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
WrightStateUniversity, 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
WashingtonUniversity, 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.
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.