Cooperative Agreements to Benefit Homeless Individuals
Type
Services
Source
Federal
Procurement Agency
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
AKA/Previously Known As
This program was funded through the Grants to Benefit Homeless Individuals account in the HHS/SAMHSA budget.
Total Annual Award
$6,584,450 in 2011.
Eligible Populations
Chronically homeless adults with substance abuse and/or mental health problems.
Eligible Projects
Nonprofits and/or local governments may apply, but the strongest applications will likely be collaborations between both. The program is designed to develop and expand integrated treatment and services for substance abuse and mental health with permanent affordable housing, creating new supportive housing as a result. The grant is intended as a bridge or incentive to use mainstream resources like Medicaid and/or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Supplemental Security Income to fund services in supportive housing.
Funding Award Details
Up to 14 awards nationally.
Rate Details
Grants range up to $500,000 annually for a three year term.
Term of Service/Length of Grant
Up to three years.
Limitations
Grants may be hard to renew or replace. They come with an expectation that they will be supplanted by mainstream resources (e.g. Medicaid).
Network Notes
This is, potentially, a growing funding stream that should take on increased significance with the advent of health care reform and the implementation of the Helping Families Save Their Homes, the newly reauthorized Homeless Emergency and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act.
This is a new use of Grants to Benefits Homeless Individuals funding.
For More Information
See SAMHSA's RFP page.
Contact
For questions about program issues contact:
Tison Thomas M.S.W.
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
1 Choke Cherry Road Room 5 -1058
Rockville, MD 20857
(240) 276 2896
tison.thomas@samhsa.hhs.gov
For questions on grants management and budget issues contact:
Love Foster-Horton
Office of Financial Resources
Division of Grants Management
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
1 Choke Cherry Road Room 7-1095
Rockville, Maryland 20857
(240) 276-1653
love.foster-horton@samhsa.hhs.gov
Last updated: 09/16/2011
Did you know…
New York City nonprofits invented supportive housing in the early 1980s.