 |
This Web site is a component of the SAMHSA Health Information Network. |
|
CMHS Grantees
| CMHS Grant Program | 1:Massachusetts Department of Mental Hlth
25 Staniford St.,
Boston,MA02114
1 SM00139-01
Summary: | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 2:Advocates for Human Potential
323 Boston Post Road
Sudbury,MA01776
1 SM53403-01
Summary: Advocates for Human Potential, Inc. and the University of South Florida, in collaboration with key policy makers and service providers in the city of Tampa/Hillsborough county, propose to implement as an exemplary practice, the Comprehensive, Continuous and Integrated System of Care for persons with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. The CCISC provides an integrated theoretical framework for addressing philosophical, clinical, and systemic factors that are critical for both mental health and substance abuse systems to effectively respond to the needs of this population. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 3:Children's Friend/Family Srvcs
48 Bridge Street
Salem,MA01970-4199
1 SM53405-01
Summary: Children's Friend and Family Services, in collaboration with the Essex County Juvenile Court and two major New England charitable foundations, regional administrators from the Departments of Social Services, Mental Health, and Youth Services and other governmental child-serving agencies will build consensus in Essex County to adopt Multi-Systemic Therapy, a model for intensive community-based treatment of adolescents with serious emotional disturbance. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 4:Brigham & Women's Hospital
643 Huntington Avenue, Fourth Fl
Boston,MA02115
5 SM52229-03
Summary: Harvard Coordinating Center is developing, implementing, and evaluating the most extensive to date multisite randomized trials of mental health and substance abuse services in the elderly. Five additional VA study sites will be incorporated and allow for the development of a number of key multisite initiatives. These initiatives are as follows: 1) to expand the Harvard Coordinating Center's infrastrucure, 2) to implement a more comprehensive cost study, 3) to better disseminate results and other knowledge from the project, 4) to develop a health literacy campaign, and to develop, pretest, and analyze the results of a provider survey. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 5:Boston Medical Center
One Boston Med Center Place
Boston,MA02118
5 SM52404-04
Summary: The Boston Medical Center will evaluate whether specialized care for substance abuse and trauma-related symptoms in the HIV/AIDS treatment setting improves adherence to prescribed regimens for HIV/AIDS treatment, improves health outcomes for people living with HIV/AIDS, and reduces health care costs, when compared to "care as usual" for a multicultural, inner-city, and impoverished community. The program, conducted by an interdisciplinary group of clinical researchers from the Boston University School of Medicine's Departments of Psychiatry, Medicine, and Nursing, will be provided in two phases to patients at the Boston Medical Center's Clinical AIDS Program. Phase One will focus on helping study participants become sober either through "care as usual" or a specialized treatment program that integrates Compliance Enhancement Therapy and Relapse Prevention Therapy with standard HIV primary medical care. Phase Two will focus on the treatment of trauma-related symptoms with a similar random assignment to "care as usual" or to a specialized treatment program offering Cognitive Processing Therapy. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 6:Commonwealth of Massachusetts
25 Staniford Street
Boston,MA02114
4 SM52914-03-1
Summary: The Worcester Communities of Care Program will include culturally competent individualized wraparound supports involving coordination and development of resources from families, neighborhoods, schools, primary medical care, mental health care, child welfare, special education, juvenile justice, and public health services. Utilizing blended funding streams, the program will provide early intervention for 8-13 year-old youth with SED. A 5-year prospective outcome study will be conducted to assess academic achievement, out-of-home placements, court involvement, substance abuse and teen pregnancy, among other variables. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 7:Guidance Center, Inc
5 Sacramento Street
Cambridge,MA02138
4 SM52985-02-1
Summary: Consensus building will be undertaken by an advisory board comprised of representatives from schools, the Department of Human Services, Special Education Bureau of Pupil Services, and the Guidance Center. Voices of Love and Freedom , a 10 week curriculum-based violence prevention model will be implemented to reach children, ages 6-16, in three clinical and two non-clinical settings. Clinical settings will include the Cambridge Youth Guidance Center and special education classes. Non-clinical prevention groups will be convened in two after school programs, one of which is for Spanish-speakers. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 8:Boston Public Health Commission
Boston Medical Center Corporatio
One Boston Medical Center Place
Boston,MA02118-2393
4 SM53019-02-2
Summary: Based on David Old's model of nurse home visitation, the applicant will develop and implement a similar home visitation model -- Connecting Families to Schools, for families whose elementary school age children are experiencing excessive unexcused school absences. Social workers and advocates will perform home visit to these families, do a needs assessment, and refer families to appropriate service agencies for support and services. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 9:New England Medical Center Hospitals
750 Washington St
NEMC #1007
Boston,MA02111
4 SM53147-01-1
