Substance Use Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Block Grant Program Review

DBHDD would like to offer interested persons the opportunity to review its 2024-205 Behavioral Health Plan for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Substance Use Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Block Grant (SUPTR BG) Program. The SUPTR BG program, which is designed to provide funds to States, Territories, and one Indian Tribe for the purpose of planning, implementing, and evaluating activities to prevent and treat substance use disorder (SUD), provides substance use primary prevention and SUD treatment and recovery support services (and certain related activities) to at-risk individuals or persons in need of SUD treatment.

To review the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities 2024-2025 Behavioral Health Plan application, please take the following steps:

  1. Go to https://bgas.samhsa.gov.
  2. Enter the username and password (these are case-sensitive): 
    • Username – citizenga
    • Password – citizen
  3. Select “View Existing Application”
  4. Select "2024-2025 SUPTR Behavioral Health Assessment and Plan"
  5. Select “View Application”
  6. Select the “Attachments” Tab (left-hand side of the page)
  7. From the dropdown menu select “2024-2025 Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment  Block Grant Plan” and click the “Go” button

All are welcome to review the plan as desired and provide comments to DBHDD. Comments through October 4, 2023, will be forwarded to SAMHSA.  Public comments can be emailed to Cassandra Price at [email protected].  Please use the subject line “Block Grant Public Comments”

Thank you for your interest.