Notice of Funding Opportunity
Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment

Application Due Date: Friday, April 12, 2024

The purpose of this program is to implement the screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment public health model for children, adolescents, and/or adults in primary care and community health settings (e.g., health centers, hospital systems, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), preferred-provider organizations (PPOs) health plans, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC), behavioral health centers, pediatric health care providers, children’s hospitals, etc.) and schools with a focus on screening for underage drinking, opioid use, and other substance use.

Anticipated Total Available Funding: $9,950,000
Anticipated Number of Awards: 10

For other funding announcements, see Funding.

Elevate Community-Based Organizations: Data Storytelling — Webinar Series

Series starts Thursday, February 22, 2024 2 p.m. ET

Behavioral health community-based organizations (CBOs) are invited to join theSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Office of Behavioral Health Equity (OBHE) for Data Storytelling: How CBOs Can Share Their Impact. Building on previous Elevate CBOs webinars, this four-part series will focus on providing the context and tools necessary for organizations to convey their impact and move their work to the next level through data storytelling. Though registrants can choose which sessions to attend, we highly recommend you attend all sessions. After each session, attendees will be given registration information to attend first come, first served post-workshop Q&A hours.

Biden-Harris Administration Awards $5.1M in Support of LGBTQI+ Youth and Families

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), announced four awards totaling $5.1 million for Family Counseling and Support for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex+ Youth and their Families.

These grants are in addition to $1.7M in grant funding that was previously awardedin 2023 to four other recipients. All eight awardees will be engaging LGBTQI+ youth and their families to prevent risk of health conditions, including behavioral health conditions (e.g., suicidality, depression, homelessness, drug use, HIV) and promote well-being for LGBTQI+ youth by establishing family counseling and support programs and training providers on family counseling and support interventions tailored for LGBTQI+ families.

Funding

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

Application Due Date: Monday, April 8, 2024

The purpose of this program is to provide trauma-informed, evidence-based interventions to youth and young adults (up to 25 years of age) who are at clinical high risk for psychosis. Recipients will be expected to use evidence-based interventions to: (1) improve symptomatic and behavioral functioning; (2) enable youth and young adults to resume age-appropriate social, academic, and/or vocational activities; (3) delay or prevent the onset of psychosis; and (4) minimize the duration of untreated psychosis for those who develop psychotic symptoms.

Anticipated Total Available Funding: $5,000,000
Anticipated Number of Awards: 8

Statewide Consumer Network Program

Application Due Date: Monday, April 8, 2024

The purpose of this program is to strengthen the capacity of statewide mental health peer-led organizations to partner with state efforts to improve mental health support system and related services for individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) or serious emotional disturbance (SED) as agents of transformation.

Anticipated Total Available Funding: $1,143,099
Anticipated Number of Awards: 9

Statewide Family Network Program

Application Due Date: Monday, April 8, 2024

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) and/or co-occurring disorders (COD).

Anticipated Total Available Funding: $1,116,777
Anticipated Number of Awards: 9

Provider’s Clinical Support System – Universities

Application Due Date: Monday, April 15, 2024

The purpose of this program is to expand and ensure that graduate-level healthcare students receive substance use disorder (SUD) education early in their academic careers and prepare them to identify and treat SUD in mainstream healthcare upon graduation. Students will gain a basic knowledge of strategies to identify, assess, intervene, and treat addiction, as well as support recovery and address SUD stigma. In addition, this program supports the integration of SUD content into the curricula of the respective academic institution.

Anticipated Total Available Funding: $5,400,000
Anticipated Number of Awards: 18

First Responders-Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act

Application Due Date: Monday, April 15, 2024

The purpose of this program is to provide resources to support first responders and members of other key community sectors on training, administering, and distributing naloxone and other Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved overdose reversal medications or devices. Recipients will be expected to establish processes, protocols, and mechanisms for warm hand-off referrals to appropriate treatment, recovery, harm reduction, and other psychosocial resource support services. Recipients will also provide safety education around fentanyl, synthetic opioids, and other drug trends associated with overdoses.

Anticipated Total Available Funding: $6,200,000
Anticipated Number of Awards: 15