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Application Information
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Application Deadline |
Applications are due by February 2, 2007. |
Intergovernmental Review |
Letters from State Single Point of Contact (SPOC) are due no later than 60 days after application deadline. |
Public Health System Impact Statement (PHSIS)/Single State Agency Coordination |
Applicants must send the PHSIS to appropriate State and local health agencies by application deadline. Comments from Single State Agency are due no later than 60 days after application deadline. |
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2007 for Grants for National Consumer and Consumer Supporter Technical Assistance Centers. The purpose of this program is to assist in the transformation of the mental health system by promoting consumer directed approaches for adults with serious mental illnesses. Such programs maximize consumer self-determination and recovery and assist people with serious mental illness by decreasing their dependence on expensive social services and avoiding psychiatric hospitalization.
The target population for technical assistance activities of the TACs is adults with serious mental illnesses. TACs will provide technical assistance to consumers in States where consumer organization and leadership are underdeveloped. They will also provide technical assistance to State mental health systems serving adults with serious mental illnesses, to consumer supporter organizations, service providers, and the general public. Technical assistance activities will not be limited to specific subpopulations of adults with serious mental illnesses.
Consumer and Consumer Supporter TAC grants are authorized under Section 520A of the Public Health Service Act, as amended. This announcement addresses Healthy People 2010 focus area 18 (Mental Health).
Eligible applicants are domestic public and private nonprofit entities, including faith-based entities, tribal organizations, and currently funded Consumer and Consumer Supporter TA Center grantees that meet the following requirements:
SAMHSA is limiting eligibility to consumer/consumer supporter organizations because the goals of this grant program are to strengthen the capacity of consumers/consumer supporters to assist in the transformation of the mental health system by promoting consumer directed approaches for adults with serious mental illness.
The statutory authority for this program precludes grants to for-profit organizations.
Funding Mechanism: | Grant |
Anticipated Total Available Funding: | $1.8 million |
Anticipated Number of Awards: | Five – three Consumer TACs and two Consumer Supporter TACs |
Anticipated Award Amount: |
$340,000 per year in total costs (direct and indirect) |
Length of Project Period: | Three years |
Proposed budgets cannot exceed $340,000 in any year of the proposed project. Annual continuation awards will depend on the availability of funds, grantee progress in meeting project goals and objectives, and timely submission of required data and reports.
An additional $126,000 will be competitively awarded each year to one of the three successful Consumer TACs to facilitate the Alternatives Conference. (See section entitled Alternatives Conference in Section V-1: Evaluation Criteria).
This program is being announced prior to the annual appropriation for FY 2007 for SAMHSA’s programs, with funding estimates based on the President’s budget request for FY 2007. Applications are invited based on the assumption that sufficient funds will be appropriated for FY 2007 to permit funding of a reasonable number of applications hereby solicited. All applicants are reminded, however, that we cannot guarantee that sufficient funds will be appropriated to permit SAMHSA to fund any applications.
For questions on program issues, contact:
Risa S. Fox, M.S.
Public Health Advisor
Center for Mental Health Services
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
1 Choke Cherry Road
Room 6-1052
Rockville, Maryland 20857
(240) 276-1960
risa.fox@samhsa.hhs.gov
For questions on grants management issues, contact:
Kimberly Pendleton
Office of Program Services, Division of Grants Management
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
1 Choke Cherry Road, Room 7-1097
Rockville, MD 20857
(240) 276-1421
kimberly.pendleton@samhsa.hhs.gov
Applications that are not submitted on the required application form will be screened out and will not be reviewed.
Download the complete Announcement No. SM-07-003
Download RFA in MS Word format
Download RFA in Adobe PDF format
PHS 5161-1 (revised July 2000): Includes the face page, budget forms and checklist.
For further information on the forms and the application process, see Useful Information for Applicants
Additional materials available on this website include:
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration • 1 Choke Cherry Road • Rockville, MD 20857
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