SAMHSA – Enhancing Trauma Treatment for Children and Adolescents Grant

State and local governments
Federally recognized American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) Tribes and tribal organizations
Urban Indian organizations
Public or private universities and colleges
Community- and faith-based organizations
Tribal organization means the recognized body of any AI/AN Tribe; any legally established organization of American Indians/Alaska Natives which is controlled, sanctioned, or chartered by such governing body or which is democratically elected by the adult members of the Indian community to be served by such organization and which includes the maximum participation of American Indians/Alaska Natives in all phases of its activities. Consortia of Tribes or tribal organizations are eligible to apply, but each participating entity must indicate its approval.

Applicants may also apply for the NCTSI Treatment and Services and Adaptation Centers (TSA) and Community Treatment and Services Centers (CTS) cooperative agreements. If approved for funding in more than one National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative program, an award may be made in only one of the programs.

The statutory authority for this program prohibits grants to for-profit agencies.

Cost sharing/match are not required in this program.

You must comply with the following three requirements, or your application will be screened out and will not be reviewed:

Use of the SF-424 Application form; Budget Information form SF-424A; Project/Performance Site Location(s) form; Disclosure of Lobbying Activities, if applicable; and Checklist
Application submission requirements in Section IV-3 of the RFA
Formatting requirements provided in Appendix A of the RFA

The initiative is designed to address child trauma issues by supporting a national network of grantees—the National Child Traumatic Stress Network—that work collaboratively to develop and disseminate effective community practices for children and adolescents exposed to a wide array of traumatic events.

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) is composed of three types of centers:

The National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (Category I) develops and maintains the collaborative network structure, supports resource development and dissemination, and coordinates the Network’s national child trauma education and training efforts.
The Treatment and Service Adaptation (TSA) Centers – (Category II) provide national expertise and assume responsibility in the Network for specific areas of trauma, such as specific types of traumatic events, population groups, and service systems; and support the development and adaptation of effective trauma treatments and services for children, adolescents and their families that can be implemented throughout the nation.
The Community Treatment and Services (CTS) Centers – (Category III) are primarily service programs that implement and evaluate effective treatment and services in community settings and youth serving service systems and collaborate with other NCTSN centers on clinical issues, service approaches, policy, financing, and training issues.
SAMHSA has demonstrated that behavioral health is essential to health, prevention works, treatment is effective, and people recover from mental and substance use disorders. Behavioral health services improve health status and reduce health care and other costs to society. Continued improvement in the delivery and financing of prevention, treatment and recovery support services provides a cost effective opportunity to advance and protect the Nation’s health. To continue to improve the delivery and financing of prevention, treatment and recovery support services, SAMHSA has identified eight Strategic Initiatives to focus the Agency’s work on improving lives and capitalizing on emerging opportunities. The NCTSI is part of SAMHSA’s effort to achieve the goals of the Trauma and Justice Strategic Initiative by developing a public health approach to trauma that strengthens surveillance, prevention, screening, and treatment and supports trauma-informed systems.

Children of deployed military personnel have more school, family, and peer-related emotional difficulties in comparison to national samples. Therefore, SAMHSA has identified military families as a priority population under this funding opportunity.

Over the coming months, SAMHSA will be implementing a process that will develop a formal definition and standardized criteria for trauma-informed care and guidance for adaption to different service systems and sectors. Grantees of this program announcement will be encouraged to participate in this process. All SAMHSA grantees will be expected to align their programmatic activities with the resultant definition and standardized criteria of trauma-informed care.

The National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative, National Center for Child Traumatic Stress grant is authorized under Section 582 of the Public Health Service Act, as amended. This announcement addresses Healthy People 2020 Mental Health and Mental Disorders Topic Area HP 2020-MHMD.