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SAMHSA Awards New Grants

SAMHSA recently announced funding for several grant programs. Awards included more than $28 million to support efforts to prevent suicide across the Nation, and $145 million to advance community-based programs as part of SAMHSA's Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants. For a complete listing of SAMHSA grant recipients for 2006, visit the SAMHSA Web site.

Awards include the following:

Strategic Prevention Framework

SAMHSA announced 16 awards totaling $145 million over 5 years to advance Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants (SPF SIGs) to support community-based programs for substance abuse prevention, mental health promotion, and mental illness prevention.

States and federally recognized tribes and tribal organizations will receive awards for up to $2.1 million in the first year. Total funding for 2006 is $29 million. [SP-06-002]

Suicide Prevention

SAMHSA announced the award of 46 grants, totaling $25.7 million, to support a broad array of activities across the Nation to prevent suicide, including grants funded through appropriations under the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act for youth suicide prevention (see SAMHSA News article, Depression, Substance Abuse: Significant Risk Factors for Suicide). Introduced in Congress by Senator Gordon Smith (R-OR) in memory of his son who died by suicide, the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act is bipartisan legislation that aims to reduce suicide among youth.

Campus Suicide Prevention, and Youth Suicide Prevention and Early Intervention. These grants are awarded under the Campus Suicide Prevention Grant program, with up to $75,000 per year for up to 3 years, and the state-sponsored Youth Suicide Prevention and Early Intervention Program, with up to $400,000 per year for up to 3 years.

Funded for $2.3 million in 2006, Campus Suicide Prevention grants assist colleges and universities in their efforts to prevent suicide and enhance services for students with mental health problems and substance abuse that place them at risk for suicide. [SM-06-004]

With almost $4.8 million in 2006 funding, the Youth Suicide Prevention program supports statewide and tribal activities to develop and implement youth suicide prevention and early intervention strategies. [SM-06-005]

Hurricane Katrina-Related State-Sponsored Youth Suicide Prevention and Early Intervention. SAMHSA announced awards of $2.4 million over 3 years to Louisiana and Mississippi to develop and implement statewide suicide prevention and early intervention activities to benefit youth who were adversely impacted by the 2005 hurricanes.

Each state will receive $400,000 per year. These grants were released during the week of September 10 to coincide with Suicide Prevention Week. [SM-06-010]

Additional Suicide Prevention Awards. SAMHSA has made almost $1 million in supplemental grant funds available this year to the National Suicide Prevention Resource Center, which provides training, resources, and prevention support information to organizations and individuals developing suicide prevention programs, interventions, and policies. [SM-06-006]

SAMHSA supplemental funds of $369,000 in 2006 will continue the grant program that manages the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and its networks.

Methamphetamine Prevention

Methamphetamine Prevention. SAMHSA announced the award of 10 grants, totaling more than $10.1 million over 3 years, to help local communities expand evidence-based substance abuse prevention programs and systems to stop abuse of methamphetamine.

Grant recipients are using these awards in a number of ways, such as implementing evidence-based community prevention programs that target populations at greatest risk for methamphetamine abuse; training and education of professionals, educators, law enforcement personnel, families, and others about the signs of methamphetamine abuse and prevention options; and testing and evaluating pilot programs focused on drug-endangered children.

The awards are for up to $350,000 in the first year and are renewable for up to 3 years. Total funding for 2006 is just over $3.4 million. [SP-06-005]

Fighting Methamphetamine in Rural America. SAMHSA announced the award of 7 grants, totaling nearly $10 million over 3 years, to provide treatment for methamphetamine abuse and other emerging drugs for adults residing in rural communities. These new grants, and 17 previously awarded through this program in 2004 and 2005, support substance abuse treatment in areas among the hardest hit by methamphetamine abuse over the past decade. They enable rural communities to provide more comprehensive, integrated care for adults using methamphetamines or other emerging drugs of abuse.

Programs in California, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Oregon, and Virginia received awards for up to $500,000 in the first year. The total funding for 2006 is $3.365 million.

HIV/AIDS Services for Minorities

Substance Abuse Treatment and HIV/AIDS Services for Minorities. SAMHSA announced the award of 10 grants totaling $24.9 million over 5 years to enhance and expand substance abuse treatment, outreach, and pretreatment services in conjunction with HIV/AIDS services in black, Latino/Hispanic, and other racial or ethnic communities highly affected by the twin epidemics of substance abuse and HIV/AIDS.

The awards are each funded up to $500,000 per year in total costs and are administered by SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. Total funding for year one is $5 million. In addition to substance abuse treatment, services offered by grantees include brief interventions, such as providing literature and other materials to support behavior change, as well as facilitating access to drug treatment, HIV/AIDS testing and counseling services, and other medical and social services available in the local community. [TI-06-010]

Mental Health Care and HIV/AIDS Services for Minorities. The Agency also announced the award of 16 cooperative agreements totaling $42 million over 5 years to enhance and expand the provision of effective, culturally competent HIV/AIDS-related mental health services in minority communities for persons living with HIV/AIDS.

