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):
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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)
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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)
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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:
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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)
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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)
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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.
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Awards
SAMHSA recently announced the following grant awards:
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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.
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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.
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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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