Arizona Rural Health Transformation — Behavioral Health & SUD Expansion (YH27-0026)

Arizona AHCCCS is offering up to $8.5 million per budget year for rural and rural Tribal behavioral-health expansion across mobile and digital care, workforce recruitment and training, and suicide, trauma and substance-use prevention. Applications close August 31, 2026 at 3:00 PM MST.

FundingUp to $8,500,000 across three program areas under RFGA YH27-0026, with no match required. Program Area 1 — Mobile Digital Services Access Points, Clinics, and Crisis Services — has up to $5,000,000 with Tier 1 awards of $250,000-$500,000, Tier 2 awards of $500,001-$1,000,000, and Tier 3 awards of $1,000,001-$1,500,000. Program Area 2 has up to $2,000,000 and Program Area 3 up to $1,500,000.

DeadlineAugust 31, 2026 at 3:00 PM MST (Arizona Time)

Last verifiedSeptember 1, 2026

Required next actionArchived on August 31, 2026 after the 3:00 PM Arizona time deadline passed. Monitor AHCCCS for any Behavioral Health and SUD Expansion successor funding under Arizona Rural Health Transformation.

Broad Eligibility

Eligible applicants include qualifying rural hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals, Rural Emergency Hospitals, Rural Health Clinics, rural-serving FQHCs and Section 330 health centers, rural behavioral-health providers and CCBHCs, opioid treatment facilities, Tribal health and behavioral-health entities, rural public-health departments, nonprofit healthcare organizations, healthcare coalitions and networks, rural school districts, AHECs, provider associations, managed care organizations, anchor hospitals/universities/nonprofit health systems, community-based nonprofits and other specifically listed entities. Services must be delivered in HRSA-defined rural Arizona or rural Tribal service areas, and each program area/tier has additional eligibility requirements. Projects must establish or materially expand services rather than supplant existing funding or simply maintain current operations.

Atlas Analysis

Arizona AHCCCS used Rural Health Transformation funding to support a Behavioral Health & Substance Use Disorder Expansion initiative focused on rural and Tribal communities. The state program design includes overdose prevention, mobile and digital service access, rural crisis services, workforce expansion, and school/community prevention strategies.

The YH27-0026 application window closed August 31, 2026, so Atlas now treats this page as archived intelligence rather than an actionable application. The underlying Arizona RHTP strategy remains highly relevant for successor funding because AHCCCS continues to identify mobile health, telehealth-capable access points, rural crisis care, digital therapeutics, and behavioral-health workforce capacity as core investment areas.

Successor-funding watch

Rural hospitals, CAHs, RHCs, FQHCs, behavioral-health providers, Tribal entities, public-health agencies, schools, and regional networks should monitor AHCCCS for follow-on competitive awards, cooperative agreements, and contracts tied to the same behavioral-health and SUD priorities.