Description

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Centers for Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention (CSAT and CSAP) announce the availability of one-year supplemental funding to enable recipients from FY 2018 Opioid STR to expand/enhance grant activities required under the FY 2017 Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) TI-17-014.  Information on this program may be found in the original funding announcement available on the SAMHSA website at https://www.samhsa.gov/grants/grant-announcements/ti-17-014.
The purpose of this program is to expand and enhance prevention, treatment, and recovery support efforts in the states hardest hit by the nation’s opioid epidemic.  The purpose of the supplemental funding is to bolster efforts already being made through the STR grant program.  These additional funds are intended to target areas of greatest need. 

Eligibility

Eligible applicants are Opioid STR grantees with the top ten highest rates of overdose deaths in 2015 according to data reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  The following are those ten states:  KY, MA, NH, NM, OH, PA, RI, TN, UT, and WV
[See Section III-1 for complete eligibility information.]

Award Information

Funding Mechanism: Grant

Anticipated Total Available Funding: $1,000,000

Anticipated Number of Awards: 3

Anticipated Award Amount: $333,000 per year

Length of Project: One Year

Cost Sharing/Match Required?: No

Proposed budgets cannot exceed the allowable amount of $333,000.
Funding estimates for this announcement are based on an annualized Continuing Resolution and do not reflect the final FY 2018 appropriation.  Applicants should be aware that funding amounts are subject to the availability of funds.