The New York State Office of Mental Health has issued a Request for Application (RFA) for a minimum of two-hundred thirty-five (235) OMH Community Mental Health Loan Repayment Program (OMH CMHLRP) awards with the purpose of recruitment and retention of psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners.

For licensed programs, the OMH CMHLRP is awarding State Aid grants for loan repayment for both eligible existing or newly hired psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners in designated community mental health settings throughout New York State as follows:

• For psychiatrists, the OMH CMHLRP provides up to $120,000 in loan repayment over a three-year period.
• For psychiatric nurse practitioners, the OMH CMHLRP provides up to $30,000 in loan repayment over a three-year period.

In addition, the OMH CMHLRP is now awarding State Aid grants for loan repayment for eligible psychiatric physician assistants (PAs) in designated community mental health settings throughout New York State as follows:

• For psychiatric PAs, the OMH CMHLRP provides up to $30,000 in loan repayment over a three-year period.

A total of $9 million annually is available to fund the OMH CMHLRP during FY 2022-23. These funds will support a minimum of 360 awards.  Following Round 1 of the OMH CMHLRP, which awarded $3.4M annually, a total of $5.6 million annually remains available to fund additional awards for the OMH CMHLRP during FY 2023-24. These funds will support a minimum of 235 awards for psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners and psychiatric physician assistants. Providers of licensed community mental health programs in one of the two below specified program categories may apply on behalf of eligible staff.

• Inpatient/CPEP: Licensed providers of Article 28 hospital inpatient psychiatric units, Article 31 freestanding inpatient hospital programs and Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Programs (CPEPs).
• Outpatient: Licensed providers of Article 31 outpatient programs including Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams, Continuing Day Treatment (CDT), Children’s Day Treatment, Partial Hospitalization (PH), Personalized Recover Oriented Services (PROS), and Mental Health Outpatient Treatment and Rehabilitative Services (MHOTRS).

OMH has assigned an Issuing Officer for this project. The Issuing Officer or a designee shall be the sole point of contact regarding the RFA from the date of issuance of the RFA until the issuance of the Notice of Conditional Award. To avoid being deemed non-responsive, an applicant is restricted from making contact with any other personnel of OMH regarding the RFA. Certain findings of non-responsibility can result in rejection for a contract award.  The Issuing Officer for this RFP is:

Carol Swiderski
Contract Management Specialist 2
New York State Office of Mental Health
Contracts and Claims
44 Holland Avenue, 7th Floor
Albany, NY 12229
carol.swiderski@omh.ny.gov

For additional information and requirements please refer to the Request for Application (RFA) Office of Mental Health Community Mental Health Loan Repayment Program (OMH CMHLRP) issued by the New York State Office of Mental Health. The OMH CMHLRP RFA can be found at: https://omh.ny.gov/omhweb/rfp/.

The 2023 Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Grantmaking Cycle open call for Letters of Inquiry is now open from May 1 through May 26, 2023.

This year the Foundation is announcing 5 new Programs, through which it will pursue grantmaking.

The Foundation will be soliciting proposals through 5 new Programs:

• Access to Healthcare
• Basic Needs
• Healthcare Workforce
• Mental and Behavioral Health
• General Fund

For more information, use this link: https://cabrinihealth.org/grants-programs/#apply-grant

Launched on March 21, 2023, the $250 million Yield Giving Open Call is an initiative focused on elevating organizations working with people and in places experiencing the greatest need in the United States: communities, individuals, and families with access to the fewest foundational resources and opportunities. The registration period is now open.

About the Open Call

This initiative seeks community-led, community-focused organizations whose explicit purpose is to advance the voices and opportunities of individuals and families of meager or modest means, and groups who have met with discrimination and other systemic obstacles. Organizations best suited to this initiative will enable individuals and families to achieve substantive improvement in their well-being through foundational resources. This includes, for instance, organizations providing access to health care, stable and affordable housing, education and job training, support for sustained employment, asset ownership, civic engagement, and other pathways. They may also be engaged in data collection and communication to amplify the voices of people and communities struggling against inequities.

Community-led, community-focused nonprofit organizations from across the United States and U.S. Territories are invited to apply and share the impact they have had on the abilities of individuals and families in their communities to achieve substantive improvement in their well-being.

Interested organizations must register to apply before 4 p.m. U.S. Central Time on Friday, May 5, 2023. Complete applications are due before 4 p.m. U.S. Central Time on Monday, June 12, 2023. Organizations must have an annual operating budget of at least $1 million and no more than $5 million for at least two of the last four fiscal years to be eligible to apply.

The Yield Giving Open Call is being managed by Lever for Change, a nonprofit that leverages its networks to find and fund solutions to the world’s greatest challenges, including racial inequity, gender inequality, lack of economic development, and climate change.

