Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion Grant Opportunity

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) Center for  Mental Health Services (CMHS) has released a grant opportunity for the 2020 fiscal year Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) Expansion Grants. Through this program, SAMHSA aims to increase access to and improve the quality of community mental and substance use disorder treatment services via the expansion of CCBHCs. The CCBHC Expansion grant program is required to provide inclusive 24/7 crisis intervention services for folks with specific co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorder. Eligible applicants include certified community behavioral health clinics or community-based behavioral health clinics that may not yet be certified but meet the certification criteria and can be certified within four months of award, and those entities whose CCBHC-Expansion grant funding ends by September 2020. Entities funded under SM-18-019 grant in 2019 are not eligible.

Mind-Body Therapies for Opioid-Treated Pain

Prescribers are being encouraged to consider alternate pain management options outside of prescribing pain medications, such as mind-body therapies (MBTs), to help reduce opioid-related overdoses. MBTs target “interactions among the brain, mind, body, and behavior, with the intent to use the mind to affect physical functioning and promote health,” according to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. The evaluation of MBTs performed by researches from all over North America determined that there could be an association between reduced opioid use and practices such as meditation and mindfulness. For four of the five studies that were evaluated, researches saw significant improvements in opioid misuse, opioid craving, time to opioid recovery, and/or opioid use.

ISDH Naloxone Grant Opportunities

The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) is accepting grant applications to give first responders in rural counties intranasal naloxone rescue kits. Only first responders who provide services in rural counties are eligible to receive the naloxone doses. The following types of agencies (paid or volunteer) are considered first responders under this grant: law enforcement, fire, EMS agencies, corrections, parole officers, and schools.

The following counties are eligible for this grant opportunity:

To view the RFP and apply for this grant opportunity, click here.

ISDH is also accepting grant applications in response to the grant opportunity announcement for the distribution of Opioid Rescue Kits in the form of Narcan® nasal spray. The intent of this grant is to provide emergency Opioid Rescue Kits to local health departments (LHDs) that will be then distributed to the community.

The goal of this grant is to expand the participation of naloxone kit programs and distribution of opioid rescue kits among LHDs. Local health departments are highly encouraged to collaborate with their county jails for this opportunity. Jails in the county will be able to receive doses through the LHD to give to incarcerated persons upon their release.

Click here to view the RFP and apply for this grant opportunity.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

HIV/AIDS education and risk reduction for addiction professionals training

People who wish to attend this HIV/AIDS Education & Risk Reduction for Addiction Professionals Workshop will be required to have already begun the certification process on the ICAADA CADAC II, III, IV or V credentials on: http://www.icaada.org  This is funded by the Indiana Department of Family and Social Services Administration through the State Targeted Response Grant: 21st Century Cures.

This six (6) hour training is designed to assist addiction professionals in helping their clients identify "high risk" activities/life styles that may increase the risk of exposure to HIV and/or the risk of transmitting HIV to others. The goal of this training is to improve the ability of addiction professionals in a variety of settings to support individuals in making behavior changes that will reduce their risk of acquiring and/or transmitting HIV as well as other health related conditions such as Hepatitis C. Participants completing the training will receive six (6) CEUs from ICAADA . These CEUs meet credentialing requirements for addiction professionals.

This training will take place Friday, January 24, 2020 in Indianapolis, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Cost is $10.

For more information or to register for this training opportunity, visit:

https://www.icaada.org/

The Governor’s Next Level Recovery Conference

The 2020 Governor’s Next Level Recovery Conference will focus on successful strategies to tackle the drug epidemic. Participants will be able to hear from experts that have implemented successful strategies at the local level, as well as what Indiana is doing to combat the epidemic. The keynote speaker will be U.S. Surgeon General VADM Jerome. M. Adams, MD, MPH. The event will take place from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 23, in Indianapolis. Click here to register.