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Each drug rehab in Almont, Michigan 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 Almont 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 Almont 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 Almont. 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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Michigan State Facts
Population: 9,990,817
Law Enforcement Officers: 23,228
State Prison Population: 67,100
Probation Population: 170,967
Violent Crime Rate
National Ranking: 14 2004 Federal Drug Seizures
Cocaine: 124.6 kgs.
Heroin: 9.7 kgs.
Methamphetamine: 1.5 kgs.
Marijuana: 6,535.0 kgs.
Ecstasy: 4,873 tablets
Methamphetamine Laboratories: 3 (DEA, state, and local)

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Drug Situation: Cocaine, Heroin and Marijuana continue to be the primary drug threats in the state of Michigan. Narcotic traffickers of varying degrees are supplied with controlled substances from source cities and areas from around the country. In addition, traffickers of Russian, Israeli and Middle Eastern descent, as well as Vietnamese Criminal Syndicates are involved in the importation and distribution of MDMA, with the Metropolitan Detroit area serving as a transshipment point. Much of the MDMA is obtained through sources of supply based in Toronto, Ontario. Detroit-based Middle Eastern Trafficking groups distributing large quantities of pseudoephedrine prior to the successes of Operation Mountain Express III and Northern Star have now focused their efforts on the distribution of MDMA.

Cocaine: Within Michigan, the primary emphasis continues to be placed on targeting major cocaine distribution and transportation organizations. The larger metropolitan areas of Michigan continue to experience high availability in cocaine trafficking and abuse. Wholesalers utilize the major cities as distribution centers for smaller cities. Wholesale distribution cells operating in these metropolitan areas are managed and directed by command and control cells operating along the Southwest Border, New York, Los Angeles and Miami.

The primary ethnic groups that dominate cocaine trafficking are large Mexican and Dominican drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) with local distribution cells and links to Colombian cartels, and local African American distribution organizations that typically have Mexican sources of supply. A large majority of the cocaine transported to Michigan by these Mexican and African American organizations is transported in personal vehicles equipped with traps and/or concealed within the legitimate cargo on large semi tractor-trailers.

In purity levels between 60% and 90%, cocaine remains the primary drug threat in Michigan.

Heroin: Heroin is widely available throughout the Detroit area and the more densely populated areas of Michigan. Heroin destined for the Michigan region continues to originate from different parts of the world. Large quantities of heroin are imported from South America, Mexico and Africa. Southeast and Southwest Asian heroin are prevalent in the metropolitan Detroit area. However, the DMP shows that South American heroin is the most abundant type of heroin in the Detroit area. Major heroin traffickers in Michigan are mainly Nigerian, African American and Hispanic. The City of Detroit continues to serve as both a point of consumption and a transshipment point to other communities in Michigan and Ohio.

Methamphetamine: Methamphetamine continues to be available in the State of Michigan with the western and northern counties experiencing an increase in the amount of locally produced and Mexican methamphetamine. A recent seizure of ½ kilogram of methamphetamine in Detroit supports the assertion that methamphetamine is being transported from the western part of the state into the Metropolitan Detroit area increasing the availability of methamphetamine.

MDMA and Other Club Drugs: The international border between the United States and Canada, particularly in the metropolitan Detroit area, serves as a conduit for the transshipment of predatory and club drugs like MDMA and GHB. Fueled by the vigorous trafficking of Russian, Israeli, Middle Eastern and Vietnamese criminal syndicates, large amounts of MDMA enter the U.S. distribution market through ports of entry covered by our Division’s AOR. While a large portion of the MDMA available in U.S. cities is clandestinely manufactured in Western Europe and the Benelux countries (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg), an even greater proportion is trafficked through our international border with Canada. Much of this MDMA is obtained from sources of supply based in Toronto, Ontario. MDMA also enters the U.S. drug market from Western Europe via frequent non-stop flights into the Detroit Metropolitan Airport.

Recent intelligence indicates that Detroit-based Middle Eastern trafficking groups, distributing large quantities of pseudoephedrine prior to the successes of Operation Mountain Express III and Northern Star, have now focused their efforts on the distribution of MDMA. Chaldean (Iraqi Christians) criminal organizations operating in the metropolitan Detroit area frequently utilize couriers to smuggle multi-thousand quantity dosage units of MDMA in personal vehicles across the border into the United States. MDMA is then distributed at local rave parties and College and University campuses in Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky. Our Division has experienced an increase in MDMA use and abuse due to the large volume of Colleges and Universities operating within our area of responsibility.