Summary: The exemplary practice proposed is the ICCD Clubhouse (Fountain House) model, which has been extensively documented, validated, and replicated to improve the quality of life for severely and persistently mentally ill consumers, not only the U.S., but also in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and many countries in Europe, Africa and Asia. Although successfully adopted in Korea and Japan, it has not yet been adopted by any Chinese community in Asia or this country. This proposal will build consensus among providers and consumers of Asian mental health services in the Boston Chinatown area. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 10:River Valley Counselling
319 Beech Street
Holyoke,MA01040
6 SM54107-01-1
Summary: River Valley Counseling Center (RVCC) will expand mental health services to Latinos and African Americans with HIV/AIDS in Holyoke and Springfield, MA. RVCC will assign clinicians and peer counselors to health centers and social service agencies in the community so that they can be more accessible to clients and fill the unmet need that existing staff cannot meet. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 11:Latino Health Institute, Inc.
95 Berkeley Street, Suite 600
Boston,MA02116-6230
6 SM54109-01-1
Summary: The Latino Health Institute (LHI's) Proyecto Futuro will enhance the quality of life and improve the physical and mental health status of Latinos living with HIV/AIDS by expanding the existing capabilities of LHI services to provide effective mental health services to the affected population. The services to be provided will be culturally competent and will include community outreach, psychosocial assessments, treatment/ service planning, case management, peer counseling, office-based and home-based mental health counseling. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 12:Center for Cmty Hlth, Educ & Res
420 Washington Street
Dorchester,MA02124
6 SM53826-01-1
Summary: The Center for Community Health, Education & Research (CCHER) is a Boston based agency serving Boston's large immigrant Haitian community. Traditional health beliefs may preclude Haitians from accepting biomedical explanations of their disease, thereby preventing them from understanding and accepting pharmacological and therapeutic treatment for diseases such as HIV/AIDS and accompanying mental health challenges. CCHER proposes to expand its existing case management model of care for HIV+ Haitians through the following programmatic components: intensive, one-on-one psychotherapy and counseling sessions, group educational training, and integration of mental health messages into other related agency services. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 13:Boston University
881 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston,MA02215
5 SM52352-04
Summary: Boston University has joined with Iowa Mental Health Advocacy (IMHAR) and ResCare to investigate the effectiveness of consumer-operated peer support services for consumers using traditional service programs. The study will examine the extent to which participation in the IMHAR's peer specialist program affects a range of outcomes for consumers already using ResCare services. Technical assistance products will be developed to ensure use of the knowledge gained from the project. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 14:City of Worcester
City Hall
455 Main Street
Worcester,MA01608
5 SM53364-02
Summary: The H.O.P.E. Coalition of Worcester has come together with the overarching vision to foster H.O.P.E.- Healthy Options for Prevention and Education-for and with young people and their families. This plan will encompass the service sectors of the community. The H.O.P.E. coalition will identify and assess all institutional and informal supports in place in the community directed toward the health and well-being of children and their families, with the ultimate goal of creating a more seamless and integrated system that both supports and connects categorical services. Through the work of the H.O.P.E. Coalition, the community will know where and how to direct community resources (services and funding) in order to have the greatest impact. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 15:Judge Baker Children's Center
Elizabeth Fideler
3 Blackfan Circle
Boston,MA02115-5794
efideler@jbcc.harvard.edu
1 SM54416-01
Summary: In partnership with the Devereux Foundation the conference ARisk and Resilience Protective Mechanisms and School based Prevention Programs will present resilience-based assessment, prevention, and intervention programs for school and pre-school youngsters at risk for social behavioral and emotional disorders. 150-200 anticipated in Boston | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 16:Education Development Center
55 Chapel Street
Newton,MA02158-1060
4 SM52061-04-3
Summary: Education Development Center, Inc., in collaboration with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and Columbia University School of Public Health, will develop, implement, and evaluate an HIV prevention intervention for women that addresses the critical links among sexual risk taking, alcohol and substance abuse, and mental health. The project is one of seven study sites participating in a coordinated multi-site study to develop and test a model prevention/intervention approach to encourage and enable adolescents, young adults, and women who engage in high risk behaviors associated with HIV/AIDS transmission to change those behaviors. The project will work both within Massachusetts and with a national SAMHSA steering committee to design and field test an intervention protocol that is theoretically sound, empirically based, and gender and culturally relevant to the needs of women over the age of 25 who are at high risk of contracting HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 17:Boston Medical Center
Dowling 1 N, One B M C Place
Boston,MA021182-2393
1 SM54305-01
