Deadline: 13-Oct-22
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2022 Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education) program.
The purpose of Project AWARE is to develop a sustainable infrastructure for school-based mental health programs and services. Grant recipients are expected to build collaborative partnerships with the State Education Agency (SEA), Local Education Agency (LEA), Tribal Education Agency (TEA), the State Mental Health Agency (SMHA), community-based providers of behavioral health care services, school personnel, community organizations, families, and school-aged youth.
Grant recipients will leverage their partnerships to implement mental health related promotion, awareness, prevention, intervention, and resilience activities to ensure that students have access and are connected to appropriate and effective behavioral health services. SAMHSA expects that this program will promote the healthy social and emotional development of school-aged youth and prevent youth violence in school settings.
Goals
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The goals of AWARE are to:
- Increase awareness of mental health, substance use, and co-occurring issues
- Increase the mental health literacy of individuals who interact with school-aged youth to understand and detect the signs and symptoms of mental illness, substance use/misuse, and co-occurring disorders.
- Promote and foster resilience building and mental health well-being for all schoolaged youth.
- Provide positive behavioral health supports; targeted services to those who need more support; and intensive services to those who need them.
- Connect school-aged youth who may have behavioral health issues, including serious emotional disturbance (SED) or serious mental illness (SMI), and their families to needed services.
- Increase and improve access to culturally relevant, developmentally appropriate, and trauma-informed school and community-based AWARE grant activities and services.
- The population of focus is school-aged youth (i.e., children and youth in grades K-12).
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $37,600,000
- Award Ceiling: $1,800,000
Allowable Activities
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Allowable activities can be supported with funds but are not required. Allowable activities may include:
- Providing supports to assist teachers and school personnel to develop skills that promote staff wellness, mental well-being, and resilience to better support and refer school-aged youth with behavioral health issues to needed services.
- Providing trauma-informed evidence-based counseling and support services for LGBTQI+ children, adolescents, and their families/caregivers, including those who have survived sexual orientation or gender identity change efforts (SOGI Change Efforts) also known as so-called “conversion therapy” or so-called “reparative therapy”.
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For SEAs, LEAs, TEAs, States, tribes only: establishing and implementing a school-based student suicide awareness and prevention training policy which addresses the following:
- Be evidence-based;
- Be culturally and linguistically appropriate;
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Provide evidence-based training to students in grades 6 through 12, in coordination with school-based mental health resources, regarding:
- Suicide prevention education and awareness, including associated risk factors;
- Methods that students can use to seek help; and
- Student resources for suicide awareness and prevention.
- Provide for periodic re-training of students.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible entities are States; political subdivisions of States (e.g., county, LEA); Indian tribes or tribal organizations , health facilities, or programs operated by or in accordance with a contract or grant with the Indian Health Service, or other domestic public or private nonprofit entities.).
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For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=343252
