Issue 38.3 - Fall 2008 - The Washington State Nurses Association

Nursing News | News Briefs
Seattle Children’s Nurse
Awarded National
Research Grant for
Nursing Research
and Evidence-Based
Practice Project
Ten teams of nurses recently received
funding to improve the treatment
of patients with auto-immune
diseases and cancer, through a series
of grants awarded by the DAISY
Foundation. The grant recipients, located
throughout the United States,
are conducting research to improve
patient quality of life and clinical
outcomes. Grant amounts were up
to $5,000. Pamela Christensen, RN,
MN, Children’s Hospital and Medical
Center of Seattle, was one of the grant
recipients for her study: Adolescent
Health Related Quality of Life and Satisfaction
with Care in the First Year
After Diagnosis With Inflammatory
Bowel Disease
Applications are now being accepted for
the foundation’s 2009 J. Patrick Barnes
Research Grant, which funds nursing
research and evidence-based practice
projects. The deadline for grant applications
is March 1, 2009. Additional
information and the grant application
are available at www.DAISYfoundation.org.
The DAISY Foundation was established
in 1999 by the family of J. Patrick
Barnes, who died from complications
of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
(ITP) at the age of 33. Having
been touched by the remarkable care,
clinical skills and compassion demonstrated
by nurses during Patrick's
illness, the Barnes family established
the Foundation to recognize and support
exceptional nurses around the
country. The Foundation has two
primary programs: the DAISY Award
for Extraordinary Nurses, which recognizes
the outstanding daily work
of nurses in more than 280 hospitals
throughout the United States, and the
J. Patrick Barnes Research Grant. The
Foundation also funds a limited number
of other programs to support and
inform people with ITP.
Two Washington State
programs receive
$1Million in Grants
for Child Mental
Health Services
The Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration (SAM-
HSA) announced awards of 18 cooperative
agreements totaling at least
$146 million over six years to provide
comprehensive community mental
health services for children and youth
with serious emotional disturbances
and their families. The Yakima Valley
Youth and Family Coalition, Yakima,
and the Lummi System of Care Initiative,
Bellingham each received grants
of $1,000,000
These grants will be used to implement
a systems of care approach to services,
based on the recognition that the needs
of children with serious mental health
issues can best be met within their
home, school, and community, and
that families and youth should be the
driving force in the transformation of
their own care. The grants will be used
to provide a full array of mental health
and support services organized on an
individualized basis into a coordinated
network in order to meet the unique
clinical and functional needs of each
child and family.
“Experience has shown that children
with serious emotional disturbances
and their families benefit from an integrated
approach to care and services,”
said SAMHSA Acting Administrator
Eric Broderick, D.D.S, M.P.H. “With
appropriate care, these young people
are far more likely to experience success
in school and far less likely to become
tangled in either the juvenile
justice system or the institutional care
system. The awards we announce today
represent a wise investment that
both helps preserve families and protect
every child’s right to a future.”
Since its inception in 1992, the Comprehensive
Community Mental Health
Services Program for Children and
Their Families has funded a total of
126 programs across the United States
that have helped transform the way in
which treatment and care are provided
to children with mental health needs
and their families.
The programs selected for these cooperative
agreements can receive up to $1
million in year 1, up to $1.5 million in
year 2, up to $2 million in years 3 and
4, up to $1.5 million in year 5 and up
to $1 million in year 6. In addition, an
increasing ratio of non-federal dollars
is required from each organization to
match the program’s federal dollars.
Continuation awards are subject to
both availability of funds and progress
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