MINORITY AIDS INITIATIVE (MAI)
The Southeast CAPT provides technical assistance and training to CSAP’s Minority AIDS Initiative Grantees from Cohorts 4, 5, 6 and 7. Minority AIDS Initiative Grantees from Cohorts 4, 5, 6 and 7 will be able to find information of interest to their efforts in this section.
MAI Cohort 7 Cooperative Agreements:
The purpose of this program is to support an array of activities to assist grantees in building a solid foundation for delivering and sustaining quality and accessible state of the science substance abuse and HIV prevention services. Specifically, the program aims to engage community-level domestic public and private non-profit entities to prevent and reduce the onset of SA and transmission of HIV/AIDS among communities of color disproportionately affected by SA and HIV/AIDS. Applicants are required to indicate one racial/ethnic minority subpopulation from the following list to target in their eligible catchment area:
Grantees will have substantial flexibility in designing their grant projects, and all are required to base their projects on the five steps of SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) to build state of the science SA and HIV/AIDS prevention capacity for their targeted at-risk racial/ethnic minority population.
As of fall 2007, approximately 1.4 million men and women have been deployed to serve in Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) in support of the Global War on Terror. Individuals returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are at increased risk for suffering post-traumatic stress and other related disorders. Experts estimate that up to one-third of returning veterans will need substance abuse prevention and related services. In addition, the family members of returning veterans have an increased need for related support services. To address these concerns, SAMHSA strongly encourages all applicants to consider the unique needs of returning veterans and their families in developing their proposed project.
SAMHSA HIV Grants News Release
MAI Cohort 6: Substance Abuse, HIV, & Hepatitis Prevention
for Minority Populations and Minority Reentry Populations in Communities
of Color Initiative:
This initiative supports an array of activities to assist grantees in building a solid foundation for delivering and sustaining effective substance abuse prevention and related services. Specifically, the program aims to engage community-level domestic public and private non-profit entities to prevent and reduce the onset of SA, and transmission of HIV and hepatitis among minority populations and minority reentry populations in communities of color disproportionately affected by SA, HIV/AIDS, and/or hepatitis. While grantees have substantial flexibility in designing their grant projects, all are required to base their projects on the five steps of SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) to build a service capacity specific to SA, HIV, and hepatitis prevention services.
MAI Cohort 4 and 5 Grantees: Minority Substance Abuse Prevention
and HIV Prevention Services Program:
The goal of this program is to increase access to substance abuse prevention and HIV prevention programs in areas with hard to reach populations and high incidence rates of substance abuse and HIV infection, such as rural communities, by increasing both the number and quality of prevention programs in traditionally under served areas. This program seeks to increase and sustain the availability of effective, integrated substance abuse prevention and HIV prevention services for women, youth, and other at-risk populations in African-American, Hispanic/Latino, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Asian-American/Pacific Islander communities which have traditionally been underserved or not served at all. Specifically the program intends to:
For additional information visit Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/aa/cdc.htm
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