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Choosing the correct drug rehab in Massachusetts is often a very confusing and extremely important endeavor. It is important to be well informed in order to choose the correct drug rehab facility in Massachusetts for yourself or a loved one.

Each drug rehab in Massachusetts has a different approach to the recovery process. Take note of what is important to you, and make decisions based on your personal needs. Keep in mind that in Massachusetts there are a multitude of treatment options to choose from: outpatient treatment, in patient treatment, support groups, drug rehabilitation, alcohol rehab, drug treatment programs, sober living, halfway houses, long term treatment, short term treatment, counseling, and many more. An individual can become thoroughly confused by asking a half-dozen recovering alcoholics or drug addicts in Massachusetts how they conquered their abuse of alcohol or drugs; the answers vary although each of them are convincing and emotional. They will cite such diverse approaches as hospitalization, diet, exercise, counseling, sauna's, religion, hypnosis, amino acids and self-help groups. When it comes to successful treatment, only one thing is certain: practically any approach will work for some of the people, some of the time. To put it another way, successful drug rehabilitation is like a designer suit- it's got to be tailor-made for each individual. A great deal of variation exists in the degree of dependence among drug users. The teenager who smokes marijuana three times a week is not as dependent as the thirty year old who has smoked marijuana six times a day for 15 years and has already relapsed after being in two drug rehabilitation centers. It's obvious that these individuals need different approaches to treatment. Similarly, among cocaine users are some who use it in binge fashion, one or two days a month, and others who use it several times each day. Again, different treatment approaches are required for each case.

For those who do not have a long history of drug addiction, an outpatient treatment program might be the correct decision. This form of treatment may be a viable solution for those who have a brief drug addiction history. These individuals might only need the guidance and counseling available though this method of treatment. On the other hand, those who have experienced an extended period of drug addiction, choosing the correct drug rehab program typically means that they should enter into an in patient drug rehab program not located in Massachusetts. The structure, 24-hour support and change of enviornment made available through this type of drug rehab recovery program can be highly effective for those recovering from a long term drug addiction problem. Most drug rehab professionals in do not recommend any one "best" treatment approach, recognizing the many variations among drug and alcohol abusers. In general, the levels of treatment range from simple and behavioral to complex and medical. The person dependent upon drugs or alcohol may have used the chosen substance for so long that he or she has literally forgotten how to cope with the daily challenges of life; how to have a meaningful, drug-free lifestyle; or how to solve the social or psychological problems that prompted the substance abuse in the first place. In these instances, a very comprehensive approach must be prescribed if the individual is to expect any degree of successful recovery. Once stability is achieved, the "clean" or sober individual can take several steps to enhance recovery and avoid relapse. Among the general recommendations are belonging to a group as a support system, having a religious involvement, practicing good health habits; including proper diet, sleep, and exercise, as well as goal planning and self enhancement projects.

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Untitled Document Massachusetts State Facts
Population: 6,379,304
Law Enforcement Officers: 19,350
State Prison Population: 23,200
Probation Population: 44,119
Violent Crime Rate
National Ranking: 18 2004 Federal Drug Seizures
Cocaine: 46.9 kgs.
Heroin: 6.8 kgs.
Methamphetamine: 0.7 kgs.
Marijuana: 84.7 kgs.
Ecstasy: 4 tablets
Methamphetamine Laboratories: 1 (DEA, state, and local)

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Drug Situation: Cocaine and Heroin continue to be the primary drugs of abuse in the state of Massachusetts as Colombian and Dominican traffickers dominate the distribution throughout the state. OxyContin continues to be an extremely popular heroin substitute as well as its use in conjunction with MDMA.

Cocaine: Cocaine is readily available from the gram to kilogram quantities throughout the state. New York is the primary source area, with other source areas to include Florida and the Southwest Border. Cocaine is transported in multi-kilogram quantities via commercial transit, tractor trailers, and vehicles equipped with hidden compartments. It is also imported via mail services. Importers are of Colombian and Dominican origin, with retail distribution among all ethnic groups. Cocaine prices continue to be stable, with slight decreases in purity levels noted. Crack Cocaine is obtained from New York, Florida, Puerto Rico and is converted locally as well. African -American violators and street gang members continue to dominate the drugs’ distribution. Abuse remains widespread and crack continues to be reported as the drug of choice within Boston city limits.

Heroin: High-quality heroin is available from gram to kilogram quantities throughout the state. Historically, New York has been the primary source area, entering by interstate highway via public and privately operated vehicles equipped with hidden compartments. More recently, in the past few years, there has been an increase in heroin seizures where the heroin came directly from a source country. The primary suppliers are of Colombian and Dominican origin, with retail distribution among all ethnic groups. Heroin distribution and use occurs throughout the state and prices remain extremely low at both the wholesale and retail level. Abuse is widespread, with continued reports of heroin overdose deaths and incidences attributed to heroin purity levels routinely exceeding 60%.

Methamphetamine: Methamphetamine has a limited availability in Massachusetts, transported into the area via express mail packages from California. Recent seizures reflect the availability of crystal methamphetamine. Methamphetamine is reportedly abused at “rave” parties by young adults between the ages of 18 to 25; however, individuals in their late 30s to early 40s also abuse it.

Club Drugs: In the state of Massachusetts, MDMA and ketamine are readily available. MDMA is found at rave parties, legitimate nightclubs, and on college campuses across the state. The majority of the MDMA seen in the state originated from couriers traveling by commercial airlines or express mail deliveries from sources in Western Europe and New York. A number of seizures have involved MDMA originating from Canada. Ketamine has been diverted from legitimate sources such as veterinary clinics and abused at legitimate nightclubs across the state, particularly in the greater Boston area. Ketamine seems to be one of several drugs, along with MDMA and GHB that are popular in the “rave” scene. GHB is widely available, particularly in Western Massachusetts.

Marijuana: Marijuana remains readily available in all areas of the state with the majority of product originating in Mexico or the Southwestern United States; however, marijuana of both Colombian and Jamaican origin has been encountered. Personal use quantities of hashish continue to arrive in Boston, MA on flights from the Netherlands and other source countries. The majority of the marijuana is predominantly imported from the southwest border via aircraft, land vehicles, and delivery services. Domestically grown marijuana is found in all areas of Massachusetts, from the extreme western part of the state all the way out to Nantucket Island.

