Tribal Behavioral Health Substance Use Prevention

For program and eligibility questions:
Amara Matlock
202.961.8620
DTP-NOFO@samhsa.hhs.gov

For financial and budget questions:
240.276.1400
NOFOBudget.CSAP@samhsa.hhs.gov

For review process and application status questions:
Samantha Dock-Herbster
240.276.0405
Samantha.DockHerbster@samhsa.hhs.gov

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The Substance Abuse an Mental Health Services Administration is offering funding to prevent and reduce substance use and overdose among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth and young adults through age 24 by building community-driven prevention systems, services, and partnerships. Projects should use evidence-based and locally tailored strategies designed to strengthen protective factors, reduce risk factors, and build sustainable prevention capacity.

Project components should include:

• Community engagement, planning, and support
• Strategic planning
• Strengthen workforce capacity
• Deliver prevention education to youth and young adults
• Establish overdose response protocols

Awardees will be required to report on the performance measures:

• Prevention strategies implemented by type, targeted substance(s), and population of focus
• Number of individuals served through direct/individual-level prevention efforts
• Number of individuals reached through indirect/population-based prevention efforts
• Number of individuals linked to services that support prevention, treatment, recovery, and overdose response
• Number of individuals who received staff development training
• Number and type of staff development trainings conducted
• Number of individuals educated on substance misuse and opioid overdose prevention
• Number of individuals trained on overdose response, including FDA-approved opioid overdose reversal medication (OORM) administration and applicable Good Samaritan laws
• Number of known or suspected overdose events
• Number of opioid overdose reversals

Eligible applicants:

• Federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) tribes
• Tribal organizations
• Urban Indian organizations (UIOs)
• Consortia of Tribes or tribal organizations

Award ceiling: $350,000 per year
Project period: 5 years
Estimated number of awards: 26
Estimated total program funding: $9,000,000

Links to the full announcement, application instructions, and the online application process are available through grants.gov.