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Each drug rehab in Cesar Chavez, Texas 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 Cesar Chavez 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 Cesar Chavez 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 Cesar Chavez. 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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Texas State Facts
Population: 21,325,018
Law Enforcement Officers: 63,703
State Prison Population: 210,900
Probation Population: 443,682
Violent Crime Rate
National Ranking: 11 2004 Federal Drug Seizures
Cocaine: 15,036.7 kgs.
Heroin: 207.0 kgs.
Methamphetamine: 673.5 kgs.
Marijuana: 460,672.3 kgs.
Ecstasy: 137,752 tablets
Methamphetamine Laboratories: 321 (DEA, state, and local)

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Drug Situation: The greater Dallas/Fort Worth area serves primarily as a drug distribution and transshipment area. Drug smuggling and transportation are dominated by major Mexican trafficking organizations. These groups are poly-drug organizations smuggling methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine and marijuana to the Dallas/Fort Worth area for distribution in the Eastern, Southeastern, and Midwestern United States. The Division's central location, and its physical and cultural proximity to the Mexican Border, provide a natural advantage for drug distribution/transshipment throughout the United States.

Due to its geographical location and extensive transportation infrastructure, the Houston Field Division continues to be a primary transshipment area for the bulk importation of most major categories of drugs to include marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine. Drug smuggling and illicit transportation are primarily dominated by Mexican, Colombian and Dominican poly-drug trafficking organizations.

The El Paso Division area-of-responsibility covers 54 counties in West Texas and New Mexico, comprising 778 miles, which is approximately 40% of the U.S./Mexico Border. The Division has 117 agents, who cover an area that includes 18 Ports-of-Entry (POE) and USBP Checkpoints, 6 of which are in New Mexico, in addition to an estimated minimum of 80 illegal crossing points. Some of these locations are over 100 miles from our offices.

This area of the Southwest is unique because of our location on the U.S./Mexico border. El Paso and its sister city, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, comprise the largest metropolitan area on the border between the U.S. and Mexico. Nearly 2 million people inhabit the El Paso/Juarez borderplex. Over 1.2 million people reside in Juarez. Daily, over 100,000 people cross the POEs into El Paso. Since the formation of NAFTA, commercial truck crossings from Mexico into West Texas and New Mexico have risen 11.7%, from 666,225 trucks in 1999 to 744,407 in 2002. Pedestrian traffic has risen 55%, from 6.2 million in 1999 to 9.6 million in 2002. A reduction in the amount of private vehicle traffic was seen in 2002, due to heightened security after September 11, 2001. However, 15.3 million vehicles still crossed our borders in 2002. During a normal day, a vehicle can wait up to one hour to cross the border. During periods of heightened security each private vehicle is inspected.

The introduction of NAFTA had a major impact on the El Paso/Juarez area. The people crossing the international bridges on a daily basis and the large transportation industry available in this area (air, bus, trucking and rail) provide drug traffickers with innumerable drug and money smuggling opportunities. Rural, desert-like areas in New Mexico and West Texas, whether they be large ranches or National Park land backing up to the border, or some easily crossed places along the Rio Grande offer tremendous smuggling opportunities to drug trafficking organizations.

West Texas serves as the gateway for narcotics destined to major metropolitan areas in the U.S., which is commonly referred to as the El Paso/Juarez Corridor. Sources-of-supply (SOS) from Mexico move significant quantities of marijuana and cocaine through the POEs using major east/west and north/south interstate highways that crisscross through the El Paso Division. These highways provide the traffickers with transportation routes for distribution of drugs throughout the country. Drug traffickers also obtain warehouses in El Paso for stash locations and recruit drivers from the area to transport the narcotics to various destinations throughout the U.S. Additional threats to the region are the shipments of controlled substances via commercial vehicles, including aircraft, buses, and by Amtrak rail. EL Paso is also considered a hub for significant amounts of drug proceeds being laundered through small businesses.

The Alpine, Texas Resident Office covers 22,609 miles, 315 of which are directly on the Southwest Border. This area is largely rural and sparsely populated and includes the Big Bend Corridor, a transshipment route for drugs entering the U.S. from Northeast Mexico en route to Midland/Odessa and other cities in the U.S. Criminal organizations based in Chihuahua, Mexico maintain command and control elements in the Midland/Odessa area to the north, and in the border towns of Presidio and Redford to the south. Higher echelon members of the criminal organizations are often extended family members, making penetration of those organizations extremely difficult.

The Mexican Government is building 4-lane "La Entrada al Pacifico" highway (95% complete) which will serve as a northeast/southwest trade route from the port city of Topolobampo, Sinaloa, Mexico, through the Presidio, Texas POE, intersecting 3 major east-west Interstates: I-10, I-20, and I-40. It is estimated that as much as 30 % of the truck traffic will be diverted from California and El Paso POEs to Presidio. This highway begins at a deep-water Pacific Ocean port that is over 500 miles closer, and much less congested than the Port of Los Angeles. This completed route will save up to four shipping days for goods moving between the Pacific Rim countries and Texas.

Additionally, the South Orient Railroad (purchased by the State of Texas in 2001), was leased for 40 years to Nuevo Grupo, Mexico, and in the near future is expected to provide not only daily passenger train service but also freight service between Mexico and the U.S.

Cocaine: North Texas is a distribution and transshipment area for cocaine that is distributed via passenger vehicles and tractor-trailers to destinations in the Midwestern, Northern and Eastern U.S. Intelligence indicates that organizations operating on the East Coast are interested in setting up operation in the greater Dallas area in order to obtain reliable supplies of cocaine at a lower price than what they pay on the East Coast. The Houston Division is a major transshipment, distribution and consumption center for Colombian cocaine. The narcotics are either shipped directly to Texas or transshipped through Mexico. Illicit transporters favor the exploitation of the commercial trucking industry to move bulk (multi-hundred kilogram) quantities of Colombian cocaine through the Houston Division. Smaller loads are routinely seized from privately owned vehicles or from couriers utilizing busses or the airlines. The El Paso/Juarez corridor serves as a transshipment point for cocaine to various locations in the U.S. Seized loads range from 50-800 pounds. Cocaine is the drug of choice among users in New Mexico and the availability is high. The El Paso/Juarez corridor is the route primarily used to transport cocaine to Albuquerque and is distributed to other parts of the State from there. Cocaine is transported through New Mexico by MDTOs at an increasing rate. Multiple kilogram quantities are routinely seized from commercial trucks, public transportation and private vehicles. The most common seizures occur when couriers are interdicted on public transportation with two to three kilograms of cocaine carried on their body. Cocaine is also readily available for distribution throughout New Mexico in gram to ounce quantities for local consumption. Local law enforcement authorities consistently rank cocaine and crack cocaine distribution and use as their number one drug problem.

Crack: Throughout the metropolitan areas of Dallas and Fort Worth, crack cocaine remains popular and easily attainable. The Dallas metropolitan area serves as the primary distribution point for crack to outlying areas in North Texas as well as the states of Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Crack is readily available throughout the Houston Division. It is produced locally. Crack is trafficked by local organizations along the I-10 corridor in east Texas to western Louisiana. There is ample availability of "crack" cocaine in El Paso, where its use is considered low to moderate. In Midland, Texas, crack cocaine use and distribution is at a level that is considered dangerous to the quality of life. The crack cocaine abuse is a primary concern to both local and federal law enforcement agencies in the Midland/Odessa area. Crack cocaine is readily available throughout New Mexico, but is most prevalent in urban areas. The majority of the crack available comes from powder cocaine supplied by MDTOs to local crack distributors who then convert the powder cocaine into crack. Ethnic gangs are the primary distributors of crack cocaine in urban areas. It poses the greatest threat to school children. Street level distributors can be found in all social and economic layers of the community. Of special concern is the high level of violence associated with crack cocaine traffickers.

