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For Immediate Release Contact SAMHSA Press Office: 240-276-2130

October 28, 2008 [www.samhsa.gov](http://www.samhsa.gov/)

**SAMHSA Awards More Than \$91 Million in Community Substance Abuse and
HIV/AIDS Prevention Grants to Help At-Risk Racial/Ethnic Minority
Populations**

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
today announced the award of 55 new grants totaling more than \$91
million over the next five years to community-based organizations
providing integrated substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention services to
at-risk minority populations.

Grantees will use SAMHSA's Strategic Prevention Framework, a prevention
process based on community needs, to build substance abuse and HIV/AIDS
prevention capacity for traditionally underserved communities.
Traditionally underserved communities include African-American, Latino,
and other racial or ethnic populations residing in geographic areas with
high rates of substance abuse and HIV prevalence.

"These grants are designed to help communities combat the inter-related
problems of substance abuse and HIV/AIDS," said SAMHSA Acting
Administrator Eric Broderick, D.D.S., M.P.H. "In particular, these
grants will help communities in areas of greatest need effectively
prevent substance abuse and exposure to HIV/AIDS."

The programs selected for these grants can receive up to \$400,000 each
year, over the course of five years. The actual award amounts may vary,
depending on the availability of funds and the progress achieved by the
awardees. The funds are awarded and administered by SAMHSA's Center for
Substance Abuse Prevention.

The grant awardees and their projected yearly grant amounts are:

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  **Grantee**                         **First-Year Grant Award**

  Centerstone Community Mental Health \$335,333
  Centers, Inc. of Nashville, Tenn.   

  Institute for Health Recovery,      \$335,333
  Cambridge, Mass.                    

  University of Texas Health Science  \$335,333
  Center, San Antonio                 

  Fundacion Latino Americana Contra   \$333,533
  El Sid, Houston, Texas              

  Access Community Health Network,    \$335,333
  Chicago                             

  Bienvenidos Children's Center, Inc. \$335,333
  Altadena, Calif.                    

  Coastal Bend AIDS Foundation,       \$335,333
  Corpus Christi, Tex.                

  BIENESTAR Human Services, Inc., Los \$335,333
  Angeles                             

  Bronx AIDS Services, Inc., New York \$335,333
  City                                

  Public Health Institute, Oakland,   \$335,333
  Calif.                              

  Wright State University, Dayton,    \$335,333
  Ohio                                

  COPE Community Services, Inc.,      \$335,333
  Tucson, Ariz.                       

  Washington Area Consortium on HIV   \$335,333
  in Youth, Washington, D.C.          

  Recovery Consultants of Atlanta,    \$335,333
  Inc., Atlanta, Ga.                  

  Washington University, St. Louis,   \$335,333
  Mo.                                 

  Gay Men's Health Crisis, New York   \$335,333
  City                                

  Tampa Hillsborough Action Plan,     \$335,333
  Inc., Tampa, Fla.                   

  Health Services Center, Inc. Hobson \$335,333
  City, Ala.                          

  New Horizons Community Service      \$335,333
  Board, Columbus, Ga.                

  Adult Well-Being Services, Detroit  \$335,333

  Asian American Drug Abuse Program,  \$291,726
  Inc., Los Angeles                   

  Serving Children and Adolescents in \$335,333
  Need, Laredo, Texas                 

  Higher Dimension Church, Houston,   \$335,333
  Texas                               

  Montrose Counseling Center, Inc.,   \$335,333
  Houston, Texas                      

  Kansas City Free Health Clinic,     \$335,333
  Kansas City, Mo.                    

  Wholistic Stress Control Institute, \$335,333
  Inc., Atlanta, Ga.                  

  Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, \$335,333
  Los Angeles                         

  Positive Efforts, Inc., Houston,    \$335,333
  Texas                               

  Council on Substance Abuse --       \$335,333
  NCADD, Montgomery, Ala.             

  Northern Ohio Recovery Association, \$335,333
  Cleveland, Ohio                     

  La Clinica de la Raza, Inc.,        \$335,333
  Oakland, Calif.                     

  Iris House, New York City           \$335,333

  Vocational Instructional Project    \$335,333
  Community Services, New York City   

  The University of Tennessee,        \$335,333
  Knoxville, Tenn.                    

  AIDS HELP, Inc., Key West, Fla.     \$335,333

  Renz Addiction Counseling Center,   \$335,333
  Elgin, Ill.                         

  Montclair State University,         \$335,333
  Montclair, N.J.                     

  Strategic Community Services, Inc., \$335,333
  Glenarden, Md.                      

  Latino Community Services, Inc.,    \$335,333
  Hartford, Conn.                     

  Medical University of South         \$335,333
  Carolina, Charleston, S.C.          

  Valley AIDS Council, Inc.,          \$335,333
  Harlingen, Texas                    

  Wayside Youth Family Support        \$335,333
  Network, Framingham, Mass.          

  Southwest Louisiana Area Health     \$335,333
  Education Center, Lafayette, La.    

  Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force,         \$335,333
  Pittsburgh, Pa.                     

  Hope Action Care (HAC), San         \$335,333
  Antonio, Texas                      

  Community Prevention                \$335,333
  Partnership/Berks County, Reading,  
  Pa.                                 

  The Drug & Alcohol Treatment        \$335,333
  Association of Rhode Island,        
  Providence                          

  Seven Hills Behavioral Health, New  \$335,333
  Bedford, Mass.                      

  Detroit Recovery Project, Inc.,     \$335,333
  Detroit, Mich.                      

  Clifford W. Beers Guidance Clinic,  \$335,333
  Inc., New Haven, Conn.              

  River Region Human Services, Inc.,  \$335,333
  Jacksonville, Fla.                  

  Tapestry Health, Florence, Mass.    \$335,333

  Roca, Inc., Chelsea, Mass.          \$335,333

  Community Education Group,          \$335,333
  Washington, D.C.                    

  Special Health Resources for Texas, \$335,333
  Inc., Longview, Texas               
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*SAMHSA is a public health agency within the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services.  The agency is responsible for improving the
accountability, capacity and effectiveness of the nation's substance
abuse prevention, addictions treatment and mental health services
delivery systems*

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