[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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