Heroin: Mexican black tar (MBT) heroin remains the primary heroin threat in North Texas. MBT heroin is readily available throughout North Texas. Based on intelligence, the greater Dallas Fort Worth area is a distribution point for MBT heroin shipped to the Eastern, Southeastern, and Midwestern United States. Analysis of MBT heroin seizures indicates an overall rise in purity of 22% when comparing FY 2002 MBT seizures to FY 2001 MBT heroin seizures. Over the past year, intelligence indicates an increase in the availability of Colombian and Southwest Asian (SWA) heroin in the greater Dallas area. Mexican black tar and brown heroin are routinely seized in south Texas. In recent years, the Houston Field Division has been identified as a transshipment point for kilogram quantities of Colombian heroin destined for the east coast. Small quantities of Asian heroin are sporadically encountered in south Texas, smuggled in via courier or seized from the mail. Within the last year, there has been a noticeable increase in the availability and purity of Mexican heroin in south Texas. Between August and November of 2002, a number of fatal overdoses were documented in the Laredo and Corpus Christi areas. These deaths have been attributed to the ingestion of high purity Mexican heroin. Mexican black tar and brown heroin are routinely seized at the POEs in El Paso County. Black tar heroin has long been available in this region from sources in the Mexican States of Durango and Chihuahua. Heroin is most commonly smuggled in secret compartments in private vehicles and concealed on persons. The heroin is usually carried across the border by couriers; however, lately a developing trend has been seen where heroin distributors will cross the border with their supply. Heroin availability has shown a steady increase over the past five years as evidenced by the increase in kilogram seizures and a steady decrease in price. Enforcement operations have, for a time, significantly disrupted the availability of street level quantities of heroin in the area and briefly reduced the number of overdoses and overdose deaths. However, in part because heroin use is socially and culturally accepted in the area, the heroin issue consistently reappears.

Methamphetamine: Availability of methamphetamine remains high in North Texas, and the pace of enforcement activities surrounding methamphetamine continues to escalate. Mexican manufactured methamphetamine is transported to the region through traditional means, such as passenger and commercial vehicles. Additionally, small clandestine labs that produce small amounts of extremely high quality methamphetamine are encountered in both rural and urban areas. Recent intelligence and seizure analysis indicates an increased availability of high purity methamphetamine in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex area. Because of the increased demand, greater availability, and expanding market, the high purity methamphetamine threat will probably increase.

The availability of both Mexican methamphetamine and locally produced methamphetamine in the Houston Division is increasing. Mexican methamphetamine is the primary type found in the Division. It is transported in multi-pound quantities directly from Mexico or from Mexico via California. From Houston, methamphetamine is also distributed to the Midwest and the East Coast. In the Houston area, crystallized Methamphetamine (ICE) is being sold in local clubs and is also being offered by Mexican traffickers. Domestically produced methamphetamine continues to be manufactured by motorcycle gangs and independent producers in small batches using pseudoephedrine, anhydrous ammonia, red phosphorous, iodine, lithium batteries, or muriatic acid. There are numerous labs operating in East Texas, Corpus Christi, and in the Austin area. Most of these labs are small, mobile pseudoephedrine labs that produce small amounts for distribution in the local area.

Methamphetamine poses a multi-pronged threat in this region. It is available in multiple kilogram quantities. The majority of methamphetamine seized originates in Mexico, but arrives in New Mexico from distributors in Los Angeles, CA and Phoenix, AZ. Methamphetamine investigations are especially prevalent in the area known as the Four Corners Region where the States of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet to form a common border and along the eastern New Mexico/Texas border. Popular in the area are the small, clandestine laboratories, set up, especially in New Mexico, in remote, rural locations. In Southern New Mexico, closer to Las Cruces and El Paso, the current preferred process is the "Birch method", that uses chemicals, such as anhydrous ammonia, to process the methamphetamine. Use of the "Birch method" is believed to be an attempt by small laboratory operators to acquire non-controlled chemicals for production, in order to subvert law enforcement scrutiny. Recent intelligence analysis indicates increased seizures of more “Mom and Pop” methamphetamine labs in the El Paso Division. It is cheaper to produce methamphetamine for your own use versus buying it on the street.

Predatory/Club Drugs: Club drugs remain readily available in North Texas. The most frequently abused of club drugs is "Ecstasy" (MDMA). Intelligence indicates the increased abuse of Ecstasy among 18 to 24 year old African Americans, especially, in the greater Dallas area. Asians continue to be involved in the sale and distribution of MDMA. Intelligence further indicates increased interest among Mexican traffickers to distribute and sell Ecstasy in the greater Dallas/Fort Worth area. FY 2000 through FY 2002 statistics analyzed by DEA laboratories show a 1540% increase in seizure amounts of MDMA. The Dallas FD is currently ranked 2nd, nationally, for GHB and Rohypnol emergency room visits and above national average, in its emergency room visits for MDMA, Ketamine, LSD and PCP. The majority of the MDMA available in the Houston Division continues to originate in Europe, specifically from Belgium and the Netherlands. MDMA is most commonly transported via courier through the airlines. Recent reporting from Monterrey, Mexico, shows northern Mexico to be an emerging source for MDMA production. The availability and popularity of MDMA is increasing in the Division. Raves are a primary venue for MDMA distribution, as are clubs and gyms. The number and frequency of raves throughout the Division has increased. Other dangerous drugs readily available and transported through the Houston Division include Rohypnol, Ketamine, GHB, LSD, and PCP. Several drugs in this category are more available, due, in part, to El Paso's close proximity to Juarez, Mexico, where purchases can be made over the counter from unscrupulous pharmacists. Ecstasy, Rohypnol, and other pharmaceuticals are being used at Rave parties in El Paso County. The use of these types of drugs has not skyrocketed, as in other metropolitan areas in the U.S. These same drugs are available in New Mexico.

Prescription Drugs: The most common methods of diversion of pharmaceutical controlled substances continue to be illegal and indiscriminate prescribing and "doctor shopping." Hydrocodone, alprazolam, and benzodiazepene products continue to comprise the majority of prescription controlled drugs abused in North Texas; however, Oxycontin has overtaken hydrocodone as the drug of choice for abusers seeking pharmaceuticals in the Tyler area. The most commonly abused pharmaceutical drugs in the Houston Division continue to be Hydrocodone, Promethazine with Codeine and other Codeine cough syrups, and some Benzodiazepines (mostly Alprazolam). Oxycontin abuse is on the increase, with most illegal prescriptions being written by pain management doctors. In addition to the aforementioned, commonly abused pharmaceutical drugs in the San Antonio area include Morphine, Dilaudid, Diazepam, Xanax, Tussionex, Lortab, Vicodin, and Ketamine. The major avenues for diversion continue to be illegal and indiscriminate prescribing and dispensing, pharmacy theft, employee pilfering, and forged prescriptions. The diversion of prescription drugs continues to be a significant enforcement issue. Illegal or improper prescription practices are the primary source for illegally obtained prescription drugs, primarily in the oxycodone/hydrocodone families. Interdiction efforts also indicate that prescription drug smuggling from Mexico, where these drugs can be sold over the counter, contributes to the illegal distribution of prescription medications. Compounding this issue, is the state's severe shortage of qualified medical personnel which forces state authorities to grant prescriptive authority to practitioners not licensed in other states. New Mexico has recently become one of the few states to grant prescribing authority to psychologists who have no medical or pharmaceutical training.

Drug Proceeds: The transportation route through the West Texas/New Mexico area includes drugs coming into the U.S. and money being sent back to Mexico. These drug proceeds are difficult to trace and seize. Money is often laundered through legitimate businesses and money exchange houses. Conducting financial investigations leading to the identification and seizure of assets used to facilitate drug smuggling operations, or acquired as a benefit of such an enterprise, is an effective deterrent. Currency seizures also indicate that New Mexico is being utilized to return drug proceeds to Mexico and to the wholesale distributors in Arizona and California. Two areas of concern for money laundering activities in the state include:

Approximately 14 Native American owned and operated casinos that handle billions of dollars in cash and almost completely unregulated by state and Federal authorities.
In Las Cruces, New Mexico, less than 50 miles from the US/Mexico border, has over 200 banking facilities, including many that operate from private residences and are not FDIC insured. Cities of similar size averaged 5-10 banking facilities.
Marijuana: Marijuana remains readily available and is considered the most widely used illegal drug throughout the State of Texas. Marijuana in this area is primarily imported from the Texas/Mexico border via privately owned vehicles (POV) and commercial trucks. Large quantities of marijuana are routinely seized by all levels of law enforcement during highway interdiction stops in the North Texas area. Additionally, in recent years, increased enforcement activity has lead to the seizure of several significant indoor marijuana cultivation operations in the North Texas area. These operations range in size from 100 to over 1100 plants and have produced marijuana with THC levels as high as 15%. Mexican marijuana is the most predominantly trafficked drug in the Houston Division. It is not uncommon for the US Border Patrol to make multi-hundred pound marijuana seizures from "back packers" at points along the Rio Grande River, and from vehicles transiting at the US Border Patrol secondary checkpoints located inside Texas. At the Ports of Entry, ton quantity seizures of marijuana are often made from commercial trucking attempting to enter the United States.