The 16 awards are funded up to $525,000 per year in total costs and are administered by SAMHSA’s Center for Mental Health Services. Total first-year funding is $8.3 million. [SM-06-001]

Other Awards

Improving Service Delivery for Co-Occurring Disorders. SAMHSA announced the award of 2 grants totaling $7.45 million over 5 years to enable states to increase their ability to provide accessible, effective, integrated treatment services to people with co-occurring substance abuse and mental disorders and to their families.

Programs in Minnesota and South Carolina will receive funding. The 2 awards are for up to $1.05 million in total costs in each of the first 3 years of the 5-year grant period, with lesser amounts in the last 2 grant years, primarily to support program evaluation. The total funding for 2006 is approximately $2 million. [TI-06-003]

Mental Health Transformation State Incentive Grants. The Agency announced the award of 2 new Mental Health Transformation State Incentive Grants totaling $21.9 million over 5 years. The goals are to create a sustainable, fully integrated, comprehensive, statewide mental health plan and to implement a system-wide transformation process over the 5-year grant period.

The Mental Health Transformation State Incentive Grant program is administered by SAMHSA’s Center for Mental Health Services. The state of Hawaii received approximately $2 million for the first year to develop mental health resources across all agencies that fund or provide mental health supports or services. The state of Missouri received approximately $2 million for the first year to facilitate the state’s Mental Health Transformation Initiative. [SM-05-009]

Improving Access to and Retention in Substance Abuse Treatment. SAMHSA today announced the award of 7 cooperative agreements totaling $6.7 million over 3 years under the Strengthening Treatment Access and Retention–State Implementation (STAR–SI) program to help states identify and implement methods to enhance individual access to and retention in community-based outpatient substance abuse treatment programs.

The awards are for up to $325,000 in the first year and are renewable for 2 additional years. The total funding for 2006 is approximately $2.2 million. [TI-06-006]

Funding of Juvenile and Family Drug Treatment Courts. The Agency announced more than $9.9 million over 3 years in funding for alcohol and drug treatment courts for juveniles and families. Both programs provide alcohol and drug treatment and other services supporting substance abuse treatment, assessment, case management, and program coordination. Juvenile drug treatment courts target delinquent adolescents with substance use or co-occurring mental and substance use disorders. Family drug treatment courts target parents with substance use disorders who have abused or neglected their children; these courts are designed to eliminate parental substance use in order to create healthy environments so that children can be returned to their homes.

First-year funding for the juvenile treatment drug courts totals approximately $2.5 million for 7 grants. First-year funding for family treatment courts totals $799,849 for 2 grants. Juvenile drug treatment courts will receive more than $7.5 million, and family treatment drug courts will receive almost $2.4 million. [TI-05-005]

Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for Pregnant and Postpartum Women. SAMHSA announced the award of 8 grants totaling $10.6 million over 3 years to expand the availability of comprehensive residential treatment services for pregnant and postpartum women, their children, and family members. The service system, with linkages to primary care, mental health, and social services, is designed to help preserve and support the family unit and provide a healthy environment for family members.

The awards are for up to $500,000 per year in total costs for up to 3 years of funding. Total 2006 funding is approximately $2.5 million. [TI-06-008]

Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families. SAMHSA announced the award of 5 cooperative agreements totaling $41 million over 6 years to implement a “systems of care” approach to services. Programs in Arizona, Iowa, Minnesota, Mississippi, and Missouri received awards.

These awards are for up to $1 million in the first year and are renewable for up to 6 years. Total funding for 2006 is $5 million. [SM-05-010]

Family-Centered Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescents and Their Families. SAMHSA announced the award of 15 grants to community-based organizations totaling almost $13.5 million over 3 years to provide treatment services to adolescents with substance abuse problems. Grantees will use strategies that include families as an integral part of the treatment process.

Awards are for up to $300,000 per year for up to 3 years, with first-year funding totaling nearly $4.5 million. [TI-06-007]

Peer-to-Peer Recovery. SAMHSA announced the award of $9.8 million over 4 years to 7 grantees in five states. These grants to community-based organizations are designed to deliver and evaluate peer-to-peer recovery support services that help prevent relapse and promote sustained recovery from alcohol and drug use disorders.

Total funding for year one is $2.4 million, with each award funded up to $350,000 per year in total costs. [TI-06-004]

Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment (SBIRT). SAMHSA and the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) recently awarded 4 cooperative agreements totaling $54.6 million over 5 years for its SBIRT program for persons with substance use disorders. The 4 awards are for up to $2.8 million per year in total costs for up to 5 years of funding. [TI-06-002]

SAMHSA plans to announce new funding opportunities before the end of this year. For the latest information, visit www.samhsa.gov or www.grants.gov.

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