Assistance program
Mental Health Disaster Assistance and Emergency Mental Health
$670.2 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Health and Human Services, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants (Discretionary)
- CFDA number
- 93.982
- What it does
- To provide supplemental emergency mental health counseling to individuals affected by major disasters, including the training of workers to provide such counseling.
- Who benefits
- Individuals who were victims of major disasters.
- Who applies
- Applicants may be State or local nonprofit agencies as recommended by the State Governor and accepted by the Secretary.
- Authorized by
- Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.
- Public Health Service Act, Public Law 78–410
- 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.
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
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
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments