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Date:	September 27 , 2006
	Media Contact:	SAMHSA Press
	Telephone:	240-276-2130

	SAMHSA Awards $21.9 Million for Mental Health Transformation State Incentive Grants
	The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) today announced the award of two new Mental Health Transformation State Incentive grants totaling $21.9 million over five years.  The grants support infrastructure and service delivery improvements that will help build a solid foundation for delivering and sustaining effective mental health and related services.  Kathryn Power, director of the Center for Mental Health Services at SAMHSA, announced the grants during her presentation to the New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services. These awards will help transform the current maze of services, treatments and supports into a seamless mental health care delivery system that is responsive to the needs of consumers and families, not of bureaucracies,” said Assistant Surgeon General Eric Broderick, D.D.S., M.P.H., SAMHSA Acting Deputy Administrator.  “These new grants continue to advance the transformation agenda outlined in the federal action agenda for mental health care.” The Mental Health Transformation State Incentive Grant program is administered by SAMHSA’s Center for Mental Health Services. Total funding for 2006 is approximately $4 million. Continuation of these awards is subject to both availability of funds and progress achieved by awardees. Grants were awarded to: State of Hawaii -- $2,190,500 for the first year to develop mental health resources across all agencies that fund or provide mental health supports or services.  The goals are to create a sustainable, fully integrated, comprehensive, statewide mental health plan and to implement a system-wide transformation process over the five-year grant period. State of Missouri - $2,190,500 for the first year to facilitate the state’s Mental Health Transformation Initiative: Creating Communities of Hope. The goal is to transform the state’s mental health services system and to place emphasis on children’s mental health , the state’s suicide prevention process and the relationship between consumers and their families with the mental health service system.