Federal Funding
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
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State Mental Health Block Grant
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This funding is allocated to state mental health agencies, with pass through to county governments, and includes a five percent set-aside for evidence-based crisis systems.
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Someone to Contact ✓
Someone to Respond ✓
Somewhere Safe to Go ✓
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Chester County, Pa. (Pop. 534,413) received $300,000 from the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services, which originated from the state mental health block grant and the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, to support the 988 transition.
Williamson County, Tenn. (Pop. 247,726) is using funds to launch and support a mental health clinician as part of a co-response team.
Hennepin County, Minn. (Pop. 1,281,565) received $225,000 to support crisis services.
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988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
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This funding supports the infrastructure of the 988 Lifeline network operations including backup, specialized services and chat and text centers.
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Someone to Contact ✓
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Carver County’s (Minn.) (Pop. 106,922) crisis program received certification to participate in the Lifeline network in 2020 and subsequently received a grant to support the statewide 988 transition.
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Certified Community Behavioral Health Centers (CCBHCs) (funded in combination with Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
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CCBHCs provide a range of behavioral health services including 24-hour crisis services and 988 call centers.
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Someone to Contact ✓
Someone to Respond ✓
Somewhere Safe to Go ✓
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Chautauqua County, N.Y. (Pop. 127,657) has two CCBHCs, as well as a 24-hour crisis hotline and warmline. The county received additional funding to improve access to community-based recovery services, expand mobile crisis teams with a youth specialist and offer peer specialist services.
Montgomery County, Md. (Pop. 1,062,061) received nearly $2 million to expand access to services and increase the number of mobile crisis teams.
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Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant (SABG)
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This funding is distributed to 60 eligible states and territories, that can pass through funding to counties, to plan, implement and evaluate substance use disorder education, prevention, harm reduction, treatment, recovery support and crisis response services.
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Someone to Contact ✓
Someone to Respond ✓
Somewhere Safe to Go ✓
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Alameda County, Calif. (Pop. 1,682,353) uses funding to support local community-based organizations such as a recovery housing program.
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State Opioid Response Grant
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This funding addresses the opioid crisis by providing resources to states and territories, that can pass through to counties, for increasing access to substance use care and crisis services.
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Someone to Contact ✓
Someone to Respond ✓
Somewhere Safe to Go ✓
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Bexar County, Texas (Pop. 2,009,324) uses funding to strengthen first response to overdose and connect people to care.
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Mental Health Awareness Training Grant
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This funding can be used to train emergency services personnel, law enforcement, fire department personnel, veterans and others to identify persons with a mental health disorder and employ crisis de-escalation techniques.
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Someone to Contact ✓
Someone to Respond ✓
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Madison County, N.C. (Pop. 21,193) received $250,000 to train 500 residents to identify, support, safely de-escalate and engage youth and adults experiencing a behavioral health crisis.
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Cooperative Agreements for Innovative Community Crisis Response Partnerships
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This funding helps high-need communities – those where mobile crisis services are absent or inconsistent – establish or enhance mobile crisis teams.
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Someone to Respond ✓
Somewhere Safe to Go ✓
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Rural Emergency Medical Services Training Grant
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This funding can be used to recruit and train EMS personnel in rural areas with a particular focus on addressing mental illness and/or substance use disorders.
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Someone to Respond ✓
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Clay County, W.Va. (Pop. 8,051) received a $136,166 grant to provide training for EMS providers on mental illness and substance use disorders.
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Services Grants Program for Residential Treatment for Pregnant and Postpartum Women
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This funding provides comprehensive substance use disorder treatment services, recovery support services and harm reduction, including crisis intervention.
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Someone to Respond ✓
Somewhere Safe to Go ✓
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Enhancement and Expansion of Treatment and Recovery Services for Adolescents, Transitional Aged Youth, and their Families
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This funding seeks to enhance and expand comprehensive treatment, early intervention and recovery support services for adolescents (ages 12-18) and transitional aged youth (ages 16-25). It requires recipients to provide wraparound services, which includes crisis intervention.
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Someone to Respond ✓
Somewhere Safe to Go ✓
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Department of Justice (DOJ)
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Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG)
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This funding can support several uses including mental health and related law enforcement/corrections programs such as crisis intervention teams.
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Someone to Respond ✓
Somewhere Safe to Go ✓
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New Castle County, Del. (Pop. 570,719) received $749,000 to expand the Hero Help Addiction and Behavioral Health Unit to respond to people experiencing a behavioral health crisis.
