The 2024 Statewide Family Network 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) and/or co-occurring disorders (COD).
Donor Name: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/08/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
Recipients are expected to be family-driven, trauma-informed, culturally relevant, holistic, and resiliency-oriented family-controlled organizations. With this program SAMHSA aims to transform mental health and related systems in states empowering family-controlled organizations to participate meaningfully in SED policy development and service delivery.
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/caregiver controlled 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
- Estimated Total Available Funding: $1,116,777.
- Estimated Award Amount: Up to $120,000 per year per award.
- Length of Project Period: Up to 3 years.
Allowable Activities
Applicants may propose to use funds for the following activities:
- 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 including youth leadership;
- Recovery programming;
- Rights protection;
- Digital peer support; and
- Support for parents and/or primary caregivers of adult children (age 24+).
- 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/COD 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/COD in primary care settings.
Eligibility Criteria
States and territories (Guam, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau), including the District of Columbia, political subdivisions of states, Indian tribes, or tribal organizations (as such terms are defined in section 5304 of title 25), health facilities, or programs operated by or in accordance with a contract or award with the Indian Health Service, or other public or private nonprofit entities.
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