HHS awarded $383.4 million in grants to strengthen behavioral health treatment, prevention and crisis response across the country.
Of the funding, $252 million will support the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, suicide prevention and mobile crisis services, according to a Sept. 8 news release from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
“988 has become a critical front door to behavioral healthcare for millions of Americans, but answering the call is only the beginning,” said SAMHSA Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Christopher Carroll. “These investments will strengthen access to treatment and recovery services while ensuring that people in crisis can get the immediate help they need.”
The grants will support efforts including improving state, territory and tribal responses to 988 contacts, expanding mobile crisis teams, preventing suicide and drug overdoses, increasing access to substance use disorder treatment and recovery services, integrating physical and behavioral healthcare and expanding mental health services for children, youth and adults.
The funding is divided among three areas:
- 988, suicide prevention and crisis services: $252 million
- 988 State and Territory Local Capacity Building: $205.8 million
- Support for 988 Tribal Response Cooperative Agreements: $19.9 million
- Tribal Behavioral Health: Suicide Prevention: $13.9 million
- Behavioral Health Mobile Crisis Team Partnerships: $12.4 million
- Substance use treatment and prevention: $81.4 million
- Rural Emergency Medical Services Training: $13.4 million
- Tribal Behavioral Health Substance Use Prevention: $12.1 million
- Preventing Drug Overdoses: Community Prevention and Response: $10.6 million
- Adult and Family Treatment Drug Courts: $7.4 million
- Rural Opioid Technical Assistance Centers: $7.1 million
- Treatment and Recovery Services for Youth, Young Adults, and Families: $7 million
- Residential Treatment for Pregnant and Postpartum Women: $6.1 million
- Emergency Department Alternatives to Opioids Program: $5.9 million
- Tribal Opioid Response: $4.7 million
- Preventing Youth Overdose: $2.6 million
- STOP Act grants: $2.1 million
- Recovery Community Services Program – Statewide Network: $1.4 million
- Center of Excellence for Protected Health Information Related to Behavioral Health: $1 million
- Mental health: $50 million
- National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative: $14.3 million
- Promoting the Integration of Primary and Behavioral Healthcare: $12.8 million
- Circles of Care for American Indian/Alaska Natives: $6.5 million
- Behavioral Health Partnerships for Early Diversion of Adults and Youth: $5.8 million
- Trauma-Informed Services in Schools: $5.1 million
- Assertive Community Treatment: $3.8 million
- Statewide Family Network: $1.7 million
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