Child and Adolescent Mental Health & Substance Abuse State Infrastructure Grants (CA-SIG)

Georgia

Georgia’s Child and Adolescent Infrastructure Grant

Georgia will focus on building comprehensive systems of care to meet the needs of youth with serious emotional disturbance, substance abuse and co-occurring disorders and their families.  Strategies addressed include: development of a trained workforce, funding strategies, policies and practice guidelines and web resource development and improved data infrastructure development.  The overall purpose of the Child and Adolescent State Infrastructure Grant Project in Georgia I to provide the ability to strengthen the capacity, from a state level, to develop, expand and sustain mental health, substance abuse and co-occurring services and supports at the community-based level for youth who have serious emotion disturbances, substance abuse and co-occurring disorders and their families.

Michele Herman
Grantee Project Officer
1 Choke Cherry Road, Room 6-1050
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: 240-276-1924
Fax: 240-276-1990
E-mail: Michele.herman@samhsa.hhs.gov 

Margaret Bradford
Principal Investigator
Georgia Department of Human Resources
2 Peachtree Street, NW, Suite 2224
Atlanta, GA 30303
Phone: 404-657-2273
Fax:  404-657-2160