| 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
|
- Increase
compliance with medical treatment and enhance access to existing services.
- Disseminate
information about successful service models.
- Develop
and rigorously evaluate models for replication and integration into
HIV/AIDS delivery systems.
- 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 |
- 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.
- To demonstrate
that comprehensive HIV outreach interventions affect behavior changes
in diverse populations.
|
|
Action
Steps
|
- Identify
chronic, hardcore, drug users and their sex and/or needle-sharing partners.
- Facilitate
entry into substance abuse treatment.
- Provide
a range of services including medical and diagnostic services for HIV,
STDs, and TB.
- Employ
information-sharing, skills and other prophylactic means to affect behavior
change.
- 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. |
