HEC/Alert: OSDFS, in Partnership with SAMHSA, Announces Emergency Management for Higher Education Grant Competition

HEC/Alert
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

- OSDFS, in Partnership with SAMHSA, Announces Emergency Management for
Higher Education Grant Competition -

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools
(OSDFS), in partnership with its colleagues at the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA), is pleased to announce the availability of
funds to support emergency preparedness planning for higher education
institutions.

This new grant competition is called the Emergency Management for Higher
Education (EMHE) grant program, and it is listed under CFDA #84.184T.
Specifically, this grant program is designed to fund higher education
institution projects to develop, or review and improve, and fully
integrate, campus-based all-hazards emergency management planning
efforts within the framework of the four phases of emergency management
[Prevention-Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery].

The Notice Inviting Applications for the EMHE grant program was
published in the Federal Register on April 24, 2008, and the application
package can be downloaded from either of the following Web sites:

1. OSDFS's Web page:
http://www.ed.gov/programs/emergencyhighed/applicant.html
2. Grants.gov Web site: http://www.grants.gov/

Applications for this competition are due no later than May 27, 2008.
OSDFS anticipates making approximately 18 awards under this grant
program in fiscal year 2008 and award announcements will be made no
later than September 30, 2008.

For more information about this funding opportunity, please contact Tara
Hill in OSDFS at tara.hill_at_ed.gov.
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