Transportation Threat: The volume of illicit drugs transported through Texas by land, sea, and air is immense. Although there is a significant drug abuse problem in Texas, more tons pass through the state than are delivered for local consumption. Poly-drug transportation groups pose the greatest threat to Southern Texas. Most drugs are transported through Texas on their way to the major consumer markets of the Midwest and the eastern United States. Drug related proceeds are then transported back through Texas in bulk quantities to Mexico and points beyond. Illicit transportation organizations, like legitimate shipping firms, move whatever product is contracted for by the drug distribution organizations for delivery to the consumer markets. These groups, have been targeted by the Houston Division and are the focal point of this Division's Transportation Initiative. The majority of cases for the El Paso Division are in the transportation of drugs. The Sierra Blanca, Texas checkpoint currently has law enforcement officials that only perform checkpoint responses. Recently there has been an increase in seizures and cases coming from this checkpoint.

Prescription Drugs: The most common methods of diversion of pharmaceutical controlled substances continue to be illegal and indiscriminate prescribing and “doctor shopping.” OxyContin abuse is on the increase.

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 are three DEA Division offices in Texas: Dallas, El Paso, and Houston. Combined, these three divisions have completed 37 Mobile Enforcement Team (MET) deployments throughout the State of Texas since the inception of the program. These cities are: Arlington, Wichita Falls, Tyler, Athens (2), Paris, Greenville, Terrell, Mt. Pleasant, Henderson, Corsicana, Brownwood, Ft. Worth (2), Sherman, Texarkana, Grand Prairie, Odessa, Midland, El Paso (2), Galveston, Orange County, Port Arthur, East Harris County, Freeport, Kingsville, Corpus Christie, Victoria, Tomball, Nacogdoches, Humble, Huntsville, Smith County, Monahans/Odessa, Richmond, and Montgomery County.

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 four RET deployments in the State of Texas since the inception of the program: McAllen, Laredo, Dallas, and El Paso.

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Texas Discretionary Funds

Texas Formula Funding						Fiscal Year 2004/05
Texas Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant:							$ 136,885,271
Texas Community Mental Health Services Block Grant:							$ 32,486,643
Texas Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH):							$ 3,710,000
Texas Protection and Advocacy Formula Grant:							$ 2,012,841
Texas Subtotal of Formula Funding:							$ 175,094,755
Texas Discretionary Funding						Fiscal Year 2004/05
Texas Mental Health							$ 7,905,072
Texas Substance Prevention:							$ 14,324,914
Texas Substance Abuse Treatment:							$ 26,290,961
Texas Subtotal of Discretionary Funding:							$ 48,520,947
Texas Total Mental Health Funds:							$ 46,114,556
Texas Total Substance Abuse Funds:							$ 177,501,146

Grantee: Texas Dept of MH & MR
Program: Emergency Response
Congressional District: TX-10
FY 2004 Funding: : $99,000
Project Period: 06/01/2003 - 05/31/2005
The Disaster Assistance and Crisis Response Services (DACRS) program, which is based at the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation (TDMHMR), is one of only two full-time disaster mental health programs in the nation. As the lead agency for disaster mental health service as designated in the State of Texas Disaster Plan, the DACRS program has successfully developed and managed approximately 21 FEMA funded Crisis Counseling Program grants (ISP & RSP) and coordinated services for over 30 state declared events during the past eight years. This grant will allow the State Crisis Consortium, which is housed at TDMHMR, to fund a Consortium Coordinator for the purpose of further enhancing and formalizing the State Crisis Consortium and its partner agencies emergency response capacities.

Grantee: TX Dept of Mental Hlth/Mental Retardatio
Program: Disaster Relief
Congressional District: TX-10
FY 2004 Funding: : $443,773
Project Period: 12/10/2003 - 09/09/2004
In response to flooding, the State of Texas received a Regular Services grant through the Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program, which is conducted through an interagency partnership between the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Center for Mental Health Services. Services provided through this grant include outreach, individual and group counseling, and public education regarding the mental health effects of disasters.

Grantee: Texas Mental Hlth Mental Retardation
Program: State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants
Congressional District: TX-10
FY 2004 Funding: : $142,000
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: City of Fort Worth-Pub Hlth Dept
Program: Children's Services
Congressional District: TX-12
FY 2004 Funding: : $2,500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2008
Children's Voices, Family Choices, Community Solutions: Building Blocks for Healthy Families (Community Solutions) will create an accessible, culturally competent and seamless, child and family driven system of care for families impacted by severe emotional disturbance in Fort Worth. The City of Fort Worth Public Health Department will act as the lead agency, partnering with the Fort Worth Independent School District (FWISD) and the member agencies and individuals of the Mental Health Connection of Tarrant County. It is anticipated that a total of 440 children will be served in the six-year period, and ramifications of the changes created through this project will be felt across the mental health community for years to come The development of a system of care will be initiated through the Family Resource Centers housed on FWISD campuses. These centers will offer a central location for mental health support within the campus setting. An Education Specialist, funded through the FWISD, will serve as site coordinator for each center and will screen referrals and identify those children and families to be served. One Intensive Care Manager will coordinate all services for the child and family. A network of community-based services will be accessed through a voucher system. Family involvement will be a key component in the system of care reform, both on an individual family level and on a system level. Family members comprise 50% of the membership of the Governance Body, including key leadership positions. Family members will be a central part of the child and family teams. Significant attention will be given to the development of culturally competent approaches for serving children and their families, within the project and within the community.

Grantee: City of El Paso
Program: Elderly Mental Health Outreach
Congressional District: TX-16
FY 2004 Funding: : $400,000
Project Period: 08/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
The Focus Project of the City of El Paso expands mental health services to mostly lower income Hispanic seniors at high-risk for depression and dementia due to frail health and social isolation. The Focus Project will draw its participants from homebound seniors in El Paso who are receiving home-delivered meals through the City-County Nutrition Program. During the first year of the project 300 nutrition program participants will be screened for mental health conditions. Seniors evaluated to have mild to moderate mental health conditions will be referred to the expanded Bienvivir Senior Health Services program, which will include mental health services for depression, anxiety and dementia. Bienvivir Senior Health Services, a PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) program, currently provides all-inclusive care to frail elderly in primary care settings. Eligibility for the program includes being medically needy of nursing home care. The care provided by Bienvivir addresses both medical and social needs and enables elders to live independently and safely in the community as opposed to in nursing homes. An interdisciplinary team assesses participants' needs, works with families to develop care plans, and delivers services in adult day health centers and at home. The Focus Project will increase Bienvivir's capacity to address mental health conditions. Seniors who do not qualify for the PACE program or opt not to participate will be offered priority status, a Service Coordinator, and financial assistance to help them access, pay for, and adhere to treatment from El Paso's Community Mental Health and Mental Retardation Center (MHMR). The Focus Project will enhance MHMR's capacity to service older adults and access other aging services available in the community.

Grantee: Big Brothers Big Sisters of El Paso
Program: Youth Violence Prevention
Congressional District: TX-16
FY 2004 Funding: : $149,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2005
The Mentoring Empowers project, through Brothers Big Sisters of El Paso (BBBSEP), in collaboration with El Paso Schools and other community partners, will serve 200 at-risk youth ages 6-17 in El Paso, Texas (the fourth poorest city in the United States). This inclusive project will assist predominantly Hispanic youth facing significant community challenges. In some areas of the city, up to 43% of youth have Limited English Proficiency; 75% of households are single-parent headed; and up to 40% of high school students report drinking alcohol. Gang violence is common in our community, with over 500 active gangs. Risk factors are compounded by being on the border of Mexico. Goals of the Project: The Mentoring Empowers project will yield: 1) an enhanced and expanded (doubled) collaboration of mentoring partners in El Paso -building upon the schools, businesses, and community organizations currently working with Big Brothers Big Sisters, 2) a systematic plan for providing multiple interventions which will address problem youth victimization and/or violence to include direct mentoring, training, pro-social colilmunity service activities, 3) a comprehensive evaluation system to monitor progress towards the objectives of the project, 4) strategies for project sustainability, 5) trainings and other direct services to at least 800 members of the community to enhance the community's and the coalition members' understanding of violence, risk factors, prevention efforts, cultural competence, mentoring options, and 6) direct services to 400 at-risk youth through formal mentoring and/or training efforts which will empower youth to be: a) less likely to act out in violence; b) less likely to try drugs or alcohol; c) have improved discipline and/or reduced truancy; d) improved academic performance; and e) the opportunity to engage in training, community service, and recreational activities.