Current MDMA investigations in our Division reveal that multi-thousand dosage unit quantities of the drug are being transported into our Division from New York, NY. Russian criminal syndicates controlling and operating in the metropolitan New York area are supplying Russian distributors in our area of responsibility. These organizations are utilizing traditional concealment methods such as personal vehicles equipped with traps and couriers on aircraft, buses and Amtrak trains to transport the MDMA into our Division.

MDMA distribution cells, operating in the greater metropolitan Detroit area have direct ties to a large-scale MDMA manufacturing plant in the Netherlands. Intelligence indicates that the organization has ties to large-scale drug traffickers and criminal syndicates throughout the world. The organization has direct access to multi-millions of MDMA tablets being manufactured at the clandestine laboratory in the Netherlands.

Marijuana: Marijuana continues to be the most commonly used and readily available illicit drug throughout the state of Michigan. Marijuana is popular among every racial and ethnic group in the region and is particularly popular among high school students. Canadian indoor grown marijuana smuggled to the Division is often known as British Columbia Bud (B.C. Bud). This particular type of marijuana has a much higher tetrahydrcannabinol (THC) content than domestic and Mexican produced marijuana and demand has grown significantly as a result. The increased demand has resulted in significant increases in marijuana seizures occurring at ports of entry within Michigan. Multi-hundred pound seizures of Canadian grown marijuana transported in tractor-trailers, trash haulers, automobiles and railroad cars have occurred with increasing and alarming frequency. Considering that the ambassador Bridge at the Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario port of Entry (POE) is the busiest commercial land border entry port in the world, it is no wonder that detecting marijuana commingled with legitimate goods such as earth worms, futon mattresses, metal lockers and trash, is a daunting task.

The smuggling of marijuana from Canada, via Michigan, into the United States via watercraft has been suspected without substantiation for many years and has resulted in a new method of concealment for marijuana traffickers. The ease of travel without detection across the narrow body of water that separates several areas of Ontario and Michigan cannot be overly expressed. The large number of pleasure watercraft registered in Michigan and the province of Ontario provide substantial opportunity for legitimate travel, recreation and also smuggling.

Although Canadian BC Bud is finding its way into mainstream drug markets in Michigan, Mexican and African American trafficking organizations, with Mexico-based sources of supply and ties to the Southwest Border, are responsible for the lion share of marijuana distributed in Michigan. These organizations continue to utilize traditional trafficking routes and concealment methods to transport marijuana into Michigan. Recent trafficking trends and seizures indicate that they are responsible for distributing multi-thousand pound quantities on a monthly basis.

African-American trafficking organizations transport marijuana into our Division from the Southwest Border utilizing personal vehicles, semi-trucks and tractor-trailers. Two recent multi-ton seizures revealed that the organization was commingling the marijuana with legitimate shipments of produce. This is a common trend utilized by Mexican drug trafficking organizations operating along the Southwest Border.

A recent 4.8 million-dollar seizure in Michigan supports the assertion that large, multi-ton shipments of marijuana are destined for Michigan from the Southwest Border on a monthly basis. In this instance, the money seized was from a large-scale Mexican trafficking group with direct links back to a major Mexican marijuana drug trafficking organization operating out or Mexico. The money seized has been linked to multiple, large multi-ton shipments of marijuana, which were transported to Michigan and other cities in the mid-west.

OxyContin: OxyContin demand is increasing throughout the state. The Michigan Automated Prescription System (MAPS) program indicates that the state’s OxyContin prescriptions have increased by 31%. Michigan is ranked 30th for it OxyContin comsumption per capita. Straits Area Narcotic Enforcement (SANE) Task Force, located in Cheboygan County, Michigan reported that 90% of the problems encountered is related to OxyContin. The number of charges for OxyContin abuse has increased. In 2002 there were 37 charges and in 2003 there were 60. OxyContin abusers are obtaining this drug through break-ins and robberies, doctor shopping, stealing from legitimate patients, selling parts of legitimate prescriptions, home break-ins and forged prescriptions.
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 ten MET deployments in the State of Michigan since the inception of the program: Pontiac, Ypsilanti, Lincoln Park/Melvindale, Inkster, Muskegon, Benton Harbor, Mt. Clemens, Flint, Lansing, and Detroit.

