Child Mental Health Initiative (CMHI) | Apply Online

Opportunity Information: Apply for SM 09 002

• The Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Adminis. in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Child Mental Health Initiative (CMHI)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.104 Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances (SED).
• This funding opportunity was created on Oct 2, 2008 and posted on Oct 2, 2008.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jan 15, 2009. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2024.)
• The funding agency has allocated a total of $17,000,000.00 to eligible and selected applicants.
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 17 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
• Eligibility for this program is statutorily limited to public entities such as State governments Indian or tribal organizations (as defined in Section 4b and Section 4c of the Indian Self Determination and Education Assistance Act) Governmental units within political subdivisions of a State, such as a county, city or town District of Columbia government and Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, Virgin Islands, American Samoa and Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (now Palau, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands). If you have previously received a CMHI award, you must specify a geographic service area within the State, county, tribe or territory that is different from the geographic area of your current or past award (See Table 1, pages 20 21). An exception to this requirement will be made for States whose previous award(s) was to develop systems of care across the entire State. If your State had a previous CMHI award for a Statewide implementation approach, you may apply for funding under this announcement if your previous award(s) has expired, including all no cost extension years. You must also demonstrate that the programs implemented under these previous awards have been sustained and that the population of focus you are now proposing is different from that in the previous award(s). In keeping with SAMHSA s commitment to providing opportunities to serve American Indian/Alaska Native communities, an exception will also be made for cities, counties, States or other public entities that received a previous CMHI award but whose new CMHI application focuses on American Indians and Alaska Native children and families living off reservations in urban centers who were not served by a previous award. Such a new cooperative agreement must be developed in partnership with an American Indian non profit organization that is recognized by the Indian Health Service Urban Indian Health Program under Title V of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, PL 94 437, as amended... PLEASE REFER TO THE RFA FOR COMPLETE ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION.

Apply for SM 09 002

[Watch] Creating a grant proposal using the step-by-step wizard inside the applicant portal: