OpportunityTitle: Cooperative Agreements to Benefit Homeless Individuals - States Supplement (Short Title:  CABHI-States Supplement)
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Eligibility for this supplemental funding announcement is limited to the current FY 2013 CABHI-States grantees.  CMHS is providing supplemental funding for this program in order a create a more comprehensive program that is consistent with the CABHI States model in order to better address the full range of individuals who experience chronic homeless and have behavioral health issues, including those with only serious mental illness  and homeless veterans.     SAMHSA believes that it is cost effective and efficient to limit eligibility to the current grantees because they already have the necessary infrastructure in place to immediately begin implementing activities under this supplemental funding announcement.    FY 2013 CABHI-States grantees would be in their second year of funding at the time of the receipt of FY 2014 grant funds. At this point, grantees would have hired program staff, begun to enhance or develop their statewide plans for system-wide short and long term support to the population of focus, begun the delivery of recovery-oriented services and begun efforts to assist the state Medicaid eligibility agency in developing a streamlined application process to assist the population of focus. Supplemental FY 2014 funds would enhance these efforts with a specific focus on the provision of mental health services to veterans who experience homelessness or chronic homelessness and non-veterans who experience chronic homelessness.    In 2010, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) approved Opening Doors, a Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness.  One of the goals of this Strategic Plan is to achieve the goal of ending homelessness for veterans and chronic homelessness in general by 2015.  SAMHSA is committed in the effort to achieve this and other goals in the Federal Strategic Plan. This program prioritizes veterans who experience homelessness or chronic homelessness and other individuals (non-veterans) who experience chronic homelessness with serious mental illness, substance use disorders or co-occurring substance use and mental disorders.     On a single night in January 2013, there were an estimated 610,042 sheltered and unsheltered people who are homeless nationwide.  Of those, approximately 109,132 were experiencing chronic homelessness and approximately 57,849 were identified as veterans experiencing homelessness.  In an effort to efficiently and effectively impact the goals of the USICH Strategic Plan, it is vital to target states and communities.     The statutory authority for this program prohibits grants to for-profit agencies.
Description: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Mental Health Services announces the availability of funds to expand/enhance grant activities funded under the Cooperative Agreements to Benefit Homeless Individuals for States (TI-13-004) grant announcement. The purpose of (FY 2013) CABHI-States, a jointly funded program by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and the Center for Mental Health Services, is to enhance or develop the infrastructure of states and their treatment service systems to increase capacity to provide accessible, effective, comprehensive, coordinated/integrated, and evidence-based treatment services; permanent supportive housing; peer supports; CMHS-funded peer navigator(s); and other critical services to persons who experience chronic homelessness with substance use disorders or co-occurring substance use and mental disorders. These funds are to be used to expand or enhance the scope of the project funded under the original grant. The purpose of this supplemental funding is to enhance mental health services that were minimally funded in FY 2013 and allow for focused service expansion to veterans. The funding for this supplement must be used for new activities and shouldn&#146;t supplant funding received under the original grant.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Eileen Bermudez@samhsa.hhs.gov
GrantorContactText: Eileen Bermudez &lt;br/&gt;Grants Management Specialist &lt;br/&gt;U.S. Department of Health and Human Services &lt;br/&gt;Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration &lt;br/&gt;1 Choke Cherry Road &lt;br/&gt;Room 7-1095 &lt;br/&gt;Rockville, Maryland 20857 &lt;br/&gt;(240) 276-1412 &lt;br/&gt;