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 Michigan.

Special Topics HIDTA: In 2002, based on drug trafficking trends, specifically the increased production of methamphetamine in the western portion of Michigan, additional funding was secured from ONDCP to expand HIDTA. This expansion was comprised of the addition of the five counties of Allegan, Genesee, Kalamazoo, Kent, and Van Buren. The HIDTA is now known as the Michigan HIDTA and its area of responsibility includes the cities of Grand Rapids, Flint, Kalamazoo, and Detroit accounting for approximately 60% of the population of Michigan.

The Michigan HIDTA is responsible for supplying funding and assistance to twenty-two initiatives, of which seventeen are federal, state and local drug task forces. These initiatives have been designed to address specific drug-related threats in their areas of responsibility. The Michigan HIDTA also funds an Intelligence Support and Deconfliction Center (ISDC) located in Detroit. The mission of the ISDC is to provide law enforcement agencies with timely deconfliction and intelligence support through the sharing of multi-agency information related to international and domestic narcotics trafficking, violent crimes, and terrorists activities.

Currently, the following agencies participate in the Michigan HIDTA: Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service, Bureau of Immigration & Customs Enforcement, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Marshall Service, Michigan State Police, Detroit Police Department, Grand Rapids PD, Kalamazoo PD, Flint PD, Sheriff’s Departments from the nine HIDTA counties, Michigan National Guard, Michigan Office of Drug Control Policy and many other local law enforcement agencies.

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Michigan Discretionary Funds

Michigan Formula Funding						Fiscal Year 2004/05
Michigan Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant:							$ 58,281,367
Michigan Community Mental Health Services Block Grant:							$ 12,952,196
Michigan Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH):							$ 1,649,000
Michigan Protection and Advocacy Formula Grant:							$ 900,242
Michigan Subtotal of Formula Funding:							$ 73,782,805
Michigan Discretionary Funding						Fiscal Year 2004/05
Michigan Mental Health							$ 937,166
Michigan Substance Prevention:							$ 7,668,612
Michigan Substance Abuse Treatment:							$ 5,468,408
Michigan Subtotal of Discretionary Funding:							$ 14,074,186
Michigan Total Mental Health Funds:							$ 16,438,604
Michigan Total Substance Abuse Funds:							$ 71,418,387

Grantee: Western Michigan University
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children
Congressional District: MI-06
FY 2004 Funding: : $385,851
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2007
The Southwest Michigan Children's Trauma Assessment Center (CTAC) serves traumatized children through comprehensive assessments and subsequent interventions. To address the potential combined harmful effects of trauma and prenatal alcohol exposure CTAC offers a unique neurodevelopmental trauma assessment that includes fetal alcohol assessment and diagnosis. Following the assessment CTAC offers family meeting to discuss assessment results, pharmacological consultations in home occupational therapy interventions, participation in school meeting, and court testimony. CTAC will build on its current services and will: (1) develop school models that maximize the learning potential and improve social functioning for traumatized children, (2) provide extensive training of diverse professionals, in order to strengthen child responsive systems of care for children, and (3) develop an alexithymia instrument for children.

Grantee: Association for Children's Mental Health
Program: CMHS Statewide Family Network Grants
Congressional District: MI-08
FY 2004 Funding: : $60,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
The Association for Children's Mental Health project will target children in Michigan with serious emotional disturbance and their families. It will improve the youth and families' skills and knowledge, and encourage participation as an agent of system change, through the provision of training, education and information, and improved and expanded partnerships with regional mental health agencies.

Grantee: JARC
Program: CMHS 2004 EARMARKS
Congressional District: MI-09
FY 2004 Funding: : $149,115
Project Period: 07/12/2004 - 06/11/2005
LifeLines provides mental health support services and long-term case management for adults with developmental and related disabilities who are unfunded and underfunded by the public mental health system. Without significant support, this vulnerable population is at high-risk of exploitation, homelessness and encounters with law enforcement that can result in psychiatric hospitalization or jail. Project activities will include case management and advocacy to coordinate available services and entitlements, mental health supports to help participants reach self-identified goals, and assistance with all aspects of daily living, including personal care, medication and medical care oversight, transportation, assistance with budgeting, shopping, cooking, safety and problem solving.

