[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 45 (Tuesday, March 9, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11478-11483]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-5761]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Fiscal Year (FY) 1999 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 Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) announces the
availability of FY 1999 funds for the following activities. These
activities are discussed in more detail under Section 3 of this notice.
This notice is not a complete description of the activities; potential
applicants must obtain a copy of the Guidance for Applicants (GFA)
before preparing an application.
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Estimated
Application funds Estimated No.
Activity deadline available (in of awards Project period
millions)
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Targeted Capacity Expansion........ 5/10/99 $12.5 25 Up to 3 yrs.
Targeted Capacity Expansion--HIV/ 6/17/99 16 40 Up to 3 yrs.
AIDS.
HIV/AIDS Outreach Program.......... 5/18/99 7 20-25 Up to 3 yrs.
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Note: SAMHSA also published notices of available funding
opportunities for FY 1999 in subsequent issues of the Federal
Register.
The actual amount available for awards and their allocation may
vary, depending on unanticipated program requirements and the volume
and quality of applications. Awards are usually made for grant periods
from one to three years in duration. FY 1999 funds for activities
discussed in this announcement were appropriated by the Congress under
Public Law No. 105-277. 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
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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).
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS: Applicants must use application form PHS 5161-1
(Rev. 5/96; OMB No. 0937-0189). The application kit contains the GFA
(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 each activity
covered by this notice (see Section 3).
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 each of the
activities (i.e., the GFA) described in Section 4 are available
electronically via SAMHSA's World Wide Web Home Page (address: http://
www.samhsa.gov).
APPLICATION SUBMISSION: Unless otherwise stated in the GFA,
applications must be submitted to: SAMHSA Programs, Center for
Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, Suite 1040, 6701
Rockledge Drive MSC-7710, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-7710 * (* Applicants
who wish to use express mail or courier service should change the zip
code to 20817.)
APPLICATION DEADLINES: The deadlines for receipt of applications are
listed in the table above. Please note that the deadlines may differ
for the individual activities.
Competing applications must be received by the indicated receipt
dates to be accepted for review. An application received after the
deadline may be acceptable 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 each activity covered by this notice (see Section 3).
Requests for information concerning business management issues
should be directed to the grants management contact person identified
for each activity covered by this notice (see Section 3).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: To facilitate the use of this Notice of
Funding Availability, information has been organized as outlined in the
Table of Contents below. For each activity, the following information
is provided:
Application Deadline.
Purpose.
Priorities.
Eligible Applicants.
Grants/Amounts.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Numbers.
Contacts.
Application Kits.
Table of Contents
1. Program Background and Objectives
2. Criteria for Review and Funding
2.1 General Review Criteria
2.2 Funding Criteria for Scored Applications
3. Special FY 1999 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Activities
3.1. Grants to Expand Substance Abuse Treatment Capacity in
Targeted Areas of Need (Short Title: Targeted Capacity Expansion,
GFA No. TI 99-002)
3.2. Targeted Capacity Expansion Program for Substance Abuse
Treatment and HIV/AIDS Services (Short Title: TCE/HIV, GFA No. TI
99-004)
3.3. Community-Based Substance Abuse and HIV/AIDS Outreach
Program (Short Title: HIV/AIDS Outreach Program, GFA No. TI 99-005)
3.4. SAMHSA/CSAT FY 1999 Programs for Substance Abuse Treatment
and/or HIV/AIDS Services
3.5. SAMHSA Technical Assistance Workshop
4. Public Health System Reporting Requirements
5. PHS Non-use of Tobacco Policy Statement
6. Executive Order 12372
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 differs from other agencies in focusing on needed
information at the services delivery level, and in its question-focus.
Dissemination and application are integral, major features of the
programs. SAMHSA believes that it is important to get the information
into the hands of the public, providers, and systems administrators as
effectively as possible. Technical assistance, training, preparation of
special materials will be used, in addition to normal communications
means.
SAMHSA also continues to fund legislatively-mandated services
programs for which funds are appropriated.
2. Criteria for Review and Funding
Consistent with the statutory mandate for SAMHSA to support
activities that will improve the provision of treatment, prevention and
related services, including the development of national mental health
and substance abuse goals and model programs, competing applications
requesting funding under the specific project activities in Section 3
will be reviewed for technical merit in accordance with established
PHS/SAMHSA peer review procedures.
