Deadline: 16 December 2019
The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is seeking applications for its 2020 Grants for the Benefit of Homeless Individuals (Short Title: GBHI) to support the development and/or expansion of local implementation of a community infrastructure that integrates substance use disorder treatment, housing services and other critical services for individuals (including youth) and families experiencing homelessness.
Award Information
- Estimated Total Available Funding: $5,204,000
- Estimated Award Amount: Up to $400,000 per year
- Estimated Number of Awards: 13
- Length of Project Period: Up to 5 years
Activities
This includes the following activities:
- Utilize established relationship with an organization that assists individuals experiencing marginal housing or homelessness to obtain housing. Recipients are required to provide direct assistance to homeless individuals to successfully gain housing.
- Provide direct SUD treatment for individuals with SUDs or co-occurring mental and SUDs who are also experiencing homelessness. Treatment must be evidence-based and may be provided in outpatient, intensive outpatient, day treatment, or residential settings.
- Provide linkage and coordination to obtain permanent housing for the population (s) of focus.
- Engage and enroll the population(s) of focus or connect the population(s) of focus to enrollment resources for Medicaid and other benefits programs (e.g. SSI/SSDI, TANF, SNAP, etc.).
- Provide recovery support services including recovery housing; employment coaching; vocational training; recovery coaching and other services designed to improve access and retention in services.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants are domestic public and private nonprofit entities. For example:
- Local governments
- Federally recognized American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) tribes, tribal organizations, Urban Indian Organizations (UIO), and consortia of tribes or tribal organizations
- Public or private universities and colleges
- Community- and faith-based organizations
- 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 grant requirements.
- UIO (as identified by the Office of Indian Health Service Urban Indian Health Programs through active Title V grants/contracts) means a non-profit corporate body situated in an urban center governed by an urban Indian-controlled board of directors, and providing for the maximum participation of all interested individuals and groups, which body is capable of legally cooperating with other public and private entities for the purpose of performing the activities described in 25 U.S.C. 1653(a). UIOs are not tribes or tribal governments and do not have the same consultation rights or trust relationship with the federal government.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online via given website.
For more information, please visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=321646