GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1417

Short Title:  Coalition 2001 One-Time Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Martin of Guilford; Winner, Dannelly, Warren, Cooper, Speed, Lucas, Jordan, and Hobbs.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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May 30, 1996

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR ONE-TIME REQUESTS OF COALITION 2001.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services, the sum of six million two hundred ninety-one thousand six hundred eighty dollars ($6,291,680) for the 1996-97 fiscal year for one-time funding for mental health, developmental disabilities, and substance abuse services requested by Coalition 2001.  These funds shall be allocated as follows:
(1)	Adult Mental Health:
a.	$48,680 for older adults with mental health problems, for the Natural Community Helpers Project;
b.	$1,025,000 for the housing revolving loan fund; and
c.	$75,000 for training and technical assistance regarding managed care; and
(2)	Child Mental Health;
a.	Training:
1.	$485,000 to develop curriculum and continue training and capacity building activities for statewide use in achieving federally legislative mandate to create culturally competent systems of care for children and families receiving mental health services;
2.	$48,000 to continue ongoing regional multiagency training in identification, risk assessment, and treatment of sexually aggressive youth;
3.	$110,000 for specialized training for hospitals, Whitaker School, and all programs in the use of diagnostic assessment for sexually aggressive youth, and for the purchase of required software and licenses;
4.	$800,000 for replication of four "PEN-PAL" sites to strengthen family focused services, for strength-based assessments, for multiagency planning teams to include family, and for ongoing funding to be provided through third-party funding;
5.	$120,000 for monitoring quality of services and for service testing to pilot this approach for measuring the effectiveness of systems of care services in six area programs; and
6.	$120,000 for specialized training for area programs and interagency teams in the use of diagnostic assessments for early identification and intervention for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers and their families; and
b.	Materials Development - $25,000; and
c.	Program Development - $370,000; and
(2)	Developmental Disabilities:
a.	Traumatic Brain Injury - $80,000 to provide for the start-up costs to establish the TBI registry; and
(3)	Substance Abuse:
a.	$300,000 for the Employee Assistance Program;
b.	$200,000 for the Centralized Registry for Narcotic Treatment Programs;
c.	$225,000 for dual diagnostic statewide training;
d.	$200,000 for cocaine treatment improvement protocol;
e.	Primary Prevention Programming:
1.	$1,000,000 to develop protocols to meet federal law requiring states to reduce youth access to tobacco products;
2.	$300,000 to provide financial assistance, training, and technical assistance to local communities to implement parent training programs focusing on alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) abuse and violence prevention;
3.	$300,000 to add seven Alcohol, Tobacco, and other Drug Abuse Mentoring Programs in underserved and high-risk areas of the State; and
4.	$250,000 to create and further expand community coalitions that will address the diverse needs specific to ATOD prevention programming at the local level; and
(4)	Crisis Services - $600,000.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1996.