First Responders - Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (FR-CARA) Grants are available from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
The purpose of this program is to provide resources to support first responders and members of other key community sectors on training, administering, and providing naloxone and other Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved opioid overdose reversal medications or devices. Recipients will be expected to establish processes, protocols, and mechanisms for warm hand-off referrals to appropriate treatment, recovery, harm reduction, and other psychosocial support services. Recipients will also provide safety education around fentanyl, synthetic opioids, and other drug trends associated with overdoses.
With this program, SAMHSA aims to support first responders’ efforts to mitigate the overdose crisis across the nation and provide resources to populations disproportionately impacted by overdose, relative to national averages. For the purposes of this NOFO, first responders include firefighters, law enforcement officers, paramedics, emergency medical technicians, mobile crisis providers, and other organizations that respond to overdose-related incidents.
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