SAMHSA awards $73.2 million for mental health treatment, suicide prevention

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will award $73.2 million in grants for children’s mental health, suicide prevention and assisted outpatient treatment programs. SAMHSA will give $44.3 million to the Children’s Mental Health Initiative, which provides mental health services to children, youth and young adults from birth through age 21 diagnosed with a serious emotional disturbance. The Implement Zero Suicide in Health Systems program will receive $17.6 million for providing resources to healthcare systems to implement the Zero Suicide framework for adults at risk of suicide. The Assisted Outpatient Treatment program will receive $11.2 million to expand programming to adults with serious mental illness. (SAMHSA news release, 7/31/26)