Grantee: County of El Paso, Texas
Program: Children's Services
Congressional District: TX-16
FY 2004 Funding: : $2,500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2008
The Border Children's Mental Health Collaborative (BCMHC) proposes to create a single, integrated system of care for all El Paso County youth with serious emotional disturbances (SED). To achieve this goal, El Paso will pursue three broad strategies aimed at system integration, service integration, and the development of a diverse, culturally competent, community based provider network. Federal funds of $ 9.5 million provided under this cooperative agreement will be used to establish the collaborative process and structure; to support training, technical assistance, infrastructure development, and evaluation; and to pay for start-up costs for new service components. Local matching funds of $8.25 million will come from the redirection of more than $2 million per year that is now spent on out-of-town residential treatment of El Paso County youth with SED. A comprehensive social marketing plan will be developed to generate strong family and community support for the new system of care. This will help ensure the sustainability of the BCMHC by advocating increased local, state, and federal funding for children's mental health, including necessary Medicaid waivers and state funding and policy changes that allow the community to reinvest existing resources in an expanded community-based service capacity.

Grantee: Depelchin Children's Center
Program: Youth Violence Prevention
Congressional District: TX-18
FY 2004 Funding: : $149,955
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2006
DePelchin Children's Center proposes to strengthen an existing neighborhood network into a well-functioning community collaboration to address bullying and youth violence within the targeted community and to create a violence-free social milieu. The target geographic area is the Garden Oaks community in the Northwestern Houston Independent School District of Harris County, Texas. DePelchin Children's Center proposes to train members of the community collaboration, the coordinating committees, and the 200 teachers and school staff in the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program. Clinicians will provide individual, group and family counseling to identified victims and bullies.

Grantee: Houston Area Community Servs, Inc
Program: AIDS TCE-Service Capacity Bldg in Minority Communities
Congressional District: TX-18
FY 2004 Funding: : $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 09/29/2006
Houston Area Community Services, Inc. (HACS) and Families Under Urban and. Social Attack, Inc. (FUUSA), two minority, community based organizations in the Houston plan to integrate and coordinate mental health, substance abuse, and primary care services to African American and Hispanic/Latino Persons Living With HIV/AIDS PLWHs). The program plans to provide African American and Hispanic/Latino PLWHs with the following services: (1) psychotherapy and counseling, (2) substance abuse treatment, (3) peer support groups, (4) psycho-educational groups, and (5) supportive services. In addition, HACS and FUUSA can provide a full continuum of additional services, e.g., outpatient primary medical care including psychiatric care, outreach and mental health and substance abuse treatment services.

Grantee: Depelchin Children's Center
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children
Congressional District: TX-18
FY 2004 Funding: : $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2007
DePelchin Children's Center (DCC) will develop a Child Traumatic Stress Program to deliver screening, assessment, case management and mental health services to approximately 3,000 traumatized children yearly residing in the Greater Houston metropolitan area. These children will be served through the agency's foster care, adoption/post adoption, residential treatment, outpatient mental health counseling and home-based therapy programs. Many of these children are in the welfare system. DCC will focus on serving children who are the victims of complex trauma or who suffer from trauma related to traumatic loss/separation, psychological maltreatment, physical abuse/assault, sexual abuse, and/or neglect.

Grantee: Center for Health Care Services
Program: Jail Diversion
Congressional District: TX-20
FY 2004 Funding: : $300,000
Project Period: 06/01/2003 - 05/31/2006
The Center for Health Care Services will expand the capacity of existing jail diversion services in Bexar County, Texas. The project -Sano y Salvo (Safe and Sound)-will aim to serve individuals in Pre- and Post-Booking Services. Community based, easily accessed resources will be wrapped around project services to create an encompassing support system for persons with mental illness and co-occurring disorders. CHCS' partners are the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation (TDMHMR) and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA). A 40-member Jail Diversion Planning and Advisory Committee has designed Sano y Salvo. CHCS will be responsible for project implementation to include staffing, cross-training members and maintaining the collaboration as an oversight entity and consumer inclusion. TDMHMR will manage the local evaluation and its interface with the TAPA Center, increasing public awareness of the project's services and benefits, informing the Texas Legislature of its impact and formalizing and distributing the resulting model for replication throughout the state and nation. UTHSCSA will conduct a process and outcome evaluation, in coordination with the TAPA Center, and will support TDMHMR in model dissemination. A comprehensive, coordinated service delivery system represents the most viable means of redirecting persons with mental illness from the criminal justice system to treatment and community-based supports. The network's goals for participants include increased functioning, a decrease in re-arrests, improvements in perceived quality of life, and improved access to services, satisfaction with services and better outcomes.

Grantee: Our Lady of the Lake University
Program: Workforce Training
Congressional District: TX-20
FY 2004 Funding: : $361,344
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
The Communicative and Cultural Competency for Mental Health Providers (CCC-MHP) project is a training program to improve the language and cultural proficiencies of mental health providers who serve Spanish speaking Latino clients and their families. Training will focus on mental health providers who work in community-based agencies and public schools. Training will be offered in three formats: a sixteen session continuing education course, a four week intensive summer institute, and through online instruction. The effectiveness of each of the six training programs will be evaluated and the comparative effectiveness of the three formats will be assessed. Language skill acquisition and cultural competence in service delivery are central outcomes to be evaluated. Standards for culturally sensitive service delivery and professional language proficiency will be established as the foundation for developing new measurement instruments to assess competency in the delivery of Spanish language mental health services

Grantee: Faith Walk Center
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: Girl Scouts of Tejas Council
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: R.E. Thomason General Hospital
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: Tarrant County Challenge 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: The Georgetown Project
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $99,953
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: Central City Comprehensive Community Ctr
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $74,998
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: Council on Alcohol and Drugs Houston
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: Houston Independent School District
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $100,000
Project Period: 10/01/2003 - 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: Serving Children and Adolescents in Need
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: E. Texas Cncl on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $99,895
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: Alcohol/Drug Abuse Cncl of Deep E Texas
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $74,184
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: Angelina Chamber Foundation
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $74,724
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: Cmnty Action Partnership for Prevention
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: San Antonio Fighting Back, Inc
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $125,000
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: Sister Cmnties Cncl on Alc & Drug Abuse
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: TX Department of State Health Services
Program: Cooperative Agreement for Ecstasy & Other Club Drugs Prevention Services
Congressional District: TX-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $292,356
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
Phoenix House, the Center for Success and Independence, and the Council on Alcohol and Drugs in Houston, in collaboration with the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drugs, target youth in selected high schools, Asian youth, and GLBT youth, all at high risk of use of ecstasy and other club drugs, with an expanded Towards No Drug Abuse model program adapted to address the specific risk and protective factors of each target population. This group's goal is to reduce current use of ecstasy and other club drug use by 22%, increase knowledge about the dangers of use of ecstasy, decrease in attitudes that ecstasy is a harmless drug, and increase knowledge among law enforcement personnel regarding the avenues of distribution and how to help prevent club drug in the community.

Grantee: TX Department of State Health Services
Program: Cooperative Agreement for Ecstasy & Other Club Drugs Prevention Services
Congressional District: TX-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $292,356
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, with Community Partner, Tarrant County Challenge (Challenge), will conduct Ecstasy and other club drugs prevention services in Forth Worth, Texas. This project will target youth/young adults who attend raves and similar parties, college students, and men who have sex with men and use drugs. Using Challenge Coalition's 200 active members, and current community collaborations, Challenge will implement prevention services in collaboration with Santa Fe Adolescent Services and evaluator, Patrick Miller of PMA Associates. TCDA, with Challenge, request an annual award of $300,000. The grant application proposes to implement multi-tiered prevention services, with options for adolescents, young adults, parents, professionals, community agencies and the community, consisting of combinations of neurobiological and psycho-educational approaches to all levels of prevention. It also includes strengthening systems and framework to ensure treatment access and retention.

Grantee: TX Department of State Health Services
Program: Cooperative Agreement for Ecstasy & Other Club Drugs Prevention Services
Congressional District: TX-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $292,356
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
TCADA's goal it to support the Proyecto Ganadores which focuses on enabling the next generation of increases in capacity, flexibility and efficiency of substance abuse prevention efforts in the State of Texas priority areas including the Texas Mexico Border. Proyecto Ganadores purpose is to support the further development of this program for expanding and strengthening effective, culturally appropriate Rohypnol, ecstasy and other club drug prevention services at the Texas Mexico Border (Lower Rio Grande Valley area) thereby reducing the disproportionately high usage of Rohypnol and other club drugs among the target population.

