Consumer and Consumer Support Technical Assistance Center

Description

The purpose of this program is to establish and operate a national TAC dedicated to addressing priority mental health needs of regional and national significance. These activities can include:

• Developing, delivering, coordinating, and evaluating technical assistance to organizations that are dedicated to addressing mental health needs through courses, seminars, workshops, and cohort support to build skills and best practices to expand operational and program capacity.
• Strengthening the organizational readiness and sustainability of mental health PROs,
• Supporting peer workforce pathways and the innovative utilization of the peer workforce across service systems, including behavioral health care settings, physical health care settings, homelessness services, and community and justice-related settings,
• Integrating the peer workforce across all systems that serve individuals with SMI, including strengthening the readiness of non-behavioral health care providers to integrate peers. PROs play a critical role in supporting adults with lived experience of SMI, and
• Efforts to work with new types of partners that can reach new populations, including via faith-based and community-based organizations.

Eligibility

Eligibility is statutorily limited to domestic public and private non-profit entities.

Award Information

Funding Mechanism: Grant

Anticipated Total Available Funding: $1,782,291

Anticipated Number of Awards: 1

Anticipated Award Amount: Up to $1,782,291 per year

Length of Project: Up to 5 years

Cost Sharing/Match Required?: No

Proposed budgets cannot exceed $1,782,291 in total costs (direct and indirect) in any year of the proposed project. Annual continuation awards are contingent on the availability of funds, progress in meeting project goals and objectives, timely submission of required data and reports, and compliance with all terms and conditions of award, and alignment with SAMHSA, HHS, and Trump Administration priorities.