2.1 General Review Criteria
As published in the Federal Register on July 2, 1993 (Vol. 58, No.
126), SAMHSA's ``Peer Review and Advisory Council Review of Grant and
Cooperative Agreement Applications and Contract Proposals,'' peer
review groups will take into account, among other factors as may be
specified in the application guidance materials, the following general
criteria:
Potential significance of the proposed project;
Appropriateness of the applicant's proposed objectives to
the goals of the specific program;
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Adequacy and appropriateness of the proposed approach and
activities;
Adequacy of available resources, such as facilities and
equipment;
Qualifications and experience of the applicant
organization, the project director, and other key personnel; and
Reasonableness of the proposed budget.
2.2 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 (if applicable) review
process.
Other funding criteria will include:
Availability of funds.
Additional funding criteria specific to the programmatic activity
may be included in the application guidance materials.
3. Special FY 1999 SAMHSA Activities
3.1. Grants to Expand Substance Abuse Treatment in Targeted Areas of
Need (Short Title: Targeted Capacity Expansion, GFA No. TI 99-002)
Application Deadline: May 10, 1999.
Purpose: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration's (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)
announces the availability of funds for grants to expand substance
abuse treatment capacity in targeted areas. This program is designed to
address gaps in treatment capacity by supporting rapid and strategic
responses to demands for substance abuse (including alcohol and drug)
treatment services. This announcement is a reissuance (with revisions)
of a prior announcement by the same title, ``Targeted Capacity
Expansion,'' GFA No. TI 98-006. Applications are solicited for a
targeted response to treatment capacity problems including communities
with serious, emerging drug problems as well as communities with
innovative solutions to unmet needs. Applicants must have an existing
infrastructure (facility/program) and may either apply to expand (add
treatment slots) an existing treatment program or create a new program.
The proposed treatment services must be based on sound, scientifically
based theory or empirical evidence of effectiveness. Further, the
services should be designed to significantly impact the identified
treatment gap or emerging issue within the three year grant period. A
plan for continuation of the effort beyond the life of the grant should
be presented if such continuation is expected to be necessary. Finally,
the proposed services should be consistent with and fit within the
overall response to substance abuse problems in the target area.
Eligible Applicants: Only units of local (cities, towns,
counties) and State governments and Indian Tribes and tribal
organizations (as defined in the Indian Self-Determination Act--25
U.S.C., section 450b) are eligible to apply. These applicants may
engage (coordinate/subcontract) the skills of a wide variety of
private, non-profit, and community-based organizations not eligible to
apply on their own; however, the applicant will be legally,
administratively and fiscally responsible for the grant. This is not a
pass through arrangement; ``umbrella'' applications will not be
accepted for review. Eligibility is being limited to cities, towns,
counties, regional authorities, boroughs, States, Tribes, and tribal
organizations in recognition of the primacy of their responsibility
for, and interest in, providing for the needs of their citizens, and
because the success of the program will depend upon the authority and
ability available to broadly coordinate the variety of resources to
ensure full program success. Furthermore, in addition to licensure,
applicants/proposed providers of services must have been providing
substance abuse treatment services for a minimum of two years prior to
the date of application. Without this documentation, applications will
be considered ineligible and not considered for peer review. SAMHSA
believes that only existing providers have the infrastructure and
expertise to address emerging and unmet needs as quickly as possible.
CSAT is interested in applications from local governments because they
are closer to the problem and in a better position to identify emerging
needs and respond quickly; therefore, in its award decision-making
process, CSAT will give priority to applications from local (cities,
towns, counties) governments, and Indian Tribes and tribal
organizations.
Grants/Amounts: Approximately $12.5 million will be
available to support awards in FY 1999. Of this amount, $8 million is
available for general program applications from units of local (cities,
towns, counties) and State government, and Indian Tribes and tribal
organizations; up to $2 million is reserved for applications from such
entities from Alaska for new projects (for women and children in rural
areas) and Iowa (for methamphetamine abuse) as was specified in
Congressional report language; and up to $2.5 million is reserved for
applications from such government entities specifically addressing
substance abuse and HIV/AIDS in African American, Hispanic/Latino, and
other racial/ethnic minority communities.
Availability of Funds: FY 1999
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Eligible Entities: All applicants must be
units of local or State government or Available funds
Indian Tribes and tribal organizations
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Entities from Alaska that address women Up to $1 million.
and children in rural areas, and.
