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Lawrenceville Recast - Lawrenceville Recast, led by the City of Lawrenceville, Georgia's Community Relations Department, will build resiliency and promote equity for high-risk youth and adults most affected by trauma, violence, and civil unrest.

A coalition of community stakeholders will work together to increase access to mental health services and reduce trauma among high-risk youth and their families. Additionally, they aim to increase access to social services, strengthen community relations, and increase diverse voices in city government.

The goals of this initiative are as follows:

1. Increase well-being, resiliency, and community healing through community-based participatory approaches.
2. Increase community and youth engagement, leadership development, improved governance, and capacity building by creating community change.
3. Increase access to trauma-informed community behavioral health resources through more equitable access.
4. Increase the level of cultural competency of the City of Lawrenceville's employees and citizens to promote understanding and developmentally appropriate city-led policies and programs.
5. Strengthen the integration of community-based services addressing the social determinants of health for high-risk youth and their families.

Lawrenceville Recast will expand the Summer of Impact Youth Internship Program and launch a Youth Council that serves our city's most at-risk youth. They will also form a Diversity and Inclusion Committee to ensure city services and policies are culturally specific and developmentally appropriate.

Lawrenceville Recast will bring local community partners and stakeholders together in ways that increase access to behavioral health, housing, and workforce development. The aim is to empower residents, reduce individual trauma, and help sustain community change. The project aims to reach 400 individuals annually, providing direct support to 1,700 citizens by the end of the project.

The results of increased youth engagement, empowerment of diverse voices in our city, and increased social service access, resulting in trauma reduction, are expected to have an exponential impact. This impact can improve the quality of life for nearly all of Lawrenceville's over 29,000 residents.

City Of Lawrenceville

SAMHSA WAS GIVEN THE AUTHORITY TO ADDRESS PRIORITY SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT, PREVENTION AND MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS OF REGIONAL AND NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE THROUGH ASSISTANCE (GRANTS AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS) TO STATES, POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS OF STATES, INDIAN TRIBES AND TRIBAL ORGANIZATIONS, AND OTHER PUBLIC OR NONPROFIT PRIVATE ENTITIES. UNDER THESE SECTIONS, CSAT, CMHS AND CSAP SEEK TO EXPAND THE AVAILABILITY OF EFFECTIVE SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT AND RECOVERY SERVICES AVAILABLE TO AMERICANS TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF THOSE AFFECTED BY ALCOHOL AND DRUG ADDITIONS, AND TO REDUCE THE IMPACT OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE ON INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, COMMUNITIES AND SOCIETIES AND TO ADDRESS PRIORITY MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS OF REGIONAL AND NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE AND ASSIST CHILDREN IN DEALING WITH VIOLENCE AND TRAUMATIC EVENTS THROUGH BY FUNDING GRANT AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT PROJECTS. GRANTS AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS MAY BE FOR (1) KNOWLEDGE AND DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION PROJECTS FOR TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION AND THE CONDUCT OR SUPPORT OF EVALUATIONS OF SUCH PROJECTS, (2) TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, (3) TARGETED CAPACITY RESPONSE PROGRAMS (4) SYSTEMS CHANGE GRANTS INCLUDING STATEWIDE FAMILY NETWORK GRANTS AND CLIENT-ORIENTED AND CONSUMER RUN SELF-HELP ACTIVITIES AND (5) PROGRAMS TO FOSTER HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN, (6) COORDINATION AND INTEGRATION OF PRIMARY CARE SERVICES INTO PUBLICLY-FUNDED COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS AND OTHER COMMUNITY-BASED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SETTINGS

93.243 - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance

Division of Grants Management [HHS - SAMHSA]

Lawrenceville, Georgia 300465727 United States

Single Zip Code

Resiliency In Communities After Stress and Trauma (SM-21-012)

Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 292% from $998,473 to $3,909,946.