[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 176 (Tuesday, September 11, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 47238]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-22810]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration


Change to a Fiscal Year (FY) 2001 Funding Opportunities Notice

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

ACTION: Change of notice in funding availability regarding the 
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for 
Mental Health Services Cooperative Agreement to Provide Minority 
Community Based HIV/AIDS Related Mental Health Treatment and Education 
Services.

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SUMMARY: Public notice of funding availability for a cooperative 
agreement was given in the Federal Register on March 20, 2001 (Vol. 66, 
No. 54, pages 15731-15733). The Guidance for Applicants (GFA) No. SM-
01-012, Cooperative Agreement to Provide Minority Community Based HIV/
AIDS Related Mental Health Treatment and Education Services--short 
title, Minority HIV/AIDS Mental Health Services, contained 3 
Initiatives. The main purpose or objective of the first Initiative was 
to expand service capacity targeted to meet unmet mental health 
treatment needs of individuals living with HIV/AIDS who are African 
American, Hispanic/Latino and/or from other racial/ethnic minority 
communities. The second Initiative focused on conducting HIV/AIDS and 
mental health education and training to African American, Hispanic/
Latino and or other racial/ethnic minority communities who provide 
mental health care and emotional support in traditional and/or non-
traditional settings. Selection of a coordinating center to assure the 
collection and analysis of process and descriptive information/data 
pertaining to common measures across the sites was the third purpose of 
the announcement.
    In response to this GFA SAMHSA received a larger number of services 
applications that received high scores in peer review than had been 
anticipated. Since the intent of the overall GFA is primarily services, 
SAMHSA will be funding more of the services applications than 
originally planned and did not peer review or fund the training 
component, Initiative 2 of the announcement.

    Dated: September 4, 2001.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 01-22810 Filed 9-10-01; 8:45 am]
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