Entities from Iowa that address Up to $1 Million.
methamphetamine abuse.
Entities that specifically address Up to $2.5 million.
substance abuse and HIV/AIDS in African
American, Hispanic/Latino, and/or other
racial/ethnic minority communities.
Applications will be divided into two
population categories for purposes of
review:
--those proposing to serve populations
of more than 30,000; and
--those proposing to serve populations
of 30,000 or fewer whether urban or
rural.
General Program Entities. Applications Up to $8 million*.
will be divided into two population
categories for purposes of review:
--those proposing to serve populations
of more than 30,000; and
--those proposing to serve populations
of 30,000 or fewer whether urban or
rural.
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Total............................. $12.5 million
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* Average awards of $100,000-$500,000 apply to these entities.
Support may be requested for a period of up to three (3) years.
In accordance with the Congressional conference agreement and based
on previously planned targeted HIV/AIDS activities, the $2.5 million
noted above
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is intended to augment the capabilities of substance abuse treatment
programs to address the growing HIV/AIDS problem in African American,
Hispanic/Latino, and other racial/ethnic minority communities. As
required by the Targeted Capacity Expansion program, applicants
applying for grants to enhance or expand substance abuse treatment and
HIV/AIDS, STDs, TB, and hepatitis B and C services must have an
existing infrastructure (program/facility). Applicants may request
funding to: (1) Expand organizational capacity to provide a more
comprehensive array of community-based services through well defined
linkages to other organizations/providers; (2) expand program capacity
by increasing the number of slots in a residential, day, or outpatient
substance abuse treatment program, or by adding a new component
(outpatient/continuing care) to an existing program; (3) expand a core
program to accommodate clients who are HIV positive or AIDS
symptomatic; and (4) enhance accessibility of existing HIV/AIDS, STDs,
TB, and hepatitis B and C services by adding community health education
and risk reduction programming, outreach services, mobile HIV, STD, TB,
and hepatitis B and C services including counseling/testing/treatment
capabilities. Federal funds may not be used to carry out syringe
exchange programs, such as the purchase and distribution of syringes
and/or needles, nor can funds authorized under this program be used to
pay for pharmacologies for antiretroviral therapy, STDs, TB and
hepatitis B and C.
Catalog of Domestic Federal Assistance: 93.230.
Program Contact: For programmatic or technical assistance
(not for application kits) contact: Clifton Mitchell, Chief, Treatment
and Systems Improvement Branch, Division of Practice and Systems
Development, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, SAMHSA, Rockwall II,
6th Floor, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857, (301) 443-
8804.
For grants management assistance, contact: Andrea L. Brandon,
Division of Grants Management, OPS, Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration, Rockwall II, 6th Floor, 5600 Fishers Lane,
Rockville, Maryland 20857, (301) 443-9667.
Application Kits are available from: National
Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information, P.O. Box 2345,
Rockville, Maryland 20847-2345, 1-800-729-6686.
3.2. Targeted Capacity Expansion Program for Substance Abuse Treatment
and HIV/AIDS Services (Short Title: TCE/HIV, GFA No, TI 99-004)
Application Deadline: June 17, 1999.
Purpose: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration's (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)
announces the availability of funds for grants to enhance and expand
substance abuse treatment and services related to HIV/AIDS in African
American, Hispanic/Latino, and other racial/ethnic minority communities
highly affected by the twin epidemics of substance abuse and HIV/AIDS.
This program seeks to address gaps in substance abuse treatment
capacity, and increase the accessibility and availability of substance
abuse treatment and related HIV/AIDS services (including STDs, TB and
hepatitis B and C) to African American, Hispanic/Latino, and other
racial/ethnic minority substance abusers. This announcement solicits
applications for innovative targeted responses to the epidemic of
substance abuse and related HIV/AIDS.
