 The Biden administration recently released its Fiscal Year 2022 budget proposal. The overall request proposes $131.7 billion for Health and Human Services, an increase of $25 billion from the Fiscal Year 2021 budget. The request proposes $1.6 billion for the Community Mental Health Services Block Grant to expand suicide prevention activities and supports key investments in advancing the provision of high-quality substance use disorder treatment, reentry services, and recidivism reduction programming. The funding would also further support the Veteran Administration’s efforts to address substance use disorders.
 The Division of Overdose Prevention and National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention partnered with the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) on a project to investigate literature available on health equity in the response to drug overdoses, as well as tools and resources that could provide guidance for health departments about addressing drug overdose through a health equity lens. The newly launched Health Equity in the Response to Drug Overdose webpage features actionable resources with reports, frameworks, guidance and resource repositories from local, state and national entities that have been organized into three core areas based on proposed action. These are Programs, Practices and Interventions, Planning and Implementation, and Outreach and Awareness.
The CDC is funding 32 states and the District of Columbia to improve data collection efforts on drug-involved overdoses. This program helps states to establish an early warning system, integrate data from death certificates and unique medical examiner and coroner investigations, and share findings with state and national stakeholders. The State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (SUDORS) captures detailed information on toxicology, death scene investigations, route of administration and other risk factors that may be associated with a fatal overdose. Attached you will find the Indiana 2019 SUDORS state summary. Thank you to all of our partners for reporting their data to us in 2019.
 The Indiana Department of Health’s (IDOH) Division of Trauma and Injury Prevention has released the second iteration of the Indiana Communities Advancing Recovery Efforts (IN CAREs) Enhancing Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) grant. As part of this funding opportunity, applicants will be required to establish a multidisciplinary stakeholder team that will participate in monthly community learning sessions called ECHO sessions. Participants will receive funding to apply the knowledge learned in the virtual ECHO sessions to implement changes in their communities.
Eligible Applicants Eligible applicants might include local health departments, hospitals, local government agencies, local coordinating councils, recovery-oriented systems of care, drug-free coalitions, and other community coalitions and not-for-profit organizations that have deep knowledge, and, ideally, have previous experience leading community health improvement activities.
To view the full RFP, click here: https://redcap.isdh.in.gov/surveys/?s=LFM43LTJEX This application will close on 11:59 p.m. EDT July 16.
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