National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative — Category II Treatment and Service Adaptation (TSA) Centers
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Funds centres that provide national expertise on specific childhood trauma types, populations or service systems, and that adapt, refine and support implementation of evidence-based trauma treatments. Includes a SAMHSA-directed evaluation.
- Indicative award
- up to $600k per year (per year)NOFO SM-26-003 states up to $600,000 per year per award; annual budget cannot exceed $600,000 in total costs (direct and indirect) in any year. Estimated total available funding $14,400,000 across an estimated 24 awards. Project period up to 5 years. No minimum is published.
- Timing
- Periodic callsPeriodic calls · JulNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The FY 2026 deadline was July 15, 2026 and has passed. NCTSI Category II centres are recompeted on a multi-year cohort cycle (project period up to 5 years), not reliably every year; watch SAMHSA's NOFO forecast dashboard.
- Who can apply
- Any faculty rank, Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Domestic public and private non-profit entities. SAMHSA accepts and reviews only the first 50 complete, high-quality applications submitted via eRA, after which the submission portal closes.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- childhood traumatic stress · evidence-based treatment adaptation · training and technical assistance · implementation
- Apply at
- https://www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/grants/pdf/fy-2026-nctsi-ii-sm-26-003.pdf
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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- Research Grants on Reducing Inequality and on Improving the Use of Research EvidenceWilliam T. Grant Foundation$100k–$1M · Several times a year · Jan, May, Aug
- Fund for Research and ExperimentationFahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation$5k–$20k · Annual cycle · May, Nov
- Young Scholars ProgramFoundation for Child Development$100k–$250k · Annual cycle
- Grants and research partnershipsThe Annie E. Casey FoundationAmount not published · By invitation
- Federal prize competitions and challengesU.S. federal agencies (Challenge.gov)$5k–$500k · Rolling / open