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Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness

Program Information

Popular name

(PAIMI)

Program Number

93.138

Program objective

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.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2016

    57 awards will be made. 57 awards were made.

  2. 2017

    57 awards will be made.

  3. 2018

    57 awards made

  4. 2019

    57 awards were made.

  5. 2020

    It is estimated 57 awards will be made.

  6. 2021

    It is estimated 115 awards will be made.

  7. 2022

    57 awards were made

  8. 2024

    57 awards were made

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

Regulations; 45 CFR Part 1386 Subpart B; 42 CFR Part 51; and, 45 CFR Part 75 .