Grantee: TX Department of State Health Services
Program: Cooperative Agreement for Ecstasy & Other Club Drugs Prevention Services
Congressional District: TX-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $292,356
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
TCADA, in partnership with Aliviane, Inc., will conduct Project CARE (Character and Resiliency against Ecstasy) Strengthening Families/or Parents and Youth 10-14 for predominantly Hispanic/Latino youth and their families, a program which will provide culturally sensitive, comprehensive, risk-focused services to high risk youth in four targeted areas of El Paso. The proposed protective environment is to give youth, parents and families a prevention education curriculum designed to reduce adolescent substance abuse and other related problematic behaviors. The program plans to reach 1,836 unduplicated individuals in a five-year period. Hispanic/Latinos in El Paso comprise 70% of the population; 92% are service recipients of Aliviane.

Grantee: Coastal Bend AIDS Foundation
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services
Congressional District: TX-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The Coastal Bend AIDS Foundation (CBAF) is a private non-profit community-based organization providing HIV prevention and support services for over 15 years. The Coastal Ben Area of Texas is comprised of 19 counties along and around the Gulf of Mexico in South Texas. Nueces County is on the Gulf of Mexico southeast of San Antonio. The county seat and largest city is Corpus Christi. The local economy is diversified through industries that include petrochemical, tourism, healthcare, retail, education, shipping, and agriculture. The median household income is less than $24,000. The goal of the RFA is to increase access to SAP and HIVP programs in areas with hard to reach populations and high incidence rates of substance abuse and HIV infection, such as rural communities, by increasing both the number of and quality prevention programs in traditionally under-served areas. The proposed project is the catalyst for integrated HIV and substance abuse prevention efforts within the targeted area. This area includes one county (Nueces) that makes up a Metropolitan Statistical Area and three rural counties (Jim Wells, Kleberg, and San Patricio). Additionally, there are an increasing number of colonias as described in Section A. These areas are traditionally found closer to the Texas Mexico border, but with the increase in security and surveillance, these immigrant colonies have begun to locate further North into the Coastal Bend areas. This type of community is difficult to reach and difficult to penetrate to provide quality prevention services. By utilizing a model where peers or promotoras (community health workers) to deliver the prevention message, these areas can be reached thereby enhancing the services provided. The project is designed to be fully sustaining at the end of the five-year grant. CBAF proposes to provide the described services for five years and is requesting approximately $350,000 annually for the five-year period.

Grantee: Longview Wellness Center, Inc
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 4 Services
Congressional District: TX-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $342,638
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The Longview Wellness Center, Inc. in Longview, TX has received a 5 year grant to provide integrated substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention services to minority and underserved populations. The grantee will provide culturally appropriate individual and group substance abuse and HIV prevention interventions to African-American women accessing family planning services.

Grantee: City of Longview
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District: TX-04
FY 2004 Funding: : $99,160
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: Office of the Governor State of TX
Program: State Incentive Cooperative Agreements
Congressional District: TX-07
FY 2004 Funding: : $4,000,000
Project Period: 03/15/2002 - 03/14/2006
This cooperative agreement enables the Governor's office in Texas to systemically integrate a comprehensive statewide substance abuse prevention effort targeted at youth. The Texas State Incentive Program (TSIP) creates a coordinated system that links and leverages federal and state prevention resources to serve the needs of Texas communities, families, schools, and workplaces. TSIP will assist communities in introducing and institutionalizing proven effective programming that prevents drug abuse among Texas youth.

Grantee: Houston Council on Alcoholism and
Program: Youth Transition into the Workplace
Congressional District: TX-07
FY 2004 Funding: : $150,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2006
The Council on Alcohol and Drugs Houstion in partnership with an "unnamed" independent research firm, will scientifically evaluate the effectiveness of an enhanced workplace substance abuse prevention for younger workers ages 16-24, entitled Healthy Workers. In Phase I of the proposed program, the Council on Alcohol and Drugs Houston, Drug Free Business Houston will work with the evaluators to adapt, design and pilot test its Healthy Workers in a sample of 60 younger workers between the ages of 16-24. In Phase II, it will implement a more rigorous evaluaiton of the program among a sample of 600 younger workers between the ages of 16 - 24. Two of the workplaces which are listed as implementation sites are: Shell Oil Company and Halliburton.

Grantee: South East Texas Regional Planning Comm
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District: TX-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: Office of the Governor, State of Texas
Program: Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants
Congressional District: TX-10
FY 2004 Funding: : $2,350,965
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants (SPF SIG)-Texas 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 Texas Strategic Prevention Framework will strengthen the prevention infrastructure to develop and coordinate a statewide strategy to prevent substance abuse and related problem behaviors by building on the existing infrastructure of the Drug Demand Reduction Advisory Committee.

Grantee: Youth and Family Alliance, Inc.
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 3 Services
Congressional District: TX-10
FY 2004 Funding: : $349,971
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
LifeWorks will provide 2,000 outreach contacts and 250 encounters to street youth; multi-session prevention group to 125 youth and shelter-based and school-linked locations; and community workshops to 75 parents and other adults. The project will provide a comprehensive range of services targeting a community with a history of risk indicators among youth for substance abuse and HIV, and whose youth lack the opportunity and resources to engage in preventative or positive development services. LifeWorks will provide a continuum of HIV and substance abuse prevention service to youth in the St. Johns community in Austin, Texas. The Integrated Services Prevention Project will provide three tiers of prevention within the community: street outreach support service to runaway, street, and homeless youth; sexual health and youth development activities to youth who exhibit "risk" indicators; and education and presentations to adults in the community.

Grantee: Tarrant Council on Alcoholism
Program: Youth Transition into the Workplace
Congressional District: TX-12
FY 2004 Funding: : $150,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2006
Youth Pathways for Substance Abuse Prevention is designed to provide Substance Abuse Prevention/Early Intervention Services targeting the 16 to 24 age group, who are transitioning into the workplace in Fort Worth, Texas. Youth Pathways for Substance Abuse Prevention uses the NREP model programs "Team Awareness", team building process developed by Dr. Joel Bennett and customized health promotion approache based on the NREP program of Dr. Royer Cook to provide youth with these services. It also builds upon the CSAP grant designed by Dr. Bennet related to experimental versions of those model programs have been tested and evaluated as part of the Small Business Wellness Initiative (SBWI).

Grantee: Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater FW
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 3 Services
Congressional District: TX-12
FY 2004 Funding: : $327,325
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Fort Worth, Texas, proposes to provide the Choices prevention program to 1,800 minority youth, grades 4 through 12, at twelve public schools and seven Club sites to address issues relating to (1) the use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs, and (2) HIV/AIDS, and (3) academic performance through building protective factors and reducing risk behavior. A comparison group will be used to measure program results again to non-participants. The Club has been providing services to the target population since 1926 and is eminently qualified to implement this proposal.

Grantee: Canutillo Independent School District
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District: TX-16
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: Young Women Christian Assoc
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services
Congressional District: TX-18
FY 2004 Funding: : $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2008
The Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) of Houston has formed a mentoring collaboration with BSP & Associates to support their planning efforts of establishing effective, integrated, and sustainable substance abuse prevention (SAP) and HIV prevention (HIVP) and other related services specific to minority adolescents, women, and individuals re-entering the community from prison, jail or juvenile justice facilities in the community of Southeast Houston. Founded in 1907 and incorporated in February 16, 1916 as a non-profit, 501 (c)(3), community-based organization, the YWCA of Houston has offered a variety of community-based programs directed to women and youth at multiple sites throughout the Houston metropolitan area for 95 years. Since 1994, the YWCA of Houston has provided HIV and STD education and counseling to persons of color in the Southeast area of Houston, Texas. BSP & Associates, owned and operated by Dr. Brenda Page Smith, has established itself as an organization with sound expertise in capacity-building initiatives related to HIV/AIDS-related services in communities of color. As Executive Director of WAM Foundation, Inc., Dr. Smith has successfully managed funding from SAMHSA/CSAP and CDC in the capacity of both lead and sub-contractual agency. As a consultant to the National Minority AIDS Council, Dr. Smith has assisted several organizations in the establishment of their infrastructure. The YWCA of Houston has engaged additional support from other community agencies that will participate in the capacity-building process including the Council on Alcohol and Drugs Houston, Jack Yates High School (HISD), Challenge 2000, Texas Barber College and Schools, Crestmont Park Church of Christ, Shamar Hope Haven, Houston Health Department (HIV/STD), Houston Parks and Recreation, Houston Community College, Joseph & Associates, New Hope Counseling Center, AIDS Foundation Houston, University of Texas Houston Health Science Center and Donald R. Watkins Foundation

Grantee: Fam Under Urban & Social Attack (FUUSA)
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 3 Services
Congressional District: TX-18
FY 2004 Funding: : $350,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
Families Under Urban and Social Attack, Inc. is integrating HIV prevention services into the existing substance abuse prevention services. The program integration will enable the RESCUE Program to provide comprehensive HIV and substance abuse prevention services to African-American youth, ages 12 to 17. The project staff will implement the proposed program in three Houston communities. Prevention activities consisting of prevention education skill training, enrichment activities, counseling, parent training and referral will be available in three settings-after school program, summer program and eight-week workshop series. The HIV prevention services addition will provide youth abstinence-based, comprehensive education that will offer adolescents the opportunity to clarify their beliefs, build values and acquire skill in negotiation, compromise, assertiveness and accessing services.