Grantee: Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation
Program: Youth Violence Prevention
Congressional District: MI-15
FY 2004 Funding: : $200,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2005
This grant will support community-wide collaborative efforts to address youth violence in the Southwest Detroit Community. The purpose of this project is to provide a continuum of services, to include early intervention and detection, referral, assessment, counseling, case managment, and aftercare services for targeted youth and their families in the Southwest Detroit community. The major goals of this program are: 1. To enhance the collaboration, such as identification and engagement of potential collaboration participants. 2. Develop planning and goal setting activities, and build commitment and consensus among collaboration partners. 3. Develop data collection, assessment, and evaluation activities, such as assessing the scope of youth problems and community resources and evaluating effectiveness of implemented programs. 4. Improve communication and dissemination activities, such as media campaigns, newsletters, or other communications with community groups. 5. Develop resources to improve the capacity for collaboration, implementing services, or sustaining activities and service programs.

Grantee: Subst Abuse Council of Grtr Battle Creek
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $63,380
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: Bay Medical Center
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $52,615
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: Latino Family 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: Clark Associates, Inc
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $99,995
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: Empowerment Zone Coalition
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: Ottawa Area Intermediate School District
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $99,500
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: Western U.P. Subst Abuse Coord Agency
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: Pathways to Healthy Living
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $75,000
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: Rochester Auburn Hills Cmnty Coalition
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $99,965
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: Ausable Valley Community Mentl Hlth Svcs
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $61,063
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: Troy Cmty Coalitn for Prev of D&A Abuse
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $75,000
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: District Health Department No. Two
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: Child & Fmily Svs of the Upper Peninsula
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District: MI-01
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: Saginaw County Dept of Public Health
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District: MI-04
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: Adult Well-Being Services
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 3 Services
Congressional District: MI-08
FY 2004 Funding: : $271,597
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
The Older Adult Substance Abuse Prevention (SAP) and HIV Prevention (HIVP) Initiative is a three-pronged effort consisting of prevention education for African-Americans (over age-50) and the multi-disciplinary service providers who serve them in Detroit and Wayne County. Lay Education, Substance abuse and HIV prevention will be provided for three distinct groups: 1) African-Americans aged 50 -64; 2) African-Americans aged 65+; 3) Multidisciplinary professionals who serve older African-Americans. All SAP and HIVP will be provided at locations where the target populations gather, e.g., senior centers, churches, housing facilities, recreation centers, etc.

Grantee: Offce of the Governor, State of MI
Program: Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants
Congressional District: MI-08
FY 2004 Funding: : $2,350,965
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants (SPF SIG)-Michigan The Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants are used to advance community-based programs for substance abuse prevention, mental health promotion, and mental illness prevention. The SPF SIG implements a five-step process known to promote youth development, reduce risk-taking behaviors, build on assets, and prevent problem behaviors. The five steps are: (1) conduct needs assessments; (2) build state and local capacity; (3) develop a comprehensive strategic plan; (4) implement evidence-based prevention policies, programs and practices; and (5) monitor and evaluate program effectiveness, sustaining what has worked well. These grants will allow the programs to provide leadership, technical support and monitoring to ensure that participating communities are successful. The success of the grants will be measured by specific measurable outcomes, among them: abstinence from drug use and alcohol abuse, reduction in substance abuse-related crime, attainment of employment or enrollment in school, increased stability in family and living conditions, increased access to services, and increased social connectedness. The Michigan Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant will support and enhance efforts to identify, coordinate and leverage resources to address prevention challenges. A crosscutting theme in this effort will be enhancing the effectiveness of prevention services through the increased use of evidence-based strategic planning models and intervention strategies.

Grantee: Michigan Department of Community Health
Program: State Incentive Cooperative Agreements
Congressional District: MI-08
FY 2004 Funding: : $2,967,318
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
The Michigan State Incentive Grant Program will build on an existing science-based prevention structure that addresses youth, alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) challenges. It will strengthen an existing state level planning mechanism and the regional substance abuse delivery system through the identification, coordination, leveraging, and redirection of prevention resources.

