FYI--Several SAMHSA announ.

[Jean Kajikawa]

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Subject: FYI--Several SAMHSA announ.
Author:  Pat DeLeon <deleon1 at erols.com> at INTERNET
Date:    2/5/98 10:29 PM



>Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 22:06:28 -0500 

>From: "george t. lewis" <gtlewis at erols.com> 

>Reply-To: gtlewis at erols.com

>To: deleon1 at erols.com

>Subject: FYI--Several SAMHSA announ. 

>

>State Incentive Program, SP 98-001

>Application Receipt Date: March 6, 1998

>"National Youth Substance Abuse Prevention Initiative--State Incentive 

>Cooperative Agreements for

>Community-Based Action" -- to reverse the trend in drug use by youth, 

>the State Incentive Cooperative Agreements for

>Community-Based Action calls upon Governors to set a new course of 

>action that will assess needs, identify gaps and channel

>or redirect resources (consistent with the requirements of the funding 

>source) to implement comprehensive strategies for

>effective youth substance abuse prevention. This program gives States 

>the opportunity to develop an innovative process for

>using these special incentive funds in a different way so as to 

>complement and enhance existing prevention efforts. Through this 

>State-led process, individual citizens can be encouraged to play a more 

>forceful role in their community's anti-drug efforts; and

>additional resources can be mobilized to support promising prevention 

>approaches across systems and settings. 

>

>Eligibility is limited to the Office of the Governor in those entities 

>that receive the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment

>Block Grant (SAPT). Eligibility is limited to the Office of the Governor 

>so that a consistent State-wide strategy on substance

>abuse prevention will be implemented by the Governor and comprehensively 

>evaluated as to effectiveness in the strategies

>used. 

>

>To obtain a hard copy of the Guidance for Applicants (GFA) call: 

>National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information

>(NCADI) at 800-729-6686; 800-487-4889 TDD. 

>

>HIV/AIDS Eduction, SM 98-001

>Application Deadline: April 3, 1998

>"Cooperative Agreements for the Mental Health Care Provider Education in 

>HIV/AIDS Program II" -- to (1)

>disseminate to mental health care service providers state-of-the-art 

>knowledge about how to identify and treat the

>psychological and the neuropsychiatric sequelae of HIV/AIDS; and (2) 

>develop knowledge on how to be more effective in the

>dissemination of this knowledge. The latter includes an assessment, 

>through a multisite evaluation, of both the use and usefulness

>of this knowledge for providers of HIV/AIDS specific mental health care 

>services (the assessment protocol and measures are

>being developed under a separate contract). 

>

>Applications are being solicited for 6 to 8 established education sites 

>(funds will not be available to develop new HIV/AIDS

>education projects) to provide education/training (incorporating the 

>required activities outlined in the Guidance for Applicants,

>GFA). 

>

>Applications are also being sought for a coordinating/technical 

>assistance center to provide overall coordination of the program. >The 

role of the coordinating center will be to (1) provide leadership >and 
guidance to the education sites on the implementation

>of the multisite evaluation, (2) manage and analyze the common data 

>collected across education sites, and (3) provide technical 

>assistance to the sites in modifying their projects based on the 

>multisite evaluation interim findings. 

>

>Applications may be submitted by organizations such as units of State or 

>local governments and by domestic private nonprofit

>and for-profit organizations. 

>

>To obtain a hard copy of the Guidance for Applicants (GFA) call: 

>National Mental Health Services Knowledge Exchange

>Network (KEN) at 800-789-2647 Voice; 301-443-9006 TTY; 301-984-8796 Fax. 

>

>Child Mental Health Initiative, SM 98-006 

>Application Deadline: April 3, 1998

>"Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and their 

>Families" -- to implement, in one or

>more communities, a broad array of community-based and family-focused 

>services for children with serious emotional

>disturbance and their families, including individualized case planning 

>and coordination, and to enable communities to integrate

>child- and family-serving agencies, including health, mental health, 

>substance abuse treatment, child welfare, education, and

>juvenile justice into a local comprehensive system of care. The statute 

>further requires that an evaluation of the system(s) of care 

>implemented under the Program be conducted and that it include, among 

>other things, longitudinal studies of the outcomes of

>services provided by such systems. 

>

>Eligible entities include States (as defined in Section 2 of the PHS 

>Act), political subdivisions of States, and Indian tribes or

>tribal organizations (as defined in Section 4(b) and Section 4(c) of the 

>Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance

>Act). Applications from all State level, political subdivisions of 

>States (e.g., counties, cities), tribe or tribal organization 

>child-serving agencies are allowed. In order for an entity to be 

>eligible, a plan must be in place for the development of a system 

>of care for community-based services for children with a serious 

>emotional disturbance approved by the Secretary of the U.S.

>Department of Health and Human Services per Section 564(b) of the PHS 

>Act. For the purposes of this program, an

>approved State Mental Health Plan for Children and Adolescents with 

>Serious Emotional Disturbance, submitted under Pub. L.