Other Drugs: Oxycodone products continue to be diverted in the state. Percocet, Roxicet and OxyContin are readily available in Massachusetts. Oxycontin, diverted from legitimate distributors, is frequently imported into Massachusetts from Mexico. Traffickers are also diverting OxyContin express mail shipments into the greater Boston area. Well-organized doctor shopping rings forged and/or altered prescriptions and diversion from individuals’ prescriptions are the most commonly found diversion methods in the state. An increasing number of pharmacy burglaries and armed robberies have been attributed to the increase in OxyContin abuse.

DEA Mobile Enforcement Teams: This cooperative program with state and local law enforcement counterparts was conceived in 1995 in response to the overwhelming problem of drug-related violent crime in towns and cities across the nation. There have been 409 deployments completed resulting in 16,763 arrests of violent drug criminals as of February 2004. There have been 16 MET deployments in the State of Massachusetts since the inception of the program: Lynn, Revere, Webster, Springfield, Lawrence, Everett, Fitchburg, Southbridge, Greenfield, Holyoke, Framingham, Worcester (2), Boston (2), and Provincetown.

DEA Regional Enforcement Teams: This program was designed to augment existing DEA division resources by targeting drug organizations operating in the United States where there is a lack of sufficient local drug law enforcement. This Program was conceived in 1999 in response to the threat posed by drug trafficking organizations that have established networks of cells to conduct drug trafficking operations in smaller, non-traditional trafficking locations in the United States. Nationwide, there have been 22 deployments completed resulting in 608 arrests of drug trafficking criminals as of February 2004. There have been no RET deployments in the State of Massachusetts.

Drug Courts/Treatment Centers: Based on information from the 2000 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services, there are 356 substance abuse treatment centers in Massachusetts. There are twenty drug courts across the state.

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Massachusetts Discretionary Funds

Massachusetts Formula Funding	Fiscal Year 2004/05
Massachusetts Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant:		$ 34,255,398
Massachusetts Community Mental Health Services Block Grant:		$ 8,426,142
Massachusetts Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH):		$ 1,413,000
Massachusetts Protection and Advocacy Formula Grant:		$ 511,310

Massachusetts Subtotal of Formula Funding:		$ 44,605,850

Massachusetts Discretionary Funding	Fiscal Year 2004/05
Massachusetts Mental Health		$ 14,289,538
Massachusetts Substance Prevention:		$ 5,643,819
Massachusetts Substance Abuse Treatment:		$ 11,454,516

Massachusetts Subtotal of Discretionary Funding:		$ 31,387,873

Massachusetts Total Mental Health Funds:		$ 24,639,990
Massachusetts Total Substance Abuse Funds:		$ 51,353,733

Grantee: Center for Community Health, Educ & Rsch
Program: AIDS TCE-Service Capacity Bldg in Minority Communities
Congressional District: MA-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 09/29/2006
The Center for Community Health, Education & Research (CCHER) is a Boston based agency serving Boston's large immigrant Haitian community. Traditional health beliefs may preclude Haitians from accepting biomedical explanations of their disease, thereby preventing them from understanding and accepting pharmacological and therapeutic treatment for diseases such as HIV/AIDS and accompanying mental health challenges. CCHER proposes to expand its existing case management model of care for HIV+ Haitians through the following programmatic components: intensive, one-on-one psychotherapy and counseling sessions, group educational training, and integration of mental health messages into other related agency services.

Grantee: River Valley Counseling
Program: AIDS TCE-Service Capacity Bldg in Minority Communities
Congressional District: MA-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 09/29/2006
River Valley Counseling Center (RVCC) will expand mental health services to Latinos and African Americans with HIV/AIDS in Holyoke and Springfield, MA. RVCC will assign clinicians and peer counselors to health centers and social service agencies in the community so that they can be more accessible to clients and fill the unmet need that existing staff cannot meet.

Grantee: Education Development Center, Inc
Program: Suicide Resource Center
Congressional District: MA-04
FY 2004 Funding: : $2,549,550
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
The National Strategy for Suicide Prevention calls for the formation of a National Suicide Prevention Technical Resource Center. Education Development Center, Inc., (EDC), in collaboration with the American Association of Suicidology (AAS), the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), and the Suicide Prevention Advocacy Network (SPAN USA) will develop a National Suicide Prevention Technical Resource Center (NSPRC) to further the implementation of the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention (NSSP) at the national, regional, state, tribal, and local levels. We will 1) provide suicide prevention technical assistance to national, regional, state, tribal, and local organizations, 2) develop and disseminate suicide prevention information, 3) identify, document, and disseminate best practices in suicide prevention, 4) develop and deliver training on suicide prevention topics, and 4) conduct policy activities. The mission of NSPRC is to facilitate the implementation of the goals and objectives of NSSP through the identification, translation, and culturally appropriate delivery of best practices for all aspects of suicide prevention.

Grantee: Massachusetts Mental Health Institute
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children
Congressional District: MA-04
FY 2004 Funding: : $399,998
Project Period: 06/01/2002 - 09/29/2005
The proposed Trauma Center Best Practice Program has a 21-year history of specialty trauma service delivery, education, training, and research, and will specialize in child maltreatment (physical & sexual abuse, and neglect), community violence, and traumatic incident response. It has a long history of collaboration with mental health, social service, juvenile justice and medical systems. Despite the wide array of interventions reported to be available for child exposed to complex trauma no clear clinical consensus has emerged about what constitutes effective treatment. The mission of the Trauma Center is to help develop adequate treatment of these complexly traumatized children by evaluating a range of available treatment modalities in a community setting, and to teach appropriate interventions to fellow professionals, and other caregivers, such as teachers, clergy and law enforcement personnel. We propose a fully integrated model, that incorporates what we have learned about systems issues and service delivery, training, intervention, and evaluation in order to provide community sites with a best practice that can be sustained by the community agenc y itself. Within the intervention piece, our proposed best practice integrates what experts consent and evidence suggests are key components to effective intervention for children adapting to complex trauma - including phase-oriented treatment, attachment, affect regulation, and competency. In addition, in order to ensure cross-cultural and developmental appropriateness, the model utilizes multiple modalities and relies on community input.

