Community Support Programs Branch
Community Action Grantees List
Grants Serving Primarily Adults
Assertive Community Treatment
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), Program for Assertive Community (PACT),
and Village are
approaches that requires a multidisciplinary team of social workers, psychiatrists, nurses, and
other mental health professionals who are available 24/7 to provide:
- Direct treatment;
- Rehabilitation;
- Support services;
- Referrals to outside providers;
- Services outside office settings and often at the consumer’s
residence;
- Prescribing and monitoring medication;
- Managing activities of daily living;
- Strengthening and supporting natural support systems;
and
- Maintaining ongoing contact over the long-term.
The Village is a development of the PACT model, an exemplary practice now established for more
than 26 years. The philosophy of the model is to empower adults with serious mental illness, assisting
them to recognize their strengths and learn to live, socialize, and work in their communities.
The Village Program (KS)
Mental Health Association of Central Kansas
Carol Manning
Phone: 316-685-1821
Empower and support adults with serious mental illness to recognize strengths and learn to
live, socialize, and find work in their community. Support and encourage increased self-responsibility
and self-direction.
1998, Phase II awarded 2000
The Village Program (OH)
Mental Health Association of Franklin Cty.
Linda Jakes
Phone: 614-221-1441
Adopt the Village model to serve adults with mental illness in Franklin County, Ohio.
2000, Phase II awarded 2003
Village Integrated Services Agency (FL)
Mental Health Association of Central Florida
Juanita Hernandez-Black
Phone: 407-843-1563
Adopt the Village model to serve adults with mental illness in Central Florida.
2000
The Village Integrated Service Agency (NE)
Mental Health Association of Nebraska
Kellie Hoffmaster
Phone: 402-474-3183
Adopt the Village model to serve adults with mental illness in Nebraska.
Fall, 2001
National Health Care Foundation for the Deaf (DC)
“Deaf REACH”
Sarah Brown
Phone: 202-832-6681
Adopt the Village model to serve deaf or hard-of-hearing adults with serious mental illness
and those with co-occurring substance abuse disorders.
Fall, 2001
The Village Program (FL)
The Mental Health Association of Palm Beach County
Mary Andrews
Phone: 561-832-3755
Fax: 561-832-3900
e-mail: Info@mentalhealthpbc.com / andrews@mentalhealthpbc.com
Adopt the Village program to serve adults with mental illness in Palm Beach County.
Fall 2002
Assertive Community Treatment (CA)
City of Berkeley
James Hynes
Phone: 510-644-8562
Adopt the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) model to serve high-risk clients.
1997, Phase II awarded 1999
Thresholds Bridge Program (CA)
Portals House, Inc.
Marvin Weinstein
Adopt the Thresholds Bridge Program for the Deaf, an exemplary practice in Chicago, for adults
in the Los Angeles community with serious mental illness, substance abuse, and deafness.
1997
PACT (SC)
South Carolina Department of Mental Health
John Morris
Phone: 803-434-4250
Adopt the Program for Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) throughout rural areas of the State
of South Carolina.
1997, Phase II awarded 1999
Assertive Community Treatment (FL)
City of Jacksonville
Mental Health & Welfare Division
Jim Stivers
Phone: 904-744-4908
Adopt the Assertive Treatment Community (ACT) model for persons with severe mental illness
and co-occurring substance abuse.
1998, Phase II awarded 2000
Cultural Competence ACT (WY)
Division of Behavioral Health
Pablo Hernandez
Phone: 307-777-7997
Adopt the model targeting Hispanic mental health consumers and their families.
Funded under the Hispanic Initiative.
1998, Phase II awarded 2000
Assertive Community Treatment (IL)
Chicago Health Outreach
Deborah Kroopkin
Phone: 773-271-8684
e-mail: djkroopkin@aol.com
Adopt ACT services for persons with severe mental illness who are also homeless. This project
extends the work of two federally funded ACCESS (Access to Community Care and Effective Services
and Supports) sites in Chicago.
1999
Bridging the Gaps: PACT (AL)
University of Alabama – Birmingham
Robert Savage
Phone: 205-934-4108
Adopt the Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) model to serve persons with co-occurring
substance abuse and psychiatric disorders. The group plans to adopt the DACTS instrument to measure
the fidelity of the practice to the model.
1999, Phase II awarded 2001
Assertive Community Treatment (MS)
The Mental Health Association of South Mississippi (MHASM)
Donna Weese
Phone: 228-864-6274
Adopt ACT and use consumers as peer advocates.
2000
Supported Housing/ACT (NY)
Pathways to Housing, Inc.
Sam Tsemberis
Phone: 212-337-1000 ext. 101
Adopt the Supported Housing/ACT program to serve homeless individuals with mental illness,
including those with substance use disorders and histories of criminal justice involvement.
2000
Assertive Community Treatment (DC)
Multicultural Services Division
DC Commission on Mental Health Services
Tedla W. Giorgis, PhD
Phone: 202-364-3422
Adopt the ACT model will to serve Ethiopian refugees and immigrants.
2000
ACT for Offenders with Mental Illness (TX)
Mental Health Association of Greater Houston
Betsy Schwartz
Phone: 713-423-8963
e-mail: Bschwartz@mhahouston.org
Adopt the ACT model to serve adults with mental illness in the community who have been involved
in the criminal justice system.
Fall, 2001
Initiative to Implement ACT (IN)
NAMI West Central Indiana
Cecilia Weber
Phone: 765-423-6939
e-mail: cecilia_weber@attglobal.net
Adopt the ACT model to serve adults with mental illness in several counties in Indiana.
Fall 2001, Phase II awarded Fall 2002
PACT (UT)
Utah Division of Mental Health
Robert Snarr
Phone: 801-538-4270
e-mail: rsnarr@hs.state.ut.us
Bring the program for Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) to the state’s 10 community mental
health centers to serve persons with serious and persistent mental illness with co-occurring disorders
resulting in homelessness, incarceration, involuntary civil commitment, and inpatient hospitalization.
The State Board of Mental Health, with the governor’s approval, has made funding of PACT
the highest priority for the Utah Public Mental Health System.
Spring 2002
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Other Case Management Models
Strengths-Based Case Management (AZ)
The Pinal Hispanic Council
Ralph Varela
Phone: 512-466-7765
Adopt strengths-based case management to serve Latino adults with serious mental illness and
co-occurring disorders. The initiative focuses on the integration of Hispanic norms and values
into the model. To ensure cultural competence, the movement toward consensus building and adoption
of the model will primarily focus on the use of the Razalogia Unity Principle, which focuses
on four elements: Conocimiento (mutual understanding), confianza (trust), unidad (unity), and
poder (empowerment).
