The Partnership Center Newsletter
October 13, 2010Dear Partners, Last Thursday, October 7th was National Depression Screening Day (NDSD), sponsored by Screening for Mental Health. NDSD is held annually during Mental Illness Awareness Week to raise awareness about depression and to encourage community members to get screened for depression and other related issues. As a trusted leader in your community, you often are in a position to help people who are dealing with common and treatable behavioral health issues, such as depression, anxiety, substance abuse or misuse, or post-traumatic stress disorder. Screening for Mental Health offers an anonymous, online screening that community leaders can customize with information about their organization. The screening offers quick guidance as to whether professional consultation might be helpful. HHS’ Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) also offers easy-to-use online tools to help find treatment facilities in your community for mental health and substance abuse issues. SAMHSA also has a confidential, free National Helpline for individuals and family members facing substance abuse issues. In addition, HHS’ National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism offers online resources for people who are “Rethinking Drinking.” Visitors can check their drinking pattern, learn symptoms of an alcohol use disorder, and consider strategies for reducing their alcohol consumption. Thank you for sharing these resources with individuals and families in your community who may need help connecting to services and care. As always, the latter section of our newsletter includes updated grants that faith-based and community non-profits can pursue. Remember that it’s always important to review the funding announcement thoroughly to ensure that the grant is one that is appropriate to your organization’s mission, size and scope. | In This Issue:Featured Update | ||
Sincerely, Alexia Kelley, Director
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Featured Update – Access to Recovery Grants
HHS Provides $94.8 Million in Access to Recovery (ATR) Grants
Program Expands Client Choice in Substance Abuse Treatment and Recovery Support Services
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) recently awarded $94.8 million in new Access to Recovery (ATR) grant funds per year, for a total of $379 million over the next four years, to 23 States, the District of Columbia, and six Tribes and Tribal organizations.
Access to Recovery is a voucher-based program designed to provide genuine, free, and independent client choice among substance abuse clinical treatment and recovery support service providers. ATR expands access to a comprehensive array of clinical treatment and recovery support options (including faith-based programmatic options), and increases substance abuse treatment capacity.
The ATR program offers multiple ways for individuals with substance abuse problems to seek treatment. Some individuals prefer to receive treatment from a traditional clinic in their community. Others prefer to seek help from a faith or community-based organization. Some may need intensive in-patient treatment. Others may need recovery support services, such as peer support groups, job training, housing assistance, or even something as simple as transportation to a treatment session.
Since the first ATR awards in 2004, approximately $600 million in grant funds have been awarded to Single-State Substance Abuse Agencies in the States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, Tribes and Tribal organizations, and over 400,000 individuals and families have been served. Faith-based organizations have redeemed $151,090,149 in vouchers for the delivery of treatment and recovery support services.
For a list of ATR grantees, please visit http://www.samhsa.gov/newsroom/advisories/1010081330.aspx.
You may also contact Catherine D. Nugent, LCPC, from SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment at cathy.nugent@samhsa.hhs.gov or 240-276-1577.
Grant Opportunities
Health Resources and Services Administration
Title: Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program (HTPCP)
Description: The purpose of this program is to stimulate innovative community-based programs that employ prevention strategies to promote access to health care for children and their families nationwide.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: October 15, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 8
Grant is administered by the: Health Resources & Services Administration
Title: Health Center New Access Points Funded Under the Affordable Care Act
Description: The purpose of the New Access Points opportunity is to establish health service delivery sites to improve the health of the Nation's underserved communities and vulnerable populations by assuring access to comprehensive, culturally competent, quality primary health care services.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: November 17, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 350
Grant is administered by the: Health Resources and Services Administration
Title: Affordable Care Act (ACA) Grants for School-Based Health Centers Capital (SBHCC) Program
Description: It is expected that the proposed projects will support the SBHC(School-Based Health Centers) in providing more effective, efficient, and quality health care. In order to be eligible for the funding preference, applicants must certify that the SBHC site(s) serves a large population of children eligible for medical assistance under the State Medicaid plan under title XIX of the Social Security Act (the Act) or under a waiver of such plan or children eligible for child health assistance under the State child health plan.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: December 1, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 200
Grant is administered by the: Health Resources & Services Administration
Title: Public Education Efforts to Increase Solid Organ Donation
Description: The purpose of this program is to support the implementation of public education and outreach programs that show promise of increasing organ donation. Specifically, this program supports the replication of strategies that have been identified through the research grant program of the Division of Transplantation as effective in increasing donation or strategies identified in the public health literature as being effective in modifying health behavior.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: December 1, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 5
Grant is administered by the: Health Resources and Services Administration
Title: Social and Behavioral Interventions to Increase Organ and Tissue Donation
Description: The goal of the grant program is to assist eligible entities in the evaluation of, or the implementation and evaluation of, highly promising strategies and approaches that can serve as model interventions for increasing solid organ donation. Projects may focus on community education and outreach initiatives or hospital based efforts focused on family consent for donation when a death has occurred.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: December 14, 2010
Number of Grants Available: 4
Grant is administered by the: Health Resources and Services Administration
Title: Reinvigorating HIV Prevention for Men who have Sex with Men
Description: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), encourages research applications to develop and test new HIV prevention interventions, which, if implemented to scale, would help to curb the spread of HIV infection, reduce HIV-associated morbidity and mortality, and reduce health disparities in HIV rates among the most at-risk men who have sex with men (MSM).
