SAMHSA 2005
Grants
SAMHSA recently announced the final grant awards for
Fiscal Year 2005. (See SAMHSA News, July/August
2005 and September/October
2005 for previous awards). These grants include the
following:
Children and Adolescents
- $184.5 million over 6 years for
25 "Systems of Care" cooperative agreements.
These Child Mental Health Services grants will provide
comprehensive community mental health services for
children and youth with serious emotional disturbances
and their families.
The "systems of care" approach to services
is based on the premise that the mental health needs
of children and adolescents can best be met in their
homes, schools, and communities, and that families and
youth should be the driving force in their own care.
The awards provide up to $1 million in the first year
and are renewable for up to 6 years. [SM-05-008]
-
$70 million over 4 years to help
children who experience traumatic events. These grants
will fund a network of community-based treatment
and services centers that are supported by national
expertise. SAMHSA's National Child Traumatic Stress
Initiative has three components:
-
Community Treatment and Services Centers
(19 awards totaling $30.4 million over 4 years)
provide services to children who have experienced
traumatic events and evaluate the effectiveness
of trauma treatment and services in community and
service system settings. [SM-05-006]
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Treatment and Services Adaptation Centers
(8 awards totaling $19.2 million over 4 years)
provide national expertise on specific types of
traumatic events, population groups, and service
systems, and support adaptable treatment and service
approaches for communities across the Nation. [SM-05-005]
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The University of California Los Angeles
($20 million over 4 years) will operate the National
Center for Child Traumatic Stress in partnership
with Duke University. [SM-05-004]
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The National Center for Child Traumatic Stress
advances the network structure, coordinates network
activities, and promotes national education and
training efforts.
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$17.5 million over 5 years to Georgetown
University to manage the National Training and Technical
Assistance Center for Child and Adolescent Mental
Health. The center will provide resources and training
to state and local child-serving agencies, Indian
tribes and tribal organizations, and Pacific Island
jurisdictions working to develop child and family-centered,
culturally competent, coordinated systems of care
for children and adolescents with serious emotional
disturbances and their families. [SM-05-013]
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Mental Health Transformation
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$92.5 million over 5 years to seven
states—Connecticut, Ohio, Oklahoma, Washington,
Maryland, New Mexico, and Texas—in Mental Health
Transformation State Incentive grants (MHT SIGs).
These grants are provided to help change the mental
health service delivery system in each state to reflect
consumer and family needs and to focus on building
resiliency and facilitating recovery.
The MH SIG grants require the grantees to enlist
consumers and family members as active partners in
all transformation planning and activities. [SM-05-009]
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Older Adults
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Jail Diversion
$7.2 million over 3 years to divert
individuals with mental illnesses away from the criminal
justice system and into community-based mental health
and substance abuse treatment centers. Six grants were
awarded to five states—California, Illinois,
Louisiana, New York, and Virginia.
Treatment services must be based on the best known
practices and include case management, assertive community
treatment, medication management, integrated mental
health and substance abuse treatment, psychiatric rehabilitation,
and gender-based trauma 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 to persons
in the program. [SM-05-011]
For the latest information on SAMHSA grant awards or
new funding announcements, visit www.samhsa.gov/grants/
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Preview SAMHSA's 2006 Grants
For a preview of SAMHSA's 2006 grants, visit www.samhsa.gov/grants/2006/ataglance.aspx.
And to file your SAMHSA grant application online,
it's very easy to register. All information is
secure, and you'll have access to all Federal grant
announcements.
Visit www.samhsa.gov/grants/index.aspx
for more information, or go directly to www.grants.gov
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