Summary: Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine will develop a Treatment/Services Development Center, with particular expertise on 1) medical trauma, including injuries from accidents and invasive medical procedures, and 2) war, displacement and refugee trauma. Organizations will be engaged within the NCTSI network along with nine clinical/research sites recruited to assess, develop, and test interventions and services for children experiencing Medical Trauma and Refugee Trauma. The interventions include: 1) social ecological treatments for children experiencing medical trauma and refugee trauma, 2) biological and psychological therapies for acutely injured children to minimize the risk of chronic traumatic stress, 3) interventions for pain in medically hospitalized children, and 4) psychological and behavioral treatments for refugee children and their parents. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 18:Arbour Health Systems Foundation
49 Robinwood Avenue
Jamaica Plain,MA02130
6 SM54256-01-2
Summary: The Trauma Center/Arbour Health System Community Practice Program will specialize in child maltreatment, community violence, and traumatic incident response. Through the NCTSI, the Trauma Center will expand or introduce services for traumatized children, their families, and caregivers in the following areas: (a) phase-oriented intervention, (b) on-site services in area shelters, transitional housing, HUD housing developments and churches, (c) community based trauma response networks, (d) training, consultation and knowledge exchange with practitioners serving minority and under-serviced children, (d) development and dissemination of standardized child trauma assessment protocols and manualized intervention procedures, (e) development of early intervention programs and home-based services, and (f) phase-oriented treatment development and outcome research. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 19:Walden School - Learning
Center for Deaf Children
848 Central Street
Framingham,MA01701
6 SM53538-01-1
Summary: The project will build consensus to develop a comprehensive system of care, called Wrap-Around Services, to serve seriously emotionally disturbed children who are also deaf or hard of hearing in Massachusetts. Wrap-Around services bring together and coordinate formerly fragmented services provided by mental health, health, social services and other community agencies. Services are family centered, individualized and strength based that empower parents by involving them in the planning and implementation of the services for their family. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 20:Worcester Youth Center
27 Chandler St
Worcester,MA01609
6 SM53644-01-1
Summary: The Worcester Youth Center, Inc. seeks to expand its model of collaborative youth development, empowerment and violence prevention services by providing integrated mental health services, formalizing substance abuse intervention, training its youth in peer mediation, and expanding the Peer Leadership program to include community relations. Over its eight-year evolution, the Center has involved more than twenty-five organizations in collaborative programming to maximize service to inner city, at-risk young people. These organizations include local municipal agencies, social service agencies, health care agencies, neighborhood organizations, higher education and private businesses. The youth served by the program are primarily between the ages of 12-21, are youth of color and are living in poverty. Through extensive youth development and empowerment programs, annually approximately 350 youth and their families will experience the positive impact of the Youth Center's work. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 21:City of Worcester
City Hall
455 Main Street
Worcester,MA01608
6 SM54094-01-1
Summary: This targeted capacity grant application proposes to improve outreach and mental health services to homeless families in primary care setting. The majority of homeless families are headed by women from diverse ethnic/racial backgrounds, and struggling withy mental health and substance disorders, and histories of violence. Children in homeless families commonly have mental health needs, or are at risk of developing emotional, behavioral, or school-related problems. Placement of an intervention for homeless families in a health setting affords particular advantages in engaging homeless mothers and children into treatment for mental health and/or substance abuse problems in a nonstigmatizing setting. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 22:Boston Pub Hlth Commission
1010 Massachusetts Ave
Boston,MA02118
6 SM53334-02-2
Summary: The Boston Coalition for Child and Adolescent Mental Health will improve the resiliency of Boston's youth, decrease substance abuse and violence. It will accomplish this through increased use of best practices, service coordination, training, creation of a small grants program and a public education campaign. The Coalition will provide training to coalition members to improve the quality of mental health promotion services offered to children and youth. The coalition will improve surveillance of key indicators of child and adolescent mental illness to ensure that changes in behavior are rapidly noted. The Coalition will work to demystify and explain the system of child and adolescent mental health in Boston and to educate individuals who are in a position to help children and adolescents, but are outside the mental health system. A public education campaign will be developed to normalize mental health issues among children and adolescents. The Coalition will also work to achieve long-term vision of mental health promotion, substance abuse, and violence prevention and develop a plan for sustaining the effort beyond the three years of federal funding. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 23:Suffolk County Sheriff's Dept..
