State Targeted Response Grants
The Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse
Treatment (CSAT) and Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), are accepting applications for the State Targeted Response
to the Opioid Crisis Grants (Short Title: Opioid STR). These grants will be
awarded to Single State Agencies (e.g. ADAD) via a formula based on unmet need for opioid
use disorder treatment and drug poisoning deaths.
The Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division, Minnesota Department of Human Services is the Single State Agency currently involved in application planning for this grant. MN is eligible to receive around $5.3 million dollars per year, for Federal
Fiscal Years 17 and 18. The grant is due to SAMHSA,
midnight on February 17, 2017.
The program aims to address
the opioid crisis by:
- Increasing access to treatment
- Reducing unmet treatment need
- Reducing opioid overdose related deaths through
the provision of prevention, treatment and recovery activities for opioid use
disorder (OUD) (including prescription opioids as well as illicit drugs such as
heroin).
The program supplements activities
pertaining to opioids currently undertaken by the state agency or territory and
will support a comprehensive response to the opioid epidemic using a strategic
planning process to conduct needs and capacity assessments. The results of the assessments will identify
gaps and resources from which to build upon existing substance use prevention
and treatment activities. This work is already underway through the Strategic Prevention Framework-Prescription Drug grant awarded to DHS this past fall.
Grantees will
be required to:
- Describe how they will expand access to
treatment and recovery
- Describe how they will advance substance misuse
prevention in coordination with other federal efforts such as those funded by
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Supplement and not supplant existing opioid
prevention, treatment, and recovery activities in their state.
- Improve retention in care, using a chronic care
model.
We are looking to build upon the Medication
Assisted Treatment and the Prescription Drug Overdose grants that were
submitted to SAMHSA earlier this year. We are also looking to the opioid
related recommendations developed this past year and included in the MN’s Plan for the Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery of Addiction. We would welcome your feedback on the grant. Please send comments to: YourOpinionMatters.DHS@state.mn.us , with Opioid STR in the subject line by January 11, 2017.
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