2000
Strengths-Based Case Management (OK)
Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Kathy Otis
Phone: 405-522-3842
Adopt strengths-based case management, emphasizing empowerment of consumers to serve adults
with serious mental illnesses.
1998
Strengths-Based Case Management (CO)
Jefferson Center for Mental Health
Miriam Dunnan
Phone: 303-432-5421
Adopt strengths-based case management to serve adults with serious mental illnesses.
1998
Elder Wraparound Program (NH)
New Hampshire Division of Behavioral Health
Bernie Seifert
Phone: 603-271-8558
e-mail: Bseifert@dhhs.state.nh.us
Adapted from children’s mental health services to serve older adults with mental illness.
Individually tailored service plans require the collaboration of community and public service
agencies to form teams to coherently service targeted consumers.
Fall 2001
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Consumer/Family/Community
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Empowerment
Leadership Academies provide tools and resources needed for successful and meaningful participation
of consumers. The Leadership Academy is an educational process in which consumers identify
and meet their needs to understand and analyze issues and participate in social change, thus
benefiting their status and well-being for mental health consumers to gain proficiency in citizenship
to serve in policy and planning in the mental health system. Within the context of the local
environment, participants learn to identify issues and develop and implement action plans to
address those issues. Leadership Academies include year-round activities to reinforce lessons
taught, such as legislative workshops, retreats to focus on specific mental health issues or
workshops at Consumer Conferences in order to attract new students to the Academy.
Leadership Academy (ID)
Mountain States Group
Karen Hoekstra
Phone: 208-336-5533 ext. 234
Adopt the Leadership Academy in Idaho.
1997, Phase II awarded 1999
Consumer Leadership Academy (MA)
Deborah Delman
Phone: 617-464-1400
Adopt the Leadership Academy in Massachusetts.
1998
Consumer Leadership Academy (NC)
North Carolina Mental Health Consumers’ Organization
Paula Wilcenski
Phone: 919-232-2285
Adopt the Leadership Academy in North Carolina.
1998
Leadership Academy (VA)
The Mental Health Association and Mental Health Planning Council of Virginia
Vicky Fisher
Phone: 824- 225-5591
Adopt the Leadership Academy in Virginia.
2000
Multicultural Leadership Academy (NJ)
Mental Health Association of New Jersey
Ann Portas
Phone: 973-744-2500
e-mail: MHAHC@aol.com
Improve participation of minority mental health consumers in organizing and leading the consumer
movement in New Jersey.
Fall 2001
Leadership Academy (HI)
Mental Health Association of Hawaii
Paula Heim
Phone: 805-521-1846
Develop a Leadership Academy in the state, providing leadership, organization, and advocacy
skills training to adult mental health consumers.
Spring 2002
Mental Health Association of Mississippi (MHAMS) (MS)
Susan Richards
Phone: 228-864-6274
Enables consumers to participate successfully as equal members of community mental health boards,
human rights committees, and other policy and planning to the maximum feasible extent possible,
embracing the spirit of the Mental Health Reform Act of 1997 that requires increased consumer
and family participation at all levels.
Spring 2002
Leadership Academy (ME)
Advocacy Initiative Network of Maine
Melinda Davis
Phone: 207-941-4789
e-mail: madavis692@cs.com
Impact of LA on Maine’s consumers is three fold: (1) a large cadre of consumers will effectively
advocate for quality services; (2) as a result of consumer activism the quality, quantity, and
availability of services will increase; and, (3) the LA model will complement and support emerging
programs for self-directed recovery.
Fall 2002, Phase II awarded 2003
Leadership Academy (WY)
Wyoming Department of Mental Health
Scott Hayes
Phone: 307-777-7293
e-mail: shayes2@state.wy.us
Adopt the Leadership Academy in Wyoming.
Fall 2002
COMPEER (NJ)
Catholic Charities/Diocese of Trenton
Jerome Lindauer
Phone: 609-394-9398
Recruits, matches, and supports volunteer friends with persons with mental illness.
1997
Family Psycho-Education
Maine Medical Center (ME)
William McFarlane, M.D.
Phone: 207-871-2091
Adopt family psycho-education programs throughout the mental health system of Maine.
1997, Phase II awarded 1999
Exemplary Practice in Medicaid (PA)
University of Pennsylvania
Sara-Ann Steber
Phone: 215-662-2886
Adopt family education for rural Hispanic/Latino families in a Medicaid managed care program
in rural Berks County, Pennsylvania.
1997, Phase II awarded 1999
ADVANCE Family Support and Education (MD)
Anne Arundel Country Government
Linda Fasset
Phone: 301-222-1241
Adopt a drug and alcohol prevention family support program throughout Anne Arundel County that
focuses on high-risk Hispanic communities.
Funded under the Hispanic Priority Initiative.
1998
Bear Dreamer’s Project (CA)
(Family Strengthening Model)
Feather River Tribal Health, Inc.
Rosalind Hussong
Phone: 530-534-3793
Involves life skills training, elders’ mentoring and the youth component and use community
consensus building and decisionmaking as the process for acceptance and adaptation of the practice
to be culturally appropriate for Native Americans.
2000
“Na Nom Pem” (CA)
Feather River Tribal Health, Inc.
Rosalind Hussong
Phone: 530-534-3793
Reduces high levels of family violence, prevents or delays alcohol and substance abuse among
Native American youth, reduces school drop-out rates, reduces youth involvement in the justice
system, and treats intergenerational posttraumatic stress disorder, and family disintegration.
Na Nom Pem uses lifeskills training, elders mentoring, and community consensus building and decisionmaking
as the process for acceptance and adaptation of the practice to be culturally appropriate for
Native Americans.
2000
Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) (CT)
Inter-Community Mental Health Group
Patricia Porteus
Phone: 860-569-5909
A systematic approach for increasing the use of illness-management strategies by people suffering
from a wide range and severity of psychiatric conditions. Individual consumers develop personalized
action plans in five sections that cover wellness-oriented activities to do daily to promote recovery,
external stressors and strategies for dealing with them, and situations of increasing severity
of relapse, along with appropriate responses by the consumer, people in their support network,
and health professionals.