Grantee: Amigos Volunteers in Education and Svcs
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 3 Services
Congressional District: TX-18
FY 2004 Funding: : $350,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
AVES, "Fortaleciendo a Nuestras Familias"project, based in Houston, delivers an HIV/substance abuse intervention program to at-risk Latino/a youth and women with the goal of preventing new HIV infections, and motivating the already infected to seek treatment. FORTALECIENDO will be implemented in the Willow Creek apartment complex with a resident population of 9,000- 10,000, and in the J. Deady Middle School attended by Willow Creek youth. The Latino/a residents of this low-income community, many of them recent immigrants who speak primarily or only Spanish, are considered to be the high risk for HIV/STDs and substance abuse. Specific program goals for the funding period are (1) to implement small-group HIVP/SAP interventions over 3 years for 600 women and 1,500 youth (750 males and 750 females).

Grantee: Motherland, Inc
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services
Congressional District: TX-18
FY 2004 Funding: : $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2008
It is evident that the spread (including new cases) of HIV in the United States is disproportionately high among minorities. Similarly, the substance-abuse associated AIDS cases in the African-American communities are a growing national concern. Central to the planning project of Motherland, Inc. is its commitment to reduce the incidence of substance abuse and HIV/STD infection among minorities. The focus on youth, especially within the African-American population residents in identified high-risk neighborhoods of Greater Houston Area and Harris County underscore the urgency and importance placed on information, knowledge and safer sex negotiating skills. Using drama therapy, Motherland, Inc. plans specifically to target minority youth in safe houses which encourage youth to seek help and guidance in an environment that is unthreatening and fosters self-confidence and individual initiative. It also will concentrate on juvenile probation centers where the prevention interventions provided by Motherland, Inc. can be intensive and tailored to address ongoing and identifiable risk behaviors. The ultimate outcome is risk reduction practices and prevention measures that lead to heightened awareness, personal responsibility, and behavior changes. Youth from communities of color in the Greater Houston Area and Harris County are at high risk of both substance abuse and HIV/AIDS based on their propensity to engage in high-risk behaviors. In the target populations, individual, family, peer, community, school, and community risk factors are frequently not counterbalanced by adequate protective factors. Motherland, Inc. will develop, implement, and evaluate a series of community-based drama performances that address deep issues surrounding motivators and consequences of high-risk behaviors with respect to substance abuse and sexual behaviors.

Grantee: Center for Success & Independence
Program: Prevention of Meth and Inhalant Use
Congressional District: TX-18
FY 2004 Funding: : $350,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006
The Methamphetamine Addiction Prevention Project (MAP) project interagency collaboration represents the beginning of the development of an infrastructure supporting Methamphetamine prevention. The MAP project will (1) create, pilot, and implement a prevention module specifically targeting Methamphetamine use; (2) adapt this module for inclusion in specific evidence-based prevention interventions, including Botvin' s Life Skills Training, Reconnecting Youth, and the Indigenous Leader Outreach Model; (3) expand existing community-based prevention services that utilize Life Skills Training to four additional sites where there are no current prevention programs; and (4) expand current substance abuse pretreatment and health risk outreach efforts to target adolescents and young adults at raves, circuit parties, and dance clubs with Methamphetamine prevention messages.

Grantee: South Texas Council Alcoh&Drug Abus
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 2 Expansion Cooperative Agreements
Congressional District: TX-19
FY 2004 Funding: : $63,636
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 03/31/2005
This project addresses the need for integration of HIV and substance abuse prevention for the Hispanic populations of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and South Texas Regions, especially within colonias. Essentially, HIV and substance abuse prevention and intervention as well as all other health and human service deliveries have been overwhelmed by the growth and change that has occurred on the Texas- Mexico Border. This overwhelming situation has forced traditional resources to address the most basic of human issues including, housing (including water, waste and energy), education and employment. Although, this project must work through indicated populations to identify at-risk groups and individuals, HIV and substance abuse prevention will be delivered to selected populations that include injecting drug users, their partners and those at risk for HIV due to drug and sexual networks. This project plans to use a regional coalition to form additional linkages to include substance abuse, HIV and primary care providers.

Grantee: Por Vida Academy Charter High School
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services
Congressional District: TX-20
FY 2004 Funding: : $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Por Vida Academy (PVA), an alternative high school serving at-risk minority San Antonio youth, in collaboration with UTHSCSA-CP, an Hispanic-serving institution, and other community stakeholders, seeks to implement, assess, and assure the sustainability of an integrated, evidence-based HIV and substance abuse preventive intervention. In Phase I, a Respect Advisory Board consisting of key community stakeholders members of the target community will work collaboratively to select an effective, culturally-appropriate, evidenced-based HIV and substance intervention to integrate and implement with high-risk enrolled PVA youth. Phase II will consist of the delivery of the intervention, data collection and the implementation of a sustainability activities. Phase III will consist of evaluation of outcomes and the completion of a sustainability plan. The target population consist of 700 youth ages 14 to 21, 84% who are Hispanic and half who are female. Depending on Phase I activities, it is possible that Respect teens will receive 1) a comprehensive 86-session HIV/substance-abuse curriculum; 2) time-limited case management/counseling services; and 3) on-site rapid HIV screening

Grantee: San Antonio Council/Alcohol & Drg Abuse
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 3 Services
Congressional District: TX-20
FY 2004 Funding: : $329,788
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
The San Antonio Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse (the Council) has led prevention efforts in Bexar County, Texas since 1957. The Council offers this proposal, Del Corazon ("From the Heart"), as a selective model of SAP and HIVP for children ages 9-12, in Bexar County, combined with a universal strategy to develop, produce, and disseminate age and culturally sensitive prevention materials for children and their families. Del Corazon is a responsive prevention protocol that includes art, expressive play, family, and cognitive behavioral activities in curriculum based support groups. Del Corazon will utilize an original locally developed curriculum that encourages the learning experience and honors the uniqueness of each individual. Children who are at risk for substance abuse and HIV/AIDS need effective and integrated prevention strategies that are implemented in three domains-individual, family, and community-in order to enhance protective factors and reduce risk.

Grantee: Healy Murphy Learning Center
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 2 Youth Services Cooperative Agreements
Congressional District: TX-20
FY 2004 Funding: : $63,636
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 03/31/2005
The Healy Murphy Center LEAP (Life Enhancement and Preparation) Project will address HIV/STD substance abuse and other relevant youth services. The target population for Project LEAP consists of Hispanic (70%), African-American (24%) and Caucasian (6%) male and female youth ages 14-17 who attend Healy Murphy alternative high school program. Although Healy-Murphy is located in the 20th Congressional District, its' intention is to accept clients from Districts 21, 23 and 28. The purpose of the project will be to work collaboratively with key community agencies in Bexar County to implement a comprehensive intervention designed to reduce the risk of HIV/STDs, prevent/reduce substance use, enhance educational outcomes, and remove barriers of project participants delivering of wellness information.

