[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 44 (Monday, March 6, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11795-11798]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-5396]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Fiscal Year (FY) 2000 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 Mental Health Services(CMHS) announces the
availability of FY 2000 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 Parts I and II of the
Guidance for Applicants (GFA) before preparing an application. Part I
is entitled Cooperative Agreements for
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Comprehensive Community Actions to Promote Youth Violence Prevention,
Suicide Prevention and Resilience Enhancement (short title: Youth
Violence Prevention Cooperative Agreements). Part II is entitled
General Policies and Procedures Applicable to all SAMHSA Applications
for Discretionary Grants and Cooperative Agreements.
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Estimated
Activity Application Estimated funds number of Project period
deadline available, FY 2000 awards
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Youth Violence Prevention 5/23/00 $4.10 million *...... 27-40 2 years.
Cooperative Agreements.
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* Of the $4.10 million, four grants totaling up to $600,000 will be awarded to organizations proposing programs
on the prevention of youth suicide.
The actual amount available for awards and their allocation may
vary, depending on unanticipated program requirements and the number
and quality of applications received. FY 2000 funds for the activity
discussed in this announcement were appropriated by the Congress under
Public Law 106-113. 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).
SAMHSA has published additional notices of available funding
opportunities for FY 2000 in past issues of the Federal Register.
General Instructions: Applicants must use application form PHS
5161-1 (Rev. 6/99; OMB No. 0920-0428). The application kit contains the
two-part application materials (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 the 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 the activity
described in Section 4 are also available electronically via SAMHSA's
World Wide Web Home Page (address: http://www.samhsa.gov).
Application Submission: Applications must be submitted to: SAMHSA
Programs, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health,
Suite 1040, 6701 Rockledge Drive MSC-7710
Bethesda, MD 20892-7710 *
(* Applicants who wish to use express mail or courier service should
change the zip code to 20817.)
Application Deadlines: The deadline for receipt of applications is
May 23, 2000.
Competing applications must be received by the indicated receipt
date to be accepted for review. An application received after the
deadline may only be accepted 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 above 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 the 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 the activity covered by this notice (see Section 4).
Programmatic Information
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 2000 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 2000 KD&A program 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 it is question-focus.
Dissemination and application are integral, major features of the
programs. SAMHSA believes that
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it is important to get the information into the hands of the public,
providers, and systems administrators as effectively as possible.
Technical assistance, training, and preparation of special materials
will be used, in addition to normal communication 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 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
3.1 General Review Criteria
Review criteria that will be used by the peer review groups are
specified in the application guidance material.
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 review process. Availability
of funds will also be an award criteria. Additional award criteria
specific to the programmatic activity may be included in the
application guidance materials.
4. Special FY 2000 SAMHSA Activities
Cooperative Agreements for Comprehensive Community Actions to
Promote Youth Violence Prevention, Suicide Prevention and Resilience
Enhancement (short title: Youth Violence Prevention Cooperative
Agreements, SM00-005)
Application Deadline: The receipt date is May 23, 2000.
Purpose: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration's (SAMHSA) Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)
announces the availability of funds for community organizations to
promote prevention of youth violence and suicide and to enhance healthy
youth development. The goals of this cooperative agreement are (1) to
build community-wide understanding of youth violence/suicide, (2) to
build real and sustainable community-wide, intensive collaborations to
address this public health crisis, and (3) to implement and sustain
evidence-based youth and family service programs. There will be two
Phases in this 2-year program: Phase 1 Community Collaboration Phase,
and Phase 2, Pilot Implementation Phase. In Phase 1, grantees will
develop intensive community wide collaboration to address youth
violence prevention/suicide proactively. In Phase 2, grantees will
pilot the chosen evidence-based youth violence/suicide prevention
programs. This GFA is a revision of the prior CMHS No. SM99-009, School
Action Grants.
Eligible Applicants: Applications may be submitted by
domestic non-governmental non-profit and for profit entities; public or
private educational systems, institutions, and agencies; Tribal
government units and organizations; and community-based organizations
such as advocacy organizations, community-based health, mental health
and social service organizations, parents and teachers associations,
consumer and family groups, and minority serving organizations.
This program is related to the Community Prevention Grants (GFA
SM00-004) in that similar activities could be supported under that
grant or this cooperative agreement; however, the Community Prevention
Grants offer support exclusively to State, Tribes, and their political
subdivisions. State and local governmental units are not eligible for
this cooperative agreement program with the following exceptions:
educational units are eligible to apply for both youth violence and
suicide prevention projects and governmental community mental health
organizations can serve as applicant organizations for suicide
prevention, but not youth violence prevention projects.
Amount: It is expected that $4.10 million will be
available in FY2000. Of this $4.10 million, four grants totaling up to
$600,000 will be awarded to organizations proposing programs on the
prevention of youth suicide.
Period of Support: Support may be requested for a period
of up to 2 years.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 93.230.
Program Contact: For questions concerning program issues,
contact:
Tiffany Ho, Division of Program Development, Special Populations and
Projects, Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration, Room 17C-26, 5600 Fishers Lane,
Rockville, MD 20857, (301) 443-2892.
or
Malcolm Gordon, Special Programs Development Branch, Center for Mental
Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration, Room 17C-05, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857,
(301) 443-2957.
For questions regarding grants management issues, contact: Steve
Hudak, Grants Management Officer, Division of Grants Management, OPS,
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Room 15C-05,
5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857, (301) 443-4456.
Application kits are available from: National Mental
Health Services, Knowledge Exchange Network (KEN), P.O. Box 42490,
Washington, DC 20015, Telephone: 1-800-789-2647, TTY: (301) 443-9006,
Fax: (301) 984-8796.
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 2000
activity
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is 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 2000 activity listed
above are subject to the intergovernmental review requirements of
Executive Order 12372, as implemented through DHHS regulations at 45
CFR Part 100. E.O. 12372 sets up a system for State and local
government review of applications for Federal financial assistance.
Applicants (other than Federally recognized Indian tribal governments)
should contact the State's Single Point of Contact (SPOC) as early as
possible to alert them to the prospective application(s) and to receive
any necessary instructions on the State's review process. For proposed
projects serving more than one State, the applicant is advised to
contact the SPOC of each affected State. A current listing of SPOCs is
included in the application guidance materials. The SPOC should send
any State review process recommendations directly to: Division of
Extramural Activities, Policy, and Review, Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration, Parklawn Building, Room 17-89, 5600
Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857.
The due date for State review process recommendations is no later
than 60 days after the specified deadline date for the receipt of
applications. SAMHSA does not guarantee to accommodate or explain SPOC
comments that are received after the 60-day cut-off.
Dated: February 29, 2000.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
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