the household. The program will also give priority to rural Iowans and those that have traditionally been underserved or inadequately served through existing resources.

Louisiana – Awarded approximately $13.4 million over three years. The LA-ATR grant project will assist in closing identified gaps in substance abuse treatment and recovery support services for those adults and adolescents involved in the criminal justice system and methamphetamine users. Louisiana has developed a unique and comprehensive electronic voucher and clinical case record system that will allow for accurate and effective outcomes monitoring, tracking costs and preventing fraud, waste and abuse. The Web-based voucher system will provide clients freedom of choice for all ATR services

Missouri – Awarded approximately $14.5 over three years. Missouri's Access to Recovery II: Partnering for Excellence program will improve and expand the statewide voucher system and enhance clinical services with evidence-based methamphetamine treatment tracks, and expand the network of recovery support providers. A broad spectrum of people will be served, but priority will be given to critical populations including methamphetamine users, offenders transitioning from prison to the community, and veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan

New Mexico -- Awarded approximately $14.5 million over three years. New Mexico's ATR project will increase and enhance treatment and recovery support services and offer client choice by sustaining and expanding its current voucher-based system, which has served more than 11,000 clients. The project will also provide substantial outreach to potential clients, new providers, and to referral partners in each local community, all with the goal of further increasing choices in recovery support services through faith-based and community organizations.

Ohio – Awarded approximately $13.9 million over three years. Ohio's ATR program will serve adults involved with the criminal justice system in four Ohio counties. The project will significantly increase the involvement of faith-based and community organizations as substance abuse service providers. A Web-based voucher payment system and case management process will significantly increase client choice among culturally responsive treatment and recovery support services options.

Oklahoma – Awarded approximately $11.9 million over three years. The Oklahoma ATR Program will increase capacity to serve females and males with a history of methamphetamine use, and place emphasis on services that address methamphetamine use and aid reintegration into communities. The three-year goal of the program is to assess all individuals leaving the criminal justice system with substance abuse-related problems, to determine the need for treatment and/or recovery support services; provide those with such needs the opportunity to chose a provider of treatment and/or recovery support services from no less than two providers; and engage those with needs in appropriate services that encourage a healthy lifestyle free from substance abuse and crime.

Rhode Island – Awarded approximately $8.3 million over three years. The Rhode Island ATR Program will expand access to an array of behavioral health treatment and recovery support options, including those provided by faith-based and community organizations and other non-traditional providers. The project will target individuals being released from RI's Adult Correctional Institution and from the RI Training School for Youth, as well as parents/guardians involved with the Department of Children, Youth, and Families.

Tennessee – Awarded approximately $14.5 over three years. The TN-ATR program creates a multifaceted array of recovery services with enhanced referral collaboration within the criminal justice system. The program will allow individuals to achieve and maintain abstinence by offering consumer choice through a voucher system; increasing service capacity; expanding a statewide culturally competent provider network to include faith- and community-based agencies; and improving access to clinical treatment and recovery support services, which include programmatic restructuring from a broker case management model to a strengths-based case management model.

Texas – Awarded approximately $13.5 million over three years. Texas Expanding Access to Recovery (TEATR) is a coordinated program that will extend the program within the Texas Drug Court Program administered by the Governor's Office. TEATR will extend the geographic reach of the current program from 13 to 18 counties, as well as enhance the faith-based, volunteer-based and community-based components of ATR. In addition, TEATR will include treatment and recovery support to methamphetamine abusers without regard to drug court involvement in all 18 counties.

Washington – Awarded approximately $13.9 million over three years. Washington State Access to Recovery II will provide social service intervention over the three-year grant period to individuals in crisis because of drug or alcohol misuse. Clinical treatment and/or recovery support services will be provided to these individuals and their families based on clinical assessments. Individuals and families will be offered a choice of treatment and recovery providers, and will work with assigned recovery support specialists to develop personal recovery plans that identify services needed to achieve and maintain abstinence. Individuals with recent history of methamphetamine use or incarceration will be prioritized for enrollment to support stated program goals.

Wisconsin – Awarded approximately $14.5 million over three years. The WISER Choice (Wisconsin Supports Everyone's Recovery) program will build on the implementation of its ATR-funded Wisconsin Supports Everyone's Recovery Choice (WISER Choice) program in Milwaukee County by expanding the number of total individuals served (38 percent more will be served than during the first round of ATR), and the scope of the criminal justice population served to include the entire corrections continuum.

Tribal Organization Awards:

Alaska Southcentral Foundation -- Awarded approximately $5 million over three years. Southcentral Foundation, a tribal health care organization targeting Alaska Natives and American Indians in Southcentral Alaska, proposes Circle of Recovery, a voucher program to provide clinical substance abuse treatment and recovery support services to Alaska Natives in the city of Anchorage, and the eight tribal villages of the Cook Inlet region. Circle of Recovery will provide clients with a choice from among 12 Native agencies.

California Rural Indian Health Board, Inc – Awarded approximately $14.5 over three years. The California Rural Indian Health Board (CRIHB), the lead agency managing the California American Indian Recovery (CAIR) program, plans to expand a voucher system that provides culturally appropriate clinical treatment and recovery support services targeting American Indian/Alaska Native people with substance abuse disorders, to build system capacity, expand access and choice, improve efficiency and service quality, and establish a sustainable health care service-delivery model that supports life-long recovery. CRIHB plans to collaborate with the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board to extend access to 43 additional tribes across California, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.

Cherokee Nation -- Awarded approximately $10.2 million over three years. The Cherokee Nation Many Paths Project will implement a voucher program to improve access and increase availability to a comprehensive array of substance abuse treatment and recovery services. This award seeks to improve access to services for American Indian adolescents and adults, males and females, judged to be in need of substance abuse services. The applicant proposes that approximately 30 percent of its clients served will be methamphetamine users and will build upon three SAMHSA planning grants that have been funded in the region. The cultural appropriateness of the program will be assured through the active participation of tribal leaders, tribal members, community members, and highly qualified and experienced staff who bring their own traditional beliefs and values to the planning, implementation, and evaluation phases of the project.

Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan, Inc. – Awarded approximately $11.7 million over three years. The goal of the Anishnabe Access To Recovery program is to increase the eligible population on or near reservations by three-fold by 1) including household members and members of other tribes living in the area; 2) expanding the service array from outpatient only to a full continuum of clinical treatment and recovery support by recruiting providers into the network; 3) increasing the overall capacity of the tribal network system to provide a full range of recovery support services by collaborating with unrepresented providers; and 4) ensuring genuine, independent choice to clients.

Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council – Awarded approximately $5.7 million over three years. The Rocky Mountain Tribal Access to Recovery (RMTAR) program is a collaboration of Montana and Wyoming Tribal and Urban Indian substance abuse treatment and recovery support services providers. The goal of RMTAR is to increase access through client choice from an array of clinical and recovery support services, reaching at least one half of the unmet need for methamphetamine and other substance use disorders within the three years of the grant.

Last Update: 9/21/2007

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State ATR Program Descriptions

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