The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) and Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), are accepting applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2024 Minority AIDS Initiative: Substance Use Disorders (SUD) Prevention and Treatment Pilot Program.
Donor Name: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/12/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
The purpose of this program is to provide substance use prevention, substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, HIV, and viral hepatitis prevention and treatment services for racial and ethnic medically underserved individuals vulnerable to a SUD and/or mental health condition, HIV, viral hepatitis, and other infectious disease (e.g., STIs). The populations of focus for this program are individuals who are particularly vulnerable to or living with HIV/AIDS, including an emphasis on gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men, men who have sex with men and women (MSMW), Black, Latino, and American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) men who have sex with men (MSM), Asian and Pacific Islander, Black women, transgender men and women, youth aged 13–24 years, and People who Inject Drugs (PWID).
Allowable Activities
- Develop and implement tobacco cessation programs, activities, and/or strategies.
- Implement a communication campaign focused on reducing stigma related to harm reduction.
- Implement efforts that may improve diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility to individuals vulnerable to a SUD and/or mental health condition, HIV, viral hepatitis, and other infectious disease.
- Use data to understand who is served and disproportionately served (for example, overserved or underserved) to guide and improve program implementation.
- Develop and implement outreach and referral pathways that engage all demographic groups representative of the identified community.
- Develop and implement evidence-based contingency management (CM) programs to treat stimulant use disorder and concurrent substance misuse, and to improve retention in care.
- Provide recovery housing for eligible individuals to include those actively engaged in MOUD and MAUD treatment and other psychosocial services.
- Provide SUD prevention, treatment, and recovery as well as COD services for long-term survivors and people aging with HIV.
- Provide participants with educational information on how and where to obtain HIV self-test kits, especially when telemedicine services are offered.
- Provide behavioral health CLAS standards training to service providers, including translation of materials, as needed, for other languages of the population of focus.
- Provide both supportive counseling and motivational interviewing internally and in making referrals, and linkages to necessary external services and resources.
- Provide supportive services that address behavioral health disparities, social determinants of health, and adverse childhood experiences to prevent the onset of mental health conditions and SUDs and reduce risk for HIV/viral hepatitis and STIs.
- Provide early supportive services addressing the social/emotional needs of highrisk youth to increase resiliency and coping skills that can reduce the risk for substance use, mental health challenges, and suicide.
- Provide Mpox activities conducted in conjunction with SAMHSA supported work as allowable in SAMHSA’s Mpox Dear Colleagues letter15 . Such activities include, but are not limited to, navigating people served by award funds to testing, treatment, and prevention resources identified through collaboration with local health departments and mental health support of individuals with Mpox served by this award or referral and linkage to these services.
- Screen for symptomatic tuberculosis and test participants for latent or active tuberculosis and provide treatment either on-site or by referral and linkage as appropriate.
- Address the intersection between oral and behavioral health by providing dental kits to promote oral health for individuals experiencing unsheltered homelessness (i.e., dental kits are limited to items such as toothpaste, toothbrush, dental floss, non-alcohol containing mouthwash).
- Distribute safer sex kits, including condoms.
- Use of telehealth and/or telemedicine services to deliver SUD, HIV, viral hepatitis, and STI prevention education and treatment services.
- Provide public education on “Good Samaritan” laws related to harm reduction in the recipient State.
- Dispensing medications other than those purchased by the award as prescribed by a licensed medical prescriber is allowable.
- Provide warm hand-off referrals to appropriate employment and transportation services to ensure comprehensive support for program participants.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Available Funding: $5,700,000
- Estimated Award Amount: $700,000
Project Period
Up to 5 years
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants are states and territories (Guam, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau), including the District of Columbia, political subdivisions of states, Indian tribes, or tribal organizations, health facilities, or programs operated by or in accordance with a contract or award with the Indian Health Service, or other public or private non-profit entities, including faith-based organizations.
- A tribal organization is the recognized body of any AI/AN tribe; any legally established organization of AI/ANs controlled, sanctioned, or chartered by such governing body, or is democratically elected by the adult members of the Indian community to be served by such organization and includes the maximum participation of AI/ANs in all phases of its activities.
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