Grantee: Education Development Center, Inc
Program: Violence Prevention Coordination Center
Congressional District: MA-04
FY 2004 Funding: : $3,899,921
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
Education Development Center's goal is to strengthen the capacity of CMHS Violence Prevention grantees and prospective applicants to sustain the use of evidence-based strategies for mental health promotion and violence prevention. Through training, on-line learning, site visits and peer exchange, the Center will provide culturally competent consultation in grantees' efforts to serve diverse audience. With input from families and consumers, the Steering Committee and funding agencies will guide the Center' s vision. The Center's structure provides specialized teams of EDC/AIR experts to serve each set of grantees. Technical Assistant Specialists (TAS) will each work closely with sites providing individualized services. Teams will also work with prospective applicants. Every grantee will participate in at least one major substantive event per quarter, a phone or videoconference with multiple sites, or an on-line course or other event. With 3 regional training events and 3 national conferences each year, there will be frequent opportunities for networking and peer learning and for grantees to acquire new knowledge and skills. The newsletter and web site, with a searchable database, will provide grantees direct access to reference materials.

Grantee: National Ctr on Family Homelessness
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children
Congressional District: MA-04
FY 2004 Funding: : $599,983
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2007
To address the unmet trauma-related needs of homeless children and their parents, the National Center on Family Homelessness, the Trauma Center, and other partners will form the National Collaborative for Trauma-Surviving Homeless Children (the Collaborative). The Collaborative will work to increase knowledge, both within and outside the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, about the range of trauma experienced by homeless children and their parents. The project will collaborate in defining best practices for the multiple service systems that touch homeless children and families in the Boston area. In addition, it will develop methods and strategies for increasing access and decreasing barriers to treatment and services. It will also attend to the cultural and linguistic competence of training curricula, assessment tools, intervention manuals, and other knowledge products. To pursue these goals, it will work in three complementary domains: the local area, the Network, and the national level for education, training, and dissemination.

Grantee: National Ctr on Family Homelessness
Program: HRSA Collaboration With CHC
Congressional District: MA-04
FY 2004 Funding: : $299,981
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
The National Center on Family Homelessness (NCFH) and the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies (VIPPS) proposes to establish an Evaluation Center to guide and support the HCH/CMHA Collaboration Project. The Evaluation Center will work collaboratively with the study sites to develop and evaluate new models integrating physical and mental health services for homeless people with serious mental illness and co-occurring disorders. Expert personnel organized into three inter-related teams will staff the proposed Evaluation Center: Evaluation; Data Analysis; and Technical Assistance. Staffing will be diverse and culturally competent and will include current and former consumers of services. The Evaluation Center will develop and implement a cross-site evaluation encompassing both process and outcome components; provide technical assistance to project sites on evaluation design and implementation; help sites integrate data systems; coordinate data collection / management.

Grantee: National Empowerment Center, Inc.
Program: Grants for National Technical Assistance Ctrs on Consumer/Peer-Run Programs
Congressional District: MA-05
FY 2004 Funding: : $483,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/30/2007
The National Empowerment Center will develop a Recovery Consortium consisting of nine other consumer-run organizations to participate in the transformation of the mental health system to one based on recovery through the development of consumer-run organizations and involvement of consumers in policy development and training. In this manner, the Consortium will carry out the vision of the New Freedom Commission of creating a ''future when everyone with a mental illness will recover." Four experienced, statewide consumer organizations (California, Maryland, Ohio, and Vermont), an expertly led consumer-run research group (Program in Consumer Studies & Training, Missouri Institute of Mental Health) , and four emerging Multi-ethnic Recovery Networks representing each of the major ethnic groups, have agreed to be principal members of such a Consortium. The NEC will coordinate the operation of the Consortium, which will focus on recovery-based policy development and training, and the cultivation and sustenance of consumer-run organizations. Consumer leaders in the Consortium will nurture emerging leaders through sharing expertise, role modeling, and mentoring. The Consortium will use two new Internet tools, iVocalize and threaded discussion forums, to meet its synchronous and asynchronous collaborative needs. iVocalize allows for inexpensive teleconferencing and web casting through the Internet. Threaded discussion groups allow for collaborative work groups to develop training materials and tool kits.

Grantee: Melrose Alliance Agst Violence
Program: Youth Violence Prevention
Congressional District: MA-07
FY 2004 Funding: : $150,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2006
The proposed project is a comprehensive youth violence prevention program that targets middle school youths age's 11 14 enrolled in grades 6 8 at the Melrose Veterans Memorial Middle School (approximately 800 students) in Melrose, Massachusetts. The project proposes to intervene during the critical middle school years, when violence related and other risky behaviors often begin, and community resources and services are sorely lacking. The four Project goals are based on a community wide approach and address two major risk factors and one primary protective factor for youth violence prevention. The goals are to: 1. Expand and strengthen the community coalition to assess and address the needs of middle school youth 2. Identify middle school youth who have witnessed domestic violence in the home and to provide them with appropriate resources for support; 3. Reduce the incidence of teen dating violence and bullying among middle school youth; and 4. Promote healthy adolescent development by ensuring every middle school student is connected to at least one caring, consistent adult.

Grantee: Boston Public Health Commission
Program: Youth Violence Prevention
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2004 Funding: : $149,701
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2006
The goals of this project are: 1) Extablish and build the Project Advisory Group responsible for overseeing this project and mobilizing the Lewis School Community. This group will develop a comprehensive community approach to implement violence prevention strategies and engage new resources; 2) Improve skills of teachers and parents to effectively promote social skills, anger management, empathy, impulse control and problem solving of students through training in Second Step curriculum, an evidence based intervention, and practice concepts learned; 3) Provide weekly lessons and reinforcement to Lewis School students in three essential social competencies identified in Second Step: empathy; impulse control and problem solving; and anger management; and 4) Provide and increase the availability of case management services to students and families identified in need.

Grantee: Boston University
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2004 Funding: : $599,921
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2007
The Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University and partnering organizations will focus on developing innovative and effective treatments for adolescent PTSD and Substance Abuse (TSSA). Partnering organizations are (a) the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, (b) the Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center, and (c) six Local Clinical Practice Sites where large numbers of individuals suffering from this unique combination of problems are seen. This proposal will engage local clinical practice sites and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network Centers to develop, evaluate, and disseminate state-of-the-art treatments for TSSA in adolescents.

