Community Support Programs Branch
Other Great Programs
The Community Support Programs (CSP) Branch’s has a tradition for building partnerships
in communities and among agencies to better accommodate the needs of consumers of mental health
services. The following two grant programs maintain the cross-cutting principle of supporting
innovative approaches to systems change:
Partnership for Youth Transition Program
The 4-year Partnership for Youth Transition Program was funded in partnership with the U.S. Department
of Education. It offered long-term support to young people with serious emotional disorders and
emerging serious mental illnesses between the ages of 14 and 25. That age segment is considered
the crucial developmental window.
Five 4-year cooperative agreements were awarded in 2003 to plan, design, and implement youth
transition programs for children with serious emotional disturbances and their families.
Technical assistance was provided by the Department of Child and Family Studies, University of
South Florida, through a grant from the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative, Annie E. Casey
Foundation.
For more information:
http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/cmhs/childrenscampaign/partnerships.asp
SAMHSA news article:
http://www.samhsa.gov/SAMHSA_News/VolumeXI_1/article5.htm
Community Action Grant Program
The Community Action grant program was funded from 1997 to 2003. It supported activities that
improve the organization and delivery of services for children with serious emotional disturbances
and adults with serious mental illnesses or with co-occurring substance abuse disorders. This
was a bold experiment in empowering communities to promote the adoption of exemplary practices
resulting in sustained systems change.
The program offered grants in two 1-year phases:
Phase I — Consensus Building
Phase II — Adoption of the Exemplary Practice
Phase I grants required grantees to:
- Develop consensus among key stakeholders about an exemplary practice in mental health services,
and
- Develop a strategic plan for adoption of that practice.
Phase II grants were awarded to:
- Phase I grantees able to demonstrate that they had successfully built this consensus and developed
a feasible strategic plan; and
- Phase I grantees able to implement the exemplary practice,
leading to improved community systems of care for identified target populations.
This granting program ended in 2003; there are no plans to resurrect this program.
For more information on the Community Action Grant Program see Community Action Grant
Program
For a full list of Community Action grantees, see Community
Action Grantees List
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