The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is accepting applications for the 2023 Support for 988 Tribal Response Cooperative Agreements program .
Donor Name: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/18/2023
Size of the Grant: $250,000 – $2,000,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
The purpose of these cooperative agreements is to provide resources to improve response to 988 contacts (including calls, chats, and texts) originating in Tribal communities and/or activated by American Indians/Alaska Natives. With this program, SAMHSA aims to:
- ensure American Indians/Alaska Natives have access to culturally competent, trained 988 crisis center support through existing and/or new 988 Lifeline centers;
- improve integration and support of 988 crisis centers, Tribal nations, and Tribal organizations to ensure there is navigation and follow-up care; and
- facilitate collaborations with Tribal, state and territory health providers, Urban Indian Organizations, law enforcement, and other first responders in a manner which respects Tribal sovereignty.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Available Funding: Up to $17,800,000 per year
- Estimated Award Amount: $250,000 – $2,000,000 per year
Project Period
3 years
Allowable Activities
Allowable activities are an allowable use of funds but are not required. Allowable activities may include:
- Develop tribe-specific community resources that can link to Lifeline 988 crisis centers for seamless provision of care. Examples may include rapid access to mobile crisis care, same or next day behavioral health clinic scheduling, and connection to peer-run warm lines.
- Train peer support specialists and community health workers on suicide prevention and crisis services, to include recovery coaching, telephone recovery check-ups, warmlines, and other supports, following any existing guidelines required in each state or jurisdiction.
- Implement prevention and education and post-intervention services including development of culturally informed and responsive evidence-based community prevention efforts, school-based prevention programs, elder education, and/or outreach.
- Design and/or help implement workforce development activities beyond the Lifeline 988 crisis centers (such as those listed through the Suicide Prevention Resource Center under Resources and Programs to ensure individuals working in tribal communities are well versed in strategies to prevent suicide and provide crisis intervention services.
- Incorporate culturally appropriate and traditional practices into the program design and implementation.
- Assess the impact of the award. (Consider working with Tribal Epidemiology Centers or an Evaluator to implement this activity. However, including an Evaluator in the staffing component is not required).
- Ensure that training meets, expands, or improves Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) standards. Review the Behavioral Health Implementation Guide for full explanations of the overarching themes and 15 CLAS Standards with behavioral health related samples, strategies, and examples.
- Engage in planning and collaboration with state/local/territory and Lifeline administrators to establish dedicated Lifeline responses for American Indians/Alaska Natives. This includes individual development and support of a Tribal Lifeline crisis center. For Tribal contacts through the Tribal Lifeline center, develop processes to track referrals from the center and linkages between health providers, 911 Centers, PSAP, Tribal, state, and local emergency medical services, law enforcement, and other first responders.
- Participate in planning and implementation of technical assistance activities through SAMHSA identified Technical Assistance opportunities, including but not limited to the Suicide Prevention Resource Center and the Tribal Technical Assistance Center.
- Capitalizable infrastructure, such as computer systems/software, new buildings, or structural changes to existing facilities (e.g., to the foundation, roof, floor, or exterior or loadbearing walls of a facility, or extension of existing facility) are recoverable as depreciation through an approved negotiated indirect cost rate or 10% de minimis rate in accordance with your organization’s existing capitalization/amortization policies.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligibility is limited to federally recognized American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) tribes, tribal organizations, Urban Indian Organizations, and consortia of tribes or tribal organizations. A consortia of tribes or tribal organizations are eligible to apply, but each participating entity must indicate its approval. A single tribe in the consortium must be the legal applicant, the recipient of the award, and the entity legally responsible for satisfying the grant requirements.
- Indian tribe, as defined at 25 U.S.C. §), which is recognized as eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians.
- Tribal organization means the recognized body of any AI/AN tribe; any legally established organization of AI/ANs which is controlled, sanctioned, or chartered by such governing body, or which is democratically elected by the adult members of the Indian community to be served by such organization and which includes the maximum participation of AI/ANs in all phases of its activities. Consortia of tribes or tribal organizations are eligible to apply, but each participating entity must indicate its approval. A single tribe in the consortium must be the legal applicant, the recipient of the award, and the entity legally responsible for satisfying the award requirements.
- Urban Indian Organization (UIO) (as identified by the Indian Health Service Office of Urban Indian Health Programs through active Title V awards/contracts) means a nonprofit corporate body situated in an urban center governed by an urban Indian-controlled board of directors, and providing for the maximum participation of all interested Individuals and groups, which body is capable of legally cooperating with other public and private entities for the purpose of performing the activities described in 503(a)3. UIOs are not tribes or tribal governments and do not have the same consultation rights or trust relationship with the federal government
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
