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SAMHSA is allowing flexibility for grant recipients affected by the loss of operational capacity and increased costs due to the COVID-19 crisis. These flexibilities are available during this emergency time period. Flexibility may be reassessed upon issuance of new guidance by the Office of Management and Budget post the emergency time period. Click the link above for information and resources to assist grant recipients during the COVID-19 emergency. Continue to check this website for updates.
These FAQs address general questions associated with award and management of SAMHSA discretionary grants that may arise in relation to COVID-19. This information does not apply to SABG, MHBG, PATH or PAIMI grants. Applicants and grant recipients are strongly encouraged to monitor this website for updates.
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SAMHSA is accepting applications for the State Opioid Response (SOR) Technical Assistance (TA) grant. This grant will be provided to a single entity who will serve as the central coordinating point for ensuring the requirements of this funding opportunity are met. The goal of this TA grant is to ensure the provision of evidence-based prevention, treatment, and recovery support programs/services across the SOR program.
SAMHSA plans to issue 1 grant of to $16,607,000 per year for 2 years.
Application Due Date: Monday, June 8, 2020
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SAMHSA is accepting applications for Treatment, Recovery, and Workforce Support grants (Workforce Support). The purpose of this program is to implement evidence-based programs to support individuals in substance use disorder treatment and recovery to live independently and participate in the workforce. To achieve this objective, recipients must coordinate, as applicable, with Indian tribes or tribal organizations, state and local workforce development boards, lead state agencies responsible for a workforce investment activity, and state agencies responsible for carrying out substance use disorder prevention and treatment programs.
SAMHSA plans to issue 8 grants of up to $500,000 per year for up to 5 years.
Application Due Date: Monday, June 1, 2020
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SAMHSA is accepting applications for the State Opioid Response (SOR) grants. The program aims to address the opioid crisis by increasing access to medication-assisted treatment using the three FDA-approved medications for the treatment of opioid use disorder, reducing unmet treatment need, and reducing opioid overdose-related deaths through the provision of prevention, treatment, and recovery activities for opioid use disorder (including illicit use of prescription opioids, heroin, and fentanyl and fentanyl analogs).
SAMHSA plans to issue up to 59 grants of up to $1,420,000,000 for up to 2 years.
Application Due Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2020
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SAMHSA is accepting applications for the Rural Opioid Technical Assistance Grants (ROTA). The purpose of this program is to develop and disseminate training and technical assistance for rural communities on addressing opioid issues affecting these communities. Training and technical assistance can also be geared toward addressing stimulant issues in these communities.
SAMHSA plans to issue 5 awards of $550,000 for up to 2 years.
Application Due Date: Friday, May 8, 2020
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SAMHSA is accepting applications for Tribal Opioid Response grants (TOR). The program aims to address the opioid crisis in tribal communities by increasing access to culturally appropriate and evidence-based treatment, including medication-assisted treatment using one of the three FDA-approved medications for the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD). In addition to focusing on OUD, recipients may also address stimulant misuse and use disorders, including cocaine and methamphetamine.
SAMHSA plans to issue 200 grants of up to $50,000,000 for up to 2 years.
Application Due Date: Monday, May 4, 2020
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SAMHSA is accepting applications for the Rural Emergency Medical Services Training grants (EMS Training). The purpose of this program is to recruit and train emergency medical services (EMS) personnel in rural areas. SAMHSA recognizes the great need for emergency services in rural areas and the critical role EMS personnel serve across the country.
SAMHSA plans to issue 25 grants of up to $200,000 per year for up to 1 year.
Application Due Date: Thursday, April 30, 2020
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Training and events are available for practitioners through many of SAMHSA’s Training and Technical Assistance Centers. Some of these are highlighted below. Note that some of them require advance registration. Visit SAMHSA’s Practitioner Training webpage for a more complete listing.
Note: If you are unable to access an event or webinar or have questions, please contact the source given at the individual event URL.
Save the date!
National Older Adult Mental Health Awareness Day 2020: Combating Social Isolation for Seniors during the COVID-19 Pandemic – Webinar
Thursday, May 7, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT
Join SAMHSA, the Administration for Community Living (ACL), the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), and the National Coalition on Mental Health and Aging (NCMHA) for a thoughtful discussion, including practical ideas to promote connection and recovery for older adults with serious mental illness and substance use disorders, during this unprecedented time in our history.
May 10 – May 16, 2020
National Prevention Week (NPW) is a public education platform that promotes substance use prevention year-round through providing ideas, capacity building, tools, and resources. NPW also serves as a week-long observance created by SAMHSA to celebrate prevention efforts in organizations and communities across the nation, and across all ages. Tips for planning NPW 2020 activities include the NPW 2020 Prevention Challenge, in which participants fill out a sign, take a selfie with it, and share it on social media.