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Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program
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This funding supports law enforcement and behavioral health cross-system collaboration to improve public health and safety responses and outcomes for individuals with behavioral health conditions.
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Someone to Respond ✓
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Escambia County (Fla.) (Pop. 321,905) Sheriff’s Office received a $549,000 grant to form two co-responder teams.
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Community Policing Development (CPD) Grants
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This funding is used to advance the practice of community policing.
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Someone to Respond ✓
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Johnson County, Kan. (Pop. 609,863) received $187,000 to add a mental health clinician to the Sheriff’s Office.
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State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance: STOP School Violence
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Among other uses, this funding supports the development and deployment of school threat assessment and intervention teams and specialized training for school officials in responding to people experiencing mental health crises.
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Someone to Contact ✓
Someone to Respond ✓
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Hudson County, N.J. (Pop. 724,854) received almost $860,000 for a school violence prevention and mental health continuum program. It will provide guidance, training, technical support and professional development opportunities to students, teachers and other school staff.
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Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (JMHCP)
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This funding supports innovative cross-system collaboration for individuals with mental illnesses and/or co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders who encounter the justice system.
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Someone to Respond ✓
Somewhere Safe to Go ✓
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Boulder County, Colo. (Pop. 330,758) received funding to support a co-responder team, the Boulder Early Diversion Get Engaged (EDGE).
Athens-Clarke County, Ga. (Pop. 128,671) partners with a local behavioral health crisis center that includes a stabilization unit which discharges 100 percent of the people receiving services to safe places and connections to care.
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Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Site-based Program (COSSAP)
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This funding can be used to develop, implement or expand comprehensive efforts to identify, respond to, treat and support those impacted by illicit opioids, stimulants and other drugs.
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Someone to Respond ✓
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Niagara County, N.Y. (Pop. 212,666) received a $1.3 million grant to expand the Quick Response to Opioid Overdose Team to respond to overdoses of any drug type and add family peer support. The QRT will also expand referral sources beyond law enforcement.
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Collaborative Crisis Response and Intervention Training Program
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This funding supports training to prepare law enforcement and correctional officers to interact with people who have behavioral health conditions and/or intellectual, developmental or physical disabilities.
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Someone to Respond ✓
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Albany County, Wyo. (Pop. 37,066) received a grant to provide Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training for the Sheriff’s Office to support responses to mental health related calls.
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Department of Education
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Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
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Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP)
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This funding supports rural communities to build capacity within the local behavioral health workforce.
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Someone to Respond ✓
Somewhere Safe to Go ✓
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Bladen County, N.C. (Pop. 29,606) received a $1 million grant to provide connections to community-based substance use services, including training and engaging with a peer specialist to provide in-person support.
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Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Workforce Loan Repayment Program (LRP)
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This funding provides scholarships and loan repayment to health care providers in exchange for service in a health professional shortage area. Eligible clinicians may receive up to $75,000 in student loan repayment in exchange for a three-year commitment to provide substance use disorder treatment services at National Health Service Corps (NHSC)-approved sites. Counties may employ these practitioners to enhance local workforce.
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Someone to Respond ✓
Somewhere Safe to Go ✓
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Rural Community Loan Repayment Program (LRP)
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This funding provides scholarships and loan repayment to health care providers in exchange for service in a health professional shortage area. Eligible clinicians may receive up to $100,000 in student loan repayment in exchange for a 3-year commitment to provide SUD and opioid use disorder treatment services at program-approved sites. Counties may employ these practitioners to enhance local workforce.
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Someone to Respond ✓
Somewhere Safe to Go ✓
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Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery (STAR) Loan Repayment Program (LRP)
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This funding supports workforce retention by providing up to $250,000 in loan repayment for clinicians and community health workers. Counties can also leverage the program as it recognizes SUD support services provided by behavioral health paraprofessionals as an eligible provider type and new community-based settings including crisis management centers.
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Someone to Respond ✓
Somewhere Safe to Go ✓
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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
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Other Funding
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American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Recovery Funds
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ARPA included the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund which allocated $65.1 billion to counties across the nation for a variety of projects.
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Someone to Contact ✓
Someone to Respond ✓
Somewhere Safe to Go ✓
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Douglas County, Colo. (Pop. 357,978) Commissioners allocated $138,000 to support 988.
Saline County, Kan. (Pop. 54,303) dedicated nearly $200,000 to support a mental health co-responder for two years.
Waukesha County, Wis. (Pop. 406,978) is using $1.15 million to upgrade the county’s mental health center to include a crisis stabilization unit.
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