Block grants for community mental health services

The Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration awarded $213,592 to the Palau Ministry of Health on October 1, 2025, under the Block Grants for Community Mental Health Services program (CFDA 93.958).

The funding supports comprehensive community mental health services to adults with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbance in Palau through September 30, 2027. Services are delivered through community mental health centers, psychosocial rehabilitation programs, mental health peer-support programs, and mental-health primary consumer-directed programs. Up to 5 percent of grant funds may be used for administration. Funds may not support inpatient services, cash payments to service recipients, capital improvements or major medical equipment, or financial assistance to for-profit entities. Palau must maintain expenditure levels consistent with fiscal year 1994 baselines and set aside 10 percent of the allocation for programs with strong evidence of effectiveness targeting individuals with early serious mental illness including psychotic disorders.

Place of performance is the United States, with Palau as the recipient jurisdiction. The block grant is assistance funding, issued directly by the Center for Mental Health Services to the designated territory health authority.