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Opportunity Information: Apply for SM 10 015

• The Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Adminis. in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Community Resilience and Recovery Initiative" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.243 Substance Abuse and Mental Health ServicesProjects of Regional and National Significance.
• This funding opportunity was created on Apr 5, 2010 and posted on Apr 5, 2010.
• Applicants must submit their applications by May 28, 2010. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2024.)
• The funding agency has allocated a total of $4,200,000.00 to eligible and selected applicants.
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,400,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 5 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
• Eligible applicants are mayors offices or the offices of county executives or Territorial governments, or the highest ranking official and/or the duly authorized official of a federally recognized American Indian/Alaska Native Tribe or tribal organization in communities of high levels of unemployment. Tribal organization means the recognized body of any AI/AN tribe any legally established organization of American Indians/Alaska Natives which is controlled, sanctioned, or chartered by such governing body or which is democratically elected by the adult members of the Indian community to be served by such organization and which includes the maximum participation of American Indians/Alaska Natives in all phases of its activities. To be eligible, applicants must propose to provide services in a geographic area with at least 60,000 residents, but no more than 100,000 residents. You must identify the geographic area to be served and provide documentation that the population meets these criteria in Attachment 5 of your application. Eligible applicants must provide evidence that the communities they propose to serve had an unemployment rate of at least 12 , in February of 2009 and that they had an unemployment rate of less than 10 in December of 2007 based on Local Area Unemployment Statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. You can access this data at http://www.bls.gov/lau/data.htm. Follow the links for the one screen data search or the multi screen data search to obtain your local information. You are expected to use the data from the smallest jurisdiction with data available that contains your chosen geographic area and provide these data in Attachment 5 of your application. As a place based initiative, the CRRI depends on coordinating services within a defined area and providing sufficient resources to enable community level change. In order to achieve this level of change, the population of focus has been limited to no more than 100,000 people. The success of the initiative also requires coordination across several systems to implement a multi level approach. In order for the initiative to be most effective, the community of focus must include a population of at least 60,000 people to ensure that a sufficient infrastructure is in place. States are not eligible to apply because they do not have the direct connection to the community level that is necessary for this place based initiative. Non governmental organizations are not eligible to apply because they do not have the institutional/political authority to coordinate the array of systems and services involved in this initiative.

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