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Treatment for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness, Serious Emotional Disturbance or Co-Occurring Disorders Experiencing Homelessness

Description

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2018 –Treatment for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness, Serious Emotional Disturbance or Co-Occurring Disorders Experiencing Homelessness (Short Title: Treatment for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness).  The purpose of this program is to support the development and/or expansion of the local implementation of an infrastructure that integrates behavioral health treatment and recovery support services for individuals, youth, and families with a serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance or co-occurring disorder (i.e., a serious mental illness [SMI] and substance use disorder [SUD] or a serious emotional disturbance [SED] and SUD who are experiencing homelessness. 

The goal of this program is to increase capacity and provide accessible, effective, comprehensive, coordinated, integrated, and evidence-based treatment services, peer support and other recovery support services, and linkages to sustainable permanent housing.  To achieve this goal, SAMHSA will support three types of activities:  (1) integrated behavioral health treatment and other recovery-oriented services; (2) efforts to engage and connect clients to enrollment resources for health insurance, Medicaid, and mainstream benefits (e.g. Supplemental Security Income (SSI)/Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), etc.); and (3) coordination of housing and services that support sustainable permanent housing.  

Eligibility

Eligible applicants are domestic public and private nonprofit entities.  For example:

• State governments and territories, including the District of Columbia, Guam, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau
  • Eligible state applicants are either the State Mental Health Agency (SMHA) or the Single State Agency (SSA) for Substance Abuse.  However, SAMHSA’s expectation is that both the SSA and the SMHA will work in partnership to fulfill the requirements of the grant.  To demonstrate this collaboration, applicants must provide a letter of commitment from the partnering entity in Attachment 5 of the application.  If the SMHA and the SSA are one entity, applicants must include a statement to that effect in Attachment 5.
• Governmental units within political subdivisions of a state, such as a county, city or town.
• Federally recognized American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) tribes, tribal organizations, Urban Indian Organizations, and consortia of tribes or tribal organizations.
• Public or private universities and colleges.
• Community- and faith-based organizations.

Recipients that received an award under the FY 2017 (TI-17-009) Grants for the Benefit of Homeless Individuals (GBHI) FOA, or the FY 2016 and FY 2017 (SM-16-007) Cooperative Agreements to Benefit Homeless Individuals (CABHI) FOA, are not eligible to apply.  If you submitted an application for the FY 2017 GBHI FOA and receive an award in FY 2018, you are not eligible to receive an award under this FOA program.

Award Information

Funding Mechanism: Grant

Anticipated Total Available Funding: $10,393,000

Anticipated Number of Awards: Up to 16

Anticipated Award Amount: Up to $1 million/year for state governments and territories. Up to $500,000/year for governmental units within political subdivisions (see below)

Length of Project: Up to five years

Cost Sharing/Match Required?: No

Proposed budgets cannot exceed $1 million for state governments and territories and $500,000 for governmental units within political subdivisions of a state, such as a county, city or town; federally recognized American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) tribes, tribal organizations, Urban Indian Organizations, and consortia of tribes or tribal organizations; public or private universities and colleges; and community- and faith-based organizations in total costs (direct and indirect) in any year of the proposed project.

Funding estimates for this announcement are based on an annualized Continuing Resolution and do not reflect the final FY 2018 appropriation.  Applicants should be aware that funding amounts are subject to the availability of funds.