WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced a $250,000 State Youth Treatment Planning Grant (SYT-P) for the West Virginia State Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) to improve mental health and substance abuse treatment for West Virginia adolescents. The aim of the program is to bring together stakeholders serving adolescents to develop a comprehensive, strategic plan that strengthens existing treatment and recovery services and increases access to services.
“To tackle West Virginia’s drug epidemic, we must improve drug treatment and prevention programs, especially those programs designed to help our young people suffering from addiction. This was the number one lesson we learned at my drug prevention summit in Martinsburg earlier this year. The State Youth Treatment Planning Grant will help address this problem by enabling West Virginia’s Department of Health and Human Resources to develop a strategic plan for improving treatment for youth struggling with substance use and mental disorders. A spectrum of strategies is required to combat the drug epidemic, and this funding will help get us one step closer to a drug free West Virginia,” said Senator Capito.
The funding was awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Center for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT).