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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)

Request for Applications (RFA)

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SM 04-012:

State Incentive Grants for Treatment of Persons with Co-Occurring Substance Related and Mental Disorders

Short Title: Co-Occurring State Incentive Grants (COSIG)

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Key Dates:

COSIG provides funding to the States to develop or enhance their infrastructure to increase their capacity to provide accessible, effective, comprehensive, coordinated/integrated, and evidence-based treatment services to persons with co-occurring substance abuse and mental disorders. COSIG also provides an opportunity to participate in an evaluation of the feasibility, validity and reliability of the proposed co-occurring performance measures for the future Performance Partnership Grants (PPGs), and to participate in a national evaluation of the COSIG program.

Eligible applicants

Only the immediate Office of the Governor of States may apply. State-level agencies are not considered to be part of the immediate Office of the Governor. This means, for example, that the State Mental Health, or Substance Abuse Authorities, or other State-level agencies within the Office of the Governor, cannot apply independently. SAMHSA has limited the eligibility to Governors of States because the immediate Office of the Governor has the greatest potential to provide the multi-agency leadership needed to develop the State’s infrastructure/treatment service systems to increase the State’s capacity to provide accessible, effective, comprehensive, coordinated/integrated, and evidence-based services to persons with co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders, and their families.

It is expected $4.5 million will be available to fund up to 4 COSIG awards in FY 2004.

COSIG program will have two phases:

Phase I – The first three years of the grant will focus on infrastructure development/enhancement (as described below).  Awards will be for up to $1.1 million per year for the first three years. 

Phase II – An additional 2 years of funding will be provided at a lower level for evaluation and continued collection/reporting of performance data. Grantees without service pilots (see below) will receive up to $100,000 per year in years 4 and 5. Grantees with service pilots will receive up to half of their third year award in year 4 and up to $100,000 in year 5.

For questions on program issues, contact:

Richard E. Lopez, J.D., Ph.D.
SAMHSA/CSAT/DSCA
5600 Fishers Lane/Rockwall II, 8-147
Rockville, MD 20857
(301) 443-7615
E-Mail : rlopez@samhsa.hhs.gov

OR

Lawrence Rickards, Ph.D.
SAMHSA/CMHS/DSSI
5600 Fishers Lane, 11C-05
Rockville, MD 20857
(301) 443-3707
E-Mail : lrickard@samhsa.hhs.gov
 

Gwendolyn Simpson
SAMHSA/Division of Grants Management
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 13-103
Rockville, MD 20857
(301) 443-4456
E-Mail : Gwen.Simpson@samhsa.hhs.gov

Documents needed to complete an application for this grant opportunity:

Download RFA

SM 04-012:

The complete

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PHS 5161-1 (revised July 2000): Includes the face page, budget forms, assurances, certification,  and checklist.

Applications that are not submitted on the required application form will be screened out and will not be reviewed.

Charitable Choice Assurance form SMA 170:

• Download as Word Document

• Download as Acrobat Document

Additional materials available on this web site include:

• A technical assistance manual for potential applicants: Developing Competitive SAMHSA Grant Applications

• Standard terms and conditions for SAMHSA grants;

• Guidelines and policies that relate to SAMHSA grants (e.g., guidelines on cultural competence, consumer and family participation, and evaluation); and

• Enhanced instructions for completing the PHS 5161-1 application.

You may request a complete application kit by calling one of SAMHSA’s national clearinghouses:

• National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI) at 1-800-729-6686

• National Mental Health Information Center at 1-800-789-CMHS (2647)