The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), is accepting applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2023 Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education) program.
Donor Name: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: American Samoa, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/28/2023
Size of the Grant: Up to $1,800,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
The purpose of this program is to develop a sustainable infrastructure for school-based mental health programs and services. Recipients are expected to build collaborative partnerships with the State Education Agency, Local Education Agency, Tribal Education Agency, the State Mental Health Agency, community-based providers of behavioral health care services, school personnel, community organizations, families, and school-aged youth. Award recipients will leverage their partnerships to implement mental health-related promotion, awareness, prevention, intervention, and resilience activities to ensure that school-aged youth have access and are connected to appropriate and effective behavioral health services. With this program, SAMHSA aims to promote the healthy social and emotional development of school-aged youth and prevent youth violence in school settings.
The goals of AWARE are to:
- Increase awareness of mental health, substance use, and co-occurring disorders among school-aged youth.
- Increase the mental health literacy of individuals who interact with school-aged youth to understand and detect the signs and symptoms of mental illness, substance use/misuse, and co-occurring disorders.
- Promote and foster resilience building and mental health well-being for all schoolaged youth.
- Provide positive behavioral health supports; targeted services to those who need more support; and intensive services to those who need them.
- Connect school-aged youth who may have behavioral health issues, including serious emotional disturbance (SED) or serious mental illness (SMI), and their families to needed services.
- Increase and improve access to culturally relevant, developmentally appropriate, and trauma-informed school and community-based AWARE activities and services.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Available Funding: $38,129,774
- Estimated Award Amount: Up to $1,800,000 per year
Length of Project Period
Up to 5 years
Allowable Activities
Allowable activities are an allowable use of funds but are not required. Allowable activities may include:
- Provide supports to assist teachers and school personnel to develop skills that promote staff wellness, mental well-being, and resilience to better support and refer school-aged youth with behavioral health issues to needed services.
- Provide trauma- and grief-informed evidence-based counseling and support services for LGBTQI+ children, adolescents, and their families/caregivers, including those who have survived sexual orientation or gender identity change efforts
- For SEAs, LEAs, TEAs, States, tribes only: establish and implement a school based student suicide awareness and prevention training policy which addresses the following:
- Is evidence-based and culturally and linguistically appropriate1;
- Provides evidence-based training to students in grades 6 through 12, in coordination with school-based mental health resources, regarding: suicide prevention education and awareness, including associated risk factors; methods that students can use to seek help; and student resources for suicide awareness and prevention.
- Provides periodic re-training of students.
- Provide developmentally-appropriate training to youth addressing healthy relationships, healthy sexuality, and prosocial communication, including issues of mutual respect, consent, and positive bystander intervention.
Eligible Applicants
Eligible applicants are States and Territories, including the District of Columbia, political subdivisions of States, Indian tribes, or tribal organizations (as such terms are defined in section 5304 of title 25), health facilities, or programs operated by or in accordance with a contract or award with the Indian Health Service, or other public or private non-profit entities. All non-profit entities must submit documentation of their non-profit status of your application.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.