Friday, April 17, 2020 12:00 p.m. EDT
This is section 4 of a multi-part series. As treatment for addiction has changed and grown, there is a need for peer to peer participatory process.
Other webinars in this series include:
- Friday, April 24, 2020 12:00 p.m. EDT – Supervision and Management
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Friday, April 17, 2020 3:30 p.m. EDT
On April 1, the Pacific Southwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center released a Virtual Learning Guide that includes tips, examples, and reflective questions for those leading online professional development and other group learning events. In response to requests, two study sessions are being provided to explore the guide’s content together. Each session will cover different sections of the guide. In this session, participants will obtain information on the following:
- Technology Guidance: Technical set up and delivery; and
- Virtual Facilitating Strategies and Choices: Ensuring accessibility and matching learning outcomes to technology platforms.
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 3:30 p.m. EDT – Session 2: Facilitation Practice
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Friday, April 17, 2020 2:00 p.m. EDT
In this third virtual meeting of the series, spiritual leaders from American Indian and Alaska Native communities come together to discuss the importance of spirituality in the treatment of behavioral health and mental health disorders. Spirituality is often left out of counseling and therapeutic relationships, but is an essential part of healing and change for many clients. Session 4 will take place on Friday, May 1, 2020 2:00 p.m. EDT.
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Monday, April 20, 2020 3:00 p.m. EDT
Monday, April 27, 2020 3:00 p.m. EDT
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a multidisciplinary, team-based model that provides intensive community-based and outreach-oriented services to people who experience the most severe and persistent mental illness. The vast majority also have a co-occurring substance use disorder and many experience comorbid medical illnesses, as well as homelessness. These meetings will be held weekly on Mondays at 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. EDT. The goals of the meetings are to:
- Connect with one other;
- Share strategies and resources for adapting team practices and communications; and
- Facilitate connection to the most up-to-date resources during the COVID-19 outbreak.
In addition to the weekly meet-up, there is a Virtual Discussion Forum to help organize information, resources, and strategies used across teams. You can participate in the forum as a guest, or sign up as a member.
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Monday, April 20, 2020 12:00 p.m. EDT
Wednesday, April 22, 2020 12:00 p.m. EDT
This is a two-part webinar, taking place on Monday, April 20, 2020 and Wednesday, April 22, 2020. You must register for each part separately. The interactive, online training will review and make relevant the key concepts of Motivational Interviewing. Participants will explore how and when to employ this evidence-based practice to support behavior change. Tailored case scenarios will be used to provide hands-on, real-time practice opportunities focusing on substance-misuse-prevention conversations.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:00 a.m. EDT – Telehealth with Children and Adolescents
Tuesday, April 28, 2020 11:00 a.m. EDT – Telehealth Troubleshooting
This hour-long online series will support behavioral health providers who are new to using telehealth. During each hour-long session, Technology Transfer Center Network specialists will spend the first 20 minutes addressing a specific topic, then answer questions submitted by TLC Tuesday registrants. Registration is required for every TLC Tuesday session. During registration, you will be prompted to submit any questions you have in advance of the session.
Next session: April 28 – Telehealth Troubleshooting
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:00 a.m. EDT
SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) provides practitioners with comprehensive guidance to more effectively address substance misuse and related behavioral health problems in their communities. This seven-part webinar series explores this five-step, data-driven process to identify genuine prevention needs, build capacity and plans to address those needs, implement effective programs and interventions, and evaluate and continually improve prevention efforts. Part 3: Planning, will prepare participants to plan to address identified needs.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020 2:00 p.m. EDT
A public health crisis causes distress for all involved, including providers of behavioral health services. Attending to our personal well-being during this time is just as important as supporting individuals receiving services. This webinar highlights specific tools, strategies, and resources that promote provider well-being.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020 3:00 p.m. EDT
This webinar will provide an overview of prevention science and how it has brought about the development not only of effective prevention programs, but also the planning and implementation of these programs. This course will describe how the science contributes to our understanding of the etiology and prevention of substance use and related behaviors, and examples of some of the most effective interventions and policies.
Note: This course includes an April 28, 2020 3:00 p.m. EDT Virtual Learning Lab. Anticipated goals of virtual learning lab include:
- increased knowledge transfer;
- increased network development;
- opportunities to trouble-shoot real life items.