Link to Full Announcement: R21, R01
Last Day to Apply: January 04, 2011
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health
Title: Reducing Risk Behaviors by Promoting Positive Youth Development
Description: This purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to encourage Research Project Grant applications from institutions/ organizations that propose to enhance our understanding of effective positive youth development programs and the mechanisms responsible for positive health and developmental outcomes.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: September 7, 2011
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health
Title: Rapid Assessment Post-Impact of Disaster
Description: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to provide a rapid funding mechanism for research on the post-impact of disasters, in order to permit access to a disaster area in the immediate aftermath of the event.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT, 2
Last Day to Apply: April 22, 2012
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health
Title: Community-Based Partnerships for Childhood Obesity Prevention and Control
Description: The purpose of this funding opportunity is to enhance childhood obesity research by fostering the formation of local, state, or regional teams consisting of researchers, policymakers, and other relevant stakeholders (e.g., community representatives, public health practitioners or officials, educators) in order to identify research questions and hypotheses, design and implement the relevant research, and translate the research into evidence relevant to potential policy efforts in this area.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 7, 2012
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health
Title: Research on Teen Dating Violence
Description: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages investigator-initiated research grant applications from institutions/ organizations that propose to conduct behavioral and/or biomedical research aimed at better understanding the etiologies and precursors for, reducing risk for, and incidence of, teen dating violence (TDV). Research is also sought that examines the linkages and gaps among perceptions of appropriate responses to teen dating violence from service providers, the criminal justice system, teens themselves, victims, perpetrators and bystanders.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: September 7, 2012
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health
Title: HIV/AIDS, Drug Use, and Vulnerable Populations in the US
Description: Identify the role(s) that drug abuse plays in fueling the HIV/AIDS epidemic in vulnerable groups (racial/ethnic minorities, men who have sex with men, youth) in the United States and to develop effective interventions to prevent new infections and to improve the health and well-being of those living with HIV/AIDS.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: September 7, 2012
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health
Title: Obesity Policy Research: Evaluation and Measures
Description: This grant will be awarded to applicants who plan to: (1) conduct evaluation research on obesity-related natural experiments (defined here as community and other population-level public policy interventions that may affect diet and physical activity behavior), and/or (2) develop and/or validate relevant community-level measures (instruments and methodologies to assess the food and physical activity environments at the community level). The overarching goal of this FOA is to inform public policy and research relevant to (1) diet and physical activity behavior, and (2) weight and health outcomes of Americans.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: January 7, 2013
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health
Title: Understanding and Promoting Health Literacy
Description: The ultimate goal of this program announcement is to encourage empirical research on health literacy concepts, theory, and interventions as these relate to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services public health priorities that are outlined in its Healthy People initiative. Health literacy is defined as the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 7, 2013
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health
Title: Behavioral and Social Science Research on Understanding and Reducing Health Disparities
Description: The purpose of this grant is to encourage behavioral and social science research on the causes and solutions to health and disabilities disparities in the U.S. population. Health disparities between, on the one hand, racial/ethnic populations, lower socioeconomic classes, and rural residents and, on the other hand, the overall U.S. population are major public health concerns. Emphasis is placed on research in and among three broad areas of action: 1) public policy, 2) health care, and 3) disease/disability prevention.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 11, 2013
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health
Title: Health Promotion Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Males
Description: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages Research Project (R01) grant applications from applicants that propose to stimulate and expand research in the health of minority men. Specifically, this initiative is intended to: 1) enhance our understanding of the numerous factors (e.g., sociodemographic, community, societal, personal) influencing the health promoting behaviors of racial and ethnic minority males and their subpopulations across the life cycle, and 2) encourage applications focusing on the development and testing of culturally and linguistically appropriate health-promoting interventions designed to reduce health disparities among racially and ethnically diverse males and their subpopulations age 21 and older.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: September 7, 2013
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health