FPG Project Summary

SAMSHA Science to Service Implementation Award (Year 2)

This project coordinates the process for the SAMHSA Science and Service Award described below. The coordination activities include:

-recruit applications from agencies across the nation
-review applications
-recruit national experts to review applications
-correspond with applicants and experts
-score and/or record scores of all applicants to identify top applications
-correspond and send final list to SAMHSA
-help prepare the press release

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has advanced a Science and Service Initiative to facilitate knowledge dissemination, promote implementation of effective, evidenced-based mental health and substance abuse interventions into routine clinical and community-based practice, and strengthen feedback from the field to influence services research programs. As part of this initiative, SAMHSA has created the Science and Services Awards as a way of recognizing community-based organizations and/or coalitions that successfully have implemented one or more recognized evidence-based interventions to benefit consumers and/or communities. Community-based organizations/coalitions must have successfully implemented a recognized evidence-based intervention for at least one year in order to be eligible to apply. The organization implementing the evidence-based intervention should be able to demonstrate positive outcomes from the intervention, how the implementation of the intervention occurred and was assessed, how the intervention met a need in their community and how that evidenced-based intervention will be sustained. Applicants can apply in one of the following categories:

1) Substance abuse prevention;
2) Treatment of substance abuse and recovery support services;
3) Mental health promotion;
4) Treatment of mental illness and recovery support services;
5) Co-occurring disorders (i.e., mental illness and substance abuse).