Deadline: 12/06/2019
Amount: approximately $100,000
Description:
The purpose of this program is to prevent opioid misuse and overdose using existing data to inform evidence-based public health approaches. Award recipients will enhance evidence-based, data-driven opioid overdose prevention programming and community collaboration. Projects must implement at least two of the following strategies:
- Provider education (including all providers, specialty providers, population-specific providers, alternatives to opioids, and medication-assisted treatment (MAT))
- Community education, including parent nights at schools, projects implemented by faith-based organizations, monthly information sessions, and awareness-focused events
- Community-level interventions, such as the implementation of interventions in state “hot spots” or high-burden/spike areas
- Public awareness projects, including projects focusing on norms change, marketing campaign materials, population-specific outreach, and stigma reduction activities
- Data projects, including projects that enhance public health access and application of data from multiple sources, particularly those that are enhanced by the work funded under the surveillance component of this program
- Targeted naloxone distribution, as well as auxiliary services like naloxone training and awareness, tracking, resource mapping, and evaluation efforts