Fiscal Year (FY) 1995 Funding Opportunities for Grants and Cooperative Agreements From the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Fiscal Year (FY) 1995 Funding Opportunities for Grants and

Cooperative Agreements From the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

AGENCY: Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and

Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), HHS.

ACTION: Notice of Funding Availability.

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SUMMARY: The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), SAMHSA,

announces that FY 1995 funds are available for cooperative agreements

for the following activity. This activity is discussed in more detail

under Section 4 of this notice.

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Estimated

Application funds Estimated

Activity deadline available No. of Project Period

(thousands) awards

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Criminal Justice Treatment Networks................ 05-10-95 $9,290 8-10 up to 5 yrs.

Refer to Federal Register, Vol. 60, No.2, January 4, 1995 for the following other FY 1995 CSAT funding

opportunities.

Substance Abuse Conference Grants.................. 01-10-95 $400 8 1 year.

05-10-95

09-10-95

Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Outreach Services........... 04-27-95 7,500 20-25 2-3 years.

Residential Women and Children..................... 03-21-95 10,000 10-14 up to 5 years

Pregnant/Post Partum Women......................... 03-21-95 4,000 5-6 up to 5 years

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The actual amount available for awards and their allocation may

vary, depending on unanticipated program requirements and the volume

and quality of applications. FY 1995 funds for substance abuse

treatment services and demonstration programs are appropriated by the

Congress under Public Law 103-333. 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 priority areas. The

Center's treatment improvement services and demonstration activities

address issues related to Healthy People 2000 objectives: promoting the

physical, social, psychological and economic well-being of individuals

recovering from alcohol and other drug dependencies; promoting outreach

to drug abusers, IV drug users using uncontaminated paraphernalia,

testing for HIV infection; increasing access to treatment programs;

promoting the collaboration of primary care, mental health and

substance abuse treatment and fostering closer coordination between the

criminal justice and public health systems to collaboratively address

issues related to alcohol and other drug-related crime and violence;

managing health care for community-based offender populations and

designing cost-effective programming that is responsive to today's

health care issues. 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-

783-3238).

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS: Applicants for grants must use application form

PHS 5161-1 (Rev. 7/92). The Application Kit contains the PHS 5161-1,

Standard Form 424 (Face Page) and complete instructions for preparing

and submitting applications. The Kit may be obtained from: National

Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information, P.O. Box 2345,

Rockville, MD 20847-2345, 1-800-729-6686.

When requesting an Application Kit, the applicant must specify the

particular activity(ies) 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.

APPLICATION SUBMISSION: Applications must be submitted to: Center for

Substance Abuse Treatment Programs, Division of Research Grants, NIH,

Westwood Building, Room 240, 5333 Westbard Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland

20892* ________________

(*If an overnight carrier or express mail is used, the Zip Code is

20816.)

APPLICATION DEADLINES: The deadlines for receipt of applications are

listed in the table above. Please note that the deadlines differ for

the individual categories of grants/cooperative agreements.

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. If the receipt date falls on a

weekend, it will be extended to Monday; if the date falls on a national

holiday, it will be extended to the following work day.

Applications received after the receipt date(s) or 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 contact person

identified for each activity covered by this notice (see Section 4).

Requests for information concerning grants management issues should

be directed to: Ms. Mabel Lam, Grants Management Office, Center for

Substance Abuse Treatment, Rockwall II Building, 6th Floor, 5600

Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857, 1-301-443-9665.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is organized according to the

following Table of Contents:

Table of Contents

1. Program Background and Objectives.

2. Special Concerns.

3. Criteria for Review and Funding.

3.1 General Review Criteria

3.2 Funding Criteria for Approved Applications

4. Special FY 1995 Substance Abuse Treatment Activity

4.1 Cooperative Agreements

4.1.1 Demonstration Cooperative Agreements for the Development

and Implementation of Criminal Justice Treatment Networks

--Adult Female Offenders

--Juvenile Justice Populations

--Adult Male Offenders

The following items are covered in this section:

Application Deadline

Purpose

Priorities

Eligible Applicants

Grant/Cooperative Agreements Amounts

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number

Program Contact

5. Public Health System Reporting Requirements.

6. PHS Non-use of Tobacco Policy Statement.

7. Executive Order 12372.

1. Program Background

SAMHSA's CSAT has been given a statutory mandate to expand the

availability of effective treatment and recovery services for alcohol

and other drug problems in the United States. CSAT utilizes a variety

of grant, cooperative agreement, training, and technical assistance

efforts to accomplish this mission through [[Page 5690]] expanding

human resources, improving the capabilities of the State and sub-State

management infrastructure, and developing and promoting cost-effective

approaches for treatment and recovery services. The Center supports

demonstration programs to generate new knowledge that can be applied to

the substance abuse treatment field.

CSAT seeks to expand the availability and improve the quality of

services aimed at addressing the special needs of populations that are

especially vulnerable to addictive disorders, as well as to expand the

volume of effective treatment and recovery services in targeted

geographic areas where the demand for services far exceeds the existing

capacity. The Center also works to upgrade the quality and

effectiveness of treatment and recovery services through improved

coordination among treatment providers, recovery programs, primary

health care entities, mental health care providers, human service

agencies, housing authorities, educational and vocational services, the

criminal justice system, and a variety of related services. Further,

CSAT seeks to upgrade the financial and physical condition of publicly

funded addiction treatment and recovery programs.

