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On Monday, August 26, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), announced
more than $65 million in grant awards and notices of
funding opportunities (NOFOs) to help tackle the mental
health and substance use crises.
This funding includes $27.5 million through the Strategic
Prevention Framework - Partnerships for Success (SPF-PFS)
program to help tribes, state and local governments, and
colleges and universities to develop and deliver
substance use prevention services.
Additional awards will support children with unmet
behavioral health needs, increase access to behavioral
health care for people who are (or are at risk of)
becoming unhoused, and enhance the behavioral health
workforce by supporting substance use disorder (SUD)
training for graduate-level healthcare professionals.
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra was quoted in a SAMHSA press announcement
saying, "We must continue to do everything in our power
to help Americans who are struggling with mental health
and substance use challenges. By increasing access to
treatment and support in many different forms, we
continue to strengthen communities nationwide." Miriam E.
Delphin-Rittmon, HHS Assistant Secretary for Mental
Health and Substance Use and the leader of SAMHSA, was
also quoted, saying, "SAMHSA's Strategic Prevention
Framework-Partnerships for Success grants help Tribes,
state and local governments, and institutions of higher
education develop and implement effective substance use
prevention strategies and messages . . . By fostering
community-level partnerships, SPF-PFS grants will ensure
these interventions will reach populations
disproportionately impacted by substance use."
A total of $49.1 million in awards have gone to:
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Strategic Prevention Framework -
Partnerships for Success for States - ($12.5
million) - This program helps prevent the initiation
and progression of substance use and its related
problems by supporting the development and delivery of
state and community substance use prevention
strategies.
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Strategic Prevention Framework -
Partnerships for Success for Communities, Local
Governments, Universities, Colleges, and Tribes/Tribal
Organizations - ($15 million) - This program
helps prevent the initiation and progression of
substance use and its related problems by supporting
the development and delivery of community-based
substance use prevention strategies.
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Linking Actions for Unmet Needs in
Children's Health (Project LAUNCH) - ($8
million) - This program promotes the wellness of young
children, from birth to 8 years of age, by addressing
the social, emotional, cognitive, physical, and
behavioral aspects of their development, preparing
young children to thrive in school and beyond.
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Treatment for Individuals
Experiencing Homelessness - ($7.2 million) -
This program provides comprehensive, coordinated and
evidence-based services for individuals, youth, and
families with serious mental illnesses, serious
emotional disturbance or co-occurring disorders who are
experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk of
homelessness.
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Provider's Clinical Support System
Universities - ($5.7 million) - This program
ensures that graduate-level healthcare students receive
SUD education early in their academic careers and
prepare them to identify and treat SUD in non-specialty
healthcare settings upon graduation.
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Coalitions Training Cooperative
Agreement (CADCA) - ($675 thousand) - This
program leverages existing resources to expand SAMHSA's
scope and capacity related to prevention; to provide
training to state and community prevention leaders,
including members of anti-drug community coalitions
from around the country; and to promote prevention
workforce development.
A total of $16.6 million will go to two new funding
opportunities that will help increase access to
behavioral health services, regardless of individuals'
ability to pay, and by enhancing and advancing health
equity while preventing HIV and substance use among
racial and ethnic minority communities:
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Certified Community Behavioral
Health Clinic (CCBHC) Planning Grants - ($15
million) - This program supports states' ability to
develop and implement certification systems for CCBHCs,
establish prospective payment systems for
Medicaid-reimbursable behavioral health services, and
prepare applications to participate in a four-year
CCBHC Medicaid Demonstration program.
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Syndemic Approach to Preventing HIV
and Substance Use among Racial and Ethnic Minority
Communities - ($1.6 million) - This program
aims to advance equity in health outcomes for
communities disproportionately impacted by HIV and SUD,
particularly racial and ethnic minority communities and
especially all Black female identities, including
cisgender, transgender, nonbinary, and gender
queer/fluid individuals in the South who are
experiencing disparities related to HIV/AIDS, viral
hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections, SUDs,
and/or mental health conditions.
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