OASAS will make available up to $20 million of supplemental Federal Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant funds awarded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to support reasonable, necessary, and allowable SUD program costs incurred after March 15, 2021, that were not previously and will not otherwise be reimbursed by other funding or programs, including State Aid and other grants.
Donor Name: New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports
State: New York
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/11/2022
Size of the Grant: up to $20 million
Details:
Substance Use Disorder (SUD) providers sustained significant fiscal stresses during and due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To assist providers with fiscal recovery and continued safe service provision of SUD prevention, treatment, and recovery services, OASAS intends to make funds available to support programmatic stability to resume, sustain, and/or improve existing SUD program services.
Scope of Services
Providers may use funding for fiscal and programmatic support necessary to address the impact of COVID-19 on existing program operations and infrastructure.
Allowable uses of funds include, but are not limited to:
- Program operating costs to resume, sustain, and/or improve SUD existing program services, such as:
- Payroll expenses, including fringe benefit costs, but excluding retention incentives;
- Staff recruitment costs, including signing bonuses;
- Training, including the cost of ordinary registration fees for professional continuing education courses, professional conferences, and staff in-service training events;
- Implementation of infectious disease control measures;
- Supplies;
- Equipment needs, such as security systems or durable medical equipment;
- Reimbursement of all or a portion of remaining principal for loans incurred to sustain SUD program operations;
- Agency Administration expenses, not to exceed 10% of total Personal Services, Fringe Benefits, and Other Than Personal Services costs; and,
- Other costs which do not have any other current source of payment.
Eligibility Criteria
- Voluntary agencies or local governmental units (LGU) which provide direct care SUD treatment, prevention, and/or recovery services that (1) are OASAS-Certified and/or funded by OASAS State Aid as of the date of award; (2) were operational prior to January 31, 2020; (3) are pre-qualified in the Grants Gateway; and (4) have completed a certified Vendor Responsibility questionnaire are eligible to receive funds.
- Providers applying for Primary Prevention funds must be an OASAS State Aid funded provider of primary prevention services under program code 5520.
For more information, visit NYSOASAS.
