Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Money Moves

Grant awarding agency

A Corpus Christi community health center has $750,000 in new federal money to treat opioid addiction across five South Texas counties. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) recorded the award on September 18, with work starting September 30.

Updated 3 hours ago

Money Moves

Funder; administers the 988 program

Text volume to Virginia's 988 crisis line grew 470% between July 2022 and June 2026, with voice up 205% and chat up 82%. The $9.9 million federal grant to expand capacity was scheduled to begin its work September 30.

Updated 3 days ago

Money Moves

Grant funder; slated for consolidation into a new HHS agency

The federal government recorded a $3.1 million award to Oklahoma's mental health agency on September 7, with work starting September 30. That day, the federal grant that partially funds the state's 988 crisis line expired, creating a $5.7 million funding gap.

Updated 4 days ago

Money Moves

Funder

California's Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) received a $20.2 million federal grant to expand the state's 988 suicide and crisis lifeline. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) obligated the funds on September 7, and work was scheduled to begin September 30.

Updated 6 days ago

Money Moves

Funder of the 988 Minnesota Lifeline System Improvement Project

Minnesota's 988 crisis line system is now working with $4.2 million in new federal money. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) obligated the award on September 7, and the project period began September 30.

Updated 7 days ago

Money Moves

Grant awarder

A Michigan nonprofit that serves more than 30,000 residents a year has secured $600,000 in federal money to train ordinary people—employers, teachers, neighbors—to spot the early signs of a mental health or substance use crisis and step in before it turns deadly.

Updated Oct 1

Rule Changes

Runs and funds 988

Suicide rates among Americans aged 15 to 34 had climbed for more than a decade. The federal government replaced the 10-digit crisis lifeline with 988 in July 2022. A JAMA study published April 22, 2026 found that suicide deaths in that age group ran 11% below projections over the next two and a half years, an estimated 4,400 fewer deaths.

Updated May 31

Built World

Facing major budget cuts and potential replacement under Trump administration restructuring

U.S. overdose deaths fell for the third straight year in 2025. CDC provisional data released May 2026 projects 69,973 deaths for the full year—down 14% from 2024 and about 38% below the 2022 peak of 112,000.

Updated May 23

Rule Changes

Being absorbed into Administration for a Healthy America; no permanent administrator

SAMHSA distributed $7.5 billion annually to fight addiction and mental illness. In one year, the Trump administration cut its workforce by more than half, terminated roughly $2 billion in grants in March 2025, and folded the 33-year-old agency into a new structure.

Updated May 21