Grantee: Human Services Research Institute
Program: BG - TA For Evaluation
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2004 Funding: : $800,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006
Using sound evaluation science and participation by diverse stakeholders, such as State, county, and local mental health systems, consumers, families, and practitioners, the Evaluation Center at HSRI delivers technical assistance to States and the mental health community to facilitate and disseminate high quality evaluations for services planning and implementation. The Evaluation Center is comprised of 6 programs: Consultation, Knowledge Assessment, Multicultural Issues in Evaluation, Toolkits and Materials, Topical Networks & Web, and Trainings and Conferences. Through these programs, the Evaluation Center disseminates information and knowledge about evidence-based practices, develops evaluation materials and toolkits, provides evaluation-related training adaptable to a variety of settings, provides media for ongoing discourse, and tailors consultation and assistance to specific evaluation projects. The programs also address issues in the public mental health field, such as (1) the emphasis on evidence-based practices and the concerns generated among consumers and providers using other practices, 2) the consumer movement's desire to focus on recovery in outcome assessment and quality-o-f-care measurement, 3) the concern with providing mental health care in a culturally competent manner to reduce health disparity, 4) the desire to use evaluation information to plan services that are both evidence-based and cost-effective, and 5) the concern with measuring quality improvement activities.

Grantee: Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Program: Children's Services
Congressional District: MA-09
FY 2004 Funding: : $1,115,000
Project Period: 09/30/1999 - 08/31/2005
The Worcester Communities of Care Program will include culturally competent individualized wraparound supports involving coordination and development of resources from families, neighborhoods, schools, primary medical care, mental health care, child welfare, special education, juvenile justice, and public health services. Utilizing blended funding streams, the program will provide early intervention for 8-13 year-old youth with SED. A 5-year prospective outcome study will be conducted to assess academic achievement, out-of-home placements, court involvement, substance abuse and teen pregnancy, among other variables.

Grantee: Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Program: Alternatives to Restraint & Seclusion SIGs
Congressional District: MA-09
FY 2004 Funding: : $237,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
The Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (DMH), in partnership with consumers, advocates, and University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) researchers will implement the National Association of Mental Health Program Director National Technical Assistance Center (NTAC) model of restraint and seclusion (R/S) reduction as a best practice across 11 DMH inpatient facilities. This grant will support DMH efforts to coordinate a statewide R/S reduction based on a common mission and philosophy, and bolster current efforts, accelerating an already aggressive program to minimize the use of R/S in DMH inpatient psychiatric facilities. A participant-oriented evaluation of the implementation process, developed by the UMMS team in consultation with the project leadership, will be employed to understand the process (i.e., effectiveness of the planning, program implementation, gaps between program plans and program delivery) and outcomes (i.e., reduction of R/S, use of R/S reduction tools and assessment procedures, and organizational and consumer roles in the reduction of R/S) of the three-year project. Continuous feedback of relevant evaluation data to stakeholders will inform planning and operations regarding reductions in R/S.

Grantee: Boston Medical Center Corp
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children
Congressional District: MA-09
FY 2004 Funding: : $599,964
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 09/29/2005
Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), in partnership with the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (NCPTSD), propose continued funding for the Center for Medical and Refugee Trauma (CMRT), a Category II Intervention Development and Evaluation Center within the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). The CMRT, established in the first cohort of funding in October 2001, seeks as its primary goal the development of effective interventions for two types of child traumatic stress: Â· Children who have experienced traumatic stress related to injuries, illnesses, and stressful medical procedures (referred to as Medical Trauma) and, Â· Children who have experienced traumatic stress related to war, displacement, and being a refugee (referred to as Refugee Trauma). As a Category II, Intervention Development and Evaluation Center, the CMRT has a leadership role within the NCTSN in developing and disseminating products that enhance service to children who have experienced medical and refugee trauma. The CMRT sees its main role as providing leadership within the NCTSN through its leadership in various committees, work groups and task forces within the NCTSN, through its direct collaborative activities with a number of other NCTSN centers, and through direct work conducted at the CMRT.

Grantee: Latino Health Institute, Inc.
Program: AIDS TCE-Service Capacity Bldg in Minority Communities
Congressional District: MA-09
FY 2004 Funding: : $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 09/29/2006
The Latino Health Institute (LHI's) Proyecto Futuro will enhance the quality of life and improve the physical and mental health status of Latinos living with HIV/AIDS by expanding the existing capabilities of LHI services to provide effective mental health services to the affected population. The services to be provided will be culturally competent and will include community outreach, psychosocial assessments, treatment/ service planning, case management, peer counseling, office-based and home-based mental health counseling.

Grantee: Brigham and Women's Hospital
Program: Elderly Mental Health Outreach
Congressional District: MA-09
FY 2004 Funding: : $893,819
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
A National Technical Assistance Center (NTAC) on Mental Health and Aging will be established to address the unmet need for mental health services among this population. The NTAC seeks to facilitate the adoption and implementation of evidence-based practices at 9 Group 1 sites and be a resource for other programs and consumer groups nationally. The NTAC?s approach will be to combine the collaborative model developed for the SAMHSA-funded Primary Care Research in Substance Abuse and Mental Health for the Elderly (PRISMe) multi-site study, with the model developed by Donald Berwick an the Institute for Health Care Improvement. The IHI model assumes that quality improvements in the delivery of mental health care require concurrent changes to be effected at the consumers, provider, organizational, systems, and policy levels. The structure and process for delivering technical assistance to the Group 1 sites involves responding rapidly to requests from Group 1 sites, as well as providing opportunities for joint-learning among Group 1 sites, expert work groups, consumers, and the GPO. It also involves synthesizing knowledge about EBPs into toolkits and manuals, tailored to the cultures served, and training rapid feedback front front-line users. Our dissemination strategy involves working collaboratively with the PRISMe network, the Group 1 sites, our federal partners, provider, and consumer organizations and to the public through the web and mass media. Our evaluation program is a forum for assessing and monitoring our work. A collaborative team will manage the NTAC including the Harvard/JSI Coordinating Center for the PRISMe study, 7 of the 11 PRISMe study sites, the Dartmouth Center on Aging, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, leading provider and consumer organizations, and over 70 multidisciplinary and multiethnic consultants. The NTAC will build upon PRISMe and will create new services and systems that will help older adults.