Spring 2001
Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) (MN)
Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Network of Minnesota (CSN)
Erica Buffington
Phone: 957-929-8168
e-mail: ericabuff@mn.rr.com
Build consensus to implement the WRAP developed by Mary Ellen Copeland, a consumer-educator
from Vermont. The WRAP is amenable to adaptation to fit the needs of persons with mental illness
from all cultural, racial, and ethnic backgrounds.
Spring 2002
Lakota Regional Community Action Project on Historical Trauma (SD)
The Takini Network
Maria Heart
Phone: 606-399-2554
e-mail: takininet@aol.com
The Historical Trauma and Historical Unresolved Grief Intervention, a psycho-education model
based on Lakota values and philosophy. The model addresses cumulative, historical wounds to a
culture and their effect on survivors and descendants. The intervention leads to trauma resolution,
increased Lakota identity, decreased hopelessness and reductions in risk for mental health and/or
substance abuse of children and families. (The grantee is from Iowa but the project covers much
of South Dakota.)
Fall 2001, Awarded by CSAP under the Racial and Ethnic Initiative
The Central Missouri Family to Family Project (MO)
NAMI of Missouri
Cynthia Keele
Phone: 537-634-7727
Provide education and support to families of persons with mental illness in primarily rural
Missouri. Goals are to enhance communication and coping skills within the family and thereby reducing
the rate of client relapse.
Fall 2001
Invisible Children’s Program (NY)
Mental Health Association of the Southern Tier, Inc.
Casey Epe
Phone: 607-771-8888
Empowers parents with mental illness to be the best possible parents and to maintain the highest
possible level of family functioning. It provides individualized, family-centered, community-based
case management services to children and families.
Fall 2001
Family Psychoeducation
University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
Norman Epstein
Phone: 301-405-4004
Provides training in communication and problem-solving skills for family-based intervention
for individuals with schizophrenia and their families in Prince George’s County, Maryland,
and adjoining counties. This treatment approach is highly relevant for the schizophrenic patients
and their families who are served at Vesta, a psychosocial rehabilitation program for the adults
with chronic mental illness, with African Americans comprising two-thirds of the target population.
Need for the family psycho-educational model is particularly great given the recent closing of
many community mental health clinics in the county and throughout the state of Maryland.
Spring 2002, Phase II awarded 2003
Peer-Supported Permanent Housing (CA)
Mental Health Client Action Network
Bonnie Schell
Phone: 831-469-0462
e-mail: Bonniebelle@mindspring.com
Implement peer-supported, permanent housing near a consumer-operated drop-in center, for adults
and seniors with psychiatric disabilities in order to combat isolation and the growing number
of homeless consumers. Housing and management models used at the LAMP Lodge in Los Angeles and
Shalom House, Inc., in Portland, Maine, both of which employ consumers and provide peer counseling,
will be studied as best practices.
Fall 2002
Invisible Children’s Project (ICP) (MA)
Employment Options Inc.
Toni Wolf
Phone: 508-485-5051 ext. 222
e-mail: Twolf@Optionsinc.org
Meet the needs of adults with serious mental illness who are parents. ICP is family- centered
and strengths-based, empowering parents to create a safe and nurturing environment for their children
while supporting efforts to keep the family unit together.
Fall 2002
Family Psychoeducation (MI)
University of Michigan
Kathleen Reynolds
Phone: 734-484-6620
e-mail: reynoldk@washtenaw.org
Develop community consensus to apply family psychoeducation as an exemplary practice for meeting
the needs of adults with schizophrenia and their families in Washtenaw County, Michigan.
Fall 2002
New Jersey Mental Health Institute, Inc. (NJ)
Henry Acosta
Phone: 732-528-8585 ext. 205
e-mail: hacosta@njmhi.org
Build consensus for family education and support for families of persons with mental illness
in eight cities, primarily urban communities, spanning the six highest Hispanic populated counties.
Sensitizing the community to the needs of persons with mental illness and their families particularly
as they relate to the educational needs of families. Introducing an educational and supportive
approach to informing families about mental illness.
Fall 2002, Phase II awarded 2003
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Clubhouse
The Clubhouse is an informal, normalized setting where consumers, called members, can engage
in outreach, housekeeping, office work, preparing meals, and other meaningful activities that
provide opportunities for socialization, recreation, and vocational training. The model has been
extensively documented, validated, and replicated to improve the quality of life for severely
and persistently mentally ill consumers not only in this country but also in Canada, Australia,
New Zealand, and many countries in Europe, Africa, and Asia.
ICCD Clubhouse (OH)
(Fountain House) Model
Washington County MHAR Board
Ronald Rees
Phone: 740-374-6990
Adopt the ICCD Clubhouse (Fountain House) model in the Southeastern region of Ohio. The consensus
building model relied upon will be the contextual/collaborative learning approach of Tenkasi & Mohrman
(1995). A dialectical relationship will be established between model experts and community representatives,
and this shared perspective-taking will be informed by experienced service providers arid public
officials.
2000
The Fountain House Model (ICCD) (MA)
New England Medical Center
George Hsu, M.D.
Phone: 617-636-7584
Adopt the ICCD Clubhouse (Fountain House) model for the Chinese community in Boston.
2000
Closing the Gaps: Invigorating System (AL)
Change in Community Mental Health
MH/MR Board of Bibb, Pickens, and Tuscaloosa Counties
Clay Shealy
Phone: 205-391-0107
PACT and Clubhouse models will serve adults with mental illness in three counties in Alabama.
Fall 2001
San Antonio Clubhouse (TX)
Barbara Moscher
Phone: 210-617-5121
e-mail: bmosch@texas.net
Build consensus and take into account the unique Hispanic cultural issues involved in implementing
the ICCD Clubhouse model in the greater San Antonio community. Mental health professionals and
consumer-members together operate the program and provide services focused on the development
of vocational and interpersonal skills, resulting in increased employment rates and quality of
life while decreasing rates of psychiatric symptoms and rehospitalizations.
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Cultural Competence
Substance Abuse/Mental Illness (CO)
Cultural Competence Assessment
WICHE Mental Health Program
Marie Sanchez
Phone: 303-541-0258
Adopt a self-assessment survey designed to assess the cultural competence of organizations.
The priority populations are Latino mental health and substance abuse consumers and families,
including children, adults and older adults, primarily in rural areas.
Funded under the Hispanic Initiative.
1998
Self-Assessment Survey for Cultural Competence (MA)
Boston University, Division of Psychiatry
Kermit Crawford
Phone: 617-638-4600
Adopt Program Self-Assessment Survey for Cultural Competence within two psychiatry residency
programs. This is a validated instrument that has been used to improve cultural competence of
mental health practitioners.
