CHESS continues work on mental health, substance-use disorder treatment with $17M in federal grants

The Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies (CHESS), based in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a series of federal grants totaling more than $17 million to support treatment for substance-abuse disorder and mental health conditions.

CHESS Deputy Director Todd Molfenter is the principal investigator for all six grants, which come from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). All run through 2029.

The largest grant, at $5 million, comes from SAMHSA, to disseminate, implement and sustain work from the National Center for Mental Health across two regions of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Two more SAMHSA grants of nearly $3.9 million and $3.7 million, respectively, extend funding for CHESS’s work leading Technology Transfer Centers in the areas of addiction and prevention for the Great Lakes region.

Through a more than $2.1 million NIDA grant, CHESS will support dissemination of opioid-use disorder treatment approaches in the criminal justice system.