SAMSA Goals
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Goal #1 To provide a range of high quality mental health services to people affected by or living with HIV and AIDS.
Objective #1

To change risk behaviors and prevent further HIV transmission, evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the different approaches or models used for organizing and providing those services, and determine the outcome of those services on the quality of life of the individuals served.

Action Steps
  1. Increase compliance with medical treatment and enhance access to existing services.
  2. Disseminate information about successful service models.
  3. Develop and rigorously evaluate models for replication and integration into HIV/AIDS delivery systems.
  4. Increase productive work capacity as result of receiving services.
Description

HIV/AIDS Mental Health Services Demonstration Program.

Resources
FY95
FY96
FY97
$ 1.5 million
$ 1.3 million
$ 1.8 million*

* In addition to this budget figure, SAMHSA's Knowledge Development Application (KDA) Program includes an AIDS initiative in FY 1997. This initiative includes various approaches, including how best to: educate service providers, address family issues, interrupt HIV transmission, and maximize client retention in substance abuse treatment.

Populations
Served

People living with or affected by HIV/AIDS including injection drug users, sex partners of injection drug users, sex workers, gay or bisexual men, and racial and ethnic minority populations.

Constituency
Involvement

Health professionals, consumers, and community service providers.

Objective #2
  1. To demonstrate the efficacy of outreach as an intervention for facilitating access to substance abuse treatment for high risk and hard to reach substance abusers.
  2. To demonstrate that comprehensive HIV outreach interventions affect behavior changes in diverse populations.
Action Steps
  1. Identify chronic, hardcore, drug users and their sex and/or needle-sharing partners.
  2. Facilitate entry into substance abuse treatment.
  3. Provide a range of services including medical and diagnostic services for HIV, STDs, and TB.
  4. Employ information-sharing, skills and other prophylactic means to affect behavior change.
  5. Evaluate program effectiveness.
Description
HIV/AIDS Community Outreach Program.
Resources
FY95
FY96
FY97
$ 7.5 million
$ 4.0 million
$ 4.0 million*
* In addition to this budget figure, SAMHSA's Knowledge Development Application (KDA) Program includes an AIDS initiative in FY 1997. This initiative includes various approaches, including how best to: educate service providers, address family issues, interrupt HIV transmission, and maximize client retention in substance abuse treatment.
Populations
Served
Chronic, hard core substance abusers and their sex and/or needle-sharing partners, including those individuals who have severe drug problems, frequently inject heroin and/or cocaine and/or are poly drug users. There is also emphasis within various racial and ethnic groups, women, residents of public housing projects, and homeless individuals.
Constituency
Involvement
Health professionals, consumers, and community service providers.

 

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