SAMHSA awards Knowledge Dissemination Conference Grants to four organizations

May 26 2010

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced the award of four Knowledge Dissemination Conference Grants totaling $100,000 to the organizations below.

The grant awards will support conferences that highlight the latest evidence-based prevention strategies, practices, and polices. The conferences are designed to help integrate what is known about prevention into real-world community-based practice. These prevention practices are known to strengthen families, build resilience, hope and other factors that emotional well-being.

The SAMHSA Conference Grant Program is used to disseminate information about the best practices within the behavioral health fields at regionally and/or nationally significant conferences.

Grants were awarded to:

Prevention Partnership, Illinois - The First National Faith Based and Community Based Organizations Conference on HIV/AIDS/Substance Abuse and Health Promotion Ministries will address health awareness and how to integrate health promotion into prevention, treatment and mental health support.

Talbot Hall-University Hospital East, Ohio - The Addictions Studies Institute (ASI) Conference will provide the latest information and research on prevention, treatment, and sustained recovery of alcohol, drug abuse and addiction.

Lucas County Comm. Prevention Partnership, Ohio - "Healthy Transitions To Adulthood: A Conference for Adults who Counsel"

STARS Nashville, Tennessee - The Mid-South Healthy Choices for Youth Conference will draw key constituencies to create and disseminate community action plans to help ensure a safety net is in place for children and at-risk youth in the region.

SOURCE Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)