[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 102 (Thursday, May 28, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29238-29240]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-14011]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration


Fiscal Year (FY) 1998 Funding Opportunities

AGENCY: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice of funding availability.

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SUMMARY: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 
(SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) announces the 
availability of FY 1998 funds for grants for the following activity. 
This activity is discussed in more detail under Section 4 of this 
notice. This notice is not a complete description of the activity; 
potential applicants must obtain a copy of the Guidance for Applicants 
(GFA) before preparing an application.

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                                                                          Estimated     Estimated               
                        Activity                           Application      funds        No. of        Project  
                                                            deadline      available      awards        period   
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Faculty Development Program.............................      7/28/98         $1.0M            10        3 yrs. 
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    Note: SAMHSA also published notices of available funding 
opportunities for FY 1998 in the Federal Register on January 6, 
1998, January 20, 1998, February 26, 1998, March 20, 1998, April 8, 
1998, April 16, 1998, April 20, 1998, and on April 22, 1998.

    The actual amount available for awards and their allocation may 
vary, depending on unanticipated program requirements and the volume 
and quality of applications. Awards are usually made for grant periods 
from one to three years in duration. FY 1998 funds for activities 
discussed in this announcement were appropriated by the Congress under 
Public Law No. 105-78. SAMHSA's policies and procedures for peer review 
and Advisory Council review of grant and cooperative agreement 
applications were published in the Federal Register (Vol. 58, No. 126) 
on July 2, 1993.
    The Public Health Service (PHS) is committed to achieving the 
health promotion and disease prevention objectives of Healthy People 
2000, a PHS-led national activity for setting priority areas. The 
SAMHSA Centers' substance abuse and mental health services activities 
address issues related to Healthy People 2000 objectives of Mental 
Health and Mental Disorders; Alcohol and Other Drugs; Clinical 
Preventive Services; HIV Infection; and Surveillance and Data Systems. 
Potential applicants may obtain a copy of Healthy People 2000 (Full 
Report: Stock No. 017-001-00474-0) or Summary Report: Stock No. 017-
001-00473-1) through the Superintendent of Documents, Government 
Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402-9325 (Telephone: 202-512-1800).
    General Instructions: Applicants must use application form PHS 
5161-1 (Rev. 5/96; OMB No. 0937-0189). The application kit contains the 
GFA (complete programmatic guidance and instructions for preparing and 
submitting applications), the PHS 5161-1 which includes Standard Form 
424 (Face Page), and other documentation and forms. Application kits 
may be obtained from the organization specified for each activity 
covered by this notice (see Section 4).
    When requesting an application kit, the applicant must specify the 
particular activity for which detailed information is desired. This is 
to ensure receipt of all necessary forms and information, including any 
specific program review and award criteria.
    The PHS 5161-1 application form and the full text of each of the 
activities (i.e., the GFA) described in Section 4 are available 
electronically via SAMHSA's World Wide Web Home Page (address: http://
www.samhsa.gov).
    Application Submission: Unless otherwise stated in the GFA, 
applications must be submitted to: SAMHSA Programs, Center for 
Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, Suite 1040, 6701 
Rockledge Drive MSC-7710, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-7710*

(*Applicants who wish to use express mail or courier service should 
change the zip code to 20817.)

    Application Deadlines: The deadlines for receipt of applications 
are listed in the table above. Please note that the deadlines may 
differ for the individual activities.
    Competing applications must be received by the indicated receipt 
date(s) to be accepted for review. An application received after the 
deadline may be acceptable if it carries a legible proof-of-mailing 
date assigned by the carrier and that date is not later than one week 
prior to the deadline date. Private metered postmarks are not 
acceptable as proof of timely mailing.
    Applications received after the deadline date and those sent to an 
address other than the address specified in the GFA will be returned to 
the applicant without review.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for activity-specific 
technical information should be directed to the program contact person 
identified for each activity covered by this notice (see Section 4).
    Requests for information concerning business management issues 
should be directed to the grants management contact person identified 
for each activity covered by this notice (see Section 4).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: To facilitate the use of this Notice of 
Funding Availability, information has been organized as outlined in the 
Table of Contents below. For each activity, the following information 
is provided:
     Application Deadline
     Purpose.
     Priorities.
     Eligible Applicants.
     Grants/Cooperative Agreements/Amounts.
     Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number.
     Contacts.
     Application Kits.