After applications are submitted, they will undergo Administrative Review and Participatory Review by other applicants. In the Fall of 2023, up to 1,000 applicants top-rated by their peers will advance to the Evaluation Panel Review by a panel recruited for experience relevant to this initiative. The donor team will select from among the organizations recommended by their peers and this external evaluation panel and announce 250 awardees in early 2024. Each awardee will receive an unrestricted operating gift of $1 million.

Further details are available online here.

The purpose of this program is to implement evidence-based programs to support individuals in substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and recovery to live independently and participate in the workforce. Award recipients will be expected to ascertain gaps in the workforce and coordinate statewide employment and training activities for participants enrolled in their program with SUD in treatment and recovery.

Anticipated Total Available Funding: Up to $1,900,000

Anticipated # of Awards: 4

Further details are available online here.

The purpose of this program is to strengthen community-based recovery organizations, their statewide networks of recovery stakeholders, and specialty and general healthcare systems as key partners in the delivery of state and local recovery support services (RSS) through collaboration, systems improvement, public health messaging, and training conducted for or with key recovery groups.

Anticipated Total Available Funding: Up to $600,000

Anticipated # of Awards: 2

Further details are available online here.

The purpose of this program is to provide peer recovery support services to individuals with substance use disorders (SUD) or co-occurring substance use and mental disorders (COD), including those in recovery from these disorders. The program’s foundation is the value of lived experience of peers to assist others in achieving and maintaining recovery. These services, in conjunction with clinical treatment services, are an integral component of the recovery process for many people.

Anticipated Total Available Funding: Up to $1,200,000

Anticipated Number of Awards: Up to 4

Further details are available online here.

The New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) has announced the availability of funds for the development of one new (1) Youth Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team in the Office of Mental Health’s Western Region, to serve either Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties or Tioga and Tompkins counties. Youth ACT is designed to address the significant needs of children ages 10 up to 21, who are at risk of entering, or are returning home from high intensity services, such as inpatient settings or residential services. Interventions are focused on enhancing family functioning to foster health/well-being, stability and re-integration for the child/youth. Youth ACT delivers intensive, highly coordinated, individualized services and skilled therapeutic interventions through an integrated, multi-disciplinary team approach to better achieve success and maintain the child in the home, school and community.

The Request For Proposal (RFP) can be found here on the OMH website.

The New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) announces the availability of funds, through a competitive Request for Proposal (RFP) process, for developing two (2) new Home Based Crisis Intervention (HBCI) programs that will solely serve those dually diagnosed with mental health and intellectual or developmental delays. The goal of the funding is to support a statewide effort to strengthen children’s mental health and crisis resources.

HBCI is a community-based, short term, intensive crisis program designed to avert psychiatric hospitalizations and placements for youth ages 5 years to 20 years 11 months experiencing an acute mental health crisis.  Applicants should have demonstrated expertise working in the community with intellectually and developmentally delayed children and youth experiencing a mental health crisis.

The awardees will help ensure that children and youth in acute mental health crisis can remain safe at home, avoid an unnecessary psychiatric hospitalizations or residential treatment, and that they and their families can learn strategies for ongoing stability.

The Requests for Proposal (RFP’s) can be accessed on the NYSOMH website under Procurement Opportunities at Home Based Crisis Intervention (HBCI) Mental Health and Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities (MH/IDD) Statewide (ny.gov).

All applications must be completed in and submitted through the Grants Gateway at https://grantsmanagement.ny.gov/

Through Opioid Settlement Funds, OASAS is seeking applications for a unique Fentanyl, Opioids, Rx Coalitions (FOR Coalitions) initiative, which will build on the successful implementation of evidence-based opioid and heroin use prevention strategies developed in NYS OASAS’ administration of the 2014 PFS grant.  FOR Coalitions will use their established relationships as a basis to support the affected community’s role in addressing the opioid and synthetic opioids other than methadone (SOOTM) overdose crisis at a local level.

Funding available:

$1,400,000 in annual funding is available for this initiative to fund seven (7) applicants up to $200,000 each, per year for an anticipated four-year period based on funding availability.

OASAS seeks to award one program in each of the high NYS Opioid Burden counties as determined by data from Department of Health (DOH) and listed below:

• Chautauqua
• Bronx
• Ulster
• Sullivan
• Greene
• Dutchess
• Chemung

Eligible applicants:

Eligible applicants are Not for Profit or Local Governmental Unit (LGU) entities that meet one of the following criteria:

• Existing prevention-focused coalition working in one of the high-risk counties listed in section 1.2 Funding Availability and in collaboration with one of the OASAS Prevention Resource Centers.
• A fiscal agent acting on behalf of an existing prevention-focused coalition working in one of the high-risk counties listed in section 1.2 Funding Availability and in collaboration with one of the OASAS Prevention Resource Centers.

Full RFA can be found at: https://oasas.ny.gov/rfa/community-prevention-coalitions-iii