Project STAR-TEAM, Phoenix, Ariz. - $199,059 for the first year. The project will work to improve access and retention by utilizing the evidence-based practices of contingency management and motivational intervention.
PROTOTYPES Strengthening Treatment Access and Retention Initiative, Pomona, Calif. - $199,456 for the first year. This cooperative agreement with PROTOTYPES Women's Center, a treatment organization, will focus on improving the intake unit in an effort to improve both access and retention. The grantee will use both process improvement techniques and motivational interviewing.
Florida STAR Project, Orlando, Fla. - $200,000 for the first year. This cooperative agreement with The Center for Drug Free Living, Inc., will focus on redesigning client referral, intake, and placement. The project will employ process improvement techniques as well as motivational enhancement therapy.
Redesign Engagement Strategies Substance Abuse Services, Lee County, Dixon, Ill. - $198,187 for the first year. The grantee will work to improve treatment wait times as well as centralize intake. The project will utilize motivational interviewing in this process.
Increasing Treatment Access and Retention in New Orleans - $196,761 for the first year. The project will implement a continuous quality improvement system as well as motivational enhancement therapy and the American Society of Addiction Medicine Patient Placement Criteria.
Staff Training on Access and Retention, Boston - $200,000 for the first year. The project will employ motivational interviewing and contingency management in the grantee's efforts to improve access and retention in these programs.
Strengthening Treatment Access and Retention Project, Research Triangle Park, N.C. - $200,000 for the first year. The grantee will implement quality improvement processes and also motivational interviewing to improve treatment access and retention.
Women's Alliance for Strengthening Access and Retention Services, Reno, Nev. - $200,000 for the first year. The grantee will streamline current assessment processes as well as implement motivational interviewing and "Seeking Safety," a program developed for substance-abusing women who also suffer from a trauma disorder.
Addressing Co-morbidity, Access and Retention, Bronx, N.Y. - $194,940 for the first year. The project is targeted toward the intake process and client-counselor relationship and will improve on these through the utilization of effective practices.
The Mid-Columbia STAR Project in Eastern Oregon - $200,000 for the first year. The grantee will implement process improvement methods to improve access and retention as well as motivational interviewing and several evidence-based tools developed by Texas Christian University.
Northern Rhode Island Community Mental Health Center, Providence, R.I. - $120,718 for the first year. The cooperative agreement supports the improvement of client access and retention through the redesign of intake services and development of a central referral registry.
Strengthening Access and Retention in San Antonio - $199,606 for the first year. The grantee will implement of variety of evidence-based quality improvement practices and treatment practices.
Vanguard Initiative for Process Access and Retention, Arlington, Va. - $191,247 for the first year. This cooperative agreement The grantee will be targeting its intake/admission procedures for quality improvement and will also be using motivational intervention.
Part One: Grants to Help Improve Treatment Access.
