SAMHSA, ReCAST Minneapolis grant funds must be used for purposes supported by the program and cannot be used for any of the following:

• Pay for any lease.   
• Pay for food, other than light snacks, not to exceed $3.00 per person.
• Pay for housing other than residential mental health and/or substance abuse treatment.  
• Provide services to incarcerated populations (defined as those persons in jail, prison, detention facilities, or in custody where they are not free to move about in the community).  
• Pay for the purchase or construction of any building or structure to house any part of the program.  (Applicants may request up to $75,000 for renovations and alterations of existing facilities, if necessary and appropriate to the project.)  
• Provide residential or outpatient treatment services when the facility has not yet been acquired, sited, approved, and met all requirements for human habitation and services provision.  (Expansion or enhancement of existing residential services is permissible.)  
• Provide inpatient treatment or hospital-based detoxification services.  Residential services are not considered to be inpatient or hospital-based services.  
• Pay for unallowable costs (e.g., meals, sporting events, entertainment). Only allowable costs associated with the use of federal funds are permitted to fund evidence-based practices (EBPs). Other sources of funds may be used for unallowable costs (e.g., meals, sporting events, entertainment).  Other support is defined as funds or resources, whether federal, non-federal, or institutional, in direct support of activities through fellowships, gifts, prizes, or in-kind contributions. 
• Make direct payments to individuals to induce them to enter prevention or treatment services. However, SAMHSA discretionary grant funds may be used for non-clinical support services (e.g., bus tokens, child care) designed to improve access to and retention in prevention and treatment programs. 
• Make direct payments to individuals to encourage attendance and/or attainment of prevention or treatment goals.  However, SAMHSA discretionary grant funds may be used for non-cash incentives of up to $30 to encourage attendance and/or attainment of prevention or treatment goals when the incentives are built into the program design and when the incentives are the minimum amount that is deemed necessary to meet program goals.  SAMHSA policy allows an individual participant to receive more than one incentive over the course of the program.  However, non-cash incentives should be limited to the minimum number of times deemed necessary to achieve program outcomes.  A grantee or treatment or prevention provider may also provide up to $30 cash or equivalent (coupons, bus tokens, gifts, child care, and vouchers) to individuals as incentives to participate in required data collection follow up.  This amount may be paid for participation in each required interview.
• Distribute sterile needles or syringes for the hypodermic injection of any illegal drug.  
• Pay for medicines for HIV antiretroviral therapy, sexually transmitted diseases (STD)/sexually transmitted illnesses (STI), TB, and hepatitis B and C, or for psychotropic drugs.