Table of Contents

1. Program Background and Objectives
2. Special Concerns
3. Criteria for Review and Funding
    3.1  General Review Criteria
    3.2  Funding Criteria for Scored Applications
4. Special FY 1998 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 
Activities
    4.1  Grants
    4.1.1  Faculty Development Program--Faculty Developing People, 
Programs, Products and Policies for Integrated Service Delivery
5. Public Health System Reporting Requirements

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6. PHS Non-use of Tobacco Policy Statement
7. Executive Order 12372

1. Program Background and Objectives

    SAMHSA's mission within the Nation's health system is to improve 
the quality and availability of prevention, early intervention, 
treatment, and rehabilitation services for substance abuse and mental 
illnesses, including co-occurring disorders, in order to improve health 
and reduce illness, death, disability, and cost to society.
    Reinventing government, with its emphases on redefining the role of 
Federal agencies and on improving customer service, has provided SAMHSA 
with a welcome opportunity to examine carefully its programs and 
activities. As a result of that process, SAMHSA moved assertively to 
create a renewed and strategic emphasis on using its resources to 
generate knowledge about ways to improve the prevention and treatment 
of substance abuse and mental illness and to work with State and local 
governments as well as providers, families, and consumers to 
effectively use that knowledge in everyday practice.
    SAMHSA's FY 1998 Knowledge Development and Application (KD&A) 
agenda is the outcome of a process whereby providers, services 
researchers, consumers, National Advisory Council members and other 
interested persons participated in special meetings or responded to 
calls for suggestions and reactions. From this input, each SAMHSA 
Center developed a ``menu'' of suggested topics. The topics were 
discussed jointly and an agency agenda of critical topics was agreed 
to. The selection of topics depended heavily on policy importance and 
on the existence of adequate research and practitioner experience on 
which to base studies. While SAMHSA's FY 1998 KD&A programs will 
sometimes involve the evaluation of some delivery of services, they are 
services studies and application activities, not merely evaluation, 
since they are aimed at answering policy-relevant questions and putting 
that knowledge to use.
    SAMHSA differs from other agencies in focusing on needed 
information at the services delivery level, and in its question-focus. 
Dissemination and application are integral, major features of the 
programs. SAMHSA believes that it is important to get the information 
into the hands of the public, providers, and systems administrators as 
effectively as possible. Technical assistance, training, preparation of 
special materials will be used, in addition to normal communications 
means.
    SAMHSA also continues to fund legislatively-mandated services 
programs for which funds are appropriated.

2. Special Concerns

    SAMHSA's legislatively-mandated services programs do provide funds 
for mental health and/or substance abuse treatment and prevention 
services. However, SAMHSA's KD&A activities do not provide funds for 
mental health and/or substance abuse treatment and prevention services 
except sometimes for costs required by the particular activity's study 
design. Applicants are required to propose true knowledge application 
or knowledge development and application projects. Applications seeking 
funding for services projects under a KD&A activity will be considered 
nonresponsive.
    Applications that are incomplete or nonresponsive to the GFA will 
be returned to the applicant without further consideration.

3. Criteria for Review and Funding

    Consistent with the statutory mandate for SAMHSA to support 
activities that will improve the provision of treatment, prevention and 
related services, including the development of national mental health 
and substance abuse goals and model programs, competing applications 
requesting funding under the specific project activities in Section 4 
will be reviewed for technical merit in accordance with established 
PHS/SAMHSA peer review procedures.

3.1 General Review Criteria

    As published in the Federal Register on July 2, 1993 (Vol. 58, No. 
126), SAMHSA's ``Peer Review and Advisory Council Review of Grant and 
Cooperative Agreement Applications and Contract Proposals,'' peer 
review groups will take into account, among other factors as may be 
specified in the application guidance materials, the following general 
criteria:
     Potential significance of the proposed project;
     Appropriateness of the applicant's proposed objectives to 
the goals of the specific program;
     Adequacy and appropriateness of the proposed approach and 
activities;
     Adequacy of available resources, such as facilities and 
equipment;
     Qualifications and experience of the applicant 
organization, the project director, and other key personnel; and
     Reasonableness of the proposed budget.

3.2  Funding Criteria for Scored Applications

    Applications will be considered for funding on the basis of their 
overall technical merit as determined through the peer review group and 
the appropriate National Advisory Council (if applicable) review 
process.
    Other funding criteria will include:
     Availability of funds.
    Additional funding criteria specific to the programmatic activity 
may be included in the application guidance materials.

4. Special FY 1998 SAMHSA Activities

4.1  Grants

4.1.1  Faculty Development Program--Faculty Developing People, 
Programs, Products and Policies for Integrated Service Delivery, GFA 
No. SP 98-006)
     Application Deadline: July 28, 1998
     Purpose: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 
Administration's (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) 
announces the availability of funds for grants to support the 
application of the Faculty Development Program (FDP) model to Schools 
of Public Health and Residency Training Programs in Preventive Medicine 
without a substance abuse prevention program. Such programs will work 
in association with institutions that educate health and social service 
professionals (Schools of Medicine, Osteopathy, Nursing, Dentistry, 
Social Work, and university-affiliated Departments of Psychology) that 
have existing substance abuse prevention programs.
    The overall purpose of the FDP is twofold: (1) The education of 
students at Schools of Public Health and in Residency Training Programs 
in Preventive Medicine to foster an understanding of the importance of 
substance abuse prevention services that will be reflected in policy 
making and program planning; and (2) The transfer of expertise between 
institutions through a mentor relationship. Expected results from the 
application of the FDP model include: the development of expertise in 
substance abuse prevention by faculty of professional programs at 
funded institutions; the institutionalization of substance abuse 
prevention programs in the curriculum or curricula at funded 
institutions; the creation of linkages between the community and funded 
institutions promoting the application of science-based substance abuse 
prevention strategies within the community; and the diffusion of 
expertise of professionals trained by the program to others in their 
professional discipline.

