[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 223 (Thursday, November 19, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 64271]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-30940]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration


Supplemental Grant Award to the National Research and Training 
Center at the University of Illinois, Chicago, IL

AGENCY: Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), Substance Abuse and 
Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), DHHS.

ACTION: Planned supplemental grant award to the Employment Intervention 
Demonstration Program (EIDP) Coordinating Center at the University of 
Illinois, Chicago, Illinois.

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SUMMARY: This notice is to provide information to the public concerning 
a planned supplemental award by CMHS/SAMHSA to the existing grant to 
the National Research and Training Center (NRTC). This award will 
provide additional support for the EIDP Coordinating Center in order to 
expand coordination, data management, and dissemination of the EIDP 
study results. Upon receipt of a satisfactory application that is 
recommended for approval by an Initial Review Group and the CMHS 
National Advisory Council, up to $600,000 in Federal funds may be 
awarded to this organization over the remaining project period of the 
existing EIDP Coordinating Center grant which is scheduled to end on 
May 31, 2000.
    This is not a formal request for applications. Grant funds will be 
provided only to the organization named above.

    Authority/Justification: This grant will be made under the 
authority of Section 520A of the Public Health Service Act, as 
amended (42 U.S.C. 290bb-32).

    The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number is 93.125.
    The goal of the EIDP is the generation of knowledge about effective 
approaches for enhancing employment for adults with severe mental 
illnesses through support for the implementation and evaluation of 
promising employment intervention programs. In FY 1995 the National 
Research and Training Center competed successfully to be the 
Coordinating Center for an expected EIDP involving approximately 4 
sites. However, CMHS subsequently determined the program should fund 8 
sites to maximize the potential benefits of the program. The purpose of 
this supplemental award is to fund the additional coordination and data 
management requirements imposed on NRTC for a program which has 
expanded to 8 sites and, building upon the expertise gained by the 
Coordinating Center during the first years of the study, to develop and 
implement a knowledge dissemination strategy for all 8 (rather than 4) 
sites. The supplemental work is inextricably linked to the current 
activities that the NRTC is already performing for the EIDP.
    For the above reasons, only an application from the National 
Research and Training Center will be considered for this program.

CONTACT: Neal B. Brown, Chief, Community Support Programs Branch, 
Division of Knowledge Development and Systems Change, CMHS, SAMHSA, 
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 11C-22, Rockville, MD 20857; (301) 443-3653.

    Dated: November 13, 1998.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 98-30940 Filed 11-18-98; 8:45 am]
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