Building Communities of Recovery

Building Communities of Recovery is a forecasted federal discretionary grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The opportunity number is TI-27-004, and the Assistance Listing is 93.490, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment Projects of Regional and National Significance. The funding instrument is a grant, and the stated funding activity category is Health. The opportunity is currently identified as Forecast Version 2, with a forecast date and last updated date of September 3, 2026. The estimated total program funding is $6,300,000, with 18 awards expected. The source does not provide an award floor or award ceiling. The purpose of the Building Communities of Recovery program is to support organizations in mobilizing and connecting community resources to increase access to long-term recovery support. The intended beneficiaries are people with substance use disorders and people with co-occurring substance use and mental disorders. The program therefore focuses on strengthening access to community-based resources that support long-term recovery. The available forecast does not provide detailed allowable or prohibited spending categories, indirect cost limitations, subaward restrictions, or a period of performance. Those matters cannot be determined from the supplied source and should be verified when the full funding announcement is posted. Cost sharing or matching is explicitly required for this opportunity. However, the forecast does not state the required matching percentage, ratio, dollar amount, or other formula. Applicants should therefore treat matching as a confirmed requirement while awaiting the full funding announcement for the specific amount and applicable rules. The source also does not provide enough information to calculate an applicant-level award amount from the total program funding because individual award ceilings and floors are not stated. Eligibility is statutorily limited to Recovery Community Organizations, or RCOs. For this opportunity, an RCO is defined as an independent nonprofit organization that mobilizes resources within and outside of the recovery community, which may include mobilization through a peer support network, to increase the prevalence and quality of long-term recovery from substance use disorders. The organization must also be wholly or principally governed by people in recovery for substance use disorders who reflect the community served. Because the statutory definition specifically requires an independent nonprofit organization, the supported eligibility category is Nonprofits. The supplied forecast does not state a specific state, territory, county, city, ZIP code, or other geographic restriction. This opportunity has not yet reached the application submission stage. Grants.gov identifies it as a forecasted opportunity and gives an estimated post date of December 15, 2026. No estimated application due date is supplied, and the source does not identify a letter of intent, concept paper, pre-proposal, notice of intent, or other pre-application gating requirement. It also does not provide application questions, required narratives, required uploads, evaluation criteria, submission instructions beyond the Grants.gov opportunity context, or a recurring application schedule. These details should not be inferred before the complete opportunity materials are published. The estimated award date is September 30, 2027, while an estimated project start date is not provided. The fiscal year is 2027. No archive date, application deadline, performance period, recurring deadline, or next funding cycle is stated in the forecast. The listed grantor contact is Jihane Ambroise, who may be reached at BCOR@samhsa.hhs.gov or 240-276-1600. Because this is a forecast rather than the complete solicitation, prospective applicants should rely on the subsequently posted funding announcement for final application requirements, deadlines, award limits, matching terms, evaluation criteria, and submission components.

Applicants should align the proposed work with the stated purpose of mobilizing and connecting community resources to increase access to long-term recovery support for people with substance use disorders and co-occurring substance use and mental disorders, and should demonstrate that the applicant meets the statutory RCO definition.