[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 23 (Wednesday, February 4, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5812-5813]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-2703]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Grant Award to the National Center on Addiction and Substance
Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University
AGENCY: Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), HHS.
ACTION: Availability of grant funds for the National Center on
Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University.
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SUMMARY: This notice is to inform the public that CSAT is making
available approximately $300,000 for an award in FY 1998 to CASA to
support a program intended to identify an effective model for
maximizing help to Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)
eligible women suffering from alcohol and other drug problems, to
eliminate or reduce their substance use, obtain and maintain employment
and, consequently, reduce their dependence on welfare. Eligibility for
this program is limited to CASA because CASA is the only organization
that has established and will soon implement at several sites an
experimental design research program for moving substance abusing TANF
recipients into sustained employment. The application will be
considered for funding on the basis of its overall technical merit as
determined through the peer and CSAT National Advisory Council review
processes.
An award to CASA will supplement a program that CASA has already
initiated with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to test
a comprehensive treatment/employment preparedness model in six sites.
Funding from CSAT will allow for the establishment and evaluation of
this model in a seventh less populated site. Without CSAT funding, such
a site would not have participated in this program and the
applicability of the model in a less populated location would not be
known. A lead agency will be identified at each program site by CASA.
This agency can be a community based substance abuse treatment,
employment, or social services agency. The site will integrate gender-
specific, culturally/ethnically appropriate, comprehensive treatment
(including substance abuse treatment, employability training, medical
services, life skills training, support services, and family services)
in a nurturing setting, under the guidance of intensive case
management. Each site will coordinate with other community resources,
as necessary, to ensure that program participants are provided with the
comprehensive array of services. A multi-site evaluation, using matched
control groups, will be undertaken by an
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external evaluator, and an internal process and qualitative evaluation
will be conducted by CASA.
Authority: The award will be made under the authority of Section
501(d)(5) of the Public Health Service Act, as amended (42 U.S.C.
290aa). The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number for
this program is 93.230.
CONTACT: Dr. Jane Taylor, Director, Division of Practice and Systems
Development, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, SAMHSA, Rockwall II,
6th floor, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, (301) 443-6534.
Dated: January 29, 1998.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 98-2703 Filed 2-3-98; 8:45 am]
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