[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 144 (Monday, July 28, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40369-40370]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-19723]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration


Grants to Family Resources, Inc., Bettendorf, Iowa, and PACE/
Orchard Place-Child Guidance, Inc., Des Moines, Iowa

AGENCY: Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), Substance Abuse 
and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), DHHS.

ACTION: Planned awards to prevent substance use among youth at risk for 
gang/juvenile court involvement in Davenport and Des Moines, Iowa.

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SUMMARY: This notice is to provide information to the public concerning 
planned awards by CSAP/SAMHSA to Family Resources, Inc., Bettendorf, 
Iowa, and PACE/Orchard Place-Child Guidance, Inc., Des Moines, Iowa, to 
fund the ``Iowa Youth Substance Abuse Prevention Community-Based 
Initiative.'' This initiative is designed to educate and enable Iowa's 
youth at risk for gang involvement and/or first involvement in juvenile 
court to reject illegal drugs as well as the underage use of alcohol 
and tobacco. It is intended to provide these youth, early in life, 
positive messages, role models, and opportunities to learn and achieve.
    Upon receipt of satisfactory applications that are recommended for 
approval by an Initial Review Group and the CSAP National Advisory 
Council, up to $417,500 in Federal funds may be awarded to each 
organization for a 12-month project period.
    This is not a formal request for applications. Grant funds will be 
provided only to the two organizations named above.

AUTHORITY/JUSTIFICATION: These grants will be made under the authority 
of Section 501(d)(5) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
290aa).
    The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number is 93.144.
    Iowa is presently serving as a national model for coordinating 
Federal substance abuse prevention funds and activities with the Iowa 
Departments of Education, Human Rights, Human Services, Public Safety, 
the Iowa Governor's Alliance on Substance Abuse and three State 
universities. It is one of very few States with this level of 
coordination. Iowa also presents unique opportunities to exploit this 
Federal and State-level coordination in relation to substance abuse 
prevention service directed at substance abuse among youthful gang 
members due to the previously established activities of two service 
providers in the cities of Des Moines and Davenport. It is believed the 
experiences in these two cities in addressing substance abuse among 
gang members will serve as a relatively confined model, not possible in 
larger problem areas, of what benefits can accrue when multi-level 
State collaboration and Federal participation merge in addressing this 
subgroup. It is noted that community poverty and delinquency are 
believed to be the two strongest characteristics of youth who join 
gangs and are also important to youth involvement in substance abuse. 
CSAP expects that the multi-faceted collaborative approach in providing 
innovative strategies in addressing factors in multiple domains which 
is possible in Iowa through these service providers will provide 
evidence of the utility of such approaches. CSAP anticipates the Iowa 
model will become even more useful to other States if this juvenile 
gang connection to substance abuse is further developed as a result of 
the funds provided by this initiative.
    Eligibility to apply for funds under this initiative in Iowa is 
limited to Family Resources, Inc., in Bettendorf,

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Iowa, and PACE/Orchard Place-Child Guidance, Inc., in Des Moines, Iowa, 
whose innovative efforts to design and implement state-of-the art 
substance abuse and gang prevention programming have made them uniquely 
suited for this explorative effort.
    Both organizations address youth substance abuse by preventing 
school truancy, improving academic performance, tracking services to 
improve school attendance, providing tutoring services, family 
involvement projects, after-school programming, extensive substance 
abuse education, and school-based supportive services. Additionally, 
PACE/Orchard Place-Child Guidance, Inc., is the only private agency in 
Iowa working with substance abuse and delinquency prevention and 
truancy reduction in the Des Moines public schools. PACE/Orchard Place-
Child Guidance, Inc., is also the primary private provider of 
preventive services under contract with Polk County Juvenile Court. 
Similarly, Family Resources, Inc., administers the oldest substance 
abuse prevention and gang intervention program in the ``Quad cities'' 
area, and the program served as a pilot project for the State of Iowa.
    For the above reasons, only applications from the Iowa 
organizations identified above may be considered for this program.

CONTACT: Sylvia L. Quinton, J.D., Deputy Director, Office of Policy and 
Planning, CSAP, SAMHSA, Rockwall II, 9th Floor, 5600 Fishers Lane, 
Rockville, MD 20857; (301) 443-0315.

    Dated: July 20, 1997.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 97-19723 Filed 7-25-97; 8:45 am]
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