Course attendees will receive an email to register for the learning lab.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2020 11:30 a.m. EDT
MTSS is a framework for enhancing the adoption and implementation of a continuum of evidence-based practices to achieve important outcomes for all students. This first virtual MTSS will offer a variety of topic sessions
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Wednesday, April 22 1:00 p.m. EDT
This webinar is part 3 of 6. Participants in this webinar will learn about national youth suicide prevalence and the implications for schools. They will also be able to familiarize themselves with multi-tiered systems of positive behavior and social-emotional learning, and how the multi-tiered systems support the prevention of suicide. Finally, the webinar will discuss ways to build capacity and sustainability of these services in K-12 schools.
Other webinars in this series include:
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Wednesday, April 22, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT
Note: This event and forum discussion will focus specifically on the Maine behavioral health workforce, but registration is open to anyone. This forum will feature a facilitated panel with representatives of SAMHSA’s Technology Transfer Centers who will share about their center’s priorities and what they offer to Maine. Objectives include:
- Identify training needs for the behavioral health field,
- Increase coordination between the centers and Maine’s workforce, and
- Build cross collaboration across the spectrum of behavioral health.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT
The places where people are born, live, learn, work, play, and age are known as the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH). This 2-part webinar will provide background on the SDOH, how SDOH impact behavioral health, prevention, and wellness efforts for healthier communities.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2020 5:00 p.m. EDT
Wednesday, April 29, 2020 5:00 p.m. EDT
Educators and school mental health leadership are resilient, creative, and tenacious, but they need support to be able to provide support. In this period of stress and uncertainty, now is the time to gather and resource one another. Each Wellness Wednesday is a 60-minute virtual session for the school mental health workforce to connect, reflect, and support each other. Please note that the Wellness Wednesdays are not a sequence; you can join for one, some, or all.
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Thursday, April 23, 2020 9:00 a.m. EDT
The first session of this four-part series will include an overview of substance use in pregnancy and the impact on fetal and infant development. The goal of the first session is to provide background information on substance use disorders and mental health conditions in women of child-bearing age and how these conditions may impact the woman and her fetus during pregnancy. Substances to be discussed include opioids, illicit substances, nicotine, and psychotropic medications. The session will also introduce the impact of substance exposure on the fetus and newborn.
Session 2 – Thursday, April 30, 2020 9:00 AM EDT
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Thursday, April 23, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT
The Peer Support Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (PS ECHO) is a movement to share knowledge and amplify capacity to provide best practices. The PS ECHO is an online community for Peer Recovery Specialists and Mental Health Peers to:
- Share community and statewide resources
- Learn new skills and tools for doing peer work
- Meet and connect with other peers
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Thursday, April 23, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT
Recovery can be supported by practices and services that encourage participant engagement, community inclusion, valued social roles, and overall wellness. This webinar series will introduce you to recovery from serious mental illness and many of the evidence-based and promising practices that support recovery. This session focuses on the role of health and wellness in recovery.
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Thursday, April 23, 2020 1:30 p.m. EDT
This engaging discussion with psychologist and comedian Dr. Matt Bellace will involve comedy and inspiring stories, in addition to demonstrating Matt’s style when presenting to and communicating with youth, especially during a time of social distancing and self-isolation.
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Thursday, April 23, 2020 2:00 p.m. EDT
SAMHSA’s Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy (BRSS TACS) invites you to join national experts in a conversation about approaches to providing peer support across the continuum of crisis response services. This event will focus on peer-run respite programs, warm lines, and peer support services within hospital emergency departments.
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Thursday, April 23, 2020 3:00 p.m. EDT
COVID-19 brings new health, economic, and social crises on a daily basis. These crises especially affect lower-income, ethnic minority communities with job loss, food insecurity, and lower access to health care. Join the first session in this two-part series to learn about actionable and accessible strategies that diverse communities are initiating to move through these difficult times. Save the date for session 2 on May 21, 2020 at 3:00 pm EDT.
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Webinar Friday, April 24, 2020 4:00 p.m. EDT
Being an educator can come with some unique stressors. In addition to the action that must happen at the organizational and systemic levels to create and sustain change, educators can boost their resilience through simple – though not always easy – activities and strategies. In this webinar, educators will learn how to: enhance their awareness through mindfulness practices, identify possibilities for enhanced well-being, and create space to support change and boost resilience. Other webinars in this series include:
- May 15, 2020 4:00 p.m. EDT – Educator Wellness Series #3: Trying to Change that Negative Loop of Self-Criticism and Perfectionism? Mindfulness Practices Can Help
- June 3, 2020 4 p.m. EDT – Educator Wellness Series #4: Cultivating a Practice of Gratitude and Appreciation in Your School Community
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Monday, April 27, 2020 12:00 p.m. EDT
This interactive, two part, webinar is designed to equip peers, counselors, social workers, anyone working with people with concepts and preparatory actions that can be used to de-escalate a wide range of interactions.
