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Updates on SAMHSA Grants

Funding Opportunities

SAMHSA recently announced the following funding opportunities for Fiscal Year 2006.

Three Suicide Prevention grants are authorized under the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act, which provides funding for programs to prevent suicide. They are administered by SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS):

State/Tribal Youth Suicide Prevention (Application due date: May 16, 2006)—Up to 12 cooperative-agreement grant awards, for up to $400,000 per year for up to 3 years, for state-sponsored youth suicide prevention and early intervention programs. The grants will be used to build on the foundation of prior suicide prevention efforts by states and tribes to develop and implement statewide or tribal youth suicide prevention. (SM-06-005, $4.8 million)
Campus Suicide Prevention (Application due date: May 16, 2006)—Approximately 31 grant awards for $75,000 each for Fiscal Year 2006, plus an equivalent match from the applicant organization. These grants provide funding to institutions of higher education to enhance services for students with mental and behavioral health problems, such as depression, substance abuse, and suicide attempts. (SM-06-004, $2.3 million)
Hurricane Katrina-related Suicide Prevention (Application due date: June 1, 2006)—2 cooperative agreement grant awards, for approximately $400,000 for up to 3 years, for Hurricane Katrina-related state-sponsored youth suicide prevention and early intervention. (SM-06-010, $800,000)

Other funding opportunities include:

Targeted Capacity Expansion for Treatment of HIV/AIDS Services (Application due date: May 16, 2006)—Up to 12 awards, for $500,000 per year for up to 5 years, to enhance and expand substance abuse treatment, and outreach and pretreatment services in conjunction with HIV/AIDS services in African American, Latino/Hispanic, and other racial or ethnic communities highly affected by the related epidemics of substance abuse and HIV/AIDS. These grants will be administered by SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT). (TI-06-010, $5.3 million)
Prevention of Methamphetamine Abuse (Application due date: May 16, 2006)—9 to 11 grant awards, from $300,000 to $350,000 per year for up to 3 years, to support expansion of methamphetamine prevention interventions and/or infrastructure development. The grants, administered by SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, will help communities expand prevention interventions. (SP-06-005, $3.3 million)
Treatment of Pregnant and Postpartum Women (Application due date: May 16, 2006)—Up to 8 grant awards, for $500,000 per year for up to 3 years, to expand the availability of comprehensive, high-quality, residential treatment services for pregnant and postpartum women who suffer from alcohol and other drug use problems, and for their minor children affected by prenatal and environmental effects of maternal substance use and abuse. These grants will be administered by SAMHSA's CSAT. (TI-06-008, 3.4 million)

Applications are available by calling SAMHSA's clearinghouse at 1 (800) 789-2647, or by downloading the application from www.grants.gov or the SAMHSA Web site at www.samhsa.gov. Applicants are encouraged to apply online at www.grants.gov.

Awards

SAMHSA recently announced the following grant awards:

For Suicide Prevention—$9.6 million over 3 years for 8 new grants to support youth suicide prevention and early intervention programs nationally. This program is authorized under the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act and will be administered by CMHS. Additional 2006 awards are under review.
For Jail Diversion—$7.2 million over 3 years to divert individuals with mental illness away from the criminal justice system and into community-based mental health and substance abuse treatment services. Grantees will coordinate with social service agencies to ensure that life skills training, housing placement, vocational training, job placement, and health care are available.
For Crisis Counseling for Hurricane Survivors (Alabama & Nebraska) (Alabama & Iowa)—SAMHSA, in partnership with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, awarded an additional $2.8 million in crisis counseling grants in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma.

This brings the total amount awarded for "Regular Services" crisis counseling grants to more than $60 million. When combined with the early round of "Immediate Services" crisis counseling grants, over $100 million has been made available in Federal crisis counseling support.

New grants include: "Project Rebound" in Alabama approved for $976,491 to provide crisis counseling services as well as an additional $1.43 million in a separate grant award. "Reaching Out . . . Nebraska" was approved for $257,339. And, Iowa was approved for $206,636 to provide counseling to hurricane evacuees.

For updated information on grant awards, visit SAMHSA's Web site at www.samhsa.gov/grants.

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