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SAMHSA Access to Recovery (ATR) Grants

Summary of State Target Areas and Target Populations

California

Target Area: The Counties of Los Angeles and Sacramento

Target Populations: The California Access to Recovery Effort (CARE) is focusing on substance-abusing youth between the ages of 12 and 20. The CARE Program focuses on increasing access to alcohol and other drug services for youth by providi ng treatment and recovery support services through a voucher program.

California Rural Indian Health Board

Target Area: Statewide (58 counties)

Target Populations: American Indians or Alaska Natives (AI/AN), descendants of AI/AN, or a non-Indian minor living in an AI/AN household. Participants must also be residents of California who believe that they may have a drug or alcohol addiction. There are assessment sites throughout California, in both urban and rural areas.

Connecticut

Target Area: Statewide

Target Populations : Connecticut is increasing access to and the availability of substance abuse clinical treatment and recovery support services to the Connecticut population of at-risk, non-dependent adults who abuse drugs and people in need of recovery support services.

Florida

Target Area: Florida is implemented in five designated regions to represent a full array of major urban cities, mid-size to small towns, rural, and coastal areas comprising the State's diverse population. The targeted areas include the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) districts as follows: District 7 (Orlando), District 8 (Charlotte/Lee counties), District 13 (Ocala), District 15 (Martin/St. Lucie counties), and the Suncoast Region (Tampa/St. Petersburg).

Target Populations: Florida's ATR program is targeting high need priority populations including adults, 18 and older, who are (a) involved with the criminal justice system/drug courts, (b) involved with the child welfare system/putting children at risk, or (c) who have co-occurring disorders or abuse prescription drugs.

Idaho

Target Area: Rural and Frontier Idaho

Target Populations: Idaho provides services to both youth and adults. Specific emphasis is placed on the delivery of services to the Native American and Hispanic-Latino populations because research has shown they are the most underserved groups in Idaho.

Illinois

Target Area: Counties that are targeted in Illinois include: Cook, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar, Effingham, Ford, Iroquois, Jasper, Logan, Macon, McLean, Moultrie, Piatt, Sangamon, Shelby, and Vermillion.

Target Populations: The Illinois Access to Recovery (ATR) Program, "Pathways to Re-Entry and Recovery," is focused on a subpopulation of probationers with substance use disorders referred to clinical treatment by the Circuit Court of Cook County and the Illinois Fifth and Sixth District Courts.

Louisiana

Target Area:Statewide. The Louisiana Access to Recovery (ATR) Program's phase one implementation occurred on March 1, 2005, in the following regions: Region 1 (New Orleans), Region 2 (Baton Rouge), Region 6 (Alexandria/Pineville), and Region 7 (Shreveport/Bossier City). The second phase included implementation in Region 9 (Florida Parishes Human Services Authority) on November 1, 2005 and in Region 10 (Jefferson Parish Human Services Authority) on December 1, 2005. Louisiana ATR next plans to implement in the more urban areas to include the cities of Lafayette, Lake Charles, Monroe, and Houma/Morgan in the final phase to complete statewide implementation.

Target Populations: The Louisiana ATR program targets all residents with special emphasis on women and adolescents with addictions to alcohol, cocaine, heroin, and Oxycontin.

Missouri

Target Area: Statewide

Target Populations: Missouri is expanding clinical treatment and recovery support services for adults, ages 17 and older.

New Jersey

Target Area: Statewide

Target Populations: The New Jersey Access Initiative (NJAI) provides clinical treatment and recovery support services with priority given to residents of all ages who abuse heroin.

New Mexico

Target Areas: City of Albuquerque (Bernalillo County), Santa Fe County, Las Cruces County, Five Sandoval Indian Pueblos.

Target Populations:New Mexico is using ATR funds to serve adults over 18 in four counties and to serve adult (age 18 and over) members of the five Sandoval Indian Pueblos, with particular outreach to women, Native American and Hispanic women, and people exiting from jails or prisons after in-prison clinical treatment.

Tennessee

Target Area:Tennessee is expanding clinical treatment and recovery support services in the Appalachians and other rural areas of Tennessee.

Target Populations : ATR services are provided to adults ages 18 and older with a current or past history of substance abuse or addiction with a focus on individuals who abuse or are addicted primarily to methamphetamine.

Texas

Target Area: The Access to Recovery program is available through participating drug courts in Bexar, Dallas, El Paso, Harris, Tarrant, Travis and Collin counties. The listed courts have entered into signed Memorandums of Agreement with DSHS to participate in ATR.

Target Populations: Clients must be actively involved in either the criminal or civil justice system and be an active participant in a Drug Court. Client referral to the ATR program Assessment Provider will be determined by court staff according to the court's jurisdiction and program guidelines. Client referral to the treatment and/or recovery support provider will be for specific service types and amounts, as authorized on the voucher. Clients must be legal residents of the United States. Eligibility for the ATR Program will end when the Client is discharged from the Drug Court program for reasons deemed appropriate by the Court, or the authorized voucher funds are expended.

Washington

Target Area: Snohomish, Clark, Pierce, Yakima, King, and Spokane Counties.

Target Populations:The State of Washington Access to Recovery (ATR) initiative focuses on providing vouchers for substance abuse clinical treatment and/or recovery support services to low-income individuals in crisis who are involved with child protective services, shelters and supported housing, free and low-income medical clinics, and community detoxification programs.

Wisconsin

Target Area: Milwaukee County

Target Populations: The Wisconsin Wiser Choice ATR Program is implemented in Milwaukee County. The State targets families with children and persons involved in the criminal justice system with substance use/abuse disorders.

Wyoming

Target Area: The Wyoming Access to Recovery Voucher Program's targeted service area is Natrona County. Casper is the largest metropolitan area in Natrona County and the seat of the judiciary. Natrona is the epicenter of the current methamphetamine epidemic in the State.

Target Populations : Wyoming ATR serves adolescents who have been adjudicated through the Wyoming Circuit Court System and their families. The targeted county, Natrona, has the second highest need for clinical treatment services in the State. Natrona County has a circuit court that is fully committed to work with the juvenile population that is targeted for this voucher system.



Last Update: 4/13/2007