Grantee: Karnes County Juvenile Probation
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District: TX-21
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: Clear Creek Independent School District
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District: TX-22
FY 2004 Funding: : $99,908
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: Serving Children & Adolescent Need
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services
Congressional District: TX-23
FY 2004 Funding: : $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2008
Serving Children and Adolescents in Need (SCAN), Inc. is requesting funding to implement an HIV Prevention Planning Initiative For Hispanic Youth residing in Webb, Zapata, and Starr Counties in South-Texas. With the proposed funding, SCAN will develop a strategic plan and the resources necessary to integrate HIV prevention services into its existing drug prevention and/or intervention programs. The goals of the proposed project are to: 1) recruit active and dedicated members to participate in the Initiative, 2) educate members of the Initiative about risk and protective factors and positive youth development and empower them to take action using a community-based, team-building process, 3) conduct a comprehensive community needs assessment, 4) identify appropriate and effective science-based models for integrating substance abuse and HIV preventive services, and 5) develop a strategic plan to effectively integrate HIV prevention services into the agency's existing drug prevention and intervention program framework.

Grantee: Santa Fe I.S.D.
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District: TX-24
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: Joven
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 3 Services
Congressional District: TX-28
FY 2004 Funding: : $348,899
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
Summary: JOVEN's Por VIDA project, Vital Information for the Development of Adolescents, will provide direct services in the capacity of curriculum based SAP and HIV prevention project to a minimum of 1,200 at-risk youth, primarily of Hispanic descent attending the transitional levels of 5th, 6th and 8th grades each year. The project is design to provide services that are culturally and age appropriate for both male and female students, between the ages of 9-17, of which, the large majority will be from families living below federal poverty guidelines, residing within the inner-city of San Antonio, Texas.

Grantee: Drug Prevention Resources Inc
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services
Congressional District: TX-30
FY 2004 Funding: : $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Drug Prevention Resources, Inc. and the Community Prevention and Intervention Unit at University of Texas at Southwestern Medial Center - one of the country's leading medical and research facilities - propose to offer an integrated substance abuse and HIV intervention program for African-American and Hispanic youth in the Dallas County juvenile justice system. We have chosen two residential facilities as potential sites for the program - the Dallas County Youth Academy and the Youth Village. With its expert and population-appropriate staff, the program, Choices, will work with the community as well as the target population to determine the most appropriate curriculums in order to bolster protective factors and reverse emerging risk factors. Choices' staff will be guided by the CSAP publication, Prevention Works! A Practitioner's Guide to Achieving Outcomes. The guide provides a logical and appropriate framework for achieving prevention outcomes. The process will include the following important steps: · Assessing needs, underlying conditions, and assets; · Recruiting members of a Strategic Advisory Board to guide programmatic decision-making; · Building organizational capacity to support the program · Hiring and training culturally appropriate staff; · Selecting the best-fit science-based programs; · Planning for the implementation of the program; · Delivering the integrated substance abuse and HIV prevention program; and · Evaluating program outcomes along the way Staff will work with an accomplished evaluation team to assist them with selection, evaluation, and integration of the two distinct program areas into one seamless program for the youth. Upon conclusion of the grand, staff anticipates receiving funding from other sources to continue to provide similar services to the target population in the juvenile justice system in Dallas County as well as other counties across Texas.

Grantee: Texas Commission on Alcohol & Drug Abuse
Program: Strengthening Access and Retention (SAR)
Congressional District: TX-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $181,588
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006
Strengthening Access and Retention in San Antonio (SARSA) will increase the capacity of both The Patrician Movement (TPM) and the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse (TCADA) to effectively implement and institutionalize effective continuous quality improvement strategies in treatment programs to improve client access, retention, and outcomes.

Grantee: Sabine Valley Ctr
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment
Congressional District: TX-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $398,818
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
This program will serve homeless adults with severe co-occurring psychiatric and substance abuse disorders. The project will provide wraparound, outreach and comprehensive case management services.

Grantee: City of Dallas
Program: Targeted Capacity Expansion
Congressional District: TX-03
FY 2004 Funding: : $475,021
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
The City of Dallas is partnering with Phoenix House to provide modified therapeutic community residential treatment and intensive outpatient to non-adjudicated youth ages 13 to 17. African Americans and Hispanics will respectively comprise 33 percent of the client population. Thirty-three percent will be female.

Grantee: Special Hlth Resources for Texas
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: TX-04
FY 2004 Funding: : $244,663
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To increase treatment capacity by 120 clients and provide a dual diagnosis category. The program will provide individual counseling and intensive case management to co-occurring, injection drug users, and men who have sex with men from the African-American and Latino populations.

Grantee: Tarrant County
Program: Methamphetamine Populations
Congressional District: TX-06
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
Addiction Services Division, Research Division, and Tarrant Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse collaboration will expand intensive outpatient treatment and enhance services with case management, exercise, Acudetox, drug testing and family therapy to address the emerging drug trend of methamphetamine abuse in Tarrant County.

Grantee: Office of the Governor State of TX
Program: State TCE Screening Brief Intervention Referral Treatment
Congressional District: TX-07
FY 2004 Funding: : $3,346,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The Exceptional Care for Texas project (SPECTRUM) will impact the system of care within the Harris County Hospital District in the Houston, Texas, metropolitan area. The project will incorporate substance use screening and brief interventions as routine procedures within the health district's service delivery system, creating a bridge between the general medical system and the substance abuse service delivery system.

Grantee: Office of the Governor State of TX
Program: Treatment of Persons w/Co-Occuring Substance Related and Mental Disorders
Congressional District: TX-07
FY 2004 Funding: : $1,100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
This project will support an expansion of service delivery and COPSD competency throughout the state while continuing the state's interagency coordination and collaborative commitment to strengthen the systems of care for persons with co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders (COPSD).

Grantee: Houston Council on Alcoholism and
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment
Congressional District: TX-07
FY 2004 Funding: : $250,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006
The Council on Alcohol and Drugs Houston will implement the Motivational Enhancement Therapy/Cognitive Behavioral Therapy outpatient treatment program for juvenile probationers aged 12 to 17 in Houston and Harris County, Texas. The Take Five Program will include the prescribed five outpatient treatment sessions supported by short-term, in-home case management focusing on the specific needs of the adolescent, the parents and the family. Adolescents entering the Harris County Juvenile Probation Department system through its primary intake location exhibiting substance abuse risk factors will be referred to a Take Five Program treatment assessment counselor to determine appropriateness for the program.

Grantee: ATCMHMRC
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: TX-10
FY 2004 Funding: : $468,900
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To provide African-Americans with specialized intensive outpatient treatment continuation of its bio-psycho-social continuum to: 309 non-injecting men who have sex with men, 165 men and women who have been released from prison, and 163 women or women and their children.

Grantee: University of Texas Austin
Program: Addiction Technical Transfer Center
Congressional District: TX-10
FY 2004 Funding: : $649,424
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 09/29/2006
ATTCs provide state-of-the-art education and training programs to health care professionals, state and local governments, and community organizations. Utilizing comprehensive curricula addressing all elements of addiction treatment and recovery, ATTCs disseminate research-based knowledge to addictions treatment and public health/mental health personnel, institutional and community corrections professionals, and others.

Grantee: Office of the Governor
Program: Access to Recovery
Congressional District: TX-10
FY 2004 Funding: : $7,591,723
Project Period: 08/03/2004 - 08/02/2007
Texas will focus on access and recovery needs of eligible drug court offenders. Services available through the Texas voucher system include assessment, clinical treatment and recovery support provided through a network of multiple drug courts. Voucher recipients will be afforded genuine, free and independent choice among service options, including faith-based organizations.

Grantee: Recovery Options for Addictive Disorders
Program: CSAT 2004 EARMARKS
Congressional District: TX-12
FY 2004 Funding: : $397,640
Project Period: 07/15/2004 - 07/14/2005
The Roads Voucher Program will increase access to treatment and supportive services by ensuring each consumer will be provided an independent choice among eligible providers.

Grantee: County of Tarrant Texas
Program: Adult Juvenile and Family Drug Courts
Congressional District: TX-12
FY 2004 Funding: : $398,279
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
Juvenile Treatment Drug Court (jurisdiction over substance abusing juveniles who have been delinquent): The Travis County Juvenile Drug Court will enhance its program by capitalizing on current community collaborations to implement marijuana specific treatment interventions. They will develop three possible treatment options for delinquents and their families, consisting of five different treatment interventions/modalities.

Grantee: Mental Hlth Ment Retardation Tarrant Cty
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: TX-12
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Over the five year grant period, Project Health First PLUS will provide outreach services to an unduplicated total of 10,000 minority substance abusers at most risk of HIV/AIDS in Tarrant County as well as intensive case management to at least 150, HIV/STD/Hepatitis testing and counseling to at least 3,000, detoxification for at least 240, intensive residential substance abuse treatment for at least 180 and specialized individual counseling to at least 175 with a special emphasis on Hispanic/Latino and MSM substance abusers.

