Federal grant programs / Department of Health and Human Services

Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances (SED) (93.104)

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$458 million
• Grant awards184
• Typical award$2.1 million
• Awarded in FY 2025$85.2 million
• Size rank393 of 1824
• Type of assistanceProject grants (discretionary)

Key findings

• Annual funding fell from $101 million in fiscal 2021 to $85.2 million in fiscal 2025.
• It is the 393rd largest of 1,824 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• The 20 largest recipients received 43% of the money.
• Awards went to recipients in 45 states and territories.

What the program funds

To provide comprehensive community mental health services to children, youth, and young adults, birth through age 21 with a serious emotional disturbance (SED), which may include efforts to identify and serve children at risk, and their families. Implementation of CMHI is guided by the systems of care (SOC) approach.? It is expected that the CMHI SOC must: Be established in a community(ies) selected by a public entity. - Consist of the community’s public agencies and nonprofit entities (i.e., cross system partners) needed to ensure that each of the required services is available to the child. - Be established through agreements between the public entity, public agencies, and nonprofit entities (i.e., cross system partnerships). - Coordinate the provision of all required services. - Establish a single point of access (i.e., a single office or place) that serves as the location through which children are provided access to the system of care.

From the federal Assistance Listing. Read the full listing on SAM.gov.

Open opportunities

• Children's Mental Health Initiative
  Forecast · Forecast, no dates yet · up to not stated

Rules from the program listing

Who can apply

State, any political subdivision of a State, and any Indian tribe or tribal organization (as defined in section 4(b) and section 4(c) of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act).

What the money can and cannot pay for

Grant funds may be used for salaries, wages and fringe benefits of professional and support staff; travel directly related to carrying out service activities; supplies, communications, and rental of equipment and space; training specifically aimed at one of the following: the development of individualized service plans; the provision of therapeutic foster care, group home care; intensive home-based services, or intensive day treatment services; administration of the system; and appropriate continuing education of two days or less; contracts for performance of activities under the approved project; and other such items necessary to support project activities. Grant funds and required matching funds may not be used for: other required services; to purchase or improve real estate property; provide residential care and/or services in residential treatment centers serving more than 10 children in inpatient hospital settings; any training activities with the exception of those mentioned above; and non-mental health services including mental health medical services, educational services, vocational counseling and rehabilitation, and protection and advocacy.

Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. This program has MOE requirements, see funding agency for further details. Additional Information: A requirement contained in certain legislation, regulations, or administrative policies that a recipient must maintain a specified level of financial effort in the health area for which Federal funds will be provided in order to receive Federal grant funds. This requirement is usually given in terms of a previous base-year dollar amount.This program has MOE requirements, see funding agency for further details. A requirement contained in certain legislation, regulations, or administrative policies that a recipient must maintain a specified level of financial effort in the health area for which Federal funds will be provided in order to receive Federal grant funds. This requirement is usually given in terms of a previous base-year dollar amount.

Award range and average, in the agency's words

$1,000,000 to $2,000,000

Quoted from the program's federal Assistance Listing. The notice of funding opportunity is the official source for each competition's rules.

Who usually wins

State and local governments received 82% of the money, nonprofits 9.8% and tribes 3.3%.

By state

44 states have a page for this program: those that received at least $1 million or 10 awards.

Award amounts are federal obligations reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal 2021 to 2025; see how our data works.