Grants For Counseling

There are a variety of grants available to help individuals get the counseling they need, whether it involves financial, health, or educational issues. Grantors include corporations, foundations and government agencies. Some grants are awarded directly to individuals; others are given to nonprofit organizations in need of financial assistance to provide the counseling services to clients.

National Credit Union Foundation Housing Counseling Grant

• The National Credit Union Foundation (NCUF) is the recipient of a grant of more than $710,000 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The foundation will use the money to develop housing counseling services for low-income families that have never owned homes before. The services will be provided by 22 different nonprofit credit unions to counsel the new homeowners on such issues as effective budgeting and the importance of timely mortgage payments.

  Wendell "Bucky" Sebastian
  Executive Director
  National Credit Union Foundation
  601 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
  Suite 600, South Building
  Washington, DC 20004-2601
  800-356-9655 ext. 6769
  ncuf.coop

Missouri Foundation for Health: St. Louis Grants

• Throughout the city of St. Louis, Missouri, 37 nonprofit organizations were awarded over $2.5 million in grants by the Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH). Many of the nonprofits that received grants were counseling centers that help people with mental health issues. For example, the Agape Christian Counseling Center received $75,000 for counseling services to low-income families, and the Center for Survivors of Torture and War Trauma received $75,000 to provide mental health services to soldiers and family members affected by those experiences.

  Missouri Foundation for Health
  1000 St. Louis Union Station, Suite. 400
  St. Louis, MO 63103
  800.655.5560
  mffh.org

Elementary and Secondary School Counseling Program Grants

• The U.S. Department of Education offers a grant to local education agencies (LEAs) to build, develop or increase the counseling departments at elementary and secondary educational facilities. To qualify for the grant, the programs must develop a preventive approach, provide in-service training to advance the abilities of counselors, or add staffing to the counseling departments.

  U.S. Department of Education, OSDFS
  550 12th St. SW
  Room 10080, PCP
  Washington, DC 20202-6450
  202-245-7870
  2.ed.gov

SAMHSA Grants

• The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) offers many counseling grant opportunities. One is the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Crisis Center Follow Up grant. The purpose of this program is to establish an effective system to follow up on individuals who call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline program. Many people who have had suicidal tendencies have recurrent episodes. This grant allows counselors to check on patients after the initial intervention.

  SAMHSA’s Health Information Network
  P.O. Box 2345
  Rockville, MD 20847-2345
  877-726-4727
  samhsa.gov