1999, Phase II awarded Fall 2002
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Integrated Treatment of Co-occurring Disorders
Comprehensive, Continuous, and Integrated System of Care (MA)
Massachusetts Department of Mental Health
Ken Duckworth, M.D.
Phone: 617-626-8106
Based on the merging of substance abuse treatment and mental health treatment models that includes
five phases: acute stabilization, engagement, prolonged stabilization, and rehabilitation;
and that balances care with confrontation, abstinence orientation with mandates, and recovery
with rehabilitation.
1997, Phase II awarded 1999
Comprehensive, Continuous and Integrated System of Care (MA)
Advocates for Human Potential /University of South Florida
James Winarski
Phone: 978-443-0055 ext. 223
Adopt the comprehensive, continuous, and integrated system of care for individuals with dual
diagnosis of mental illness and substance abuse in Miami.
Spring 2001, Phase II awarded Fall 2002
Comprehensive Continuous Integrated System of Care (ME)
Maine Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse
Kimberly Johnson
Phone: 207-287-2595
Adopt the Comprehensive Continuous Integrated System of Care model in Maine.
Fall 2001
Integrated Substance Abuse/Mental Illness Services (AZ)
Arizona Department of Health Services
Michael Franczak
Phone: 602-381-8999
Adopt an integrated model to treat offenders with co-occurring psychiatric and substance abuse
disorders.
1998, Phase II awarded 2001
Integrated Mental Health/Substance Abuse Services (LA)
State of Louisiana Health Hospital
Jo Pine
Phone: 504-342-0433
Adopt this integrated model comprehensive system of care for persons with mental illness and
substance abuse in southwest Louisiana.
1998, Phase II awarded 2000
Integrated Homeless Services (CA)
Corporation for Supportive Housing
Carol Wilkins
Phone: 510-251-2712
Adopt the Health, Housing, and Integrated Services Network, designed to meet the specific needs
of homeless individuals with severe mental illness and co-occurring disorders in San Mateo and
Marin Counties.
1998, Phase II awarded
New Hampshire Dual Diagnosis Model (CT)
Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
Jose Ortiz
Phone: 860-418-6850
Adopt the New Hampshire Dual Diagnosis Model for Hispanic/Latino clients with co-occurring
mental health and substance abuse disorders.
1999 awarded under the Hispanic Initiative.
Phase II awarded by CSAT
Vermont Mental Health and Substance Abuse (VT)
Beth Tanzman
Phone: 802-241-2354
Adopt a comprehensive integrated system of care for individuals with dual diagnosis of mental
illness and substance abuse in the state.
2000, Phase II awarded Fall 2002
Access to Community Care and Effective Services and Supports (ACCESS) (RI)
Mental Health Association of Rhode Island
Cynthia O’Neil
Phone: 401-726-2285
(Modeled after ACCESS - West Philly), for persons with serious mental illness and co-occurring
substance abuse disorders. Improve clinical symptoms of homeless adults with co-occurring disorders,
as well as physical health, community tenure, and overall quality of life.
Spring 2001, Phase II awarded Fall 2002
Integrated Care Model (WA)
Asian Counseling and Referral Service
Han Yoon
Phone: 206-695-7600
Create entryways to integrated mental health and substance abuse services through primary care
providers. Services provided on site, resulting in increased access to bicultural, bilingual behavioral
health care services for adults with co-occurring disorders.
Fall 2001, awarded by CMHS under the Racial and Ethnic Initiative.
Phase II awarded Fall 2002.
Structural Family Therapy/Ecosystems (DC)
and the Integrated Treatment Model - Mentally Ill and Chemically Addicted (MICA)
Council of Latino Agencies
Teresa Doniger
Phone: 202-328-9451
Adopt two models: Structural Family Therapy/Ecosystems Structural Therapy and the Integrated
Treatment Model - MICA (Mentally Ill and Chemically Addicted) to improve mental health and alcohol/substance
abuse services:
1999 Funded under the Hispanic Initiative.
Phase II awarded by CSAT
New York State Council for Behavioral Healthcare, Inc. (NY)
Naltrexone Treatment Therapy
Gayle Farman
Phone: 518-445-2642
Adopt Naltrexone Treatment Therapy for persons with co-occurring mental health and substance
abuse disorders in New York State. This models treats co-occurring disorders by reducing the craving
for alcohol, lowering relapse rates, and improving mental health status.
Spring 2001
Integrated TC Treatment Services to Dually Diagnosed Justice Clients (NY)
National Development and Research Inst.
Harry Wexler
Phone: 212-845-4452
e-mail: harry.wexler@ndri.org
Adopt the Integrated Modified Therapeutic Community (MTC) for Latino justice clients with co-occurring
mental health and substance abuse disorders.
Fall 2001, awarded by CSAT under the Racial and Ethnic Initiative
Friendship House Gathering of Native Americans (CA)
Friendship House Assoc. American Indians
Kathleen Prendergast
Phone: 415-865-0964
Serve Native American adults and adolescents at risk for mental health and substance abuse
and co-occurring disorders, and those already in substance abuse treatment. The model emphasizes
inclusion and responsibility that each participant assumes to promote healing and the creation
of a safe environment within the community.
Fall 2001, awarded by CSAT under the Racial and Ethnic Initiative
Central Virginia Community Services (VA)
Sandy Kanehl
Phone: 434-847-8035
e-mail: sandyhanehl@hotmail.com
Use an integrated approach to treatment for higher rates of symptom remission, reduced hospitalizations,
greater adherence to medication protocols, lower arrest rates, improved relationships, better
quality of life, and other desirable outcomes when compared to parallel or sequential systems
of care.
Spring 2002
UAB Public Psychiatry Division (AL)
Jacqueline Feldman, M.D.
Phone: 205-934-4108
e-mail: jfeldman@uabmc.edu
Integrated System of Care (CCISC) integrates the services and programs of the mental health
and substance abuse treatment systems in the treatment of the dually diagnosed and address the
philosophical, clinical and systemic differences in the two systems of car. Seek consensus to
adopt CCISC in the greater Birmingham Alabama area.
Fall 2002
Integrated Treatment for Dual Disorders (IN)
Indiana University
Gary Bond, PhD
Phone: 317-274-6752
e-mail: gbond@iupui.edu
Adopt Integrated Treatment for Dual Disorders (mental illness and co-occurring substance abuse
disorders). Develop statewide as well as at the local level in Indiana.
