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- SAMHSA announces its inaugural Science and Service Awards for Opioid Treatment Programs and Office-Based Opioid Treatment Providers. Go to SAMHSA's website for additional information.
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- SAMHSA/CSAP releases the Request For Proposals
(RFP) for the Service to Science Program entitled:
Building Evaluation Capacity & Evidence-Based Interventions.
- For the State RFP click here.
- For the Native American Center for Excellence (NACE) RFP click here.
- For the Pacific Jurisdictions RFP click here.
- SAMHSA hosts the 2011 International
Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL)
Leadership Exchange and Network Meeting, September 15-16, 2011 in San Francisco. Participating Countries; Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, and the United States. Go to the IIMHL Agenda Booklet for details. - CRP Develops Fact Sheet for NCADD: Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs Among Women. Go to the Fact Sheet for NCADD: Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs Among Women page for details.
- CRP Develops Fact Sheet for NCADD:
Alcohol and Birth Defects. Go to the
Fact Sheet for NCADD: Alcohol and Birth Defects page for details.
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CRP Supports SAMHSA in the Development of Congressional Report on Underage Drinking
Silver Spring, Maryland (July 21, 2011) – CRP Incorporated ( CRP) managed the development and writing of a new report on underage drinking recently delivered to Congress by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The report, Report to Congress on the Prevention and Reduction of Underage Drinking (May 2011), advances SAMHSA’s leadership role in addressing this serious public health issue that significantly affects young people under the age of 21. Underage drinking and associated problems have profound negative consequences for underage drinkers, their families, communities, and society as a whole.
In response to health risks associated with underage drinking, states are increasingly adopting comprehensive policies and practices to alter the individual and environmental factors that contribute to underage drinking and its consequences; these can be expected to reduce alcohol-related death and disability and associated health care costs. CRP worked with its partners, CDM and the Madrillon Group, in planning, executing a state survey, and preparing the report, which is required annually by the Secretary of Health and Human Services in response to the Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act (the “STOP Act”). The report outlines the Federal government’s role in addressing the problem and describes each state’s performance in enacting, enforcing, and creating laws, regulations, and programs to prevent or reduce underage drinking. The report, in particular, highlights 17 underage drinking prevention policies aimed at reducing youth access to alcohol and youth involvement in drinking and driving. The policy summaries outline each policy’s key components, the status of the policies across the 50 States and the District of Columbia, and trends over time in the adoption of the policies. The policies are organized by three categories: laws addressing minors in possession of alcohol, laws targeting underage drinking and driving, and laws targeting alcohol suppliers.
Since 2006, CRP has been an important partner in helping to implement Town Hall Meetings (THMs) and other efforts to combat underage drinking by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), within SAMHSA. In 2006, CRP issued 1,400 stipends of $1,000 each to coalitions, organizations, and grantees eligible to conduct a THM on underage drinking. In 2008, we issued stipends of $500 to an estimated 1,500 local communities. The THMs convene community leaders, parents, teenagers, educators, parents, law enforcement and others to raise awareness of the devastating impact of underage drinking on youth and on the economy. One of CRP’s public health/science writers prepared the 2007 Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking, a science-based call to join a national effort to address underage drinking early, continuously, and in the context of human development.
For the full Congressional report on underage drinking, visit SAMHSA’s Web site: http://store.samhsa.gov/product/Report-to-Congress-on-the-Prevention-and-Reduction-of-Underage-Drinking/SMA11-4645
- CRP launches an Institute for Sustainability. Go to the CRP's Institute for Sustainability page for details.
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