Children's Mental Health Initiative

In plain English

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis (Department of Health and Human Services) has announced this as a forecast: an opportunity it expects to post. It is not open for applications yet. Estimated posting date: Dec 15, 2026.

Estimated total program funding is $43,000,000.

Eligible applicant types include state governments, local governments and tribal governments & organizations, plus others described in the listing.

Cost sharing or matching is required.

Built only from the fields in the Grants.gov listing. Always confirm on the official listing.

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• State governments
• County governments
• City or township governments
• Native American tribal governments (federally recognized)
• Others (see the eligibility details in the listing)

Additional eligibility information (excerpt from the listing):

Eligibility is statutorily limited to State governments (the District of Columbia, Guam, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau are also eligible to apply); Governmental units within political subdivisions of a state (e.g., county, city, town); 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).

Excerpt from the official forecast on Grants.gov (shortened; read the full text on the official listing):

The purpose of this program is to provide comprehensive community mental health services to children, youth, and young adults, birth through age 21 with a serious emotional disturbance, which may include efforts to identify and serve children at risk, and their families.

Read the full forecast on Grants.gov →