SAMHSA Announces Winners of Equity Challenge Identifying Successful Outreach Strategies to Connect Historically Underserved Racial and Ethnic Communities to Services

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is excited to announce the 10 challenge winners of its Behavioral Health Equity Challenge. Winners of the challenge received a prize of $50,000 after presenting exciting approaches to effective outreach and engage with racial and ethnic underserved individuals in order to foster behavioral health equity throughout the country.

The Biden-Harris Administration Awards More Than $88 Million in Grants That Safeguard Youth Mental Health and Expand Access to Treatment for Substance Use Disorders

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), has recently awarded more than $88 million in its continuing effort to safeguard the nation's behavioral health. The grant programs serve a wide array of needs — ranging from efforts to develop and support school-based mental health programs and services, to multiple grant programs that expand access to substance use disorder treatments.