Fiscal Year (FY) 1999 Funding Opportunities

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 Prevention (CSAP) announces the

availability of FY 1999 funds for the following activity. This activity

is discussed in more detail under Section 3 of this notice. This notice

is not a

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complete description of the activity; potential applicants must obtain

a copy of the Guidance for Applicants (GFA) before preparing an

application.

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Estimated

Activity Application Estimated funds available number of Project period

deadline awards

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Targeted SA & HIV/AIDS 6/17/99 $13.5 million............... 50 Up to 3 yrs.

Prevention.

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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 the activity

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 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 the 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 deadline for receipt of applications is

listed in the table above.

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 the 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 the activity covered by this notice (see Section 3).

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 SAMHSA Activities

3.1 Targeted Capacity Expansion Cooperative Agreements for

Substance Abuse and HIV/AIDS Prevention (Short Title: Targeted SA &

HIV/AIDS Prevention, GFA No. SP 99-03)

3.2 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,

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including the development of national mental health and substance abuse

goals and model programs, competing applications requesting funding

under the specific project activity 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;

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. Targeted Capacity Expansion Cooperative Agreements for Substance

Abuse and HIV/AIDS Prevention (Short Title: Targeted SA & HIV/AIDS

Prevention, GFA No. SP 99-03)

Application Deadline: June 17, 1999.

Purpose: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services

Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Prevention

announces the availability of targeted capacity expansion cooperative

agreements to increase community capacity to provide integrated

substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention services targeted to African

American, Hispanic/Latino, and other racial/ethnic minority youth (note

that based on congressional report language a portion of the funds for

this purpose will be reserved exclusively for African American youth);

and African American, Hispanic/Latino, and other racial/ethnic minority

women and their children. A Program Coordinating Center to support the

efforts of the selected sites will also be funded. The program has

three specific purposes: 1) Increase capacity of communities to meet

the needs related to the prevention of substance abuse and HIV/AIDS; 2)

Assist community-driven services to document and assess effectiveness

and efficiency of the interventions implemented; and 3) Facilitate the

dissemination of results from these target population appropriate

intervention to improve provider practice. This strategy to increase

service capacity in communities, to adapt and adopt target population

specific interventions, and to disseminate results may ultimately

reduce the incidence and prevalence of both HIV/AIDS disease and

substance abuse. To promote appropriate services, the interventions

designed, implemented, and evaluated through this cooperative agreement

program must be tailored to the age, gender, culture, language, level

of acculturation, literacy, and sexual orientation of the target

populations. The cooperative agreement mechanism is being used because

the complexity of the program requires substantive involvement of

Federal staff to monitor the implementation of the interventions and a

Program Coordinating Center to manage the cross-site evaluation data

collection and analysis of results.

Priorities: None.

Eligible Applicants: Applications may be submitted by

public and domestic private nonprofit and for-profit entities, such as

units of State or local government, community-based organizations,

faith communities, local and national coalitions and civic groups, and

public or private schools, universities, colleges, and hospitals.

Eligible applicants are limited to the following types of

organizations serving at risk African American, Hispanic/Latino, and

other racial/ethnic minority youth; and/or African American, Hispanic/

Latino, and other racial/ethnic minority women, and women and their

children:

(1) Organizations which are currently providing substance abuse

prevention services that plan to expand services to include HIV/AIDS

prevention; or

(2) Organizations which are currently providing HIV/AIDS prevention

services that plan to expand their services to substance abuse

prevention; or

(3) Organizations which are currently providing integrated

substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention services that plan to increase

their program capacity and/or to validate the effectiveness of their

integrated prevention intervention(s).

Cooperative Agreement/Amounts: It is estimated that $13.5

million will be available to support approximately 50 awards under this

GFA in FY 1999. The average award is expected to be $250,000 in total

costs (direct+indirect). The Program Coordinating Center award is

expected to be between $750,000 and $1,000,000 in total costs (direct +

indirect).

Funding for this program is expected to be allocated in three

components as follows:

--Projects targeted to African American youth: $6,000,000

(Approximately 24 awards)

--Projects targeted to African American, Hispanic/Latino, and other

racial/ethnic minority youth: $2,000,000

(Approximately 8 awards)

--Projects targeted to African American, Hispanic/Latina, and other

racial/ethnic minority women and their children: $4,500,000

(Approximately 18 awards)

Support may be requested for a period of up to three years. Annual

awards will be made subject to continued availability of funds and

progress achieved.

Catalog Domestic Federal Assistance: 93.230.

Program Contact: For programmatic or technical assistance

(not for application kits) contact: Lucy Perez, M.D, Director, or

Martha Bond, Public Health Advisor, Office of Medical and Clinical

Affairs, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Substance Abuse and

Mental Health Services Administration, Rockwall II, Suite 900, 5600

Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, (301) 443-3652.

For grants management assistance, contact: Peggy Jones, Division of

Grants Management, OPS, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services

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

Maryland 20857, (301) 443-3958.

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 SAMHSA Technical Assistance Workshop

SAMHSA is sponsoring three technical assistance workshops for

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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 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.

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 5, 1999.

Richard Kopanda,

Executive Officer, SAMHSA.

[FR Doc. 99-5906 Filed 3-9-99; 8:45 am]

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