Regional Development and Innovation Initiative
House Bill 5024 (2021) directed OHA to spend $130 million to increase statewide supportive housing and licensed residential treatment capacity for people living with behavioral health conditions. Half the funding was one-time American Rescue Plan funding. the other half was state general funds.
The funding is for capital, start-up, and operational costs.
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Supportive housing and licensed residential treatment facilities
The most recent Request for Grant Applications ran from April 29 through Nov. 30, 2022.
Planning Grants
OHA awarded $5 million in planning grants of up to $50,000 to 104 community mental health programs, tribes, Regional Health Equity Coalitions, and community partners. Grant recipients were asked to conduct research to identify community needs, asses the feasibility and sustainability of potential projects, and other planning activities necessary to increase residential facility and housing capacity.
Ready to Go Projects
Dec. 30, 2021 – Feb. 14, 2022, OHA issued a Request for Proposals designed for “ready to go” projects that could be ready to admit residents within 12 months. This solicitation focused on the following groups of individuals:
- Aid and Assist: Individuals indicted for a crime and lacking fitness to proceed.
- Psychiatric Security Review Board Jurisdiction: Individuals found “guilty except for insanity”.
- Civil Commitment: Individuals subject to a civil commitment order.
- Children with “Severe Emotional Disturbance” (SED) – children and youth under the age of 18 with functional impairment, in need of psychiatric residential treatment services.
Section 364 of
House Bill 5202 (2022) directed OHA to increase behavioral health housing by using $100,000,000 in state general funds. OHA intends these funds to:
- Provide an array of supported housing and residential treatment,
- Relieve bottlenecks in the continuum of care, and
- Address health inequities and housing access disparities, among others.
To increase accessibility and put greater power into the hands of communities designing, providing, and consuming services, these funds were intentionally distributed in a manner designed to be low-barrier.
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Children's psychiatric residential treatment facilities
2019 data shows that children ages 5 – 17 need more beds in residential treatment settings. The most recent Request for Grant Applications to meet this need ran from July 26 through Sept. 24, 2022.
Young Adults in Transition Residential Homes or Facilities
The Oregon Legislature approved $9.2 million to increase capacity for young adults to:
- Four new, 5-bed residential treatment homes or facilities for ages 17.5 through 24 and
- One new 10-bed secure residential treatment facility for ages 18 through 27.
The most recent Request for Grant Applications ran from Jan. 23, 2023 through Feb. 28, 2023.
View the 2022 Notice of Intent to Award (1/23/2023)
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Behavioral Health Housing Incentive Fund
House Bill 2316 (2021) established this fund, which appropriates interest earned from the Housing for Mental Health Fund (ORS 450.380). These funds are separate and distinct from the General Fund.
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Housing for Mental Health Funds
This fund consists of moneys deposited in the fund under section 8, chapter 812, Oregon Laws 2015. It may include moneys appropriated, allocated, deposited or transferred to the fund by the Legislative Assembly or otherwise and interest earned on moneys in the fund.
Moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to OHA for disbursement for the purposes set forth in ORS 458.385.
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Community Mental Health Housing Fund
Commonly known as the Trust Fund, this fund may be expended for development activities for projects that provide community-based housing for individuals with Serious and Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI) or for capital improvements at the Oregon State Hospital (OSH).
The fund earns a nominal amount of interest each month (i.e., approximately $3,000 to $10,000). Loans in the OHA-HSD portfolio paid off early are deposited into the fund. No other source of funding recapitalizes this fund. See Oregon Administrative Rule 309-036-0100.
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Senate Bill 5525
General funds from SB 5525 to be allocated to increase availability of residential treatment facilities for both children and adults with substance use disorders
Questions? Email OHA.BHITeam@oha.oregon.gov "
Senate Bill 1530 Recovery Housing
Oregon Health Authority, for the biennium ending June 30, 2025, out of the General Fund, received $18M total, for distribution as grants to the entities noted in the bill for specific purposes to support the development of SUD services throughout the state.
Questions? Email OHA.SB1530@Oha.oregon.gov
HB 5030 Priority Projects
$50M HB5030 Sec 13 (with a $5M Tribal Set Aside) from net proceeds of lottery bonds, appropriated to the Oregon Health Authority for the purpose of providing grants to increase community acute psychiatric facility capacity.
The lottery funding will be available in 2 phases: $25M as of 05/2024 and the remaining $25M available as of 03/2025
Questions? Email OHA.HB5030@Oha.oregon.gov
Birth Certificate Grant Program
People experiencing unstable housing or housing insecurity may not have their birth certificate. But to access affordable housing or other services, they need it.
To fill this need,
House Bill 2402 (2017) allocates $50,000 per biennium to OHA. Each biennium OHA uses these funds to award 22 contracts to organizations at $2,000 per contract. The organizations help houseless individuals get their birth certificate using these funds. The grantees:
- Serve areas with the highest counts of people experiencing houselessness throughout Oregon.
- May only use the funds to order Oregon birth certificates. They cannot pay fees for birth certificates from other states.
To learn more about this program,
please email us.
Learn more about ordering an Oregon birth certificate
View the program's end of biennium meeting
Rental Assistance Programs
The Rent Assistance Program (Service Elements 12 and 64) helps individuals age 18 and older with Serious and Persistent Mental Illness and/or substance use disorder find supportive housing.
The program recently got approval to increase the supportive housing rates to the current Fair Market Rate for providers.
To learn about these programs,
email Vivienne (LaNae) Bowles.
TANF Behavioral Health Pilot Program
OHA administers thIs program in partnership with ODHS and three coordinated care organizations (CCOs). One of three pilot programs mandated by
House Bill 2032 (2019) to support Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) participants, the program:
- Provides CCOs funding to increase access to mental health and substance use disorder services for TANF participants.
- Requires CCOs to collect and report data about the mental health needs of TANF participants, and the services they complete. This will help OHA understand the barriers that prevent utilization of these services.
To learn about this program, email Cailin Osborn.