The funding opportunity aims to establish a national Technical Assistance Center (TAC) to address significant mental health needs through capacity building and support for organizations. It focuses on enhancing the skills of peer workforce and integrating them into various service systems to better serve individuals with serious mental illness (SMI).
The purpose of this program is to establish and operate a national TAC dedicated to addressing priority mental health needs of regional and national significance. These activities can include: Developing, delivering, coordinating, and evaluating technical assistance to organizations that are dedicated to addressing mental health needs through courses, seminars, workshops, and cohort support to build skills and best practices to expand operational and program capacity. Strengthening the organizational readiness and sustainability of mental health PROs, Supporting peer workforce pathways and the innovative utilization of the peer workforce across service systems, including behavioral health care settings, physical health care settings, homelessness services, and community and justice-related settings, Integrating the peer workforce across all systems that serve individuals with SMI, including strengthening the readiness of non-behavioral health care providers to integrate peers. PROs play a critical role in supporting adults with lived experience of SMI, and Efforts to work with new types of partners that can reach new populations, including via faith-based and community-based organizations.