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Abstract: 

The addition of faith- and community-based providers of recovery support services to Missouri’s continuum of care for substance abuse treatment has shown promising results that could have implications for the reentry population. Missouri was one of the first 14 states and one Native American tribal organization to receive federal funding in August 2004 to implement President George W. Bush’s Access to Recovery (ATR) initiative. Missouri received $22.8 million over a three-year grant period that ended in August 2007. ATR was designed to provide people seeking substance abuse treatment with vouchers to pay for a range of faith- and community-based services. The U.S. Congress appropriated $100 million in both the 2004 and 2005 budget for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to launch the initiative. After a competitive grant process and review of applications from 44 states and 22 tribes and territories, Missouri’s proposal received the highest score in the nation. Funds were also awarded to California, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, New Jersey, New Mexico, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and the California Rural Indian Health Board.

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Affiliations:  1: Missouri Institute of Mental Health; 2: Missouri Department of Mental Health, Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse; 3: Missouri Department of Mental Health, Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse.