The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), is accepting applications for the fiscal year 2022 Expansion and Sustainability of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances grants.
Donor Name: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territories: Selected Territories
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/18/2022
Size of the Grant: $1,000,000 or $3,000,000
Grant Duration: 4 years
Details:
The purpose of this program is to provide resources to improve the mental health outcomes for children and youth, birth through age 21, with serious emotional disturbances (SED), and their families. This program supports the implementation, expansion, and integration of the System of Care (SOC) approach by creating sustainable infrastructure and services that are required as part of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and their Families Program (also known as the Children’s Mental Health Initiative or CMHI).
Funding Information
Proposed budgets cannot exceed $1,000,000 or $3,000,000 in total costs (direct and indirect) in any year of the proposed project.
Project Period
Up to 4 years.
Allowable Activities
Allowable activities are an allowable use of grant funds but are not required. Allowable activities may include:
- Develop and implement a culturally and linguistically appropriate social marketing/communication strategic plan to promote, develop, and sustain services and systems change when federal funding ends.
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Provide therapeutic recreational activities for clients to address treatment goals;
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Provide mental health services (other than residential or inpatient facilities with ten or more beds) that are determined by the individualized care team to be necessary and appropriate to meet a critical need of the child/youth or the child’s family related to the child’s mental health needs.
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Develop and implement suicide prevention and intervention approaches to:
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identify children/youth at risk for suicide; and
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intervene as needed to address the needs of a child/youth who was identified at risk for suicide (e.g., previous suicide attempts, suicidal ideation).
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Develop a plan to disseminate funds to support the individualized needs of children, youth, and families that are not typically covered services and otherwise not reimbursable.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligibility is statutorily limited to the following:
- State governments and territories (i.e., the District of Columbia; the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; the Northern Mariana Islands; the Virgin Islands; Guam; American Samoa; the Republic of Palau; the Federated States of Micronesia; and the Republic of the Marshall Islands);
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Governmental units within political subdivisions of a state (e.g., county, city, town);
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Federally recognized American Indian/Alaska Native tribes and tribal organizations, as defined in Section 5304(b) and Section 5304(c) of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act
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 grant requirements.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
