The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is accepting applications for 2023 Hurricanes Fiona and Ian Behavioral Health Recovery Program.
Donor Name: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
States: Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina
County: All Counties
U.S. Territory: Puerto Rico
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/26/2023
Size of the Grant: $22,000,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
The purpose of this program is to address the behavioral health impacts of Hurricanes Fiona and Ian. SAMHSA recognizes that natural disasters can have long-term behavioral health effects on adults and children. These effects can include an increase in substance misuse and increasing stress, anxiety, depression and other mental health symptoms. Hurricanes Fiona and Ian have had a significant impact on mental health and substance use treatment systems, leading to strain on the already under-resourced behavioral health workforce. The long-term effects of the hurricanes will likely disproportionately impact people with pre-disaster vulnerabilities, which can worsen through the impacts of trauma, leading to surges in need for acute behavioral health care later.
With this program, SAMHSA aims to equitably prevent overdose, enhance access to suicide prevention and crisis care, promote resilience and emotional health for children, youth and families, and strengthen the behavioral health workforce in areas impacted by Hurricane Fiona and/or Hurricane Ian. Recipients will be expected to address behavioral health workforce shortages and meet anticipated mental health and substance use treatment needs, for people who would otherwise not have access through steady-state or public behavioral health resources.
Population of Focus
The population of focus is adults and children with behavioral health needs related to the impacts of Hurricane Fiona and/or Hurricane Ian who would otherwise not have access to behavioral health services through steady-state or public behavioral health resources, including:
- Persons with any mental illness including those with a serious mental illness (SMI) or serious emotional disturbance (SED);
- Persons with a substance use disorder (SUD);
- Persons with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders;
- People who have sub-clinical mental health or substance use conditions, due to the effects of Hurricane Fiona and/or Hurricane Ian; and
- People who experienced pre-hurricane vulnerabilities in social determinants of health or previous trauma exposure leading them to a disproportionate impact from Hurricane Fiona and/or Hurricane Ian.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Available Funding: $22,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $22,000,000
Length of Project Period
Up to one year
Allowable Activities
Allowable activities are an allowable use of funds but are not required. Allowable activities may include:
- Provide activities that address behavioral health disparities and the social determinants of health.
- Implement efforts aligned to the award that may expand diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.
- Develop and implement outreach and referral pathways that engage/target all demographic groups representative of the community.
- Build community coalitions to respond to and prepare for behavioral health impacts of natural disasters.
- Strengthen state-level strategies to address behavioral health impacts of natural disasters including developing a comprehensive state-system approach to respond to the behavioral health impacts of the disaster for which funding is being provided and a plan to prepare for any future disasters.
- Develop and implement tobacco/nicotine product (e.g., vaping) cessation programs, activities, and/or strategies.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants are states, territories or Federally recognized American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) tribes impacted by Hurricane Fiona and/or Hurricane Ian in FY 2022 in those areas for which a major disaster or emergency was declared under section 401 or 501 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, or for which Hurricane Fiona and/or Hurricane Ian were determined to present a public health emergency under section 319(a) of the Public Health Service Act. The five impacted areas are Puerto Rico, Florida, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
