Deadline: 18-Apr-22
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis is seeking applications for the Grants for Expansion and Sustainability of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances to provide resources to improve the mental health outcomes for children and youth, birth through age 21, with serious emotional disturbances (SED), and their families.
This program supports the implementation, expansion, and integration of the System of Care (SOC) approach by creating sustainable infrastructure and services that are required as part of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and their Families Program (also known as the Children’s Mental Health Initiative or CMHI).
Allowable Activities
Allowable activities are an allowable use of grant funds but are not required. Allowable activities may include:
- Develop and implement a culturally and linguistically appropriate social marketing/communication strategic plan to promote, develop, and sustain services and systems change when federal funding ends.
- Provide therapeutic recreational activities1 for clients to address treatment goals;
- Provide mental health services (other than residential or inpatient facilities with ten or more beds) that are determined by the individualized care team to be necessary and appropriate to meet a critical need of the child/youth or the child’s family related to the child’s mental health needs.
- Develop and implement suicide prevention and intervention approaches to:
- identify children/youth at risk for suicide; and
- intervene as needed to address the needs of a child/youth who was identified at risk for suicide (e.g., previous suicide attempts, suicidal ideation).
- Develop a plan to disseminate funds to support the individualized needs of children, youth, and families that are not typically covered services and otherwise not reimbursable.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Available Funding: $10,421,424
- Estimated Number of Awards: Up to 3-10 awards.
- Estimated Award Amount: Up to $3,000,000 per year for state applicants. Up to $1,000,000 per year for political subdivisions of states; territories; and AI/AN applicants.
- Length of Project Period: Up to four years
- Anticipated Start Date: 9/30/2022
Eligibility Criteria
Eligibility is statutorily limited to the following:
- State governments and territories (i.e., 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 tribes and tribal 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.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=335005