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I. FUNDING OPPORTUNITY DESCRIPTION 1. PURPOSE The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2013 National Resource Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention (YVP-RC) cooperative agreement. The purpose of this jointly funded program is to serve as a national resource and training center to increase the effectiveness of youth violence prevention, prevention of mental, emotional and behavioral disorders, and promotion of the healthy development of children and youth. The YVP-RC will also provide technical assistance for SAMHSA’s Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) and Linking Actions for Unmet Needs in Children’s Health (Project LAUNCH) grant programs. Funding for this announcement is from Youth Violence Prevention in the amount of $4.599 million (75 percent) to support the technical assistance needs of the SS/HS grants and the field in the implementation of community level partnerships among educational, behavioral health, and criminal justice systems that promote systems integration and policy change and sustainable policies, infrastructure, services, and supports. In addition, $1.572 million (25 percent) from Project LAUNCH to support the technical assistance needs of the Project LAUNCH Grantees and the field in the implementation of evidence-based practices that promote and enhance the wellness of young children by developing infrastructure and implement prevention/promotion wellness strategies necessary to promote the wellness of young children from birth to age eight. Results from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance (YRBS) – United States, 2011 1 indicated that many high school students are engaged in priority health-risk behaviors associated with the leading causes of death among persons aged 10–24 years in the United States. Research has shown that three quarters of mental illnesses start before age 24 and that creating safe and healthy school and community environments are key to reducing risk factors that lead to the development of mental illness and to fostering wellness in children. Years of prevention research and knowledge of evidence-based practices related to mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders and violence prevention show that well-designed prevention interventions are effective and can have multiple benefits that impact an array of health-risk behaviors. It is SAMHSA’s intent that the YVP-RC provide states/tribes, organizations, and communities with the resources they need to eliminate or reduce the impact of risk factors and promote positive and protective factors for children, youth, young adults, and their families. This program will advance the dissemination and use of prevention research to inform development and implementation of policies and programs across state and tribal agencies. Planning and implementation of statewide prevention 1 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Youth, Risk, Behavior Survey – United States, 2011. MMWR 2012;61(No. SS-4). 6
programming and policies will be accomplished through the use of a public health approach. The YVP-RC also seeks to address health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities by ensuring that YVP-RC recipients are encouraged to develop and implement strategies to decrease differences in prevalence, access, service use, and outcomes among racial and ethnic minority children, youth, young adults, and families served. 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 promotion, 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 promotion, 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 YVP-RC closely aligns with SAMHSA’s Prevention of Substance Abuse and Mental Illness Strategic Initiative which aims to support communities where individuals, children and youth, families, schools, faith-based organizations, and workplaces take action to promote emotional health and reduce the likelihood of mental illness, substance abuse including tobacco, and suicide. In addition, the YVP-RC also aligns with SAMHSA’s Trauma and Justice Strategic Initiative which aims to reduce the pervasive, harmful, and costly health impact of violence and trauma by integrating trauma-informed approaches throughout health, behavioral health, and related systems and addressing the behavioral health needs of people involved in or at risk of involvement in the criminal and juvenile justice systems. More information is available at: http://www.samhsa.gov/About/strategy.aspx. Since 1999, the Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) grant program has provided funds to local educational agencies to partner with public health, mental health, education, law enforcement, justice and social service systems, as well as families and youth, to plan, implement, evaluate, and sustain a comprehensive plan of programs, activities, and services to prevent violence and foster the healthy development of children and youth. Based on key findings from the SS/HS National Evaluation 2 , SAMHSA seeks to build upon the lessons learned by engaging state and community agencies (including local education agencies) to develop partnerships that will result in the successful implementation of comprehensive school violence prevention that are guided by the SS/HS model. The SS/HS State Planning, Local Education Agency, and Local Community program (SS/HS State Program) will build state-level partnerships 2 Center for Mental Health Services. (2010). Interim Report of the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative National Evaluation: FY 2005 and FY 2006 Cohorts. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 7
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