Matrix: Mental Health System Transformation

Programs and Activities

Increasing Availability and Improving Effectiveness

of Mental Health Services

Cooperative Agreement for the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC)

Pre-Application Technical Assistance

Welcome to the SAMHSA/CMHS Cooperative Agreement for the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) Web site. We are extremely pleased to be able to offer this opportunity to fund a national suicide prevention resource center. We are also eager to provide whatever information we can about the Request for Applications (RFA) and the application process and to find out what type of pre-application technical assistance (TA) will be most helpful to you.

Click here to view the Request for Applications, Cooperative Agreement for the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC), SM-05-017.

Our plans for pre-application TA are threefold:

I. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

For questions and answers related to the RFA, click here.

II. Talk to a Live Person

As the RFA states, please call Dr. Richard McKeon (240-276-1873) with questions about programmatic issues related to the application.  These will be posted on the FAQs page linked above. Please call Kimberly Pendleton (240-276-1421) with questions about grants management issues.

III. Useful Documents, Activities, and Links

1. President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health Report, Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America.

2. Transformation Activities by State, Territory, and the District of Columbia:

• National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors.  Under Targeted Technical Assistance, select “Recent State Activities under the New Freedom Commission.”

• National Governors Association, Center for Best Practices. Health Division/Mental Health.

3.   SAMHSA’s Evidence-based Programs and Practices

• Evidence-based Practice (EBP) Implementation Resource Kits

• National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP)

6. Institute on Medicine Report, Reducing Suicide: A National Imperatiive

7. Suicide Prevention Resource Center

8.  Promoting Mental Health and Preventing Suicide in College and University Settings

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9.  SAMHSA’s Guidelines for Assessing Cultural Competence

10.  SAMHSA/CMHS Anti-Stigma Campaign

11.  SAMHSA/CMHS Consumer/Survivor Program

12. SAMHSA Grant Opportunities

• 2005 Grant Opportunities

• Archived Grant Opportunities (1998 – 2004)