CSAP Grant to Help Support Minority Substance Abuse and HIV Prevention

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) is accepting applications for the Minority Substance Abuse/HIV Prevention Initiative.

The program supports activities to assist grantees in building a solid foundation for delivering and sustaining quality and accessible state-of-the-science substance abuse and HIV prevention services. Specifically, the program aims to engage community-level public and private nonprofit organizations to prevent and reduce the onset of substance abuse and transmission of HIV/AIDS among the following at-risk racial/ethnic minority subpopulations:
 

• Reentry populations (i.e., racial/ethnic minorities who have been released from prisons and jails within the past 2 years)
• Men having sex with men (MSM)
• Black, Latina, or Hispanic women
• Adolescents (age 12-X17)
• Young adults (age 18-X24)
• Older adults, age 50 and over in communities of color disproportionately affected by SA and HIV/AIDS

Grantees will receive up to $400,000 per year for up to five years. The application deadline is April 1, 2008. Clickhere for the complete grant announcement.