>102-321, will be accepted as such a plan. 

>

>To obtain a hard copy of the Guidance for Applicants (GFA) call: 

>National Mental Health Services Knowledge Exchange

>Network (KEN) at 800-789-2647 Voice; 301-443-9006 TTY; 301-984-8796 Fax. 

>

>State Reform Grants, SM 98-002

>Application Deadline: April 9, 1998

>"State Reform Grants" -- to facilitate the integration, analysis, 

>synthesis, and use of information for State mental health

>planning efforts and to manage State mental health care reform efforts. 

>This GFA is a reissuance of the previous announcement,

>State Reform Grants, GFA No. SM 97-009. The major objective of this 

>technical assistance to State mental health agencies

>(SMHAs) is to ensure that appropriate information is available for key 

>decision making with respect to planning and current

>reform efforts. 

>

>Applicants must be SMHAs or the equivalent in the District of Columbia 

>and U.S. territories that receive CMHS block grants.

>Eligibility is restricted to SMHAs as the only appropriate place to 

>engage in technical assistance to integrate, analyze,

>synthesize, and use information for State mental health planning and 

>health care reform initiatives. 

>

>To obtain a hard copy of the Guidance for Applicants (GFA) call: Ronald 

>W. Manderscheid, Ph.D., Chief, Survey and

>Analysis Branch, Division of State and Community Systems Development, 

>CMHS, SAMHSA at 301-443-3343;

>301-443-7926 Fax. 

>

>Consumer-Operated Service Program, SM 98-004 

>Application Deadline: April 9, 1998

>"Cooperative Agreements to Evaluate Consumer-Operated Human Service 

>Programs for Persons with Serious

>Mental Illness" -- to assess the extent to which consumer-operated 

>services are effective in improving rehabilitation and

>recovery of individuals with serious mental illness. The program also 

>seeks to determine to what extent participation in such

>services affect costs. 

>

>Applications are being solicited for Study Sites to address the >following 

questions: (1) to what extent does participation in a >consumer-operated 
service program affect selected consumer outcomes for >consumers who use 
traditional service programs,

>and (2) to what extent does participation in a consumer-operated service 

>program affect costs. 

>

>Applications are also being sought for a Coordinating Center to provide 

>overall study coordination, including data management

>and analysis, monitoring of data quality and analysis of cost data 

>collected by the Study Sites. 

>

>Applications to be a Study Site or a Coordinating Center may be 

>submitted by public organizations, such as units of State or 

>local governments and by domestic private nonprofit and for-profit 

>organizations such as community-based organizations, 

>universities, colleges, and hospitals, and family and/or consumer 

>operated organizations. Since CMHS seeks to study

>established consumer-operated and traditional programs, both program 

>entities must have been operational for a minimum of 2

>years at the time of the submission of the study site application. 

>Applicants may apply to be a Study Site or a Coordinating

>Center, but not both. 

>

>To obtain a hard copy of the Guidance for Applicants (GFA) call: 

>National Mental Health Services Knowledge Exchange

>Network (KEN) at 800-789-2647; 301-443-9006 TTY; 301-984-8796 Fax. 

>

>Circles of Care, SM 98-005

>Application Deadline: April 3, 1998

>"Circles of Care: Planning, Designing, and Assessing Mental Health 

>Service System Models for Native American

>Indian and Alaska Native Children and Their Families" -- to plan, 

>design, and assess the feasibility of implementing a

>culturally appropriate mental health service model for American 

>Indian/Alaska Native children with serious emotional

>disturbances and their families. The purpose of this program is to 

>support the development of mental health service delivery

>models that are designed by American Indian/Alaska Native communities to 

>achieve outcomes for their children that they

>choose for themselves. Formulation and evaluation of programs based 

>directly on the needs, values, and principles of the

>grantee organizations will provide an information base for other 

>programs interested in structuring culturally relevant children's 

>mental health service systems. 

>

>Applications may be submitted by federally acknowledged tribes and 

>tribal organizations. Urban Indian organizations are

>eligible to apply if they are a nonprofit corporate body situated in an 

>urban center, governed by a board of directors of whom

>at least 51% are American Indian/Alaska Natives, and provide for the 

>participation of all interested Indian groups and

>individuals. The applicant must be capable of legally cooperating with 

>other public and private entities for the purposes of

>performing the activities of this program. 

>

>Models designed for American Indian/Alaska Native communities by people 

>other than American Indian/Alaska Natives are

>already available. This program will enable community members to develop 

>models to juxtapose with those not designed by

>Indians to find which are best for meeting their service needs. To be 

>effective and have the cooperation and confidence of the

>community, the applicant must be representative of the community, in 

>addition to demonstrating the ability to fulfill the technical 

>requirements of the GFA. 

>

>To obtain a hard copy of the Guidance for Applicants (GFA) call: 

>National Mental Health Services Knowledge Exchange

>Network (KEN) at 800-789-2647; 301-443-9006 TTY; 301-984-8796 Fax. 

>

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