Headlines: February 22, 2024
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Application Due Date: Friday, April 12, 2024
The purpose of this program is to implement the screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment public health model for children, adolescents, and/or adults in primary care and community health settings (e.g., health centers, hospital systems, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), preferred-provider organizations (PPOs) health plans, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC), behavioral health centers, pediatric health care providers, children’s hospitals, etc.) and schools with a focus on screening for underage drinking, opioid use, and other substance use.
Anticipated Total Available Funding: $9,950,000
Anticipated Number of Awards: 10
For other funding announcements, see Funding.
Series starts Thursday, February 22, 2024 2 p.m. ET
Behavioral health community-based organizations (CBOs) are invited to join the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Office of Behavioral Health Equity (OBHE) for Data Storytelling: How CBOs Can Share Their Impact. Building on previous Elevate CBOs webinars, this four-part series will focus on providing the context and tools necessary for organizations to convey their impact and move their work to the next level through data storytelling. Though registrants can choose which sessions to attend, we highly recommend you attend all sessions. After each session, attendees will be given registration information to attend first come, first served post-workshop Q&A hours.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), announced four awards totaling $5.1 million for Family Counseling and Support for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex+ Youth and their Families.
These grants are in addition to $1.7M in grant funding that was previously awarded in 2023 to four other recipients. All eight awardees will be engaging LGBTQI+ youth and their families to prevent risk of health conditions, including behavioral health conditions (e.g., suicidality, depression, homelessness, drug use, HIV) and promote well-being for LGBTQI+ youth by establishing family counseling and support programs and training providers on family counseling and support interventions tailored for LGBTQI+ families.
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Application Due Date: Monday, April 8, 2024
The purpose of this program is to provide trauma-informed, evidence-based interventions to youth and young adults (up to 25 years of age) who are at clinical high risk for psychosis. Recipients will be expected to use evidence-based interventions to: (1) improve symptomatic and behavioral functioning; (2) enable youth and young adults to resume age-appropriate social, academic, and/or vocational activities; (3) delay or prevent the onset of psychosis; and (4) minimize the duration of untreated psychosis for those who develop psychotic symptoms.
Anticipated Total Available Funding: $5,000,000
Anticipated Number of Awards: 8
Application Due Date: Monday, April 8, 2024
The purpose of this program is to strengthen the capacity of statewide mental health peer-led organizations to partner with state efforts to improve mental health support system and related services for individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) or serious emotional disturbance (SED) as agents of transformation.
Anticipated Total Available Funding: $1,143,099
Anticipated Number of Awards: 9
Application Due Date: Monday, April 8, 2024
The purpose of this program is to provide resources to enhance the capacity of statewide mental health family-controlled organizations to engage with family members/primary caregivers who are raising children, youth, and young adults with serious emotional disturbance (SED) and/or co-occurring disorders (COD).
Anticipated Total Available Funding: $1,116,777
Anticipated Number of Awards: 9
Application Due Date: Monday, April 15, 2024
The purpose of this program is to expand and ensure that graduate-level healthcare students receive substance use disorder (SUD) education early in their academic careers and prepare them to identify and treat SUD in mainstream healthcare upon graduation. Students will gain a basic knowledge of strategies to identify, assess, intervene, and treat addiction, as well as support recovery and address SUD stigma. In addition, this program supports the integration of SUD content into the curricula of the respective academic institution.
Anticipated Total Available Funding: $5,400,000
Anticipated Number of Awards: 18
Application Due Date: Monday, April 15, 2024
The purpose of this program is to provide resources to support first responders and members of other key community sectors on training, administering, and distributing naloxone and other Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved overdose reversal medications or devices. Recipients will be expected to establish processes, protocols, and mechanisms for warm hand-off referrals to appropriate treatment, recovery, harm reduction, and other psychosocial resource support services. Recipients will also provide safety education around fentanyl, synthetic opioids, and other drug trends associated with overdoses.
Anticipated Total Available Funding: $6,200,000
Anticipated Number of Awards: 15
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Training and events are available for practitioners through SAMHSA's Training and Technical Assistance Centers. Some of these are highlighted below. Visit SAMHSA’s Practitioner Training webpage for a more complete listing.
SAMHSA Headlines offers you a biweekly update of selected upcoming trainings and webinars. However, for a broader range of activities, visit this website, as well as the training sections of individual technical assistance center websites.
Selected events are highlighted below. Note that some of them require advance registration.
Note: If you are unable to access an event or webinar or have questions, please contact the source given at the individual event URL.
Friday, February 23, 2024 12 p.m. ET
People with Serious Mental Illness are disproportionately arrested and detained in carceral settings and face civil and criminal legal processes that can impact care. Clinicians, family members, and others supporting their recovery often have limited knowledge and experience navigating complicated clinical and legal worlds in a way that leads to productive outcomes that do not compromise public and personal interests. This webinar will review some of the common areas of intersecting issues – arrest decisions, what bail and detention laws mean, how courts may process cases, what diversion may include and what this might all mean for individuals with SMI.
Monday, February 26, 2024 11:30 a.m. ET
This training will provide knowledge regarding Xylazine, a CNS depressant, which has been linked to an increasing number of overdose deaths in the U.S. This training will discuss the physiologic effects of Xylazine, manifestations of Xylazine intoxication, overdose, communicable infections associated with Xylazine use, and wound care for persons injecting Xylazine.
