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Organizations Share $13.2 Million for Mental
Services to Older Adults
Oct. 12, 2005 – Organizations in nine states will
share $13.2 million in grants to provide mental health services to older
adults, according to an announcement today by Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
These grants will help community-based
organizations increase capacity or improve the array of services
available to people 60 years and older who are at risk for or are
experiencing mental health problems, said Charles Curie, SAMHSA
Administrator.
"Mental health problems can be significant issues
for older adults. As with any other age groups, by preventing these
problems from occurring in the first place and by addressing them
promptly when they do arise, we can enhance the lives and health of
millions of older Americans," said Administrator Curie.
"These grants will help communities build a solid
service delivery system for effective mental health outreach, treatment
and prevention services, as well as direct delivery of services."
Just over $4 million will be awarded in the first
year and a similar amount will be distributed among the 11 awardees in
the subsequent two years. Award grantees are:
Arizona
Chiricahua Community Health Center, Elfrida --
$400,000 per year to provide a culturally-based intervention program
that addresses behavioral health prevention of depression, both related
and unrelated to diabetes and dementia, in residents over the age of 60.
The project is designed to increase social interaction, provide mentally
stimulating programs and physical exercise.
Valle del Sol, Inc., Phoenix -- $398,800 in the
first year and similar amounts in subsequent years to target Latino
elderly, ages 60 years and older, at risk for or experiencing mental
health problems in southwest Phoenix and the communities of Surprise and
El Mirage. The program will use evidenced- based models of outreach
prevention, and treatment targeting seniors with depression or at-risk
for suicide. Consumer-driven and culturally adapted services will be
provided to Latino seniors.
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Colorado
Jefferson Center for Mental Health, Arvada --
$395,340 in the first year and similar amounts in subsequent years to
provide services based on the "Gatekeeper" model in a five county area,
Jefferson, Boulder, Gilpin, Clear Creek and Broomfield. The service
model includes a single point-of-entry call center and outreach teams
hired and trained to be sent on referred home visits of elderly adults
in need.
Hawaii
University of Hawaii, Honolulu -- $400,000 per year
to increase the capacity of the state to provide specialized and
enhanced mental health and social services to people over the age of 60.
Hawaii will provide education and support to caregivers and service
providers dealing with older adults with serious mental illnesses and
offer enhanced clinical services to older adults with serious mental
illnesses through the use of an evidence-based, community- based
geriatric mental health treatment team.
Massachusetts
Cambridge Public Health Commission -- $400,000 per
year to expand access to underserved elderly residents in the Metronorth
area of Boston through the efforts of the Cambridge Health Alliance. The
project will expand accessible mental health services to
functionally-homebound elderly persons with serious mental illness in
the four-city region of Malden, Everett, Revere and Medford utilizing
the evidence-based practices in place in the adjoining cities of
Cambridge and Somerville. The program will also integrate mental health
and primary health care.
New York
Nachas Health and Family Network, Inc., Brooklyn --
$400,000 per year to address the needs of Holocaust survivors and their
older adult children. Project Chai will address the needs of persons
ages 60 and older who live in three sections of Brooklyn that have heavy
concentrations of Holocaust survivors. The project will enhance
outreach, engagement and referral services needed by isolated, withdrawn
Holocaust survivors and their aging children by adapting the Assertive
Community Treatment (ACT) model. Assertive Community Treatment is an
evidence based mental health services delivery model for delivering key
medical, rehabilitative and social services to persons with severe and
persistent mental illness in the community.
Ohio
Cuyahoga City Community Mental Health Board,
Cleveland -- $376,536 in the first year and similar amounts in
subsequent years to increase access and capacity through collaboration
of mental health service providers, the county department of senior and
adult services and adult guardianship services. The program will serve
older people in crisis or who are homeless and will engage seniors with
mental health needs through outreach services. The program will adapt
several evidence-based treatment practices for helping family members
learn more about mental illness and helping them respond appropriately
to the needs and behaviors of family members with mental illness, and
helping mental health consumers learn to self-manage their illness and
work toward recovery.
Tennessee
Centerstone Community Mental Health Center,
Nashville -- $400,000 per year to deliver mental health outreach,
treatment and prevention services for adults ages 60 and older in
Davidson County. The manualized evidenced-based model for treating elder
depression known as the IMPACT model (Improving Mood Promoting Access to
Collaborative Treatment for Late Life Depression) will be implemented
for seniors as well as enhanced electronic medical records.
Texas
Longview Wellness Center, Inc., Longview --
$399,940 in the first year and similar amounts in subsequent years to
develop a community-based service delivery system and infrastructure
that will work through area organizations to reach people over 60 at
risk for mental illness. The project is designed to improve the
coordination of care between physicians and mental health practitioners
and implement a fully integrated treatment program through a primary
health care clinic.
Montrose Counseling Center, Inc., Houston --
$400,000 per year to provide peer outreach, education and counseling by
adults ages 60 and older, as well as professional counseling and case
management for 250 vulnerable adults ages 60 and older in each of the
three years.
Virginia
Boat People, SOS, Inc., Falls Church -- $400,000
per year to provide access to mental health services for approximately
3,000 Vietnamese elders in Northern Virginia, including some 1,000
torture survivors and their spouses. Few of these have been able to
access mental health care because of the lack of linguistically and
culturally appropriate services. Home-based mental health care, peer
support services, and clinical counseling will be provided.
SAMHSA is a public health agency within the
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
service delivery system.
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