Grantee: Massachusetts State Dept of Pub Health
Program: Emergency Response
Congressional District: MA-09
FY 2004 Funding: : $99,500
Project Period: 06/01/2003 - 05/31/2005
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health Bureau of Substance Abuse Services (BSAS) and Department of Mental Health (DMH) will conduct a joint effort to develop mental health and substance abuse All-Hazard emergency preparedness and response systems to be integrated into statewide, regional and community emergency response infrastructures. This will include preparedness and response of community mental health and substance abuse service providers. The enhanced capacity proposed for this project comprises: revising the current mental health emergency management and response plan, developing an "All- Hazards" response plan for the state substance abuse system, increasing statewide crisis counseling and substance abuse response capacity, ensuring that added response staff have access to training, and pursuing specific inclusion of disaster mental health and substance abuse issues, plans, and processes within the statewide, regional, and local levels of the emergency management and response infrastructure.

Grantee: Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants
Congressional District: MA-09
FY 2004 Funding: : $142,200
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
This project will continue the State's effort to build infrastructure to collect data and report the remaining Mental Health Block Grant Uniform Reporting System Developmental Measures. Grant efforts will focus on (1) local provider training to improve data quality, (2) implementation of web-based technology using DS2K + data standards to collect, report, and improve accessibility of data, and (3) strengthening internal and external database linkages. Project outcomes will include consistent data definitions, timely capture of data, improved measure of service outcomes and client change, improved data quality, and enhanced ability to analyze and report on developmental measures such as school attendance, school performance, and involvement with the criminal justice system. The project outcomes will be evaluated based on the ability to produce the data required for URS and other desired reporting. The project will also be evaluated in terms of its ability to produce data that is useful to and is used by system stakeholders.

Grantee: Town of Brookline
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $93,220
Project Period: 10/01/2003 - 09/30/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: City of Cambridge
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $100,000
Project Period: 10/01/2003 - 09/30/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: Wayside Youth & Family Support Ntwk, Inc
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $75,000
Project Period: 10/01/2000 - 09/30/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: Childrens Health Program, Inc
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $99,974
Project Period: 10/01/2002 - 09/30/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: Franklin Regional Council of Governments
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $100,000
Project Period: 10/01/2002 - 09/30/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: Lexington Public Schools
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $75,000
Project Period: 10/01/2001 - 09/30/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: Girls Incorporated of Lynn
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $100,000
Project Period: 10/01/2003 - 09/30/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: Healthy Malden Inc
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $100,000
Project Period: 10/01/2003 - 09/30/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: Hampshire Educational Collaborative
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $99,997
Project Period: 10/01/2002 - 09/30/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: Bay State Community Services, Inc
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $100,000
Project Period: 10/01/2003 - 09/30/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: City of Somerville
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $75,000
Project Period: 10/01/2004 - 09/30/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: Community Counseling of Bristol County
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $99,566
Project Period: 10/01/2003 - 09/30/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: Town of Winchester Massachusetts
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $66,123
Project Period: 10/01/2000 - 09/30/2004
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: Action for Boston Community Development
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services
Congressional District: MA-00
FY 2004 Funding: : $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Women in Transition: Health and Hope (WITHH), is a multiagency reduction program to combat HIV and substance abuse among women of color in Boston. It will provide intensive, ongoing risk reduction interventions for 1,000 women a year through group education, short-term case management, individual counseling and service referrals. The project focuses on women in substance abuse treatment, active substance users, newly discharged ex-offenders and women visiting incarcerated partners. It has two main goals: Risk Reduction: slow the spread of HIV infection through interventions designed both to increase knowledge of HIV risk reduction and to help women incorporate this knowledge into action to reduce their HIV risk. Service Integration: reduce the impact of HIV and substance abuse through collaborative activities that link at-risk women to health and social services to support health and self-sufficiency

Grantee: Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Program: Cooperative Agreement for Ecstasy & Other Club Drugs Prevention Services
Congressional District: MA-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $292,356
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health, in cooperation with Boston Public health Commission, the Fenway Community Health Center, the AIDS Action Committee and the Fenway Institute (who will do the evaluation) plans a Massachusetts Club Drug Initiative that will provide club drug universal prevention interventions at the community level, and targeted selective prevention interventions for those at highest risk for club drug use, men who ahve sex with men and are on the "club" or "internet" drug scenes. Funding will be used to build upon and expand the curent infrastructure created several years ago by the above coalition in response to the growing methamphetamine crisis. The modlels used will be an adaptation of Communites Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol and the Public Opinion Leader programs.

Grantee: Light of Restoration Ministries
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 4 Services
Congressional District: MA-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $345,369
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The Light of Restoration Ministries (LRM) in Holyoke, Massachusetts has received a 5 year grant to provide integrated substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention services to minority and underserved populations. This program is a collaboration between the Center for Education Prevention and Action (CEPA) and the Holyoke Community Technology Center (HCTC). The major goal of the program is to increase access to substance abuse prevention and HIV prevention services for traditionally undeserved women, i.e., commercial sex workers, women of color, homeless women, women who are intravenous drug users or partners of intravenous drug users, and other women at risk, in the Holyoke area.

Grantee: Girls Incorporated of Holyoke
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 3 Services
Congressional District: MA-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $349,912
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
Project PUERTA is a collaborative project of SAP and HIVP providers serving at-risk Latino youth -with a focus on Latina girls - In Holyoke, Massachusetts. "Project PUERTA: Peers Utilizing Education and Resources Towards Action" integrates culturally-relevant SAP services, HIVP services, health care access, and positive youth development programming. This project coordinates wide range of prevention interventions intended to build resiliency, to increase protective factors and to provide Holyoke's youth population with alternatives to the ubiquitous risk factors that threaten their health and well being.

Grantee: Girls Incorporated of Holyoke
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District: MA-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $89,022
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: Northern Berkshire Community Coalition
Program: Drug Free Communities Mentoring
Congressional District: MA-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $62,692
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2005
The grantee s to support and encourage the development of new or expansion of existing community anti-drug coalitions that are focused on the prevention and treatment of substance abuse in the new or expanded coalition's community.

