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Harkin: Sequestration Would Cut SAPT Block Grant by $131 Million Program Carves Uncommon Niche with Yearlong Adult Treatment Meth Labs Blur Distinction Between Criminal and Patient in Mo. Why Addiction Studies Should be Delivered in Academia Enforcement Reduces Consequences of College Drinking Ohio Gets $50,000 BRSS TACS Grant for State's Peer Support Services Briefly Noted Obituary Coming up     

An evaluation of the rural development commission's redundant building grant

The Rural Development Grant operates the Redundant Building Grant which is designed to bring redundant buildings in certain areas into commercial activity. This paper outlines the results of a recent evaluation of the Grant largely based on contacts with more than 400 applicants in nine counties. This survey is used to explore five aspects of rural policy: property development; business performance; job creation; integrated rural development; and aspects of land use planning.     

Fundraising: From art to science

Principles of Professional Fundraising: Useful Foundations for Successful Practice, by Joseph R. Mixer. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993. 275 pp. Finding Funding: The Comprehensive Guide to Grant Writing, by Daniel M. Barber. Long Beach, Calif.: Bond Street, 1994. 209 pp.     

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Block Grant, Health Care Reform, Parity Challenges for Field Despite Uncertainties, Providers See Working in Primary Care as a Must More Trends and Developments from 2011 Reflections from Readers: Hopes and Fears for 2012 Coming up     

‘Outcasts from the world’: same-sex sexuality,authority, and belonging in post-emancipation Jamaica

In 1839, Jamaican plantation attorney Alexander Grant sued missionaries John Stainsby and Samuel Oughton for slander; they had accused Grant of ‘lewd and indecent practices’ with enslaved and apprenticed men. Missionaries and abolitionist supporters on one side, and Grant and the plantocracy on the other, used the scandal to challenge their opponents’ suitability to shape post-emancipation society. The trials show that sex – and same-sex sexuality – was central to the contest for social authority. Several freedmen testified that Grant had coerced them into sexual interactions. Grappling with archival silences, the essay considers how the admissions affected their sense of masculinity and communal belonging.     

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Obama Budget: Safe and Drug Free Schools Cut, Block Grant Level Funded Providers See Facility Licensure Rules as Barrier to Integrated Treatment Ala. Treatment Funding Increases Help Department in Lean Times How to Comment on the Parity Request for Information (RFI) Health Care Reform: Parity Included in Senate Committee Report Briefly Noted State News Business Coming up     

Bridging the gap: The impact of home visiting programs for orphans and vulnerable children on social grant uptake in South Africa

Cash transfer programs hold significant potential to mitigate the economic burdens resulting from the HIV epidemic and enhance the wellbeing of affected children. South Africa offers two cash transfers designed specifically to benefit children: the Child Support Grant, for low income families with children, and the Foster Child Grant, for children living outside of parental care. Given the high proportion of HIV-affected children who qualify for these grants, increasing grant access among eligible families is a natural objective for many programs targeting orphans and vulnerable children. We present results from a quasi-experimental study examining differences in grant uptake over a two year period among 1487 children enrolled in one of two types of supportive home visiting programming: volunteer-based or paraprofessional. The study also examined related outcomes including household food security and children's access to basic educational and material needs. Results show that programs staffed with trained paraprofessionals who received training, compensation and other support were significantly more effective at linking families to social grants for children. Controlling for important covariates, at follow-up participants in the paraprofessional model programs were nearly three times as likely as volunteer-based service recipients to have access to the highest grant they were eligible to receive. Grant receipt was also positively associated with household food security and children's obtainment of basic educational and material resources. Effective strategies for promoting social grant access among HIV-affected households therefore have the potential to yield significant improvements in wellbeing for orphans and vulnerable children.     

