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Ohio SAMI Coordinating Center of Excellence
In September 2000, the Ohio
Department of Mental Health approved the utilization
of block grant funding to establish the Ohio Substance Abuse/Mental
Illness Coordinating Center of Excellence (SAMI CCOE), a
joint project of the Department of Psychiatry and the Mental
Health Research Institute of the Mandel School of Applied
Social Sciences, to provide training, coordination and fidelity
monitoring to nine IDDT (Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment)
demonstration projects jointly funded by the Ohio Departments
of Mental Health and Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services
one year previously.
These projects and the Center are working
in collaboration with Dr. Robert Drake and the Dartmouth/New
Hampshire Center for Dual Diagnosis Services. Co-directed
by Dr. Robert Ronis of the Department of Psychiatry and
Dr. Lenore Kola of the Mandel School, the SAMI CCOE provides
fidelity monitoring, clinical and technical assistance and
statewide training programs including an annual conference
for the original nine funded and 22 non-funded programs
around the state, as well as newly developing programs and
systems.
The Ohio SAMI CCOE currently is participating
in several SAMHSA grant applications as a partner with community
mental health boards and agencies, and participating in
the national Evidence Based Practices (EBP) Dissemination
Project with Dartmouth/New Hampshire and other co-investigators
in Baltimore and New York City. While the SAMI CCOE has
been exclusively funded by the Ohio Department of Mental
Health up to this point, the Ohio
Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services recently
has offered enhancement funding to the CCOE, which is also
participating in a current SAMHSA application with ODMH
to fund Supported Employment training within the IDDT population.
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