Grantee: Northern Berkshire Community Coalition
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District: MA-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $75,000
Project Period: 10/01/2001 - 09/30/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: Martin Luther King Jr Community Center
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District: MA-02
FY 2004 Funding: : $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: New North Citizens Council Inc
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 2 Expansion Cooperative Agreements
Congressional District: MA-02
FY 2004 Funding: : $63,636
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 03/31/2005
New North Citizens' Council will develop a continuum of HIV prevention and substance abuse that begins where the problem is most evident and most intractable, on the streets and in high-risk neighborhoods of Springfield. The Council will develop a new HIV Prevention Drop-In Center in the "Six Corners" area of Springfield, in addition to strengthening linkages with substance abuse services at the current North End HIV Prevention Drop-In Center. The proposed HIV Prevention Drop-In Center will provide critical HIV prevention services as well as increase access to substance abuse services for those with or at-risk for HIV infection. The priority sub-populations for the proposed project are: crack cocaine users, predominantly African-American and predominantly Latino injection drug users. In order to maximize the resources available to people with HIV and substance abuse disorders, the integration of treatment services with HIV prevention will occur in accessible community-based settings.

Grantee: Stanley Street Treatment & Resources Inc
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District: MA-03
FY 2004 Funding: : $99,250
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: UMass Memorial Health Care
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District: MA-03
FY 2004 Funding: : $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: New Bedford Prevention Partnership
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District: MA-04
FY 2004 Funding: : $99,954
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: Caribbean U-Turn, Inc
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 2 Youth Services Cooperative Agreements
Congressional District: MA-04
FY 2004 Funding: : $63,636
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 03/31/2005
The Leadership Training Program of Caribbean U-Turn targets youth of Caribbean descent between the ages of 12-18 who live primarily in the Mattapan section of Boston. The lives of these youth contain many factors that put them at increased risk for substance abuse, HIV infection and other health issues. Caribbean U-Turn is the only drop-in center in Mattapan, and is particularly unique in Massachusetts for its focus on youth of Caribbean descent. Caribbean U- Turn's existing HIV/AIDS and substance abuse prevention program aims to hire new staff who will increase program structure and add new components to the program's effectiveness. The youth will attend Life Skills Education Classes (LSE) and various group activities, such as sports activities, music concerts, tutoring sessions, or community service. The LSE classes will, in part, increase knowledge, increase communication skills, negotiation skills and information regarding HIV/ AIDS and substance abuse.

Grantee: Wayside Youth & Family Supp Network
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services
Congressional District: MA-05
FY 2004 Funding: : $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2008
Wayside Youth and Family Support Network proposes to initiate a one-year project of Community Action Planning for Substance Abuse Prevention (SAP) and HIV Prevention (HIVP) in Public Housing. During this period, Wayside will conduct a community needs assessment, select science-based SAP and HIVP curricula, and build infrastructure to begin programming in several public housing developments, targeting youth ages 9 to 19, and their families in public housing developments in Somerville and Waltham, Massachusetts. These developments house dramatically higher rates of minority and immigrant populations than do the cities as a whole. These communities have experienced rapid demographic change. From nearly all-white populations in the early 1980's, the developments have become multi cultural communities where 69-percent of the residents are newcomers to the United States (45-percent Haitian, 16-percent Latino, and 8-percent Asian). Only 31-percent are native-born and white. Single women head 82-percent of families in Somerville Housing; and 75-percent of residents in these developments are under 21. The citywide statistic of youth age 9 to 21 is 15-percent of the total population (Census, 2000). Waltham Housing statistics are closely comparable with Somerville, with approximately 33-percent of residents being Latino and 33-percent Haitian. Housing residents in both cities have identified drug dealing and its use as the biggest problem in the community, particularly, crack cocaine, heroin and OxyContin. The recent overdose deaths of five youth in the Somerville area have moved residents to look for help in preventing more fatalities. Most disturbing is the recent rise in the popularity of heroin use, due to low cost and easy supply. This resurgence in intravenous drug use has brought higher risk of HIV/AIDS exposure to a community already at high risk.

Grantee: Family Service, Inc.
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 4 Services
Congressional District: MA-05
FY 2004 Funding: : $172,757
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The Family Service, Inc. in Lawrence, MA has received a 5-year grant to provide integrated substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention services to minority and underserved populations. The program will work with adult women and service providers from the community, to initiate the implementation of an integrated substance abuse prevention and HIV prevention intervention aimed at adult Latino women.

Grantee: Lowell Community Health Center
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services
Congressional District: MA-05
FY 2004 Funding: : $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The grantee had a HIV/AIDS prevention planning grant to serve the Cambodian community in Lowell, Mass. They involved the community in this process and developed a community-based prevention model for adolescents ages 12-18 in their community. They identified key community partners such as the Un. of Mass. at Lowell and the Middlesex Comm. College, Big Brothers and Sisters and the Health and Addictions Research group. They trained 15 peer youth leaders and will now deliver the model to the community.

Grantee: Health and Education Services Inc
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District: MA-06
FY 2004 Funding: : $98,804
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: The General Hospital Corp
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District: MA-07
FY 2004 Funding: : $99,196
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: Greater Lawrence Family Health Center
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District: MA-07
FY 2004 Funding: : $90,431
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: Cambridge Public Health Commission
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District: MA-07
FY 2004 Funding: : $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: Caritas St Elizabeth's Medical Center
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2004 Funding: : $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: Economic Development and Industrial Corp
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2004 Funding: : $92,131
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: ROCA, Inc
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2004 Funding: : $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Roca, Inc. proposes to address the alarming connection between substance abuse, HIV/AIDS risky behavior, and violence in minority communities, resulting from a number of inter- related social problems and conditions, including: high teen pregnancy rates, school drop out rates, and unemployment rates, and low self esteem and personal understanding of life choices and accountability. The model program, the Roca Holistic Prevention Project will serve 150 high risk minority youth and young adults, ages 16-24, who exhibit numerous risk factors and few protective factors and reside in Chelsea, Revere, East Boston and Lynn, MA. This innovative project will reach the highest risk minority youth and young people and result in measurable and positive changes in personal behavior, substance abuse and HIV- related knowledge and attitudes among the target population through an integrated curriculum, multifaceted interventions targeting participant needs and a reduction of risk factors and an increase in specific protective factors affecting participants' lives. The Project will build community capacity to provide HIV/ AIDS and SA prevention by engaging project participants, community residents and leaders, and area professionals in the Project. The project will serve the highest risk and hardest to reach youth and young adults with high incidence rates of substance abuse and HIV infection, through effective, integrated substance abuse & HIV prevention services. The target population includes: runaway and homeless youth and young adults, individuals re-entering the community from the juvenile and criminal justice system, street and/or gang involved youth, pregnant and parenting teens, individuals with a history of sexual abuse, and immigrant populations living away from home for extended periods of time and others identified in the RFR.

