Community Programs for Outreach and Intervention with Youth and Young Adults at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), is accepting applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2023 Community Programs for Outreach and Intervention with Youth and Young Adults at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis (“CHR-P”) program.

Donor Name: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

State: All States

Deadline: 03/14/2023

Size of the Grant: Up to $400,000

Grant Duration:  4 years

Details:

The purpose of this program is to provide trauma-informed, evidence-based interventions to youth and young adults (not more than 25 years of age) who are at clinical high risk for psychosis. Award recipients are expected to use evidence-based intervention to: improve symptomatic and behavioral functioning; enable youth and young adults to resume age-appropriate social, academic, and/or vocational activities; delay or prevent the onset of psychosis; and minimize the duration of untreated psychosis for those who develop psychotic symptoms.

Funding Information 

Up to $400,000 per year per award

Project Period

Up to 4 years

Allowable Activities

Allowable activities are an allowable use of funds but are not required. Allowable activities may include:

• Co-locate CHR-P services with existing FEP services (e.g., the Coordinated Specialty Care programs supported through SAMHSA’s Community Mental Health Services Block Grant 10% set-aside for evidence-based treatments for early serious mental illness).
• Engage in universal screening procedures for CHR-P in settings that serve youth/young adults (e.g., schools, emergency departments, juvenile justice agencies, primary care) to identify youth/young adults who may be at clinical high risk for psychosis.
• Use validated brief screening tools that precede the SIPS assessment (e.g., Prodromal Questionnaire-Brief4 (PQ-B) (Loewy, 2005), the Prime Screen5 (Miller, 2004).
• Collaborate with child and young adult serving agencies (e.g., substance use, child welfare, criminal and juvenile justice, primary care, education, housing, welfare) to build bridges between partners.
• Implement and provide training on the Behavioral Health Guide for Implementing the National CLAS Standards to service providers to increase awareness and acknowledgment of differences in language, age, culture, racial and ethnic disparities, socio-economic status, religious beliefs, sexual orientation and gender identity, and life experiences in order to improve the inclusiveness of the service delivery environment and ultimately improve behavioral health outcomes.

The following are IPP indicators for which data must be collected and reported into SPARS:

• The number of individuals contacted through program outreach efforts.
• The number of individuals screened for mental health or related interventions.
• The number of individuals referred to mental health or related services.
• The number of people in the mental health and related workforce trained in mental health.

Data will be collected on:

• Behavioral Health Diagnosis(es)
• Demographic data
• Functioning in everyday life
• Stability in Housing
• Education and Employment
• Criminal and Criminal Justice Status
• Perception of Care
• Social Connectedness
• Program-specific questions

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility is statutorily limited to public entities:

• State governments and territories (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).
• Governmental units within political subdivisions of a state (e.g., county, city, town).
• 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 award requirements.

Recipients who received their initial funding in FY 2022 from CHR-P NOFO (SM22-008) are not eligible to apply.

General Eligibility Information

Determining whether you are eligible to apply for and receive a SAMHSA award is very important. If you are not legally eligible for a specific funding opportunity, you would spend considerable time and money completing the application process when you cannot receive the award.

There are many types of organizations generally eligible to apply for SAMHSA funding opportunities. However, eligibility is strictly tied to the statutory authority governing this award. Please be sure to double check the NOFO for eligibility. Eligibility for this NOFO may include the following:

Government Organizations

• State governments and territories
• County governments
• City or township governments
• Special district governments
• Native American tribal governments (federally recognized)
• Native American tribal governments (other than federally recognized)
• State-Recognized Tribes

Other Tribal Entities

• Tribal organizations
• Consortia of tribes or tribal organizations
• Urban Indian Organizations

Education Organizations

• Independent school districts
• Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education
• Private institutions of higher education
• Education agencies/authorities serving children and youth residing in federally recognized American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) tribes

Non-profit Organizations

• Non-profits having a 501(c)(3) status with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), other than institutions of higher education
• Non-profits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, including entities with 501(c)(4) status (civic leagues, social welfare organizations, and local associations of employees) and 501(c)(5) status (labor organizations).

Please note: For-profit organizations and foreign entities are not eligible to apply for SAMHSA awards.

For more information, visit Grants.gov.