[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 203 (Friday, October 21, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64073-64074]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-22860]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration


Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Notice of Supplemental Funding Opportunity

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

ACTION: Notice of intent to award supplemental funding.

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SUMMARY: This notice is to inform the public that the Substance Abuse 
and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is supporting 
administrative supplements to the 54 grant recipients funded under the 
FY 2022 Cooperative Agreements for States and Territories to Build 
Local 988 Capacity (988 State and Territory Grants) Notice of Funding 
Opportunity (NOFO) SM-22-015, which have a project end date of April 
2024. This supplemental funding is within scope and is expected to 
increase and/or expand original workforce

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capacity, ease of access to services, contact demand, including 
coverage area, through phone, chat, and text, and contact answer rates 
for 988 crisis care. The 988 State and Territory Cooperative Agreement 
grant recipients are eligible to apply for awards from $458,333 to 
$2,000,000 for a total funding of $50,000,000 from the Bipartisan Safer 
Communities Act (BSCA).
    The supplements will support 988 response and workforce expansion 
by improving 988 collaborations, infrastructure, hiring and retention, 
communications and marketing, and evaluation activities. These awards 
will help improve 988 and 911 coordination, especially in cases of 
emergency intervention due to suicidal behavior, improve state/
territory infrastructure to answer 988 Lifeline chat and text request 
initiated within their state or territory, align communications and 
marketing of the 988 Lifeline in conjunction with SAMHSA and HHS's 988 
communications and marketing strategy, help streamline access to mobile 
crisis and crisis response teams for all 988 crisis centers, assist the 
development and expansion of human resource systems to increase the 
pace of 988 recruitment and hiring, conduct root cause analyses on 
identified critical incidents contacting through the 988 system, 
support continuity of care throughout the larger crisis response system 
and improve follow up and referral outcomes to decrease suicide and 
ensure individuals are connected to post-contact care.
    This is not a formal request for application. Assistance will only 
be provided to the 54 recipients funded in FY 2022 under the 988 State 
and Territory Cooperative Agreement NOFO SM-22-015 based on the receipt 
of a satisfactory application and associated budget that is approved by 
a review group.
    Funding Opportunity Title: FY 2022 Cooperative Agreements for 
States and Territories to Build Local 988 Capacity NOFO SM 22-015.
    Assistance Listing Number: 93.243.
    Authority: Section 520E-3 of the Public Health Services (PHS) Act 
[290bb-36c], as amended.
    Justification: SAMHSA is limiting eligibility for this supplemental 
funding to the 988 State and Territory grant recipients, which were 
funded in FY 2022 under the Cooperative Agreements for States and 
Territories to Build Local 988 Capacity, SM-22-015. These recipients 
provide leadership and oversee the current 988 and state- and 
territory-wide local crisis service systems. In addition, the 
recipients have the required active relationships with and can quickly 
provide fiscal resources directly to local and statewide Lifeline 
crisis centers for 988 response; thereby reducing burden on the 
nationwide network of Lifeline crisis centers, ensuring all those 
needing 988 services have awareness and access to localized care. Due 
to the requirements of the FY 2022 Cooperative Agreements for States 
and Territories to Build Local 988 Capacity, recipients are the only 
entities that can utilize these funds to successfully complete the 
required activities to improve 988 Lifeline crisis center workforce 
response and meet defined state and territory key performance 
indicators.
    Contact: James Wright, LPC, Chief of Crisis Center Operations, 
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 5600 Fishers 
Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, telephone 240-276-1615; email: 
[email protected].

    Dated: October 17, 2022.
Carlos Castillo,
Public Health Analyst.
[FR Doc. 2022-22860 Filed 10-20-22; 8:45 am]
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