Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education)

SM-26-005 · Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis

public health mental behavioral health education workforce tribal indigenous Health

Closes: 2026-07-27 · 20 d
Award ceiling: $1,500,000
Award floor: —
Program funding: $55,768,191
Expected awards: 31
Cost sharing: No
Posted: 2026-07-01
Instrument: Grant

Characterization · gpt-5.4-mini · 2026-07-07

Funds grants to domestic public and private nonprofit entities to develop sustainable school- or tribal-education-agency-based frameworks that address youth mental health, substance use, and co-occurring disorders and promote social and emotional wellbeing.

Funds: service delivery
University: direct
social behavioral: central
life biomedical: substantial
computational data: minor

RESTRICTED TO: NONPROFITS

⚑ Statutorily limited to domestic public and private nonprofit entities. · At least three awards will be made to a tribe or tribal organization pending sufficient volume of applications.

Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules

IPPRA	54 partial	portfolio topic: public_health (primary); signature methods: community engaged; social/behavioral work is central; funds service delivery, not research (capped); capped at 54 (non-research funding)
Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo)	25 weak	technical depth: minor; funds service delivery (capped)
Tom Love Innovation Hub	10 none	deep-tech content; no commercialization signal

Description

The purpose of Project AWARE is to develop a sustainable framework to address mental health, substance use, and co-occurring disorders and promote the social and emotional wellbeing for school-aged youth in local or tribal education agency settings.

NOTE: at least three awards will be made to a tribe or tribal organization pending sufficient volume of applications.

Eligibility

Eligibility is statutorily limited to domestic public and private nonprofit entities.

Apply

View on Grants.gov → CONTACT: Rachel Bailey Content Administrator <NOFOBudget.CMHS@samhsa.hhs.gov>

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