Fall 2002, Phase II awarded 2003
Comprehensive Continuous Integrated System of Care (MD)
Worcester County Core Service Agency (CCISC)
Robin Travers
Phone: 410-632-3366
e-mail: worcsa@ezy.net
Based on the integration of treatment of individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance
abuse disorders will be adapted for use.
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Interface with Law Enforcement
Mental Illness/Substance Abuse Jail Diversion (TX)
Oficina Legal del Pueblo Unido
James Harrington
Phone: 512- 474-5073
Divert persons who have mental illness or substance abuse problems from needlessly entering
the criminal justice system. This project will primarily target the Hispanic community.
Funded under the Hispanic Initiative.
1998
Pre-booking Jail Diversion (SC)
South Carolina Department of Mental Health
John Lee
Phone: 803-734-7797
Adopt CALM (Collaborative Action for Law Enforcement and the Mentally Ill), a pre-booking jail
diversion program for mentally ill persons involved in minor nonviolent criminal offenses.
1998
Jail Diversion (NY)
EAC, Inc.
Kenneth Linn
Phone: 718-237-9404
Adopt a court-based diversion project for persons with co-occurring psychiatric and substance
abuse problems living in New York city.
Funded under the Hispanic Initiative.
1999, Phase II awarded 2002
Responding to Mental Health Crises in Houston’s Streets (TX)
Mental Health Association of Houston/Harris County, Inc.
Betsy Schwartz
Phone: 713-523-8963
Adopt an improved system of managing law enforcement-related mental health emergencies in Houston,
Texas.
1997, Phase II awarded 1999
Law Enforcement Training (PA)
Forensic Advocacy Coalition
J. Benedict Centifanti
Phone: 610-873-0324
Adopt the practice of consumers training law enforcement personnel about mental health issues
throughout Pennsylvania.
1997
Law Enforcement Training (TX)
Mental Health Association of Tarrant County
Lauralee Harris
Phone: 817-335-5405
Adopt a Mental Health Deputy Program in Tarrant County (Ft. Worth, Texas) that provides specially
certified deputies to assist in law enforcement calls and referrals related to persons suspected
of having a mental disorder.
1997, Phase II awarded 1999
Forensic Competency Standards (TX)
Capacity for Justice
Genevieve Hearon
Phone: 512-327-2501
Adopt an infrastructure model, Community Forensic Evaluation of Competency to Stand Trial,
that improves the quality and capacity of forensic assessment.
1998, Phase II awarded 2000
MHANYS Jail Diversion Specialist in Albany County, (NY)
The Mental Health Association in New York State, Inc.
Colette Robinson
Phone: 518- 434-0439 ext. 20
Adopt a jail diversion model.
2000, Phase II awarded 2002
Forensic Assessment of Juvenile’s Competencies in the Justice System
(TX)
Capacity For Justice
Genevieve Hearon
Phone: 512-440-0025
Adopt the CFA-LFP to Austin County in Texas. Provide training and certification to mental health
professionals to conduct competent evaluations, a database of certified evaluators, and a research
component to track trends and provide feedback to guide policy.
Fall, 2001
Crisis Intervention Team (VA)
Mental Health Assoc. of NR Valley, Inc.
Amy Forsyth-Stephens
Phone: 540-951-4990
e-mail: Mhanrv@bellatlantic.net
Bring the Crisis Intervention Team model (CIT) to a largely rural, multijurisdictional area
in southwestern Virginia. CIT is a prebooking jail diversion model, developed by the Memphis Police
Department in 1988 in which a specialized group of regular patrol officers receive training in
psychiatric diagnoses, substance abuse, de-escalation techniques, empathy training, families of
persons with mental illness, legal issues in mental health and substance abuse, and mental health
and crisis resources.
Spring 2002, Phase II awarded 2003
Crisis Intervention Team (AZ)
University of Arizona Eller College of Business and Public Administration
Michael Shafer
Phone: 520-917-0841
e-mail: shafer@u.arizona.edu
Develop prebooking jail diversion services, known as the Crisis Intervention Training (CIT),
for persons in behavioral health crisis encountered by local law enforcement agencies. Prevent
inappropriate incarceration before formal charges are made.
Spring 2002
Crisis Intervention Teams (MO)
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
Guyla Stidmon
Phone: 816-931-0030
e-mail: KCAMI@aol.com
Prevent arrest of persons with mental illness, divert them to mental health systems, and reduce
police officer injury rates.
Fall 2002
The Crisis Intervention Team
West Central NAMI of Indiana
Cecilia Weber
Phone: 765-423-6939
e-mail: cecilia_weber@attglobal.net
Prepare criminal justice, mental health consumers, and providers to implement the Crisis Intervention
Team (CIT) model as an improved system of managing law enforcement-related mental health
emergencies.
Fall 2002
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Outreach
Gatekeeper Model for Elderly (WA)
Washington State Department of Social/Health Services
John Piacitelli
Phone: 253-761-7664
Identify at-risk older adults and link them with needed mental health or other social or medical
services. The model targets individuals over the age of 60 who live in the community, who have
serious mental, emotional, or physical health problems, who lack a support system, and who
do not seek help on their own.
1997, Phase II awarded 1999
Gatekeeper Model for Elderly (OK)
Community Counseling Center
Majorie Jantzen
Phone: 405-235-3006
Adopt the Gatekeeper Model.
1998, Phase II awarded 2000
The Gatekeeper Model (IL)
Council for the Jewish Elderly
Robyn Golden
Phone: 773-508-1125
Adopt the Gatekeeper Model for Elderly (see description above).
Spring 2001, Phase II awarded 2003
Mobile Multi-Disciplinary Outreach Team (CA)
Homebase Center for Common Concerns
Martha Fleetwood
Phone: 415-788-7961
e-mail: marty@hombaseccc.org
Facilitate training, support, and information sharing among workers who conduct outreach to
homeless persons with severe mental illness.
1998, Phase II awarded 2001
Homebase Center for Common Concerns (CA)
Martha Fleetwood
Phone: 415-788-7961
e-mail: marty@hombaseccc.org
This project will develop multidisciplinary Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) mobile outreach
teams to assist homeless people who are mentally ill in Monterey County and the City of Palo Alto.
Spring 2002, Phase II awarded 2003
Primary Care Outreach to Homeless/Near-Homeless Persons (CT)
with Mental Disorders, Waterbury Hospital Health Center
David N. Podell
Phone: 203-513-7194
(1) Treat clinical disorders on the spot, (2) Reduce the frequency of acute medical crisis,
(3) Decrease fragmented and episodic care, (4) Encourage independent use of health services through
counseling and education, (5) Encourage independent living through learning resources and utilizing
networks, (6) Provide dignity and humanity in health care services.
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Supported Education, Employment, and Housing
Supported Education Program (MI)
University of Michigan
Carol Mowbray, Ph.D.
Phone: 313-764-7242
Adopt the Michigan Supported Education Program for adults with serious mental illness in several
sites within the state.
1997, Phase II awarded 1999
Supported Education Project (WA)
Clark County Department of Community Services
Cheri Dolezal
Phone: 360-397-2130
Adopt a program of supported education services for adults with serious mental illness in Clark
County.
1999, Phase II awarded 2001
Hispanic Supported Education Project (CA)
San Mateo County Community College
Ernie Rodriguez
Phone: 650-306-3454
e-mail: rodruquiz@smccd.net
A supported education program for Hispanic adolescents and young adults with serious emotional
and behavioral disorders to enroll and participate successfully in postsecondary education. The
focus of intervention is to assist individuals to function adaptively through key supports, learning
adaptive skills, and academic remediation and enrichment.
1999 funded under the Hispanic Initiative.
Phase II awarded 2001
The Life Link (NM)
Carolyn Luna-Anderson
Phone: 505-438-0010
Adopt an exemplary employment program for individuals with severe mental illness.
1997
Rural Supported Employment (MT)
Montana Rural Mental Health Employment Initiative
Gary Griffin
Phone: 406-243-2454
Adopt supported employment in four small rural and remote towns.
1998
Individual Placement and Support (OR)
Options for Southern Oregon
Jeff Krolic
Phone: 541-476-2373
A consumer-centered-supported employment approach to integrate employment, mental health, and
case management services within community mental health centers. It emphasizes rapid and direct
movement into competitive employment matching consumer preferences.
1998, Phase II awarded 2000
Individual Placement and Support (RI)
Mental Health Systems Development Unit
Daniel McCarthy
Phone: 401-464-3291
Adopt the Individual Placement and Support model of supported employment for mental health
consumers.
1998, Phase II awarded 2000
Individual Placement and Support (OR)
Portland State University
Robert Paulson
Phone: 503-945-9704
Adopt the Individual Placement and Support model with two enhancements: extension of the application
of the model to individuals who have been dually diagnosed with substance abuse and mental illness,
and inclusion of peer counselors in the active treatment teams.
1998 Phase II awarded 2000
Employment Program for Dual Diagnosis (MA)
Boston University
Leroy Spaniol/Maria Restrepo-Toro
Phone: 617-353-3549
Adopt the “choose-get & keep” approach to vocational rehabilitation for Hispanic
persons with mental illness or with a dual diagnosis.
Funded under the Hispanic Initiative.
1998, Phase II awarded 2000
Individual Placement and Support (LA)
Mental Health Association in Louisiana
Shannon Robshaw
Phone: 225-343-1921
Adopt the Individual Placement and Support model of supported employment for adults with mental
illness.in the Baton Rouge area.
1999, Phase II awarded 2001
Individual Placement and Support (CA)
Richmond Area Multi-Services, Inc.
Evelyn Lee
Phone: 415-668-5955
Adopt the Individual Placement and Support Employment Program to adults with mental illness
in Asian and Russian communities in San Francisco.
1999, Phase II awarded Fall 2002
Advocates for Human Potential Inc./ (MA)
Matrix Research Institute, Inc. Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene
Gary Shaheen
Phone: 518-453-2255 ext. 243
Adopt supported employment services for persons with mental illness residing in the Boroughs
of Brooklyn and Staten Island, New York. Supported employment services include (1) agency-operated
community businesses to provide training for permanent competitive employment; (2) assisted competitive
employment to provide individual placement and job coaching in job positions in the local labor
market; and (3) supported self-employment that enables individuals to establish their own “micro-enterprises.”
2000, Phase II awarded 2002
Individual Placement and Support (NY)
The Mental Health Association of NY State
Terrance Murray
Phone: 518-434-0439 ext. 20
Adopt an Individual Placement and Support program in Orange County, New York.
2000, Phase II awarded 2002
Individual Placement and Support (SC)
South Carolina Department of Mental Health
John Morriss
Phone: 803-898-1149
Adopt the Individual Placement and Support model of supported employment for mental health
consumers.
Fall 2001
Choose-Get-Keep Model of Supported Employment (CT)
Chrysalis Center, Inc.
Tielen Williams
Phone: 860-525-1261
Looks at the system of employment and support services from the client’s perspective, breaking
the process down into three steps: what a client needs in the choosing-a-job phase, in the
getting-a-job phase, and in the keeping-a-job phase.
Spring 2001
Permanent Supportive Housing for Homeless Adults (HI)
with Severe Mental Illness
Affordable Housing and Homeless Alliance
Milly Tanabe
Phone: 808-373-4753
e-mail: millytanabe@hawaii.rr.com
The project will develop housing for homeless adults by increasing the inventory of permanent
supportive housing and better coordination of supportive services.
Spring 2002
Individual Placement and Support Program (NY)
Mental Health Association in NYS
Terrence Murray
Phone: 518-434-0439 ext. 17
e-mail: businessoutreach@mhanys.org
Facilitate systems change that enhances the ability of adults living with serious mental illnesses
to realize long-term employment success in two predominantly rural counties, Columbia and Greene,
New York.
Fall 2002, Phase II awarded 2003
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Therapy
Prochaska and DiClemente’s (MI)
Transtheoretical Stages of Change
Latino Family Services
Pamela Lynch
Phone: 313-841-7380
Adopt the Prochaska and DiClemente’s Transtheoretical Stages of Change Theory to address
addictive behavior among residents of Southwest Detroit, with a special focus on changing additive
behavior of Latino men.
Funded under the Hispanic Initiative.
1998
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (VT)
Vermont Department of Developmental & Mental Health Services
Mary Buttitta
Phone: 802-241-2722
Adopt Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), as a statewide best practice for providing treatment
and symptom relief for individuals who are experiencing a severe and persistent mental illness
and who meet criteria for borderline personality disorder.
1999, Phase II awarded 2001
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (UT)
Utah Division of Mental Health Brian Miller 801-538-4274
Adopt Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), to treat persons with borderline personality disorder.
1999
Refugee Trauma (CT)
Khmer Health Advocates, Inc.
