HHS Announces Another $31.4 Million In Funding Opportunities For Priority Behavioral Health Needs

The funding totals $31.4 million and supports the efforts to address the mental health and overdose crises, two key pillars of the President’s Unity Agenda for the nation, as well as continuing efforts to advance heath equity and address the consistent and disproportionate impact of HIV on racial and ethnic minorities.  
  
These grant programs additionally support HHS’ Overdose Prevention Strategy, the HHS Roadmap for Behavioral Health Integration, and SAMHSA’s strategic priorities: preventing substance use and overdose; enhancing access to suicide prevention and mental health services; promoting resilience and emotional health for children, youth, and families; integrating behavioral and physical health care; and strengthening the behavioral health workforce.    

The funding opportunities include investments in a range of behavioral health efforts:    

• State Opioid Response/Tribal Opioid Response Technical Assistance – $18.5 million – This program provides technical assistance and training to advance the provision of trauma-informed, culturally relevant, and evidence-based substance use-related approaches and interventions across the country and across the lifespan to reduce the impacts of opioid and stimulant use disorders on individuals, families, and communities.  
• Minority AIDS Initiative: Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Prevention and Treatment Pilot Program – $5.7 million – This program provides substance use prevention, SUD treatment, HIV, and viral hepatitis prevention and treatment services for people who are medically underserved and vulnerable to an SUD and/or mental health condition, HIV, viral hepatitis, and other infectious diseases.  
• National Center of Excellence for Integrated Health Solutions – $2.7 million – This program advances physical and behavioral health care integration by providing high quality, evidence-informed training and technical assistance to a national audience, including a specific focus on the Collaborative Care Model.  
• Minority AIDS Initiative: Integrated Behavioral Health and HIV Care for Unsheltered Populations Pilot Project – $2.6 million – This program pilots a portable clinical care approach to underserved people experiencing unsheltered homelessness by integrating behavioral health, HIV treatment and prevention services.
• National Peer-Run Training and Technical Assistance Center for Addiction Recovery Support – $1.9 million – This program offers training and technical assistance to domestic public and private non-profit entities that provide, or support services intended for people who are experiencing challenges related to substance use or a co-occurring condition.

Together these, and other HHS programs, are making historic investments in how we address mental health and substance use needs across America.