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Grant Opportunity Notice


Below is a listing of funding opportunities that may be applicable for the LifeSkills Training program.  Please click on each title for detailed information on each funding opportunity. Application deadlines are approaching for these grant RFPs.



Family Support, Substance/Drug Abuse, Mental Health, Education, Addiction

“The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2020 Family Support Technical Assistance Center (Fam-CoE). SAMHSA recognizes both the critical role families play in addressing mental and substance use disorders and the toll such disorders take on families across the country. The Fam-CoE will focus on training and education of the general public and healthcare practitioners on the importance of family supports and services and the integration of these services into mental and substance use disorder treatment programs. The Fam-CoE will also provide much needed resources and education directly for families.”
Funder: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Eligibility: Domestic public and private non-profit entities.
Amount: Up to $800,000
Deadline: Feb. 28, 2020

School Violence, Safety, Child/Youth Welfare, Education

The FY 2019 Student, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Grant Program is designed to improve school security by providing students and teachers with the tools they need to recognize, respond quickly to, and help prevent acts of violence. The program’s objective is to increase school safety by implementing training and school threat assessments and/or intervention teams to identify school violence risks among students; technological solutions such as anonymous reporting technology that can be implemented as a mobile phone-based app, a hotline, or a website in the applicant’s geographic area to enable students, teachers, faculty, and community members to anonymously identify threats of school violence; or other school safety strategies that assist in preventing violence.
Funder: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Eligibility: Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS (other than institutions of higher education), city or township governments, county governments, special district governments, independent school districts, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), others.
Amount: Up to $500,000
Deadline: March 3, 2020

Strategic Prevention Framework – Partnerships For Success

SAMHSA is accepting applications for Strategic Prevention Framework – Partnerships for Success grants. The purpose of this grant program is to prevent the onset and reduce the progression of substance abuse and its related problems, while strengthening prevention capacity and infrastructure at the community and state levels. The program is intended to address one of the nation’s top substance abuse prevention priorities. Recipients will identify the primary problematic substances in their jurisdictions, and develop and implement strategies to prevent the misuse of these substances among youth and adults.
SAMHSA plans to issue up to 92 grants of up to $1,000,000 per year for up to 5 years
Application Due Date: Friday, March 6, 2020

Child Welfare, Education, Health, Mental Health

“We accept proposals from nonprofit organizations for projects which meet one of the Foundation’s two basic purposes:
· To contribute to the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual welfare of children through the dissemination of knowledge about new and innovative organizations and/or their programs designed to benefit youth; and
· To contribute to the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual welfare of children through the dissemination of knowledge already possessed by well-established organizations, to the end that such information can be more adequately used by society.”
Funder: The American Legion Child Welfare Foundation
Eligibility: “Grants are awarded only to nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations.”
Deadline: July 15, 2020

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