2. Special Concerns

SAMHSA's CSAT will address a number of special concerns in FY 1995.

Particular emphasis will be placed on comprehensive approaches to

treatment, and coordination with other Federal and non-Federal

programs. Special emphasis will be given to providing assistance for

racial and ethnic minority populations; adolescents; residents of

public housing and the homeless; women, their infants and children;

rural populations; migrant workers; substance abusers involved in the

criminal justice system; the disabled; those at risk for HIV/AIDS,

tuberculosis (TB), sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and other

infectious diseases; and those with co-occurring mental disorders.

3. Criteria for Review and Funding

Competing applications requesting funding under the specific

project activity in Section 4 will be reviewed for technical merit in

accordance with established PHS/SAMHSA peer review procedures.

Applications that are accepted for review will be assigned to an

Initial Review Group (IRG) composed primarily of non-Federal experts.

Applications will be recommended for approval or disapproval on the

basis of technical merit. Applications recommended for approval will be

assigned scores according to level of merit.

Notification of the IRG's recommendation will be sent to the

applicant upon completion of the initial review. In addition, the IRG

recommendations on technical merit of applications over $50,000 will

undergo a second level of review by the CSAT National Advisory Council,

whose review may be based on policy considerations, as well as

technical merit.

3.1 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;

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.

3.2 Funding Criteria for Approved Applications

Applications recommended for approval by the peer review group and

the CSAT National Advisory Council will be considered for funding on

the basis of their overall technical merit as determined through the

review process.

Other funding criteria will include:

Availability of funds, and

Geographic distribution.

Additional funding criteria specific to the programmatic activity

may be included in the application guidance materials.

4. Special FY 1995 Substance Abuse Treatment Activity

4.1 Cooperative Agreements

A major CSAT cooperative agreement activity is discussed below.

Substantive Federal programmatic involvement is required in cooperative

agreement programs. Federal involvement will include planning,

guidance, coordination, and participating in programmatic activities

(e.g., participation in publication of findings) and on steering

committees. Periodic meetings, conferences and/or communications with

the award recipients may be held to review mutually agreed upon goals

and objectives and to assess progress. Additional details on the degree

of Federal programmatic involvement will be included in the application

guidance materials.

4.1.1 Demonstration Cooperative Agreements for the Development and

Implementation of Criminal Justice-Treatment Networks

--Adult Female Offenders

--Juvenile Justice Populations

--Adult Male Offenders

Application Deadline: May 10, 1995

Purpose: To assist States and local jurisdictions in the

development and implementation of Criminal Justice-Treatment Networks.

Such Networks link together a range of justice agencies--courts,

juvenile justice, corrections, probation/parole--in partnership with

community substance abuse treatment, public health, mental health,

education, social services and employment agencies. This program will

explore whether such a criminal justice treatment consortium makes

measurable improvements in systems and client outcomes, as compared to

client outcomes for those receiving episodic treatment not connected to

a continuum of care.

Priorities: Focus on the following three specific offender

population categories:

--Adult Female Offenders

--Juvenile Justice Populations

--Adult Male Offenders

Eligible Applicants: Local partnerships of public and

private non-profit treatment providers and State/local criminal justice

agencies, headed by a Lead Agency representing the courts or community

supervision agency responsible for non-incarcerated offenders (i.e.,

probation/parole/juvenile supervision) must submit applications through

the Single State Agency for Alcohol and Drug Abuse. In most cases, the

proposed local network would be a court-based consortium, or

corrections (non-incarcerated)-based consortium, or a combination of

the two. In keeping with the intent of Congress in authorizing Center

grants for substance abuse treatment in State and local criminal

justice systems, this program is restricted to public and nonprofit

entities.

Funding is restricted to metropolitan areas with populations

between 200,000 to one (1) million.

Cooperative Agreement Amounts: 8-10 Demonstration

Projects, with [[Page 5691]] individual awards ranging from $800,000-$1

million.

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 93.229

Program Contact: Nicholas L. Demos, J.D., Chief, Criminal

Justice Systems Branch, Division of National Treatment Demonstrations,

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Rockwall II Building, 6th Floor,

5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, (301) 443-6533.

5. 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 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. The 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 are not subject to the Public Health

System Reporting Requirements.

Application guidance materials will specify if the particular FY

1995 activity described above is not subject to the Public Health

System Reporting Requirements.

6. PHS Non-use of Tobacco Policy Statement

The PHS strongly encourages all grant and cooperative agreement

recipients to provide a smoke-free workplace and promote the non-use of

all tobacco products. This is consistent with the PHS mission to

protect and advance the physical and mental health of the American

people.

Specific application guidance materials may include more detailed

guidance as to how the Center will implement SAMHSA's policy on

promoting the non-use of tobacco.

7. Executive Order 12372

Applications submitted in response to the FY 1995 activity 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 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 Review, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services

Administration, Rockwall II Building, Suite 630, 5600 Fishers Lane,

Rockville, MD 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. The CSAT does not guarantee to accommodate or explain

SPOC comments that are received after the 60-day cut-off.

Dated: January 25, 1995.

Richard Kopanda,

Acting Executive Officer, SAMHSA.

[FR Doc. 95-2332 Filed 1-27-95; 8:45 am]

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