SAMHSA CSAT is soliciting applications from organizations
that have the capacity to provide substance abuse treatment services to
African American, Hispanic/Latino, and other racial/ethnic minority
communities. While many organizations have been successful over the
years in securing linkages with providers of primary health care,
mental health, and HIV/AIDS services, these efforts have typically not
provided specific mechanisms to include the participation of indigenous
members of the affected community, and those community based
organizations with experience in serving these communities have not
been a critical component of the linkage strategy. SAMHSA CSAT is most
interested in applications that demonstrate a comprehensive,
integrated, creative and community-based response to a targeted, well
documented substance abuse and HIV/AIDS treatment need/problem. SAMHSA/
CSAT believes that the accomplishment of this goal requires that
applications be submitted by organizations that (1) have strong ties to
the grassroots/community-based organizations that are deeply rooted in
the culture of the targeted community, and (2) have demonstrated
experience in providing culturally appropriate services to the targeted
communities in the targeted area(s).
Priorities: None.
Eligible Applicants: Applications may be submitted by
public and domestic private non-profit and for-profit entities, such as
units of State or local government and grassroots and/or community-
based organizations that have the capacity to provide substance abuse
treatment services to African American, Hispanic/Latino, and other
racial/ethnic minority communities. Targeted communities must be
located in a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) with an annual AIDS
case rate of 20/100,000 or in a State with an annual AIDS case rate of
or greater than 10/100,000. SAMHSA CSAT's intention is to target areas
at highest risk for HIV transmission. In the absence of consistent
reporting of HIV data by all jurisdictions, the best indicator of the
magnitude of the epidemic is AIDS case rates derived from Center for
Disease Control and Prevention HIV/AIDS Surveillance Reports.
In addition to the basic requirements for eligibility,
applicants must provide evidence of providing substance abuse treatment
services for a minimum of two years prior to the application. SAMHSA
CSAT believes that only existing providers have the infrastructure and
expertise to address emerging and unmet needs as quickly as possible.
Grants/Amounts: Approximately $16 million will be
available to support awards under this announcement in FY 1999. Awards
are expected to range from $100,000 to $600,000 (direct and indirect
costs) for projects directed to the following substance abusing
populations in African American, Hispanic/Latino, and other racial/
ethnic minority communities: women and their children (about $10
million); adolescents (about $3 million); and men who inject drugs and
men who have sex with men and inject drugs(MSM) (about $3 million).
Support may be requested for a period of up to three (3) years.
Catalog Domestic Federal Assistance: 93.230
Program Contact: For programmatic or technical assistance
(not for application kits) contact: Clifton Mitchell, Chief, Treatment
and Systems Improvement Branch, Division of Practice and Systems
Development, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, SAMHSA, Rockwall II,
6th Floor, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857, (301) 443-
8804.
For grants management assistance, contact: Andrea L. Brandon,
Division of Grants Management, OPS, Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration, Rockwall II, 6th Floor, 5600 Fishers Lane,
Rockville, Maryland 20857, (301) 443-9667.
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Application kits are available from: National
Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information, P.O. Box 2345,
Rockville, Maryland 30847-2345, 1-800-729-6686.
3.3. Community-Based Substance Abuse and HIV/AIDS Outreach Program
(Short Title: HIV/AIDS Outreach Program, GFA No. TI-99-005)
Application Deadline: May 18, 1999.
Purpose: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration's (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT),
announces the availability of funds for grants to support community-
based HIV/AIDS outreach programs in African American, Hispanic/Latino,
and other racial/ethnic minority communities with high rates of
substance abuse and AIDS. This program, hereinafter referred to as the
``HIV/AIDS Outreach Program'', is designed to develop community-based
outreach projects to provide HIV counseling and testing services,
health education and risk reduction information, access and referrals
to sexually transmitted disease (STD) and Tuberculosis (TB) testing,
substance abuse treatment, primary care, mental health and medical
services for those who are HIV positive or have AIDS.
The purpose of this announcement is to promote behavioral
transition and change among injecting drug users (IDUs) and other drug
users with respect to risk exposures to HIV infection, STDs, TB and
hepatitis, and to increase the number of substance abusers entering
treatment among African American, Hispanic/Latino, and other racial/
ethnic minority populations in high AIDS case rate areas.
All applicants are expected to develop outreach program strategies
that can effectively target women who are IDUs, the sexual partners of
IDUs, sex workers or women who exchange sex for drugs, men who are IDUs
and their needle sharing partners, men who have sex with men (MSM) and
MSM who inject drugs, and adolescents. Projects are expected to
formulate an overall outreach strategy that specifies the proposed
interventions and how they will affect behavior change in the targeted
population(s). Projects are expected to accomplish this by: (1)
providing community-based outreach services to encourage entry and
facilitate access to substance abuse treatment; (2) offering HIV/AIDS
risk reduction education interventions; (3) making available medical
diagnostic testing and screening for HIV, STDs, (e.g., syphilis,
gonorrhea, chlamydia), and TB; and (4) providing linkages and follow-up
primary medical care, mental health, and social services, as well as
other prophylactic means to affect those behavior changes most likely
to decrease the risk of acquiring or transmitting HIV, STDs, TB,
hepatitis B and C and related diseases.