Grantee: Women of Color AIDS Council, Inc
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 3 Services
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2004 Funding: : $350,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
The Women of Color AIDS Council's "Women Connecting Affecting Change" provides culturally competent substance abuse and HIV prevention services to African-American and Hispanic Women ages 17 and above, at-risk for HIV and those living with HIV/AIDS in Boston's Dorchester area. The target population includes substance abusers (IDUs and crack cocaine users mostly), commercial sex workers, teenagers who have left school without graduating and others. The goals of the program are to make at-risk women, particularly young women, more aware and knowledgeable of HIV/AIDS risks, particularly as they relate to substance use and abuse; to reduce the number and frequency of risk-taking behaviors; to provide participants with tools to stay clean and sober and pursue goals that will help them to achieve continued sobriety.

Grantee: Roxbury Comprehensive Cmty Hlth Ctr Inc
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2004 Funding: : $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: Brigham and Women's Hospital
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 3 Services
Congressional District: MA-09
FY 2004 Funding: : $340,793
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
Fuerza Latina (or Latino Strength) is a social recovery, leadership development, and community-organizing program, designed to address the personal experiences and social context of impoverished men, women, and youth with a history of alcohol and drug abuse in the inner city neighborhood of Roxbury. This innovative program provides support through three distinct but overlapping phases: Personal and Social Recovery, Prevention Leadership Development, and Community Organizing. They use community outreach efforts to distribute information, change attitudes, provide counseling, and address the broader conditions that drive drug-related harm and the spread of HIV.

Grantee: South Boston Action Council Inc
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District: MA-09
FY 2004 Funding: : $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: Tapestry Health Systems
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: MA-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To provide outreach, treatment readiness education, HIV counseling and testing, case management, comprehensive medical intervention, substance abuse/mental health services, and referral services to Latina/Latino injection drug users. The project will serve 330 individuals through enhanced services, 462 through expanded services, and 950 through outreach over the grant period.

Grantee: Tapestry Health
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: MA-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Tapestry Health proposes to enhance the range of HIV prevention services the agency currently provides to high risk men in greater Springfield, Massachusetts. A total of 1,470 men will be served over the five-year project period.

Grantee: Western Massachusetts Trng Consortium
Program: Recovery Community Service
Congressional District: MA-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $324,999
Project Period: 04/30/2003 - 04/29/2007
The Franklin County Recovery Community project will build a peer-driven, peer led recovery community in the Greater Franklin County, one of the most poor, most rural and least populated counties in Massachusetts with a high rate of alcohol and drug use disorders and will expand on the success of the SAMHSA sponsored Franklin County Women's Research Project, which will serve as a foundation for creating a recovery informed community.

Grantee: Servicenet, Inc
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment
Congressional District: MA-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $534,846
Project Period: 06/01/2003 - 05/31/2006
The Integrated Sheltering and Treatment Program (ISTP) addresses the complex needs of homeless adults struggling with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders through a three-part system of care. A Continuous Treatment Team provides integrated treatment and case management. A Stabilization Program offers a safe environment to begin recovery. A community-wide system of agencies coordinates care and enhances communication.

Grantee: New North Citizens Council Inc
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: MA-02
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
Multidisciplinary approach to substance abuse and universal coverage using early detection, community-based and home outreach, improved systems coordination and communication, and an integrated team approach of care to reach all Puerto Rican families and individuals dealing with substance abuse. The project expects to facilitate the access of 750 clients into substance abuse treatment, which yields 9,720 contacts over the grant period.

Grantee: City of Fall River Health Department
Program: Targeted Capacity Expansion
Congressional District: MA-03
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 05/01/2002 - 04/30/2005
The city of Fall River Health Department, in partnership with SSTAR, a local treatment agency, will enhance existing services by implementing screening at primary healthcare sites, providing case management and brief interventions, and increasing the access to mental health, substance abuse, HIV/Hepatitis C and other healthcare services to improve treatment outcomes.

Grantee: Stanley Street Treatment and Resources
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: MA-03
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Stanley Street Treatment and Resources (SSTAR) will assist these adolescents and women to achieve a better likelihood of entering and/or sustaining drug treatment by expanding our capacity to outreach and support individual's treatment readiness through our HIV/Hepatitis/STD, mental health and MEDI-Call referral and medical access programs, and through collaboration with the local Family Planning Clinic to reach women who may have no other access to services due to issues of access or payment.

Grantee: Stanley Street Treatment and Resources
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment
Congressional District: MA-03
FY 2004 Funding: : $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006
Stanley Street Treatment & Resources, Inc (SSTAR) of Fall River, Massachusetts proposes to implement the Short Term Adolescent Treatment (STAT) Project that utilizes the Motivation Enhancement Therapy/Cognitive Behavioral Therapy -5 sessions (MET/CBT -5). SSTAR expects to have 340 adolescents complete treatment during the three-year project. Schools, juvenile courts, community social service organizations as well as the programs that are internal to SSTAR will all be educated about the Project, and will refer adolescent clients and their families for treatment.

Grantee: Henry Lee Willis Community Center
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: MA-03
FY 2004 Funding: : $328,284
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The Willis Center's Project WORLD (Women's Out Reach for Life Development) will address the critical public health concern of increasing HIV infection among minority women in Worcester. Project WORLD will enhance outreach efforts geared specifically to women.

Grantee: Henry Lee Willis Community Center
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: MA-03
FY 2004 Funding: : $355,940
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 09/29/2006
To enhance and expand the Peer Driven Intervention Program.

Grantee: Community Healthlink, Inc
Program: Pregnant/Post-Partum Women
Congressional District: MA-03
FY 2004 Funding: : $447,043
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006
Community Healthlink, Inc. (CHL), which currently operates residential substance abuse treatment programming for pregnant/postpartum women and their dependent children proposes to expand services to pregnant and postpartum women and their children through the development of a distinct Afro centric component with specialized outreach and clinical treatment and support services designed to be culturally relevant, gender specific and family inclusive. This program sited in Worcester, Massachusetts will serve 35 women annually

Grantee: Henry Lee Willis Community Center
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment
Congressional District: MA-03
FY 2004 Funding: : $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
This program will address the needs of person 16 years of age and older who are chronically homeless and have mental illness and/or physical disability and substance abuse problems.

