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Block Grants for Community Mental Health Services

Program Information

Popular name

Mental Health Block Grant (MHBG)

Program Number

93.958

Program objective

To provide financial assistance to States and Territories to enable them to carry out the State's plan for providing comprehensive community mental health services to adults with a serious mental illness and to children with a serious emotional disturbance; monitor the progress in implementing a comprehensive community based mental health system; provide technical assistance to States and the Mental Health Planning Council that will assist the States in planning and implementing a comprehensive community based mental health system.

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

    59 awards will be made. 59 awards were made.

  2. 2017

    59 awards will be made.

  3. 2018

    59 awards made

  4. 2019

    It is estimated 59 awards will be made.

  5. 2022

    59 block grants were made; 2 discretionary grants were made

  6. 2023

    177 block grant awards were made; 18 discretionary 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.

45 CFR Part 96; also portions of 2 CFR Part 200/45 CFR Part 75.

  1. XIX, B, Public Health Service Act, Subpart 1 and III.
  2. Pub. L. 116, 260.

Program details

Categories & sub-categories

Health

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Other private institution/organization
  • State
  • U.S. Territories

Additional resources