Statewide Consumer Network Grant

Post Date

January 15th 2013

Application Due Date

March 8th 2013

Funding Opportunity Number

SM-13-004

CFDA Number(s)

93.243

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Grant

Funding Activity Categories

Health

Number of Awards

15

Eligibility Categories

Other

SAMHSA is limiting eligibility for this program to consumer-controlled organizations only that are domestic public and private nonprofit entities, tribal and urban Indian organizations, and/or community- and faith-based organizations. A primary goal of the program is to strengthen the capacity of consumers to act as agents of transformation in influencing the type and amount of services, so they must be an integral part of an organization that supports individuals with a serious mental illness or who have received public mental health services, and ensures that their mental health care is consumer driven with access to recovery support services. Therefore, only organizations controlled and managed by mental health consumers are eligible to apply. Consumer-controlled organizations must meet the following requirements: ╔ An applicant organization must be dedicated to the improvement of mental health services Statewide. ╔ An applicant organization must complete the Certificate of Eligibility (see Appendix K of the RFA document) indicating that the applicant meets all eligibility requirements. In order to strengthen and expand the impact of this program across the nation and ensure broad geographic distribution, SAMHSA will make only one award per state, territory, or tribe, and is limiting eligibility to applicants in states, territories, and tribes that do not have a currently funded Statewide Consumer Network grant. See Appendix L of the RFA document for a listing of states, territories, and tribes with a currently funded Statewide Consumer Network grant. Organizations located in these jurisdictions are not eligible to apply. Tribes, regardless of location, are eligible to apply providing they do not have a currently funded grant. The statutory authority for this program prohibits grants to for-profit agencies

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $1320000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $70000

Grant Description

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2013 Statewide Consumer Network grants. The purpose of this program is to enhance statewide consumer-run organizations to promote service system capacity and infrastructure development that is recovery-focused and resiliency-oriented. For the purposes of this funding opportunity, this program seeks to promote activities related to wellness, integrated care, health care reform, and trauma-informed care.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Health and Human Services

• Office:

  Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Admin

• Agency Contact:

  Gwendolyn Simpson
  Office of Financial Resources, Division of Grants Management
  Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
  1 Choke Cherry Road
  Room 7-1091
  Rockville, Maryland 20857
  (240) 276-1408

• Agency Mailing Address:

  gwendolyn.simpson@samhsa.hhs.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  gwendolyn.simpson@samhsa.hhs.gov

• More Information:

  Statewide Consumer Network Grant