Grantee: CAB Health & Recovery Servs Inc
Program: Adult Juvenile and Family Drug Courts
Congressional District: MA-06
FY 2004 Funding: : $386,114
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
Juvenile Treatment Drug Court (jurisdiction over substance abusing juveniles who have been delinquent): There will be an expansion and enhancement of the Essex County Juvenile Drug Court. The program will include a comprehensive substance abuse service array, access to mental health treatment, and programs that offer mentoring, experiential learning, and community service placements. Approximately 80 non-violent youth offenders will be served each year.

Grantee: CAB Health & Recovery Servs Inc
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment
Congressional District: MA-06
FY 2004 Funding: : $188,343
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006
CAB Health and Recovery Services, Inc. (CAB) will implement the MET/CBT 5 intervention in its Juvenile Diversion and general adolescent outpatient treatment located in the City of Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts. CAB, the agency responsible for implementing the MET/CBT 5 intervention, will serve approximately 150 adolescents a year under this grant. The target population will be youth ages 12 to 21 who use alcohol and/or marijuana.

Grantee: Project Cope, Inc
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: MA-06
FY 2004 Funding: : $342,190
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To expand and enhance existing services by integrating HIV/AIDS and substance abuse treatment services to high risk women and older youth. The program anticipates providing substance abuse and HIV services to 470 individuals during the grant period. The program will use Targeted Capacity Expansion TCE/HIV to target injection drug users, adolescents, and men who have sex with men from the Latino population.

Grantee: Institute for Health & Recovery
Program: SAMHSA Conference Grants
Congressional District: MA-07
FY 2004 Funding: : $50,000
Project Period: 07/01/2004 - 06/30/2005
The conference will present best practices for working with individuals with substance abuse problems or co-occurring disorders who are victims or perpetrators of domestic violence.

Grantee: Boston Public Health Commission
Program: Young Offender Reentry Program (YORP) 2004
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2008
The program, called the Young Offender Reentry and Recovery Network, will provide community-based substance abuse treatment and wrap-around reentry services for 132 young men per year, as they are released from the House of Corrections in Boston.

Grantee: Boston Public Health Commission
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To enhance and integrate the quality and intensity of services based on existing service needs and lessons learned from past experience. The program will provide a Women's HIV Prevention Leadership Training Institute, brief group-based trauma treatment, stress reduction program, and a spirituality curriculum to women and women and children from African-American and Latina backgrounds.

Grantee: Boston Public Health Commission
Program: Strengthening Access and Retention (SAR)
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2004 Funding: : $200,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006
The ultimate, long-term goal of Staff Training on Access and Retention (STAR) proposed by the Boston Public Health Commission is to improve access to treatment and retention in substance abuse treatment African American (AA) and Hispanic (H) women.

Grantee: Boston Public Health Commission
Program: Pregnant/Post-Partum Women
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
The grant will fund Entre Familia, a department-based licensed program that provides comprehensive services based on a culturally-and gender-specific family focused model for Latinas. Expansion of the program will provide it with the resources to serve approximately 30 women and their infants and children per project year.

Grantee: Casa Esperanza Inc
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment
Congressional District: MA-08
FY 2004 Funding: : $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
This program will develop aftercare services for persons of the Latino population in an existing residential treatment program.

Grantee: SPAN, Inc
Program: Young Offender Reentry Program (YORP) 2004
Congressional District: MA-09
FY 2004 Funding: : $463,170
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 08/29/2008
The Youth Entering Society Services Project will provide services to 700 young adult ex-offenders over four years. The program will provide substance abuse, vocational and case management services.

Grantee: Latino Health Institute, Inc.
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: MA-09
FY 2004 Funding: : $499,999
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To expand services to Latino injection drug users in Boston. The program will address specific needs of the target populations and the concomitant health concerns including HIV/AIDS, STDs and Hepatitis B. The program will provide education, skills training, support to reduce risk of HIV infection, targeted outreach and clinical case management to adolescents, women, and women and their children from Latino populations.

Grantee: Latino Health Institute, Inc.
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: MA-09
FY 2004 Funding: : $474,746
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To expand substance abuse treatment and HIV/AIDS prevention services by adding outreach services to target adolescents, injection drug users, men who have sex with men, sexual partners, and women with their children from the African-American populations. LHI proposes to serve a total of 450 individuals by the end of the grant period.

Grantee: Massachusetts State Dept of Pub Health
Program: State Data Infrastructure
Congressional District: MA-09
FY 2004 Funding: : $99,960
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) Bureau of Substance Abuse Services (BSAS) will use SDI funds to update their state data infrastructure to collect data and report performance measures for the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment (SAPT) Performance Partnership Grant (PPG) in a manner that: (1) supports both SAMHSA's and BSAS performance measurement requirements, (2) is HIPAA compliant and (3) eases administrative burden by employing an e-Government, web-based solution. BSAS proposes to build on its experience with two important SAMHSA initiatives, TOPPS I and II and the CSAT HIV Planning Grant for HIV/Addiction Services Integration (HHASI in MA.

Grantee: Boston Medical Center Corp
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment
Congressional District: MA-09
FY 2004 Funding: : $558,882
Project Period: 06/01/2003 - 05/31/2006
Working in collaboration with the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (MDMH), this program will provide integrated mental health treatment, substance abuse treatment, primary care and ultimately to promote residential stability for homeless individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders.

Grantee: Barnstable County
Program: TCE Rural Populations
Congressional District: MA-10
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
The grant expands capacity for substance abuse treatment for women living in a rural community on Cape Cod. Three hundred thirty women will receive services at two domestic violence and sexual assault agencies.

Grantee: Gosnold, Inc.
Program: Adult Juvenile and Family Drug Courts
Congressional District: MA-10
FY 2004 Funding: : $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
Adult Treatment Drug Court (jurisdiction over substance abusing adults who have committed certain crimes): This program will enhance the treatment drug court known as Barnstable Action for New Directions by providing support for a team of clinicians and case managers. Case managers will access services to address problems of substance abuse, job skills training, employment, education, housing, entitlement access, medical referral, family and significant other relationship. A continuum of treatment will be available. It is anticipated 230 adult, non-violent offenders will be served over three years.

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