Sec. 119. Older adult mental health grants
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The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Center for Mental Health Services, shall award grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to public and private nonprofit entities for projects that address the mental health needs of older adults, including programs to— support the establishment and maintenance of interdisciplinary geriatric mental health specialist outreach teams in community settings where older adults reside or receive social services, in order to provide screening, referrals, and evidence-based intervention and treatment services, including services provided by licensed mental health professionals; develop and implement older adult suicide early intervention and prevention strategies in 1 or more settings that serve seniors, and collect and analyze data on older adult suicide early intervention and prevention services for purposes of monitoring, research, and policy development; and otherwise improve the mental health of older adults, as determined by the Secretary.
In awarding grants under this section, the Secretary, to the extent feasible, shall ensure that— projects are funded in a variety of geographic areas, including urban and rural areas; a variety of populations, including racial and ethnic minorities and low-income populations, are served by projects funded under this section; and older adult suicide intervention and prevention programs are targeted towards areas with high older adult suicide rates. To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, a public or private nonprofit entity shall— submit an application to the Secretary (in such form, containing such information, and at such time as the Secretary may specify); agree to report to the Secretary standardized clinical and behavioral data or other performance data necessary to evaluate patient or program outcomes and to facilitate evaluations across participating projects; and demonstrate how such applicant will collaborate with other State and local public and private nonprofit organizations.
A project may receive funding under a grant under this section for a period of up to 3 years, and such funding may be extended for a period of 2 additional years, at the discretion of the Secretary. Funds made available under this section shall be used to supplement, and not supplant, other Federal, State, or local funds available to an entity to carry out activities described in this section. Grantees under this section shall, beginning with the end of the second year of the grant, submit yearly reports to the Secretary on the activities of the grantee in support of the grant and the latest performance data.
Such reports shall contain recommendations as how to replicate the project funded through the grant. In this section, the term older adult has the meaning given the term older individual in section 102 of the Older Americans Act of 1965 ( 42 U.S.C. 3002 ). There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 through 2021.
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