Assistance program
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness
$325.9 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Health and Human Services, Department of
- Assistance
- Formula Grants
- CFDA number
- 93.138
- What it does
- To enable the expansion of the Protection and Advocacy system established in each State to: (1) Protect and advocate the rights of individuals with mental illness; (2) investigate incidents of abuse and neglect of individuals with mental illness if the incidents are reported to the system or if there is probable cause to believe that the incidents occurred; (3) investigate incidents of serious injury and deaths in public and private care and treatment facilities and non-medical community-based facilities for children and youth; and (4) to receive reports of all serious injuries and deaths related to incidents of seclusion and restraint in public and private care and treatment facilities in the States and Territories.
- Who benefits
- Individuals with significant mental illness (adults) and or significant severe emotional impairment (children/youth) who are at risk for abuse, neglect, or civil rights violations while residing in care or treatment facilities have service priority. Individuals with significant mental illness (adults) and severe significant emotional impairment (children/youth) living in the community settings, including their own home, may be served as determined by their state protection and advocacy systems PAIMI program funded priorities and objectives and available resources includes individuals persons who are in the process of being admitted to a facility rendering care or treatment, individuals being transported to such a facility, or individuals who are involuntarily confined in a municipal detention facility, jails, or prisons
- Who applies
- State, local, and territory government agencies, public or private organizations designated by the Governor under Part C of the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Acts as systems to protect and advocate the rights of persons with developmental disabilities in that State.
- Authorized by
- Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act of 1986, 42 USC 10801 et seq; Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act, as amended October 30, 2000
- Program site
- http://www.samhsa.gov ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
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- Some recipients aren't itemized
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments