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  1. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services AdministrationGinny Gorman-Gipp, Senior Advisor for Tribal AffairsLisa Park, Staff Lead for Older AdultsPresentation at the U.S. Administration on AgingNational Title VI Training and Technical Assistance ForumRadisson Plaza Lord Baltimore HotelMay 2, 2007

  2. Goals of Presentation • Provide an overview of SAMHSA grants programs and resources • Highlight some culturally-relevant approaches to addressing mental health and substance abuse programs • Discuss how SAMHSA grants and resources could link with AoA Title VI services

  3. SAMHSA FY 2007 Grants • For a complete list, please visit http://www.samhsa.gov/Grants/2007/fy2007.aspx • Tribes and Tribal organizations are eligible for ALL SAMHSA discretionary grants • Highlight: • Access to Recovery • Targeted Capacity Expansion

  4. Access to Recovery (ATR) • Grants to carry-out voucher programs for substance abuse clinical treatment and recovery support services • $96 million available in FY 2007 • Up to 18 grant awards • Anticipated award amount is up to $7 million per year for up to 3 years • Applications due June 7, 2007 • http://www.samhsa.gov/Grants/2007/TI_07_005.aspx

  5. Targeted Capacity Expansion Grants • Grants to expand and enhance the community's ability to provide a comprehensive, integrated, and community-based response to a targeted, well-documented substance abuse treatment capacity problem and/or improve the quality and intensity of services

  6. Targeted Capacity Expansion Grants (continued) • Grant application being accepted under 4 categories: • Native American, Alaska Native, Asian American, Pacific Islander Populations • E-Therapy • Grassroots Partnerships • Other Populations or Emerging Substance Abuse Issues

  7. Targeted Capacity Expansion Grants (continued) • Up to $8 million available in FY 2007 • Up to 16 grant awards • Anticipated award amount is up to $500,000 per year for up to 3 years • Applications due May 25, 2007 • http://www.samhsa.gov/Grants/2007/TI_07_008.aspx

  8. SAMHSA Resources • Highlight: • Tribal Training and Technical Assistance Sessions • Native American Technical Assistance Resource Center • Older Americans Substance Abuse and Mental Health Technical Assistance Center • Addiction Technology Transfer Centers • Older Adult Practice Implementation Resource Toolkit • Publications

  9. Tribal Training and Technical Assistance Sessions • Goal to share information on funding opportunities and agency initiatives • Partnership between • Department of Health and Human Services, SAMHSA • Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs • Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs

  10. Tribal Training and Technical Assistance Session (continued) • Remaining two sessions: • June 4-6, 2007 in Shelton, WA • July 29-August 2 in Phoenix, AZ • Scholarship, and agenda information available at: http://www.samhsa.gov/tribal/training/aspx • Additional information (including hotel) at http://www.tribaljusticeandsafety.gov/

  11. Older Americans Substance Abuse and Mental Health Technical Assistance Center • Mission is to enhance the quality of life and promote the physical and mental well-being of older Americans through the provision of technical assistance by reducing the risk for and incidence of substance abuse and mental health issues late in life. • Provide technical assistance and training • Identify evidence-based geriatric substance abuse, mental health, health promotion and education programs • http://www.samhsa.gov/OlderAdultsTAC/index.aspx

  12. Addiction Technology Transfer Centers (ATTCs) • Purpose is todevelop and strengthen the workforce that provides addictions treatment services • ATTCs will assess the training and development needs of the substance use disorders workforce, and develop and conduct training and technology transfer activities to meet identified needs • Provide technical assistance on treatment-related issues through partnerships with Regional Indian Health Boards • Will be underway in early FY 2008

  13. Native American Technical Assistance Resource Center • Provide targeted technical assistance to current Tribal Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants (SPF-SIG) grantees and prospective grant applicants

  14. Older Adult Practice Implementation Resource Toolkit • Focus on older adult depression; address some disorders that are commonly co-occurring with depression • Reach out to three types of provider audiences- mental health specialty, primary care providers, and aging social services and area aging networks • Provide decision support to choose the best type of evidence-based practice given the settings and population • Highly navigable, searchable, and semi-interactive CD-Rom; available in 2008

  15. SAMHSA Publications • For a complete list, please visit http://www.samhsa.gov/aging/age_08.aspx • Select Publications • Get Connected! Toolkit: Linking Older Adults with Medication, Alcohol, and Mental Health Resources • Substance Abuse Relapse Prevention Manual for Older Adults: A Group Treatment Approach • Treatment Improvement Protocol 26: Substance Abuse Among Older Adults

  16. Culturally-relevant approaches • Highlight: • HHS Indian Country Methamphetamine Initiative • Regional Planning Events to Address Methamphetamine Use • Tribal Policy Academy on Co-Occurring Substance Abuse and Mental Health Disorders • Tribal Consultation Policy

  17. HHS Indian Country Methamphetamine Initiative • Address outreach and education needs of Native American communities on meth abuse • Developing national information and outreach campaign and a culturally specific meth abuse education kit • Documenting and evaluating promising practices in education on meth use • Creating meth awareness multi-disciplinary education teams

  18. HHS Indian Country Methamphetamine Initiative (continue) • 5 Sites • Winnebago Tribe- prevention site • Navajo Nation and the Northern Arapaho Tribe- intervention and treatment sites • Crow Tribe and Choctaw Nation- treatment and recovery sites • $1.2 million awarded to American Association of Indian Physicians and its partners • SAMHSA Partnership with HHS Office of Minority Health, Indian Health Service and NIH

  19. Regional Planning Events to Address Methamphetamine Use • 4 Planning events to help States with their legislative and policy efforts to combat meth use and identify best practices that will be replicated in other States • 21-person State team, including Tribes and Tribal organizations • Partnership with SAMHSA, Office of National Drug Control Policy, Department of Justice/Office of Justice Programs/Bureau of Justice Assistance, National Alliance for Model State Drug Laws

  20. Tribal Policy Academy on Co-Occurring Substance Abuse and Mental Health Disorders • Purpose is to improve and expand access to effective, culturally relevant, and appropriate prevention and treatment services and supports • Bring together Tribal Teams of officials and nationally recognized faculty and facilitators who will assist the Teams to develop an Action Plan for expanding access and improving co-occurring treatment and prevention services in their communities • September 2007 in Albuquerque, NM

  21. Tribal Consultation Policy • Based on revised HHS Policy (2005) • Tribal-Federal Technical Team convened • 90-Day Public Comment Period • Approved by SAMHSA Administrator (March 2007)

  22. Linking SAMHSA Grants and Resources with AoA Title VI Services • AoA’s reauthorization (signed October 2006) included new mental health provisions (no mandates) • Under Title II • To develop objectives, priorities, and a long-term plan for supporting State and Local efforts involving education about and prevention, detection, and treatment of mental disorders

  23. Linking SAMHSA Grants and Resources with AoA Title VI Services • Under Title III • In coordination with the State agency and with the State agency responsible for mental health services, increase public awareness of mental health disorders, remove barriers to diagnosis and treatment, and coordinate mental health services (including mental health screening)

  24. JOIN US FOR IHS-SAMHSA 5th Annual National Behavioral Health Conference June 12-14 Albuquerque, NM Training and networking opportunity for American Indians and Alaska Natives working in the behavioral health fields with the Indian Health Service http://www.kauffmaninc.com/2007BHCONFERENCE/

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