Theanvy Kuoch
Phone: 860-561-3345
e-mail: Theanvy@aol.com
Focus on the effects of trauma in all mental health and physical evaluations, use of culturally
and linguistically appropriate tools, trained bi-lingual, bi-cultural health workers, training
of specialist and mainstream health care providers and involvement of the survivor community in
the development of the services.
Fall 2002
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Grants Serving Primarily Youth and Their Families
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Screening and Intervention
Early Screening Project (WY)
Uplift
Peggy Nikkel
Phone: 303-541-0279
Used for early screening for emotional disturbances in young children.
1998, Phase II awarded 2000
Substance Abuse “Second Step” Model (NM)
Presbyterian Medical Services
Roger Gillespie
Phone: 512-474-5073
Addresses substance abuse services and supports to Hispanic youth and their families.
1998 awarded by CSAT under the Hispanic Initiative.
Phase II awarded 2001
Substance Abuse/Mental Illness Family Training (OK)
University of Oklahoma
Patricia Anaya-Chavez
Phone: 405-325-1454
Addresses the substance abuse and mental health needs of Latino adolescents and their families.
Funded under the Hispanic Initiative.
1998
Comprehensive Substance Abuse Prevention (FL)
St. Jude CMHC
Pedro Roig
Phone: 305-285-1082
Adopt this comprehensive monitoring prevention model targeting at-risk Hispanic youth between
the ages of 12-17 residing in the Little Havana barrio.
1998, awarded by CSAP under the Hispanic Initiative
Dallas Model (DC)
The Mental Health Commission/Office of the Receiver - District of Columbia
William L. Granatir
Phone: 202-296-6637
Delivers school-based interventions for children and families at risk of serious emotional
disturbance.
2000
All My Relations Project (NM)
First Nations Community Health Source
Mary A. O’Neal
Phone: 505-262-2491
Mediate disputes and miscommunication among families. This project targets urban Native American
at-risk youth (ages 0-22 years) who have been diagnosed with a mental health disorder and their
families.
2000, Phase II awarded 2002
Residential Student Assistance (DC)
Substance Abuse Prevention (RSAP)
Hillcrest Children’s Center
Anita Shelton
Phone: 202-232-6100
Uses highly trained counselors placed in residential facilities to provide culturally sensitive,
alcohol, and other drug use prevention and intervention services. The model will be modified to
serve foster care youth with co-occurring disorders that live in residential facilities.
Fall 2001, awarded by CSAP under the Racial and Ethnic Initiative
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Wraparound Systems of Care
Wraparound Systems of Care are family-centered, individualized, and strength-based.
Wrap-around systems empower parents by involving them in the planning and implementing services
for their family.
Wraparound Services (NY)
Parsons Child and Family Center
Joan Valery
Phone: 518-426-2619
Adopt the wraparound model to serve children with serious emotional disturbance in Albany County,
New York.
1997
Wraparound Services (DC)
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Joe Bevilacqua/Tessie Schweitzer
Phone: 202-467-5730
Adopt the wraparound model to serve children with serious emotional disturbance and their families
in the State of Mississippi.
1997, Phase II awarded 1999
Wraparound Services (ME)
United Families for Children’s Mental Health Inc.
Pat Hunt
Phone: 207-622-3309
Adopt the wraparound model to serve children with serious emotional disturbance and their families
in two counties of Eastern Maine.
1997
Wraparound Services (DC)
Institute for Behavioral Change
Howard Mabry, Ph.D.
Phone: 202-269-6467
Adopt the wraparound model to serve seriously emotionally disturbed children and adolescents
with serious emotional disturbances and their families in the District of Columbia.
1997, Phase II awarded 1999
Wraparound Services (GA)
Georgia Parent Support Network
Sue Smith
Phone: 404-875-6801
This project seeks to adopt the wrap around model to serve children and youth with severe emotional
disturbances and their families throughout the state of Georgia.
1998, Phase II awarded 2000
Adolescent Wrap Around Services (CA)
Latino Behavioral Health Institute
Ambrose Rodriquez
Phone: 213-738-2882
Adopt the wraparound model to serve Latino adolescents with serious mental illness and those
with co-occurring substance abuse problems and their families.
Funded under the Hispanic Initiative.
1998
Wraparound Services (KS)
Keys for Networking, Inc.
Jane Adams
Phone: 785-233-8732
Adopt the wraparound model to serve children with serious emotional disturbance and their families
throughout Kansas.
1999, Phase II awarded 2001
Wraparound Services (CA)
Escondido Youth Encounter
Cecilia Tanner
Phone: 760-747-6281
Adopt the wraparound model to serve Latino children with serious emotional disturbance and
their families.
Funded under the Hispanic Initiative.
1999
Wraparound Services (GA)
Georgia Board of Commissioners
Leila H. Anderson
Phone: 912-542-2260
Adopt the wraparound model to serve children whose emotional, behavioral, and mental health
issues are so severe that they are at risk for being removed from their families and community.
2000
Wraparound Services (Guam)
Guam University
Heidi San Nicolas
Phone: 671-735-2990
Adopt the wraparound model to serve children with serious emotional disturbance and their families.
Training will include a Wraparound Institute featuring national leaders, parent-to-parent training,
and community outreach activities conducted in partnership with the Guam Alliance for Mental Health,
Inc.
2000, Phase II awarded 2002
Wraparound Services (KS)
The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation
Eric Sanderson
Phone: 785-966-2255
Adopt the wraparound model to serve children with serious emotional disturbance and their families.
2000, Phase II awarded 2002
Iowa Wraparound Project for Latino Children and Youth (IA)
The Iowa Department of Human Rights, Division of Latino Affairs
Elizabeth Newby
Phone: 515-281-4070
Adopt the wraparound model to serve Latino children and adolescents with co-occurring serious
emotional disturbance and substance abuse disorders and their families.
Spring 2001
Wraparound Services Model (Hispanic Youth/Families) (DC)
The National Hispanic Council on Aging
Millie Garci
Phone: 202-265-1288
Adopt the wraparound model to serve Latino immigrant children and families with multiple problems
and at risk for serious to severe emotional problems.
Spring 2001
Wraparound Program for SED and Deaf or Hard of Hearing (DHH) (MA)
The Learning Center for Deaf Children Walden School Program
Carla Fink
Phone: 508-879-5710
Adopt the wraparound model to serve deaf or hard-of-hearing youth at risk and create individualized
plans for support and treatment.