Priority: None.
Eligible Applicants: Applicants may be public and domestic
private non-profit and for-profit entities, such as units of State or
local government and community-based organizations. Eligible
organizations must have two years of experience in providing outreach
services to out-of-treatment substance abusers, and be located in
Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) with annual AIDS case rates that
are greater than 20 per 100,000 or in States with annual AIDS case
rates greater than 10 per 100,000 population. While SAMHSA/CSAT
acknowledges that outreach services provide a vital adjunctive resource
to treatment irrespective of the locality, SAMHSA's intention in this
announcement is to target areas deemed to be at highest risk for HIV
transmission. In the absence of consistent reporting of HIV
seroprevalence data by all jurisdictions, the best indicators of the
magnitude of the epidemic are AIDS case rates derived from the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) HIV Surveillance Reports. In
addition, SAMHSA/CSAT believes that only existing providers have the
infrastructure and the expertise to address unmet outreach needs as
quickly as possible.
SAMHSA/CSAT encourages applications from substance abuse
treatment programs, AIDS-specific organizations, community-based
organizations, community health centers, STD clinics, or other entities
(e.g., central intake and referral agencies, TASC agencies) that have a
good record of reaching and serving hardcore, chronic drug users and
their-sex/needle-sharing partner(s) and facilitating their entry into
substance abuse treatment.
Grants/Amounts: Approximately $7.0 million will be
available in FY 1999 to support 20-25 awards under this announcement.
The average award is expected to range from $300,000 to $400,000 in
total costs (direct + indirect). Federal funds awarded under this
announcement may not be used to carry out syringe exchange programs,
such as the purchase and distribution of syringes and/or needles; nor
pay for pharmacologics for antiretroviral therapy, STDs, TB and
hepatitis B and C. Support may be requested for a period of up to three
(3) years.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance: 93.230
For programmatic or technical assistance (not for
application kits) contact: David C. Thompson, Clinical Interventions
and Organizational Model Branch, Division of Practice and Systems
Development, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, SAMHSA, Rockwall II,
6th Floor, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857, (301) 443-
6523, E-Mail: [email protected]
For grants management issues, contact: Andrea L. Brandon, Division
of Grants Management, OPS, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration, Rockwall II, 6th Floor, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville,
Maryland 20857, (301) 443-9667.
For application kits, contact: National Clearinghouse for
Alcohol and Drug Information, P.O. Box 2345, Rockville, MD 20847-2345,
1-800-729-6686.
3.4. SAMHSA/CSAT FY 1999 Programs for Substance Abuse Treatment and/or
HIV/AIDS Services
SAMHSA/CSAT has three FY 1999 programs under which funding is
available for substance abuse treatment and/or HIV/AIDS services. The
three programs are: TI 99-002--Grants to Expand Substance Abuse
Treatment Capacity in Targeted Areas of Need; TI 99-004--Targeted
Capacity Expansion Program for Substance Abuse Treatment and HIV/AIDS
Services; and TI 99-005--Community Based Substance Abuse and HIV/AIDS
Outreach Program. The eligibility requirements vary for each program;
therefore, potential applicants must refer to the specific announcement
to determine if they are eligible to apply.
3.5. SAMHSA Technical Assistance Workshop
SAMHSA is sponsoring three technical assistance workshops for
potential applicants. The workshops will be held at the following
locations: March 11, 1999--Washington, DC; March 17, 1999--Chicago, IL;
and March 19--Los Angeles, CA. For more information, please call Ms.
Lisa Wilder, Workshop Coordinator, at 301-984-1471, extension 333.
4. 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
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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 1999
activity described above is/is not subject to the Public Health System
Reporting Requirements.
5. 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.
6. Executive Order 12372
Applications submitted in response to all FY 1999 activities 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: Office of
Extramural Activities 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: March 4, 1999.
Nelba Chavez,
Administrator, SAMHSA.
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