The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) is accepting applications for its Assisted Outpatient Treatment Program for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness.
Donor Name: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/26/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 4 Years
Details:
The purpose of this program is to implement Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) in communities to support adults with serious mental illness (SMI) who meet state-specific criteria for AOT. AOT is also known as involuntary outpatient commitment. It is defined as “medically prescribed mental health treatment that a patient receives while living in the community under the terms of a law authorizing a state or local court to order such treatment.
Allowable Activities
Allowable activities are not required. Applicants may propose to use funds for the following activities:
- Involve families and social supports in the treatment/recovery process, including by providing family psycho-education services. When alienated from family, provide support to participants to reunify with family members if wanted by the participants.
- Develop and implement a system of valid, measurement-based care to track improvement in symptoms and functioning over time, informing treatment planning, service delivery, and tracking individual and population-level outcomes.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $15,229,744
- Award Ceiling: $750,000
Length of Project Period
Up to 4 years
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants are counties, cities, mental health systems (including mental health authorities), mental health courts, or any other entities with authority under the law of the State in which the applicant is located to implement, monitor and oversee assisted outpatient programs.
- Applicants must operate in jurisdictions with legislative authority to carry out AOT. The states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Maryland do not have this legislative authority. Applications received from these states will be screened out.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.