The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services (DMH/DD/SAS) is currently accepting applications for its COVID Mitigating Grant Program.
Donor Name: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
State: North Carolina
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 08/02/2022
Size of the Grant: $230,845
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
SUD Activities:
- Develop and implement strategies to address consumer hesitancy around testing. Ensure access for specific community populations to address long standing systematic health and social inequities that have put some consumers at increased risk of getting COVID-19 or having severe illness. Provide support for utilization of space/staffing to address COVID mitigation.
- Testing for staff and consumers in shelters, group homes, residential treatment facilities, day programs, and room and board programs. Purchase of resources for testing related operating and administrative costs otherwise borne by these programs. Hire workers to coordinate resources, develop strategies and support existing community partners to prevent infectious disease transmission in these settings. Use the funding to procure COVID-19 tests and other mitigation supplies such as hand washing stations, hand sanitizer, and masks for people experiencing homelessness and for those living in congregate settings.
MH Activities:
- Testing for staff and consumers in shelters, group homes, residential treatment facilities, day programs, and room and board programs. Purchase of resources for testing related operating and administrative costs otherwise borne by these programs. Hire workers to coordinate resources, develop strategies and support existing community partners to prevent infectious disease transmission in these settings. Use the funding to procure COVID-19 tests and other mitigation supplies such as hand washing stations, hand sanitizer, and masks for people experiencing homelessness and for those living in congregate settings
- Installing temporary structures, leasing of properties, and retrofitting facilities as necessary to support COVID-19 testing and mitigation.
- Create space for quarantine and other COID-19 mitigation strategies by utilizing funds to support staffing/space allocation for units specific to either COVID or non-COVID areas for behavioral health patients.
Funding Size
- MH Funding:
- $$230,845 for congregate care and/or residential provider and/or day program agencies for children, families and/or adults.
- $221,179 for agencies interested in or having experience serving rural, marginalized and/or traditionally under served communities
- SU Funding:
- $218,547 for congregate care and or residential provider, and/or day program agencies for children, families and/or adults
- $209,976 for agencies interested in or having experience serving rural, marginalized and/or traditionally under-served communities
- Subaward Period of Performance: 09/01/2022 – 09/30/2025
Eligibility Criteria
MH Eligibility:
- Eligible applicants are not- for-profit or Tribal entities with experience serving the SMI and/or SED populations
- Either congregate care, and/or residential provider agencies, and/or day programs for children, families and/or adults
- Agencies interested in or having experience serving rural, marginalized and/or traditionally under-served communities.
SU Eligibility:
- Eligible applicants are not-for profit or Tribal entities with experience and certification for serving the Substance Use population
- Either congregrate care, and/or residential provider agencies, and/or day programs for children, families and/or adults
- Agencies interested in or having experience serving rural, marginalized and/or traditionally under-served communities.
For more information, visit North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
