[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 67 (Friday, April 8, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 18039]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-7003]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration


Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 Funding Opportunity

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

ACTION: Notice of intent to make supplemental Minority Fellowship 
Program awards to the American Nurses Association (ANA), the American 
Psychiatric Association (ApA), the American Psychological Association 
(APA), and the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).

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SUMMARY: This notice is to inform the public that the Substance Abuse 
and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental 
Health Services (CMHS), intends to make awards for up to two years to 
the American Nurses Association (ANA), the American Psychiatric 
Association (ApA), the American Psychological Association (APA), and 
the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). The total funding 
available for these awards is $630,000. This is not a formal request 
for applications. Assistance will be provided only to the 
aforementioned organizations based on the receipt of satisfactory 
applications that are approved by an independent review group.
    Funding Opportunity Title: SM-05-018.
    Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 93.243.

    Authority: Sections 509, 516 and 520A of the Public Health 
Service Act, as amended.
    Justification: SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) 
intends to award supplemental grants to the American Nurses Association 
(ANA), the American Psychiatric Association (ApA), the American 
Psychological Association (APA), and the Council on Social Work 
Education (CSWE) to expand/enhance grant activities funded under the 
Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) grant announcement (SM-04-001). The 
goal of the MFP program is to facilitate entry of ethnic minority 
students into mental health and substance abuse disorders careers and 
to increase the number of psychology, psychiatry, nursing and social 
work professionals trained to teach, administer, conduct services 
research, and provide direct mental health/substance abuse services to 
ethnic minority populations. The lack of trained ethnic minority 
professionals is considered to be a significant factor in the lack of 
access to utilization of minority communities to appropriate behavioral 
health and substance abuse treatment and prevention services. The 
amount of funds provided is not sufficient to meet the demand for 
stipends to qualified individuals. These supplemental awards will 
increase the number of ethnic minority students provided stipends. 
Eligibility for this funding is limited to the four organizations that 
received funding under the Minority Fellowship Program in FY 2004 
because these four organizations currently have in place the necessary 
infrastructure for the outreach, recruitment, processing and monitoring 
of applications from students. This infrastructure allows the 
supplemental funds to be used primarily for stipends. Thus, this 
limitation is the most cost-effective approach for maximizing the 
number of racial and ethnic minority students who receive stipends for 
training in underserved disciplines.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Wohlford, Ph.D., Substance Abuse 
and Mental Health Services Administration, CMHS, 1 Choke Cherry Road, 
Room 2-1113, Rockville, MD 20857; telephone: (240) 276-1759; E-mail: 
[email protected]; or Herbert Joseph, Ph.D., Substance Abuse 
and Mental Health Services Administration, CMHS, 1 Choke Cherry Road, 
Room 2-1120, Rockville, MD 20857; telephone: (240) 276-1742; E-mail: 
[email protected].

    Dated: April 1, 2005.
Daryl Kade,
Director, Office of Policy, Planning and Budget, Substance Abuse and 
Mental Health Services Administration.
[FR Doc. 05-7003 Filed 4-7-05; 8:45 am]
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