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RWJF Departure from Addiction Grants Means $50 Million a Year Less for the Field Addiction Clinicians Tread Carefully Amid Medication Options Recovery Inside San Quentin Prison, Training Inmate Counselors What's Happening on Capitol Hill: Block Grant Appropriations Child Welfare Bill Includes $40 Million for FY 2007 for Treatment Advocacy Alert: Bring Parity to a Vote Briefly Noted Business To the Editor Coming Up     

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How CBT Can Help Addiction Treatment be More Recovery‐Oriented Hazelden Targets Young Adults for New NYC Programs Mixed News About Smoking from SAMHSA and the CDC New Commission for Accrediting Addiction Curricula ValueOptions Wins Grant to Use Peers to Cut Repeat Detox Teens in Substance Abuse Treatment Used Diverted Medical Marijuana: Study Briefly Noted Coming up     

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Methadone Patient Advocacy Movement Gathers Steam with Federal Grant Innovative Physician Network Selects Hanley for M.D. Education, Referrals Monitoring the Future: Smoking and Drug Use Down in 8th Graders Presidential Candidates Respond to Recovery Issues Friends of SAMHSA Holds First Meeting Hopes and Fears Call for Applications Briefly Noted State Watch Resources Coming up     

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Treatment and Medicaid Questions Persist After Supreme Court Ruling Transition Plan at Calif. Center Illustrates Magnitude of Changes NASADAD Meeting: ACA Ruling, Budgets, Medicaid and MH Louisiana Providers Facing Changes with Magellan Partnership More Medicaid, Less Grant Funds for Treatment in Maryland Briefly Noted State News Names in the News Coming up     

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HHS Gives States Flexibility in Implementing Health Care Reform Center Sees Affiliation Responding to Managed Care, Client Needs The 10 Benefit Categories More Reflections from Readers: Hopes and Fears for 2012 The ‘Last’ House on the Block: Higher Power or Personal Power? SAMHSA's New Recovery Definition Applies to MI and SUD FY 2012 Budget Bill Includes Increases to SAPT Block Grant Briefly Noted Coming up     

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RWJF to Stop Funding Addiction Treatment and Prevention: Current Grants to Finish ADHD Medication Misuse Raises Questions for Treatment Providers Conduct Disorder and ADHD Grant Project Will Seek to Link Addiction, DD Services Maryland Makes Slow Progress in Stressing Treatment Over Jail New Grants for Community‐Based Programs Treating Adolescents and Families Briefly Noted Grants and Funding Coming Up     

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Treatment for Child Welfare Families Continues Amid Lawsuit Over Jail Terms Governor Restores $3 Million to Florida's Treatment Programs Toll‐Free Lines Help Connect Callers to Local Treatment Programs Stimulus Package: Still no $100 Million for Block Grant Case Management Helps Substance Abusing Women on Welfare Briefly Noted State News Resources Business Names in the News Coming up     

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The Recovery Movement Grows Up: Paid Peers and Health Reform CEO Sees Merger With MH Organization as Positive Step in Health Reform Era Health Reform Will Bring More Patients: CATG Initiative National Council Wins HRSA/SAMHSA Integration Training Grant Reauthorization of STOP Act Bill Introduced Briefly Noted In the States Coming up     

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SAMHSA Document, Made Public in Error, Reveals Changes Planned for Block Grant NIH Panel Recommends Replacing NIAAA and NIDA With New Addictions Institute What the Contractor Would Have Done ‘Front Door’ to Treatment in Texas Endangered in Budget Process Recovery Researcher to Focus on Developing Science of Recovery What Was Missing: NIDA, NIAAA Perspectives Briefly Noted In the States Coming Up     

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NESARC Finds Time Lag of 10 Years Between Alcohol use Disorder and Treatment Dually Diagnosed Prove Challenging to State Service Systems Utah Rolls Out $8 Million in New Funds for Treating Drug Offenders House Committee says ‘Yes’ to Block Grant, ‘No’ to Penalty Chantix may Work for Alcoholism, Too: Animal Study Briefly Noted State Watch Grants and Funding Resources Business Coming up