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Current Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery (DBHR) funding opportunities and grants

Conference scholarship application 

In an effort to support workforce development, DBHR has identified funding to provide financial support for prevention partners to attend specified conferences on a range of prevention-related topics. These applications are open to all interested individuals. 

Requests will be reviewed with your prevention manager (if applicable) for alignment with other trainings and activities in your approved budgets.

Please note, scholarships cover the cost of conference registration only. Scholarship applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and are subject to available funds.

To apply, please submit a completed scholarship application to Harrison Fontaine via email. 

Prior funding opportunities from the Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery

Curious as to what types of funding opportunities have been available in the past?  Visit this page for more information.

Other funding opportunities

This list contains current funding opportunities related to substance abuse prevention or mental health promotion that are not from HCA.

Supporting Tribal Youth: Training and Technical Assistance and Youth Leadership Development

With this solicitation, the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) seeks to provide funding for the development and implementation of comprehensive and culturally relevant training and technical assistance designed to support tribal efforts to create, enhance, and/or sustain programs, services, and supports for youth in tribal communities. The funding categories are 1) tribal youth resource center; 2) tribal youth leadership and partnerships initiative; and 3) state, local, and tribal partnerships to support justice-involved youth. 

Applications are due Monday, July 15 at 5:59 p.m. Pacific. View the solicitation to learn more and apply! 

Public Health Data Modernization Tribal Implementation Center Request for Proposals 

The National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) has announced a new funding opportunity for public health data modernization. This is a multi-year award, with a maximum funding amount of $23,000,000. In addition to this award, national partners plan to subaward approximately $23 million to participating tribal public health authorities to support their implementation activities. The estimated period of performance is from 9/1/2024 to 9/30/2027. 

The purpose of this request for proposals (RFP) is to engage a tribal-serving organization via contract to establish a tribal implementation center, part of the new Public Health Data Modernization Implementation Center Program. The tribal implementation center will be dedicated to supporting tribes and tribal-serving organizations with their data modernization efforts and advancing the outcomes of the Implementation Center Program, while ensuring culturally appropriate approaches that respect indigenous values and tribal data sovereignty.

Proposals are due Sunday, July 21 by 8:59 p.m. PT. To learn more about this opportunity, please visit the RFP information page or email NNPHI

Women's Behavioral Health Technical Assistance Center 

The purpose of this program is to enhance the capacity of women’s behavioral health providers, general healthcare providers, and others involved in the holistic care of women to address the diverse needs of women with or at risk for mental health and substance use conditions, including women with or risk for mental and substance use conditions that were greatly impacted by COVID.  

Eligible applicants are state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, tribal organizations, nonprofit community-based entities, and primary care and behavioral health organizations to address community behavioral health needs worsened by the COVID-19 public health emergency.

Applications are due Tuesday, August 20. View the notice of funding opportunity to learn more and apply!