Grantee: Michigan Department of Community Health
Program: Prevention of Meth and Inhalant Use
Congressional District: MI-08
FY 2004 Funding: : $349,942
Project Period: 03/01/2004 - 02/28/2007
The goal of this grant is to enhance and strengthen the capacity and capability of the Michigan Methamphetamine Control Strategy Task Force and, therefore, enable our state to employ a statewide multi-agency infrastructure for the purpose of planning and implementing strategies effective at preventing, reducing or delaying the use or spread of methamphetamines in high risk communities in the state of Michigan. The Task Force was formally convened in September 2002, by the Michigan Department of Community Health, Office of Drug Control Policy (MDCH/ODCP), and consists of a group of leaders from various disciplines across the state, to further develop a statewide strategy and implement programming aimed at attacking methamphetamine use and production.

Grantee: AIDS Consortium of Southeastern Michigan
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 2 Expansion Cooperative Agreements
Congressional District: MI-11
FY 2004 Funding: : $63,636
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 03/31/2005
The proposed Ujima Program targets African American youth, ages 12-18, who attend Highland Park High School. The chosen intervention models, Reconnecting Youth Program, and Healthy Oakland Teens (HOTS), have proven effective in impacting troubled youth and will be used during the implementation phase of the Ujima Program. The program's objective are to 1) increase self-esteem, 2) decrease drug involvement, 3) perceive peer norms regarding substance abuse use, 4) decrease positive attitudes regarding substance abuse using youth, 5) decrease sexual risk behaviors, 6) increase positive perceived peer norms regarding safer sex options, 7) decrease positive attitudes regarding sexually active youth, and 8) increase pro-social peer bonding/social support for healthier life choices. Through the achievement of these objectives, documentation on how social marketing techniques, long used as a means of including target populations in the design and implementation of HIV prevention programs, can be effective in impacting perceived peer norms and behaviors regarding substance abuse.

Grantee: TriCmty Coaltn-Brkly Huntngtn Wds&Oak Pk
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District: MI-12
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: Wayne State University
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services
Congressional District: MI-15
FY 2004 Funding: : $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Wayne State University in Detroit, MI has received a 1 year planning grant to develop and improve the infrastructure in minority communities to provide integrated substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention services. The grantee will work with high risk African-American females ages 13 to 21, who live in the metro Detroit area. This will be accomplished by assessing the needs in the community and collaborating with community agencies that now focus on substance abuse prevention and HIV prevention services. A strategic plan will be developed that integrates both of these services and is culturally appropriate to the minority community they serve.

Grantee: Migrant Health Promotion Inc
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 2 Youth Services Cooperative Agreements
Congressional District: MI-16
FY 2004 Funding: : $63,636
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 03/31/2005
Informate for Farmworker Teen Health provides coordinated substance abuse and HIV prevention services to adolescent farm workers and their communities at three sites in Michigan. The program targets both female and male farm workers, ages 9-17 residing in approximately seven counties in Michigan. The main objective of Inf?rmate, "inform yourself," is to train teen farm workers in order to provide peer-based substance abuse and HIV prevention interventions in their under served communities. Each year, eighteen trained Teen Health Aides will complete over 3,000 health education contacts including one-on-one education, group prevention activities, Teen Theater Troupe performances, bilingual community newsletters, prevention poster contests, and on-site HIV testing and counseling. At the end, the goal of this program will have fostered linkages between farm worker communities and local health providers, AIDS organizations, and substance abuse treatment facilities, and will have changed the knowledge, behaviors and attitudes about substance abuse and HIV prevention among the target population.

Grantee: Child and Family Services
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment
Congressional District: MI-08
FY 2004 Funding: : $245,490
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006
The New Focus project will integrate the MET/CBT 5 model into current substance abuse treatment programming with the objective of serving 65, 85, and 100 adolescents in years one, two, and three, respectively. Throughout the funding period, service delivery will emphasize systems integration, family involvement, and cultural competence in order to successfully engage and retain youth in treatment. Youth in need of a more intensive intervention will receive additional care through the MET/CBT 7 model.

Grantee: Oakland Family Services
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment
Congressional District: MI-08
FY 2004 Funding: : $222,421
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006
In this project, Oakland Family Services will add MET/CBT5 to the continuum in order to add an evidence-based, cost effective treatment option to serve youth presenting with marijuana abuse/dependence and/or alcohol abuse/dependence (early phase) and their families. Oakland Family Services has five sites across Oakland County and has been delivering substance abuse treatment services since 1972. Specialized substance abuse services include: Outpatient/Intensive Outpatient (OP/IOP) developmentally-specific Adolescent services, OP/IOP gender-specific Women's services, and culturally specific Hispanic Outpatient services. Culturally-specific Arabic substance abuse treatment services are in the process of being developed and added now.