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     Priorities: None
     Eligible Applicants: Eligibility is limited to Schools of 
Medicine, Osteopathy, Nursing, Dentistry, Social Work, and university-
affiliated Departments of Psychology with an existing substance abuse 
prevention program or to Schools of Public Health or Residency Training 
Programs in Preventive Medicine without an existing substance abuse 
prevention program.
    Applications from Schools of Medicine, Osteopathy, Nursing, 
Dentistry, Social Work, and university-affiliated Departments of 
Psychology must identify the School of Public Health or Residency 
Training Program in Preventive Medicine they will mentor in order to 
develop a substance abuse prevention program.
    Applications from Schools of Public Health or Residency Training 
Programs in Preventive Medicine must identify the School of Medicine, 
Osteopathy, Nursing, Dentistry, Social Work or university-affiliated 
Department of Psychology which has an existing substance abuse 
prevention program and with whom they have established a mentoring 
relationship in order to assist them in establishing a substance abuse 
prevention program.
    Eligibility is being limited to these particular entities because 
this program is limited to three years and the need for appropriately 
trained health care practitioners and the integration of state-of-the-
art substance abuse prevention, screening, assessment, and referral 
strategies as standards of care is critical to reducing health care 
costs and improving health status. By capitalizing on the experience of 
the mentor agencies with existing substance abuse prevention programs, 
these partnerships will be able to complete their program within the 
allotted three years. Absent this pre-existing and continuing 
experience, completion within this time frame would not be possible.
     Grants/Amounts: It is estimated that up to $1,000,000 will 
be available to support approximately ten new grant awards of 
approximately $100,000 each (total costs--direct + indirect) under this 
GFA in FY 1998.
     Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 93.274
     For programmatic or technical information regarding this 
grant program (not for application kits) contact: Lucille C. Perez, 
M.D., Associate Director, Medical and Clinical Affairs, Center for 
Substance Abuse Prevention, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 
Administration, Rockwall II Building, Room 9D-10, 5600 Fishers Lane, 
Rockville, Maryland 20857, 301/443-5266.
    For grants management assistance, contact: Peggy Jones, Division of 
Grants Management, OPS, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 
Administration, Rockwall II Building, Room 621, 5600 Fishers Lane, 
Rockville, Maryland 20857, 301/443-9666.
     For application kits, contact: National Clearinghouse for 
Alcohol and Drug Information, P.O. Box 2345, Rockville, MD 20847-2345, 
800/729-6686, 301/468-2600 (local calls).

5. Public Health System Reporting Requirements

    The Public Health System Impact Statement (PHSIS) is intended to 
keep State and local health officials apprised of proposed health 
services grant and cooperative agreement applications submitted by 
community-based nongovernmental organizations within their 
jurisdictions.
    Community-based nongovernmental service providers who are not 
transmitting their applications through the State must submit a PHSIS 
to the head(s) of the appropriate State and local health agencies in 
the area(s) to be affected not later than the pertinent receipt date 
for applications. This PHSIS consists of the following information:
    a. A copy of the face page of the application (Standard form 424).
    b. A summary of the project (PHSIS), not to exceed one page, which 
provides:
    (1) A description of the population to be served.
    (2) A summary of the services to be provided.
    (3) A description of the coordination planned with the appropriate 
State or local health agencies.
    State and local governments and Indian Tribal Authority applicants 
are not subject to the Public Health System Reporting Requirements.
    Application guidance materials will specify if a particular FY 1998 
activity described above is/is not subject to the Public Health System 
Reporting Requirements.

6. PHS Non-use of Tobacco Policy Statement

    The PHS strongly encourages all grant and contract recipients to 
provide a smoke-free workplace and promote the non-use of all tobacco 
products. In addition, Public Law 103-227, the Pro-Children Act of 
1994, prohibits smoking in certain facilities (or in some cases, any 
portion of a facility) in which regular or routine education, library, 
day care, health care, or early childhood development services are 
provided to children. This is consistent with the PHS mission to 
protect and advance the physical and mental health of the American 
people.

7. Executive Order 12372

    Applications submitted in response to the FY 1998 activity listed 
above are not subject to the intergovernmental review requirements of 
Executive Order 12372, as implemented through DHHS regulations at 45 
CFR Part 100.

    Dated: May 20, 1998.
Patricia S. Bradford,
Acting Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
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