House Of Correction
20 Bradston St.
Boston,MA02118
6 SM53798-01-3
Summary: The Suffolk County Sheriff's Department in Boston, Massachusetts, will collaborate with West Roxbury District Court and New England Medical Center to expand integrated mental health and substance abuse services for offenders. The program, Forensic Access to Community Services, seeks to identify mentally ill offenders with co-occurring substance abuse disorders at three critical stages in the criminal justice system: pre- arraignment, disposition, and commitment. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 24:Concord Family & Youth Svcs, Inc
380 Mass Ave
Acton,MA01720
6 SM53458-01-1
Summary: The Transitional Living Program will serve youth 16-22 with special mental health and developmental needs - those leaving structured special education programs, residential programs for emotionally disturbed youth, aging out of foster care, runaway and homeless youth, or those emancipated because of failed adoptions. The flexible program model will provide critical life skills, vocational, educational, and therapeutic support to help participants succeed as independent, productive adults. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 25:University of Massachusetts Medical Sch
School of Medicine
55 Lake Avenue, North
Worcester,MA01655
6 SM53053-03-2
Summary: Working with Children's Hospital, Harvard University, grantee will document and evaluate the Homeless Families Health and Support Program (HSP), Worcester, MA. HSP has 10 years experience providing family-centered case management; group and home-based parent support, education, and skills training; specialized child-focused interventions; primary health care; and mental health and substance abuse treatment to homeless mothers with children. The program serves a diverse population that is 45% Hispanic/Latina, 40% Caucasian, and 15% African American. HSP served as a pilot site for the Better Homes Fund "Kidstart" service initiative targeting homeless preschoolers and their families for comprehensive services. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 26:Advocates for Human Potential
323 Boston Post Road
Sudbury,MA01776
6 SM53072-03-2
Summary: Grantee will document and evaluate an enhanced case management/family critical time intervention model. Each shelter currently has a program addressing screening and assessment for mental health and substance abuse services, mental health and substance abuse treatment, housing assistance, health care, parent skills training, support groups, vocational training and public benefit and employment assistance, legal services, and child care. The model provides time-limited support services and linkage to community-based providers. The shelters support a diverse population including Asian and Latin American immigrants and African American, Hispanic, and Caucasian families. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 27:Human Services Research Institute
H. Stephen Leff
2336 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge,MA02140
6 SM53128-02-2
Summary: This application is in response to CMHS' GFA #SM00-002, "Cooperative Agreement for a Technical Assistance center for the Evaluation of Adult mental Health Systems Change." The overall purpose of this TA center is toensure that mental health system change is provided with technically sound and responsive evaluation information reflecting the perspectives ofdiverse stakeholders. To achieve this objective, the Human Services Research Institute (HSRI) will utilize its extensive experience as a TA center in the evaluation of adult mental health system change as well as respond to new and changing needs within the field. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 28:Springfield Public Schools
195 State Street
P O Box 1410
Springfield,MA01102-1410
6 SM53261-02-1
Summary: This "Strengthening Families Program" (SFP) coalition is a planned approach for targeting neighborhood and community based populations. The coalition is built around local community-based organizations that are the most likely gateway to resources by inner-city neighborhood residents and families. The target population will include a significant number of African American and Latino residents. The overall outcomes we seek are: (1) a well-defined sense of community purpose and a consensus in support of the SFP intervention; (2) a blueprint for community action and collaboration for strengthening families and children; and (3) evidenced-based programs to assure that we build programs that support healthy, productive, competent, and prosocial children. We anticipate approximately 3 cycles of training per year with approximately 10 SFP sites operating by the last cycle. The program will serve between 8-12 families per site per cycle, for a total of 200-300 families. Partners for a Healthier Community, Inc., the SSHS administrative coordinator, will oversee the SFP and further integrate services. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 29:Family Service of Greater Boston
31 Heath St
Jamaica Plain,MA02130
5 SM53223-02