Fall 2001
Wraparound Enhancement Project (WI)
Family Service of Milwakee
Cecilia Vallejo
Phone: 414-342-4560
Improve the capacity of the successful Wraparound Milwaukee program to work with Hispanic adolescents
and their families.
Spring 2002
So. County Wraparound for Latino Children California State University (CA)
Monterey Bay
Jerry Endres
Phone: 831-582-3624
Wraparound will be applied to Latino children and adolescents with co-occurring severe mental
disorders and substance abuse disorders. This effort builds capacity for broadening its scope
to a mixed urban and rural population.
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Other Systems of Care
Western Pennsylvania Rural Counties Education Initiative (PA)
Western Pennsylvania Coalition for Children’s Advocacy
Elizabeth Scanlon
Phone: 412-624-2790
Adopt a coordinated system of care for children with severe emotional disturbances in 12 rural
western Pennsylvania counties.
1997, Phase II awarded 1999
Child System of Care (FL)
Family Service Association of Greater Tampa
Awilda Castro/Marjorie Carlson
Phone: 813-238-3727 ext. 206
Adopt a coordinated system of care model to serve Hispanic children with serious emotional
disturbance and their families clients.
Funded under the Hispanic Initiative.
1998, Phase II awarded 2000
System of Care for Children and (PR)
Adolescents with SED
Mental Health & Anti-Addiction Admin
Dr. Pedro Morales & Carmen Cruz
Phone: 787-764-2888
Adopt the PRICCA model to serve Puerto Rico’s medically indigent population, including children
with serious emotional disturbance and persons with co-occurring conditions.
1999
Holistic System of Care for Native Americans in an Urban Environment (CA)
The Native American Health Center
Janet King
Phone: 510-437-9574
Adopt the Holistic System of Care Model for emotionally disturbed Native American children
and those at risk for mental illness, substance abuse, and delinquency in an urban environment
and their families. Treatment linked with prevention blends traditional Native American with Western
approaches.
2000, Phase II awarded 2001
Systems of Care (OK)
Mental Health Association of Tulsa
Michael Brose
Phone: 918-585-1213
Meet the needs of children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbance and their families.
It is based on three tenets:
- Mental health service systems are driven by needs and preferences of the child and family;
- Services
are community based and built on multiagency collaborations; and
- Services offered are both
responsive and sensitive to the cultural context and other characteristics of the population
being served.
Fall 2001
Expanded School-Based Mental Health Services (VA)
Mental Health Association of Fredericksburg
Lynn DelaMer
Phone: 540-371-2704
Provides proactive, flexible, culturally sensitive, and empirically supported services to
youth and families. The school-based program coordinates formerly fragmented systems of care.
Fall 2001
Community Asset Development (KT)
Northern Kentucky University
Holly Riffe
Phone: 859-572-5609
Develop, foster, and sustain a regional network of comprehensive services to Latino children
and their families struggling with severe emotional disturbances and/or substance abuse disorders.
The proposed exemplary practice is community assets-based development. Community asset development
focuses on finding the strengths that exist within the community and its residents and building
those capacities to meet the needs resulting in a seamless resource and treatment network for
Latino children and their families through developing and enhancing of existing resources.
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Therapy
Good Grief Model (DC)
St. Francis Center
Robert Washington
Phone: 202-624-0010
Adopt Boston’s Good Grief model addressing children’s grief education and counseling
when faced with the loss of a loved one.
1999
Multisystemic Therapy (MST) (CO)
Denver Area Youth Services
Margaret McFarland
Phone: 303 698-2300
Adopt multisystemic therapy (MST), an intensive community-based treatment to serve Latino adolescents
with co-occurring disorders of serious emotional disturbance and substance abuse or dependence.
MST is an intensive family- and community-based treatment that addresses multiple determinants
of antisocial behavior. MST families receive an average of 60 hours of four types of therapies
over a period of 4 months including: strategic family, structural family, behavioral parent training,
and cognitive behavioral. MST has demonstrated reductions in recidivism, and mental health problems
among at-risk youth.
2000, Phase II awarded 2001
Central Virginia Community Services’ (VA)
Child and Family Center
Barbara Crowder
Phone: 434-948-4831
Adopt multisystemic therapy to meet the needs of chronic delinquent youth with serious emotional
disturbance in Amherst and Campbell Counties.
Spring 2002
Children’ Friend and Family Services (MA)
Jack Simons
Phone: 978-744-7905 ext. 356
Adopt multisystemic therapy to treat adolescents with serious emotional disturbance.
Spring, 2001
Functional Family Therapy (AK)
Alaska Council of School Administrators
J.K. Tonsmiere
Provide 8 to 30 hours of direct services for youth and their families, targeting, 11 to 18
years old and at risk or already demonstrating conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder,
or disruptive behavior disorder. The project includes strong partnership from tribes, behavioral
health providers, and law enforcement.
Spring 2002
Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic
Behavioral Health Services
Janis Luvaas
Phone: 509-453-1344
e-mail: janisl@ykfwc.org
Ensure culturally and linguistically appropriate services.
Spring 2002
Multisystemic Therapy (NY)
Cayuga County Safe School/Healthy
Students Partnership, Inc.
Philip Uninsky
Phone: 315-282-0005 ext. 12
e-mail: uninsky@cayuganet.org
Serve all of the eligible youth in Cayuga County, New York, through implementing a multisystemic
therapy program for seriously emotionally disturbed youthful offenders (ages 8-21).
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Transitional Service
Youth Requiring Transition Services (CA)
Parents Helping Parents, Inc.
Lois Jones
Phone: 415-841-8820
Adopt transitional services to African-American youth (between the ages 14-22) with serious
emotional disturbance in San Francisco.
1997
Youth Transition (CT)
North Central Regional Mental Health Board
Sheryl Breetz
Phone: 860-667-6388
Adopt a model transition system for adolescents and young adults, ages 16-25, with serious
emotional/behavioral disturbances and/or emerging mental illness.
1998, Phase II awarded 2000
IPS Model for Homeless Youth Transition (OR)
Portland State University
Robert Paulson
Phone: 503-725-5195
Adopt the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model to enhance existing assertive community
treatment (ACT) services by integrating an employment specialist, dual diagnosis specialist, housing
specialist, trauma specialist, and peer outreach worker into the team working with homeless young
adults with mental illness.
Fall 2001
Transition to Independence (TN)
Tennessee Voices for Children
Charlotte Bryson
Phone: 615-269-7751
Provide support and advocacy for the youth as he/she navigates the system. It is individualized,
self- determined, and focused on positive outcomes.
Spring 2002
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