Tuesday, February 27, 2024 1 p.m. ET
This training will explore the development of disparities in the U.S. and their impacts on marginalized and racialized communities. Utilizing a social justice framework, the participants will learn about building health equity, cultural humility, and community engagement. This training will center on the Enhanced CLAS Standards, Cultural Self-Assessments and other tools designed to improve services and eliminate health disparities.
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 2 p.m. ET
This webinar will discuss the ways in which health centers and other community-based organizations can expand harm reduction services by offering syringe access to participants through direct service delivery and partnership. Participants will hear from the Cherokee Nation Harm Reduction Program in Oklahoma and Migrant Health Center, Inc. in Puerto Rico, who will discuss programmatic development and implementation across a variety of strategies and settings. Participants will also have the opportunity to hear directly from consumers of syringe access programs to improve attendees' understanding of the impact of these life-saving services.
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 2 p.m. ET
This workshop will provide participants with an overview of eating disorders (ED), including eating disorder definitions, medical complications associated with ED, eating disorder statistics and prevalence, athletes and eating disorders, causes according to the biopsychosocial model, signs/symptoms/red flags that school workers need to be aware of, communicating with students and their families about a suspected ED, and an overview of treatment that works (Family Based Treatment). The workshop will also emphasize the schools’ involvement in ED treatment and crucial points to keep in mind when developing education plans for students in ED treatment.
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 3 p.m. ET
Millions of teens experience teen dating violence in person, online or through technology and it significantly impacts their physical and psychological well-being. The Office on Violence Against Women (DOJ), the Office of Family Violence Prevention and Services (HHS), and the Center for Mental Health Services (SAMHSA) invite participants to attend this virtual roundtable to learn about: 1) the use of technology within teen dating and related impacts on behavioral health, 2) the most urgent challenges presented by technology-facilitated abuse of teens, with a focus on non-consensual image-sharing, and 3) promising practices to address these challenges at the community level.
Thursday, February 29, 2024 12 p.m. ET
This activity is developed to meet the needs of physicians and interprofessional healthcare providers. Discussion is designed to promote interactivity through an informal “round table” conversation. Attendees will be given the opportunity to speak directly with the presenter to ask questions and discuss issues.
Thursday, February 29, 2024 12 p.m. ET
This training is designed to provide healthcare teams with information on all the available FDA-approved monthly/weekly injectable buprenorphine formulations used to treat opioid use disorder, as well as how to incorporate them into clinical practice. Topics include the pharmacology and side effects of injectable buprenorphine formulations, storage, administration and patient selection processes, dosage, initiation and maintenance for patients using weekly and monthly injectable doses, and the workflows and administrative tasks involved in implementing injectable buprenorphine in healthcare settings.
Thursday, February 29, 2024, at 3:30 p.m. ET
Tuesday, March 5, 2024, at 3 p.m. ET
SAMHSA is committed to reducing burden related to grant performance data collection and reporting. To achieve this goal, SAMHSA is working to significantly redesign client-level performance management tools currently in use. SAMHSA specifically plans to develop a single, brief, client-level tool for use in all client-level grant programs. SAMHSA is also committed to incorporating partner input as much as possible and recognizes that some changes might take longer to implement.
SAMHSA therefore seeks to hear from Tribes, Tribal organizations, and evaluators to better understand areas for burden reduction while ensuring equity and accuracy in the final tool.
Respondents may also submit written comments or questions to the SAMHSA Office of Tribal Affairs and Policy (OTAP) email mailbox through March 15, 2024 at otap@samhsa.hhs.gov.
Tuesday, March 5, 2024 1 p.m. ET
This didactic lecture will review the conceptual basis and empiric evidence linking firearm access to suicide risk and provide clinicians with basic knowledge, language, and strategies to facilitate secure firearm storage solutions among patients identified as having elevated suicide risk.
Tuesday, March 5, 2024 1 p.m. ET
With the expansion of gaming and gambling activities in communities and online, how will it impact youth and young adults? Discuss youth gaming, gambling, and the warning signs of problems with these activities. An overview of strategies to prevent youth problem gaming and gambling behaviors that have been adapted from alcohol and substance misuse prevention will be presented. Hear a story of recovery and learn of resources for help.
Thursday, March 7, 2024 12 p.m. ET
Transgender people face significant stigma, resulting in mental health disparities. The goal of this webinar is to help mental health providers/trainees better understand stigma toward the transgender community and how it impacts mental health. There will be a special focus on intersectional transgender stigma and evidence-based practices to reduce such stigma (among the general public and in clinical settings). Direct instruction and videos will be used to support this webinar, and tools and resources will be shared with participants during the event.
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By: Walker Tisdale III, M.P.H., M.A., LMSW and Jennifer Early, Fellow, Office of Behavioral Health Equity
Racial and ethnic health inequities remain pervasive across most state health systems. For most states where data is available, when compared to their Non-Hispanic White counterparts, Black and American Indian/Alaskan Native people are more at risk to die early from treatable and preventable conditions; suffer serious pregnancy-related complications or death; die from heart disease or cancer; and are at greater risk for the onset of diabetes. The evidence is clear that there are deeply rooted inequities in health care across and within states. These inequities should generate a call for health equity action.
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Disaster behavioral health (DBH) planning is both essential and complicated. In a field as fast-paced and demanding as DBH, it can be difficult to keep up with constantly evolving needs and challenges. An effective DBH plan is rarely a one-size-fits-all solution, especially as new circumstances, such as the prevalence of climate change-related disasters and media coverage of disasters, have the potential to exacerbate disasters and their effects on impacted communities. This issue of The Dialogue from the SAMHSA Disaster Technical Assistance Center (DTAC) explores DBH planning challenges and highlights from professionals across the nation.
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