Grant Proposal for Archbold Medical Center

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Grant Proposal for Archbold Medical Center

• PADM 7040
• Nonprofit Management
• Dr. Gerald Merwin
• Fall 2005
• John M. Godwin

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The Service

• Archbold Northside Hospital is a mental health
  facility providing the latest in psychological
  services and treatment
• The facility is dedicated to the treatment of
• . . . emotional, mental and behavioral
  problems.
• http//www.archbold.org/ArchboldServices/northsid
  eadolescemotbehavioralsercives.htm

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The Grant

• Enhancing Practice Improvement in Community-Based
  Care for Prevention and Treatment of Drug Abuse
  or Co-occurring Drug Abuse and Mental Disorders
  offered by the National Institute on Drug Abuse
  (NIDA), the National Institute on Mental Health
  (NIMH), and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
  Services Administration (SAMHSA)
• http//grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-
  DA-06-001.html

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Matching Services with Grant

• Northside combines a wide array of treatments for
  its patients, varying from the traditional
  services of pharmacology and group therapy to the
  expanded services of in-house behavior
  modification along with a comprehensive aftercare
  program upon discharge
• This grant seeks to bridge the gap between mental
  health research in an academic setting with
  application in a real world setting

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Grant Requirements

• Eligible applicants include those with a
  501(c)(3) federal tax status
• Providers must have the capacity to initiate and
  sustain a complex multidirectional process of
  continuous practice improvement that involves the
  interaction of multiple individual- and
  systems-level factors
• http//grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-D
  A-06-001.html

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Grant Requirements (cont.)

• Applicants who do not currently have the programs
  and resources available to carry out such
  programs must be able to partner with agencies in
  the community to increase the service level to
  this minimum threshold

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Program Offerings

• Archbold is categorized as an IRS 501(c)(3)
  entity
• Northside Hospital is staffed by an
  interdisciplinary treatment team consisting of
  board-certified psychiatrists, licensed
  psychologists, social workers, therapists,
  certified assistants, dietitians, pharmacists and
  activity therapists able to implement and
  monitor new programs at all levels of mental
  health care
• http//www.archbold.org/ArchboldServices/northside
  adolescemotbehavioralsercives.htm

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Expanding the Program

• Archbold Northside is housed in the same
  community with Southwestern State Hospital, a
  state mental health facility
• Northside can join with Southwestern in a
  collaborative effort to increase the level of
  program involvement and groups involved

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Expanding the Program (cont.)

• In an effort to provide a direct link between
  academics and application, Northside will join
  efforts with the clinical psychology program at
  Valdosta State University, providing real world
  experience to the students and the latest in
  clinical practices to the hospital
• http//chiron.valdosta.edu/dtwasieleski/msprog.htm

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Program Objectives

• This program will provide a necessary link
  between the critical advancements in ideas and
  concepts found in the classroom setting with the
  experience and knowledge of day-to-day
  applications found only in a clinical environment
• The goal is to streamline the development of new
  techniques in the field of clinical psychology by
  reducing the lag time between development and
  application

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Application Process

• Grant application materials and instructions are
  available at http//grants.nih.gov/grants/
• funding/phs398/phs398.html
• Applicants must be able to formulate research
  questions and ideas that relate to (a) substance
  abuse and related problems or (b) co-occurring
  substance abuse and mental disorders
• http//grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-D
  A-06-001.html