MEMORANDUM

TO: William Popp, Assembly President

Members of the KPB Assembly

FROM: Dale Bagley, Mayor

DATE: April 4, 2000

SUBJECT: CICADA Grant

Grants to Expand Substance Abuse Treatment Capacity in Targeted Areas of Need Abstract

The Kenai Peninsula Borough represents an area covering 25,600 square miles and is the home of 49,101 people scattered throughout the 15,500 square miles of land. The Peninsula is one of the fastest growing areas in Alaska and the availability and coordination of services is of great concern to the Borough. This request is being submitted to address a significant gap in services and will utilize the services of the Cook Inlet Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse (CICADA) and other local agencies.

CICADA has been providing a comprehensive system of outpatient treatment services to the residents in the Kenai Peninsula for the last 25 years. CICADA is excited about playing a lead role in expanding services in the Peninsula area enhancing a community partnership involving eight agencies. The partnership involves, the Division of Family and Youth Services (DFYS), Choices for Teens, South Peninsula Community Mental Health, the Nakenu Chemical Dependency Recovery Program, the Peninsula Job Center, the Central Peninsula Counseling Services, the Women's Resource Center and CICADA. The partnership has been designed using specific strategies and approaches that capture and access resources that are located within the serving area to address the needs of an under served target group of women and their children who are in DFYS custody or under DFYS supervision, and women with the Women's Resource Center for domestic violence, and under served adolescents.

Through an integrated interagency approach, the multi-needs of the mother, adolescents, and children can be coordinated and managed. The availability of treatment options, job training, and case coordination will enable the mother to either retain or regain custody of their children and to provide them a safe and nurturing environment. Intervention in domestic violence will occur and women's living skills and employability will be enhanced. This application brings all of the partners together that would enable us to assist these women giving them the opportunity to enhance their parenting skills, budgeting capacities, life skills, vocational abilities, safety issues, housing needs, mental health care, child care, and the ability to either reduce or eliminate the abused of alcohol and other drugs. Under served adolescents will be supported with appropriate services and resources.

These services will be coordinated in a manner that are of sufficient quality and over a sufficient period of time that self-reliance, independence, and sobriety can be achieved and maintained.

The total estimated cost being requested is $500,000.