The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), is accepting applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2022 Statewide Family Network (SFN) Program.
Donor Name: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S Territories: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the US Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Republic of Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 05/02/2022
Size of the Grant: $120,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
The purpose of this program is to provide resources to enhance the capacity of statewide mental health family-controlled organizations to engage with family members/primary caregivers who are raising children, youth, and young adults with serious emotional disturbance (SED). Grant recipients are expected to be family-driven, trauma-informed, culturally relevant, holistic, and resiliency-oriented family-controlled organizations. SAMHSA expects this program to serve as a catalyst for transforming mental health and related systems in states by strengthening coalitions led by family organizations, and between family members, policymakers, and service providers.
Goals
The goals of the program:
- Enhance family/caregiver participation, voice, leadership, and empowerment statewide to effect systems change and improve the quality of mental health services;
- Facilitate access to evidence-based and promising family/caregiver peer-delivered practices;
- Enhance knowledge, skills, and abilities related to mental health services for family/caregiver peer support providers across the state;
- Emphasize and build family/caregiver leadership within family/caregivercontrolled organizations and in communities across the state, and through partnerships and collaboration with allied stakeholders;
- Build capacity and sustainability of statewide family/caregiver networks; and
- Increase family-to-family connectedness and reduce family feelings of isolation.
Funding Information
Proposed budgets cannot exceed $120,000 in total costs (direct and indirect) in any year of the proposed project.
Project Period
Up to 3 years.
Allowable Activities
Allowable activities are an allowable use of grant funds but are not required. Allowable activities may include:
- Providing training and technical assistance to grassroots family-driven and youth guided recovery support service organizations in areas including, but not limited to, the following:
- Organizational development;
- Non-profit management;
- Community development;
- Services financing;
- Respite care;
- Sustainability;
- Leadership development; and
- Recovery programming.
- Creating, maintaining, and supporting a 1-800 number for family members to obtain information and support.
- Collaborating with state networks representing adult and youth mental health consumers.
- Working with the State Education Agency and other state offices to encourage screening and early identification of children and youth with SED in schools and to establish school-based mental health services.
- Working with state organizations of medical providers to encourage screening and early identification of children and youth with SED in primary care settings.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants are:
- Domestic public or private non-profit organizations, including family-run organizations.
- 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 (AI/AN) tribes, tribal organizations, Urban Indian Organizations, and consortia of tribes or tribal organizations.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
