The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration awarded $68.5 million in grants supporting multiple behavioral health education, training, and community programs to help address mental health and substance use conditions.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Subsntance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), recently announced that Tripp County in Winner, SD, received $200,000 for Rural Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Training to recruit and train first responders in rural areas on how to provide trauma-informed, recovery-based care for people with substance use disorders (SUD), and co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders (COD), in emergency situations.
Other awards announced include:
- $15.4 million for the Minority Fellowship Program to recruit, train and support master’s and doctoral-level students in behavioral health care professions to address services disparities for racial and ethnic minority populations;
- $15.7 million for Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) Program for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) for community resources, such as civil courts, community partners, and other entities, to implement programs to support community-based treatment for adults with SMI who meet criteria for AOT;
- $9 million for the Addiction Technology Transfer Centers Cooperative Agreements to develop and strengthen the specialized behavioral health care and primary health care workforce that provides SUD treatment and recovery support services;
- $2.7 million for the National Center of Excellence for Integrated Health Solutions to advance primary and behavioral health care integration by providing high-quality, evidence-informed training and technical assistance to health systems, health care providers and members of the public;
- $2.4 million for the Garrett Lee Smith (GLS) Campus Suicide Prevention Grant Program to assist colleges and universities in enhancing mental health services for all college students, increasing protective factors that promote mental health, and reducing risk factors for suicide to ultimately reduce suicide attempts and deaths ($2.2 million was awarded earlier in the month for this program);
- $1.2 million for the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative – Category III: Community Treatment and Service Centers to increase access to effective trauma- and grief-focused treatment and service systems for children, adolescents and their families, who experience traumatic events;
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