Summary: The aim of this project is twofold: (1) to develop community collaboration and a cooperative structure that will support effective youth and family-oriented prevention services; and (2) deliver an evidence-based violence prevention program to African-American and Hispanic youth ages 10- 14 (and their families) living in two housing developments and a surrounding, high-risk neighborhood. The intended evidence-based program is the Adolescent Transitions Program, a center, school and home-based family strengthening strategy that has been shown to be effective in increasing parent management skills and adolescent self-regulation of problem behavior. The program will be modified to include a media-oriented environmental component, aimed at promoting both pro-social peer relationships and community anti-violence norms. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 30:Lawrence Public Schools
255 Essex Street
P O Box 1498
Lawrence,MA01842
5 SM53251-02
Summary: The Lawrence Public Schools will provide an array of primary and secondary prevention and intervention strategies for youth and families prone to violence, mental health problems, psychological traumas, risk-taking behaviors and activities, and/or substance abuse. It will crystallize the efforts of schools, mental health and social service providers, the police, the juvenile justice system, parents, and community members who have already begun to eliminate drug use, crime and violence in all the schools and neighborhoods of Lawrence. The primary collaborating agencies supporting this proposal are the Greater Lawrence Mental Health Center and the Holy Family Hospital's Family Violence Intervention Program. The overall goal is to provide a comprehensive, integrated prevention and intervention system which will provide all children and families with the services necessary to develop healthy, substance and violence free lifestyles. This will be accomplished by filling identified gaps in our service delivery system, in the areas of direct services to students and to families through therapy and psychoeducational groups, staff, community education, and community-school collaborations. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 31:Massachusetts Department of Mental Hlth
25 Staniford St.,
Boston,MA02114
6 SM00142-01-1
Summary: | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 32:National Empowerment Center, Inc
599 Canal St.
Lawrence,MA01840
2 SM52590-04
Summary: This National Empowerment (NEC) Technical Assistance Center will improve the mutual understanding between consumers and other stakeholders by working collaboratively toward the common goal of promoting consumers' recovery from mental illness by: recovery and pioneer dialogues, mediation, working across differences, and "Learning from Us" conferences for families. The NEC proposes to nurture and strengthen leaders through development and dissemination of training materials. Through work with the new "people of color network," NEC proposes to nurture and strengthen national mental health leadership among people of color. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 33:Paraent/Prof Advocacy League
59 Temple Place, Ste. 664
Boston,MA02111
1 SM54011-01
Summary: The goal of the proposal is to provide training and support to its Statewide network of family-run support groups that will promote a strong family voice to advocate for quality services for children and adolescents with mental health needs. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 34:Child & Fam Svcs of Pioneer Vall
367 Pine St
Springfield,MA01105
1 SM53602-01
Summary: Project PRIDE will create a partnership between Child & Family Service of Pioneer Valley, the Boys & Girls Clubs West Springfield and the Boys & Girls Clubs Westfield, as well the Police Departments, Public Schools, spiritual leaders, families, and community-based organizations in both communities to develop a youth violence prevention community collaborative that will prevent and intervene early to reduce youth violence, mental health substance abuse, and other problems among refugee and immigrant youth. | |
| CMHS Grant Program | 35:Healthy Maiden 2000
109 Commercial Street
Malden,MA02148
1 SM53729-01
Summary: Healthy Malden 2000, Inc. (HM2K) is a unique public/private community-based coalition founded in 1993 by Hallmark Health and the Mayor's Office of the City of Malden. The mission of Healthy Malden 2000 (HM2K) is to improve the health of Malden residents by fostering citizen and agency collaboration aimed at the city's priority health issues. Malden, MA (pop. 56, 340) is a diverse, densely settled, urban center located five miles north of Boston. Malden has one of the most extensive networks of community agencies and organizations dedicated to serving its diverse population of any city in the Commonwealth of MA. Community resources include a wide array of services from local government, healthcare, mental health care, school administrators and teachers, the faith community, multicultural and immigrant organizations, youth-serving organizations such as the YMCA and YWCA, elder services, organizations for parents and families, and substance abuse treatment agencies, among others. | |
|
|
