Project Grant H07SM090076

This Project Grant award from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance (CFDA 93.243) program provides $120,000.00 to Strength In Peers Inc., a non-profit organization in Virginia, to develop and implement the Compassionate Crisis Care Network. The network aims to provide an alternative, peer-designed and peer-led crisis prevention and recovery support program that...

This $500,000 Project Grant award from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Congressional Directives program (CFDA 93.493) supports the Chinese-American Planning Council's (CPC) Community Resiliency Support Services (CRSS) project. The CRSS project aims to boost CPC's capacity to implement targeted education and outreach to reduce cultural stigma surrounding mental health care among low-income, immigrant, and Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI)...

This $1,148,802 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Mental and Behavioral Health Education and Training Grants program (CFDA 93.732) will enable Rhode Island College's Institute for Education in Healthcare to develop a training program to create a new cadre of dually-certified Peer Recovery Specialists-Community Health Workers (PRS-CHW) in Rhode Island. The program will provide a comprehensive...

This $900,000 federal Project Grant award, provided by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance (CFDA 93.243) program, will support the expansion of the Community Recovery Center (the Center) operated by Strength In Peers Inc., a nonprofit organization. The grant will fund the establishment of two new satellite locations for the Center, enabling it to serve an...

This federal Project Grant award of $3,274,078.00 was provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on December 3, 2024 through the Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program (CFDA 97.032). The grant funds were awarded to the State of Florida Division of Emergency Management to support mental health recovery efforts for individuals and communities impacted by disaster events within the state. The Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program focuses on delivering critical...

The University of South Carolina received a $299,914 Project Grant award from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Mental and Behavioral Health Education and Training Grants program (CFDA 93.732) to expand its Integrated Care for Recovery (I-CARE) Training Center. The funding will enable the I-CARE Training Center to provide specialized training to 23 paraprofessionals, including recovery coaches, peer support specialists, and community health workers, over 4...

This $3,000,000 Project Grant awarded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Congressional Directives program (CFDA 93.493) will fund the "PROJECT COPES" initiative. The project aims to expand existing services in school-based health centers (SBHCs) located in underserved communities on Chicago's South and West sides. Using evidence-based, trauma-informed, and healing-centered approaches, the project will provide psychoeducation,...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $159,000.00 to the University of Pittsburgh to examine the feasibility of a randomized controlled trial that compares the effects of a combined Strategy Training (ST) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) intervention to ST alone for improving social participation, psychological...

This $3,800,000 federal Project Grant award from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) CFDA 93.243 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance program will establish the National Peer-Run Training and Technical Assistance Center for Addiction Recovery Support (CARS). The grant recipient, One World Recovery Network (OWRN), a peer-led, Black-led, woman-led recovery community organization, will coordinate this national...

This $5,024,305 federal Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) aims to augment Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) to prevent suicide risk among patients with PTSD. The grant was awarded to The Ohio State University on June 15, 2024 with a completion date of June 14, 2028. The project includes a sub-award to the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) to leverage the resources of the...