Grantee: Oakland County
Program: TCE Innovative Treatment
Congressional District: MI-09
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
Culturally sensitive substance abuse treatment project aims at reducing the impact of substance abuse on Hispanic individuals, families and adolescents through the implementation of two evidence-based treatment modalities: Brief Strategic Family Therapy and Cognitive behavioral Therapy.

Grantee: City of Pontiac
Program: Targeted Capacity Expansion
Congressional District: MI-09
FY 2004 Funding: : $488,505
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
To reduce infant mortality and the incidence of drug-exposed babies, to keep families intact, and to achieve sustained participant sobriety. This project will provide comprehensive and intensive substance abuse treatment and case management services for pregnant women with dependent children.

Grantee: Wayne County Dept. CFS
Program: CSAT 2004 EARMARKS
Congressional District: MI-13
FY 2004 Funding: : $347,935
Project Period: 07/15/2004 - 07/14/2005
Wayne County Adult Drug Court in collaboration with Wayne County Department of Children and Family Services proposes to refer to treatment 25 opioid dependent offenders for a comprehensive program using Buprenorphine.

Grantee: Self Help Addiction Rehab (SHAR, Inc.)
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: MI-13
FY 2004 Funding: : $240,500
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The SHARP Reintegration Project will provide coordinated substance abuse treatment, education, relapse prevention and case management services to African American males who are chemically dependent and at risk for or test positive for HIV/AIDS upon release from prison. Funding will support an expansion of 7 new beds at the SHARP Program (the SHAR HIV/AIDS Reduction Program), allowing an additional 21 HIV positive addicts to be served annually. The project will be administered by Self Help Addiction Rehabilitation (SHAR) Inc., a therapeutic community located in Detroit, Michigan. SHAR has been providing substance abuse treatment to the indigent population since 1969, and currently provides residential, outpatient, and aftercare services to more than 1,000 people each year.

Grantee: Self Help Addiction Rehab (SHAR, Inc.)
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: MI-13
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To provide integrated substance abuse treatment, education, and case management services to African-American males who are chemically dependent and at risk for or test positive for HIV/AIDS. Fourteen new treatment slots will be created for intravenous drug users and men who have sex with men.

Grantee: Detroit Public Health Department
Program: Recovery Community Service
Congressional District: MI-13
FY 2004 Funding: : $324,965
Project Period: 04/30/2003 - 04/29/2007
The Detroit Health Department's Bureau of Substance Abuse (the Bureau) is proposing "The Detroit Recovery Project", as a facilitating organization for the Partnership for a Drug Free Detroit (the Partnership). The Project was designed and will be undertaken by the recovery community through the Partnership. It will support the 3,000 persons who annually complete residential treatment in Detroit, providing a network of services for sustained, quality sobriety. The Partnership is a coalition of more than 500 recovering individuals and 100 stakeholder organizations dedicated to creating a network of resources and supports for recovering individuals and their families throughout the community.

Grantee: Southwest Counseling & Dev Svcs
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment
Congressional District: MI-13
FY 2004 Funding: : $389,428
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
This project will provide an integrated system of care for homeless individuals with substance abuse and mental illness disorders.

Grantee: Personalized Nursing LIGHT House
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: MI-13
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
A comprehensive, integrated program will provide services to 150 African-Americans and men who have sex with men with co-occurring substance use and HIV disorders.

Grantee: Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: MI-15
FY 2004 Funding: : $459,164
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The purpose of the project is to conduct a service expansion and enhancement of culturally appropriate outreach, HIV services and substance abuse pre-treatment and treatment programs that target "high- risk" substance abusing Hispanic/Latino adolescents that reside in the Southwest Detroit community.

Grantee: Community Health Awareness Group
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: MI-15
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To provide expanded substance abuse, outreach, counseling, testing, case management, jail and community advocacy, and support group services to persons at risk of HIV infection with the dual purpose of reducing substance use and reduce risky sexual behaviors. The target population are African-American men who inject drugs and have sex with men, non-injecting men who have sex with men, and women who inject drugs.