Grantee: Aliviane, Inc
Program: Pregnant/Post-Partum Women
Congressional District: TX-16
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
The grant will fund the Family Recovery Center program. The program will provide enhanced residential services to 175 women annually. Seventy-seven percent of women currently in treatment are minorities: 69 percent Hispanic and 8 percent African-American. Pregnant women make up 22 percent of admissions.

Grantee: Aliviane, Inc
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment
Congressional District: TX-16
FY 2004 Funding: : $592,200
Project Period: 06/01/2003 - 05/31/2006
Puertas Abiertas (Open Doors) is a collaborative effort of Aliviane, the EI Paso Coalition for the Homeless, and the EI Paso Community MHMR Center. The project will result in integrated administrative functions among community-based organizations, expanded substance abuse treatment, and enhanced integrated mental health and substance abuse treatment services for the homeless population in EI Paso, Texas.

Grantee: County of El Paso, Texas
Program: Adult Juvenile and Family Drug Courts
Congressional District: TX-16
FY 2004 Funding: : $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
The 65th District Court has developed a family drug court program that is designed to help adults who have temporarily lost custody of their children because of substance abuse related issues. The program is modeled after successful drug court programs operating in Reno, NV and San Diego, CA. The one-year program is completely voluntary and focuses on helping participants to achieve and maintain sobriety, obtain addiction-related counseling, receive educational or vocational training, obtain gainful employment, and establish a household appropriate for raising children. The ultimate program goal is parent-child reunification

Grantee: Houston Area Community Servs, Inc
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: TX-18
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Houston Area Community Services, Inc. (HACS), a minority community based agency, and Montrose Counseling Center, Inc. (MC) are proposing the expansion and enhancement of substance abuse treatment services within the Houston MSA. The goal is to integrate and coordinate substance abuse treatment services, mental health services, and primary medical care services for at least 50 African American and Hispanic/Latino Persons Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWHs) utilizing treatment services that are culturally and linguistically appropriate.

Grantee: University of Houston-University Park
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: TX-18
FY 2004 Funding: : $475,532
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
Proyecto San Antonio Family Enhancement (SAFE) will expand current treatment capacity by 100% over 5 years in San Antonio, Texas. The enhancement of the existing community network of services providers will consist of street-based outreach services, HIV AIDS prevention, and effective treatment approaches for another 300 high-risk and gang-affiliated youth. The intensive outpatient program will be using the Brief Strategic Family Therapy Model. The target population is Hispanic girls and boys ages 12 to 17.

Grantee: Star of Hope
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment
Congressional District: TX-18
FY 2004 Funding: : $507,781
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
To enhance and expand its supportive housing program to include comprehensive mental health treatment for homeless women and their children, focusing on those with a recent history of substance abuse.

Grantee: Center for Success & Independence
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: TX-18
FY 2004 Funding: : $498,856
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 09/29/2006
The Treatment expansion/HIV services plan is designed to meet the needs of a subset of Houston's African American youth.

Grantee: Center for Success & Independence
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment
Congressional District: TX-18
FY 2004 Funding: : $400,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2009
This program will serve homeless adolescents and young adults that need substance abuse treatment and dual disorder treatment.

Grantee: Texas Tech University
Program: CSAT 2004 EARMARKS
Congressional District: TX-19
FY 2004 Funding: : $248,525
Project Period: 07/15/2004 - 07/14/2005
This project will develop and document methodology for effectively meeting the needs of recovering students in higher education through the creation of a comprehensive and functional curriculum which will allow for collegiate recovery programs and collegiate recovery communities to be implemented at other universities throughout the nation.

Grantee: University of Texas Hlth Sci Ctr San Ant
Program: Young Offender Reentry Program (YORP) 2004
Congressional District: TX-20
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2008
Project STAY will work collaboratively with community agencies to serve 240 previously incarcerated, minority youth ages 14-17. The program will include evidence-based, family-focused, intensive outpatient substance abuse treatment, as well as services to enhance educational and vocational outcomes, adolescents' well-being and access to mental health resources.

Grantee: Center for Health Care Services
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: TX-20
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The Center for Health Care Services (CHCS) is collaborating with the Family Focused AIDS Clinical Treatment Services (FFACTS) clinic, and other local HIV/AIDS serving organizations to provide integrated health care and social services to 345 HIV/AIDS infected "lost to care" individuals who have a substance abuse disorder or a co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorder.

Grantee: Hope Action Care
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: TX-20
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To expand and enhance current substance abuse services to HIV+ and at-risk chemically dependent African-American and Hispanic persons. The services that will be provided are drug screening, detox, psychiatric evaluation and treatment when needed, and methadone maintenance.

Grantee: Bexar Cty Board Mntl Hlth & Mntl Retard
Program: Homeless Addictions Treatment
Congressional District: TX-20
FY 2004 Funding: : $599,412
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
To implement a program that blends treatment models to create a systems integration approach to prevent or reduce substance use, increase stable housing, prevent or reduce involvement in the criminal justice system, enhance vocational opportunities, and improve the health and mental status of homeless project participants.

Grantee: Serving Children & Adolescent Need
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: TX-23
FY 2004 Funding: : $450,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
The Serving Children and Adolescents in Need (SCAN, Inc.) project will enhance and expand outpatient and continuing care substance abuse treatment to Mexican-American girls and boys (95%) ages 12 to 17. The program focuses on the individual needs of the adolescent, developmental needs, historical tradition, family, outreach (including home visitation and wraparound planning), HIV and AIDS referral, and case management.

Grantee: Serving Children & Adolescent Need
Program: Residential SA TX
Congressional District: TX-23
FY 2004 Funding: : $454,876
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
The Recovering Adolescents Integrating Changes Ending Substance Abuse (RAICES) project will enhance and expand its treatment services to indigent males ages 13 to 17. Residential and continuing care treatment will be expanded to include a low intensity residential treatment and intensive case management. The project will increase onsite psychiatric and psychological services and family services throughout aftercare. A holistic, culturally relevant, and developmentally appropriate approach emphasizing family involvement and behavioral management modalities is used. Ninety-five percent of the client population will be Mexican-American.

Grantee: Serving Children & Adolescent Need
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment
Congressional District: TX-23
FY 2004 Funding: : $245,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
This program is designed for youth age 12- 21 who meet medical criteria for substance abuse or dependence. The program will adopt or expand use of a treatment protocol that combines two types of therapy, Motivational Enhancement Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy. This Motivational Enhancement Therapy/Cognitive Behavior Therapy, a five-session protocol, was previously proved to be effective with substance abusing youth.

Grantee: The La Sima Foundation, Inc
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: TX-24
FY 2004 Funding: : $495,679
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To develop and implement an integrated substance abuse treatment and community HIV prevention and intervention outreach program. The project will target African-American males and females that have been recently released from prison or jail.

Grantee: AIDS Arms, Inc
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: TX-24
FY 2004 Funding: : $500,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
AIDS Arms, Inc., Dallas, TX -- $500,000 -- to focus on outreach, HIV testing and counseling, referring HIV+ persons for HIV/AIDS case management and treatment, and engaging substance abusers into integrated substance abuse/dual diagnosis treatment within a highly coordinated intensive case management system. These services will be provided to minorities of color, African-American women, injection drug users, and men who have sex with men.

Grantee: Rio Grande Valley Council-ADA
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: TX-25
FY 2004 Funding: : $498,578
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To expand and enhance substance abuse treatment to a primarily Hispanic population. The program will provide a twenty-four hour telephone answering service, substance abuse screening, identification, assessment and evaluation, referral and placement, outpatient treatment, follow-up and relapse prevention to adolescents and people in the criminal justice system.

Grantee: Gateway Foundation, Inc.
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: TX-30
FY 2004 Funding: : $499,967
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
Gateway Foundation's Help Is Possible (HIP) program in Dallas, Texas will expand and enhance its capacity to provide residential and outpatient substance abuse treatment and HIV-related services to injection drug using (IDU) males and men who have sex with men (MSMs) who are HIV positive or at high risk of contracting HIV/AIDS and who may have been released from prison or jail within the past two years.

Grantee: Association of Persons Affected by ADD
Program: Recovery Community Service
Congressional District: TX-30
FY 2004 Funding: : $322,499
Project Period: 04/30/2003 - 04/29/2007
The Association of Persons Affected by Addiction (APAA) is leading a peer driven recovery community support project to encourage and support personal recovery by offering peer to peer assistance in finding services that help support recovery, reduce relapse, and promote high-level illness in individuals and their families.