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Monday, April 27, 2020 2:00 p.m. EDT
This online session will provide information on the integration of the Hispanic and Latino cultural factors into the assessment, evaluation, and diagnosis of serious emotional disturbances. The presenter will discuss factors that affect Hispanic and Latino youth mental health and academic performance. This is a basic level workshop designed for teachers and school mental health providers.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2020 12:00 p.m. EDT
In this webinar, So-Po Unite will describe their efforts to create a restorative substance use policy. The South Portland School Department revised the substance use policy from out of school suspension to restorative response in May 2018.
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Monday, April 27, 2020 3:30 p.m. EDT
This webinar will discuss strengths and challenges related to gender diversity in behavioral health as a way to help overcome the disparities and improve effective services.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020 3:00 p.m. EDT
This webinar will provide guidance to providers interested in delivering mental health services through telephone and/or videoconferencing. Participants will receive a brief overview of Telemental Health essentials, including technology selection, client screening, office space adaptation, documentation, responding to emergencies, and fundamentals of clinical engagement through this modality.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020 2:00 p.m. EDT
This online discussion is one of a series in which guest presenters share their experience with finding ways to pay for high quality prevention services for youth and families affected by early psychosis and/or signs of clinical high risk. This will include discussions about negotiating bundled payment structures with third-party payers, providing telemedicine, and finding creative solutions to maximize existing resources in order to provide stepped care that matches evidence-based services to individual needs and preferences. Other online discussions in the series will take place May 6, 2020, and June 10, 2020 at 2:00 PM EDT.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020 2:00 p.m. EDT
This webinar will address what constitutes an “evidence-based treatment (EBT)” and an “evidence-based practice (EBP),” the difference between efficacy and effectiveness, and what we need to know about them in order to make more informed decisions in selecting EBTs and EBPs that are best suited to our agencies or clinics.
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Wednesday, April 29 5:00 p.m. EDT
The new language of HOPE – Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences – utilizes The Cycle of Transformation which includes domains of Spirit – Science – Action – Return. This session will conclude by providing attendees with flexible building blocks to apply HOPE at individual, family, community and societal levels to prevent adversity, support resilience and promote healing and health equity based upon positive childhood experiences.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020 2:00 p.m. EDT
This webinar will look at where to go to learn about risk and protective factors associated with prescription drug misuse, provide an overview of evidence-based strategies that address these factors, and begin to explore opportunities for forging the new partnerships needed to implement these strategies in New England.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020 4:00 p.m. EDT
This webinar will review the legal and ethical considerations for prevention practice through a virtual setting. Participants will learn which requirements must be in place as well as current changes due to COVID-19.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT
Crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic we are in, will reveal gaps in crisis preparedness. While it can be hard to reflect on our preparedness while we are focused on responding to the crisis at hand, this session will create space to learn and adapt.
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Thursday, April 30, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT
The consequences of compassion fatigue can decrease the provider’s emotional and physical well-being, influence the quality of care they provide for their clients, and negatively impact the interactions with coworkers and create an unhealthy work environment for themselves and others. This interactive webinar will identify and define often elusive work related conditions, self-assessment tools, and practical strategies for self-care and building resiliency.
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Thursday, April 30, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT
Increasing access to evidence-based treatments (EBT)s for children with mental health needs is a national priority. Different states are experiencing a variety of implementation, policy, and resource challenges. This webinar will describe Connecticut’s approach to scaling outpatient and school-based EBTs over the past 12 years, including implementation strategies, outcomes, and lessons learned.
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Thursday, April 30, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT
During this presentation, participants will be able to identify different types of violence, and describe the impact of intimate partner violence in families, including children. Furthermore, mental health providers that serve Hispanic and Latino populations will be able to identify strategies they can use to manage intimate partner violence from a Latino culture framework. Special considerations will be discussed regarding intimate partner violence during the pandemic.
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This issue brief presents recent data on prevalence of opioid misuse and death rates in the Black/African American population; contextual factors & challenges to prevention & treatment; innovative outreach & engagement strategies to connect people to evidence-based treatment; and the importance of community voice.
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This fact sheet for teens provides facts about hallucinogens. It describes short- and long-term effects, lists signs of use, and helps dispel common myths. It also can be used by prevention professionals, educators, health care providers, and others who come in contact with teens on a regular basis.
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This fact sheet for teens provides facts about stimulants. It describes short- and long-term effects, lists signs of use, and helps dispel common myths. It also can be used by prevention professionals, educators, health care providers, and others who come in contact with teens on a regular basis.
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