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SAMHSA News Bulletin

Date: 9/19/2008
Media Contact: SAMHSA Press Office
Telephone: 240-276-2130

SAMHSA Awards Approximately $105 Million to Community Substance Abuse and HIV/AIDS Treatment Services for Traditionally Underserved Communities

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) today announced that approximately $105 million in projected total funding over the next five years will be awarded to community service providers across the country offering substance abuse and HIV/AIDS treatment services.  The awards were announced by Beverly Watts-Davis, senior advisor to the SAMHSA administrator, during her presentation at the 2008 United States Conference on AIDS in Miami, Florida. 

 

The purpose of the Targeted Capacity Expansion Program for Substance Abuse Treatment and HIV/AIDS Services is to enhance and expand substance abuse treatment and/or outreach/pretreatment services in conjunction with HIV/AIDS services in traditionally underserved communities. Traditionally underserved communities include African-American, Latino/Hispanic, and other racial or ethnic communities affected by substance abuse and HIV/AIDS.

 

“These grants will help get treatment services to populations which have in many cases been traditionally underserved by conventional health care systems,” said SAMHSA Acting Administrator Eric Broderick, DDS, MPH. “This program offers a critically important tool for effectively addressing the inter-related problems of substance abuse and HIV/AIDS in these communities.”  

 

Grant funds will be used by community service providers to implement evidence-based treatment practices encompassing services such as case management, substance abuse counseling, HIV testing, mental health referrals, and HIV risk reduction education.  In addition, grant funds will be used for community outreach efforts designed to inform individuals on how they can lower their risks for substance use and HIV infection.     

 

Forty nine community programs have been selected to receive funding through these grants over the next five years.  Awardees providing treatment services will average about $450,000 in funding each year, while programs providing community outreach services will average about $350,000 per year. The actual award amounts may vary, depending on the availability of funds and the activities proposed by the awardees.  The funds are awarded and administered by SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. 

 

The grant awardees and their first-year grant amounts are:

                                                 

 

Grant Awardee

First-year grant amount

EAC, Inc., Hempstead, N.Y.

$450,000

Univ. of Illinois at Chicago

$349,826

Operation PAR, Pinellas Park, Fla.

$450,000

Casa Esperanza, Inc., Roxbury, Mass.

$449,999

Substance Abuse Foundation of Long Beach, Calif.              

$449,767

Exponents, Inc., New York City

$400,000

The Research Foundation of SUNY, Albany, N.Y.

$450,000

Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio

$421,425

Mazzoni Center, Philadelphia

$380,402

Community Education Group, Inc., Washington, D.C.

$349,538

Preferred Family Healthcare, Inc., Kirksville, Mo.

$450,000

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

$450,000

Promesa, Inc., New York City

$439,258

Matrix Institute on Addictions, Los Angeles

$449,566

Aletheia House, Birmingham, Ala.

$450,000

Gateway Community Services, Jacksonville, Fla.

$450,000

Hope Center, Inc., Lexington, Ky.

$450,000

South Central Community Mental Health Ctrs., Inc., Bloomington, Ind.

$450,000

Friendship House, San Francisco

$450,000

Special Service for Groups, Inc., Los Angeles

$450,000

Healing with Care, Inc., Durham, N.C.

$449,915

Mental Health Center of Denver, Colo.

$450,000

Tri-County Community Health Council, Inc., Newton Grove, N.C.

$450,000

Native American Center, Inc., Oakland, Calif.

$450,000

Gaudenzia Inc., Norristown, Pa.

$450,000

Lower Eastside Service Center, Inc., New York City

$450,000

Lorain Urban Minority Alcohol & Drug Abuse Program, Lorain, Ohio        

$450,000

New Jersey AIDS Alliance, Newark, N.J.

$349,999

Safe Haven Outreach Ministry , Washington , D.C.

$450,000

Latino Commission on AIDS, Inc., New York City

$349,839

New Orleans AIDS Task Force, New Orleans

$450,000

Community Health Awareness Group, Detroit

$450,000

The Fortune Society, Inc., Long Island City, N.Y.

$450,000

Colorado Judicial Department, Denver

$414,113

St. John’s Riverside Hospital, Yonkers, N.Y.

$436,000

Seabrook House, Inc., Seabrook, N.J.

$400,000

Comprehensive AIDS Program of Palm Beach, Riviera Beach, Fla.

$450,000

 

Gandara Medical Health Center, Inc., West Springfield, Mass.

$449,998

New Horizons Community Service Board, Columbus, Ga.

$450,000

Saint Vincent ’s Catholic Medical Center of New York City

$450,000

Hektoen Institute, Chicago

$450,000

La Clinica del Pueblo, Washington, D.C.

$417,114

Urban Renewal Corp., Inc., Newark, N.J.

$450,000

Coastal Bend AIDS Foundation, Corpus Christi, Tex.

$450,000

The Catalyst Foundation for AIDS Awareness, Lancaster, Calif.

$350,000

AIDS Alabama, Inc., Birmingham

$450,000

Project CHOICES/Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

$450,000

Watts Healthcare Corporation, Los Angeles

$350,000

Team Management 2000 Inc. Englewood, N.J.

$374,840

                                                          

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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