Dear Association Executives - Last week, HHS' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released its final revisions to the CCBHC certification criteria along with a detailed description of changes.
For your convenience, the National Council has created a summary of the major changes in the revised criteria (attached). We hope this is helpful as you review the criteria. Please feel free to share this with your members.
In addition, late yesterday SAMHSA released the Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for this year's CCBHC-Expansion grants. These grants fall into two buckets: The CCBHC-IA opportunity is available to clinics that are state-certified as CCBHCs or have received a prior CCBHC grant, and the CCBHC-PDI opportunity is available to clinics that are implementing the CCBHC model for the first time.
Please reach out to Rebecca Farley David and Sam Holcombe with any questions about the criteria or the new grant opportunities.
Thank you.
Reyna Taylor
Senior Vice President, Public Policy & Advocacy
Policy Department
National Council for Mental Wellbeing
Direct: 202-774-1651
ReynaT@TheNationalCouncil.org
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Neal Comstock
Director of Membership
National Council
NealC@TheNationalCouncil.org202 748-8793
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