FY 2004 Grant Opportunity
     

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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

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Request for Applications (RFA)

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SM 04-011:

 

Grants for National Technical Assistance Centers On Consumer/Peer-Run Programs

Short Title: Consumer TA Centers

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Request for Applications (RFA) No. SM 04-011

Federal Register Notice: April 22, 2004

Receipt date:  June 25, 2004
 
    Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) No.: 93.243
 
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Key Dates:

Application Deadline

June 25, 2004

Intergovernmental Review

(E.O. 12372)

Letters from State Single Point of Contact (SPOC) are due no later than August 24, 2004.

Public Health System Impact Statement (PHSIS)/SSA 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.
As authorized under Section 520A of the Public Health Service Act, SAMHSA  announces the availability of funds for National Technical Assistance Centers on Consumer/Peer-Run Programs (Consumer/Peer-Run TACs) grants. The Consumer/Peer- Run TACs will assist in the transformation of the mental health system by providing consumers with necessary skills to foster these programs. These programs maximize consumer self-determination and recovery and assist people with severe mental illness to decrease their dependence on expensive social services and avoid psychiatric hospitalization.

The Consumer/Peer-Run TACs support the work of SAMHSA’s Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) to transform the mental health system through changes that help adults with severe mental illnesses recover and live independently and productively in the community. CMHS fosters consumer involvement in the planning, delivery, and evaluation of mental health services and recognizes the role of self-help, mutual support, and empowerment in the recovery of persons with a severe mental illness. In 1992, to further the development of self-help programs, Federal funding was used to support the first national self-help technical assistance centers directed by and for mental health consumers. Assistance to supporters of consumers was added to the program in 1998.

Eligible applicants are domestic private nonprofit entities, including faith-based organizations, which meet the criteria for consumer or consumer-supporter organizations found in Section I-2.8 ("Definitions") of the full RFA, and the following requirements:

  • Applicant organizations must have been in operation for a minimum of one year.

  • An applicant must complete the Certification of Consumer and Consumer Supporter Organization Eligibility (See Appendix B of this document), indicating that the applicant meets all eligibility requirements. Applicants must complete and sign a Certification of Eligibility and provide necessary supportive documentation.

The statutory authority for this program precludes grants to for-profit organizations.
Additional Information

It is expected that $1.75 million will be available to fund up to 5 National Technical Assistance Centers on Consumer/Peer-Run Program awards in FY 2004, 3 national consumer self-help technical assistance centers, and 2 national consumer-supporter self-help technical assistance centers. Annual awards are expected to be up to $350,000 per year in total costs (direct and indirect). Applicants may request a project period of up to three years.

Proposed budgets cannot exceed $350,000 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 $133,000 will be competitively awarded each year to one of the three successful national consumer technical assistance centers to facilitate the Alternatives Conference. (See section entitled Alternatives Conference in Section V: Application Review of the full RFA).

For questions on program issues, contact:

Risa S. Fox, M.S.
Public Health Advisor
Center for Mental Health Services
SAMHSA
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 11C-22
Rockville, MD 20857
(301) 443-3653
E-mail: rfox@samhsa.hhs.gov

For questions on grants management issues, contact:

Gwendolyn Simpson
Office of Program Services, Division of Grants Management
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration/OPS
5600 Fishers Lane
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:

  

The complete Request for Applications (RFA) No. SM 04-011

 

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

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

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.

  For further information on these forms and the application process, see Information on the Grant Application Process.
   
 

For a complete application kit, call the National Mental Health Information Center at: 

  • 800-789-2647