Deadline: 12-Jul-22
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks applications for funding to create a regional drug data research center that promotes the collection, analysis, and dissemination of information critical in response to the overdose crisis and impacts of opioids, stimulants, and other substances.
This program provides resources to an accredited institution of higher education that promotes the collection, analysis, research, and dissemination of information to reduce fatal and nonfatal overdoses, promote public safety, and support prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery services.
Goals
DDRC’s goal is to support the expansion of an existing statewide drug data repository into a regional drug data research center that promotes the collection, analysis, research, and dissemination of overdose-related information to reduce fatal and nonfatal overdoses, promote public safety, and support prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery services, and serves as a model for other regions of the United States.
Objectives
DDRC’s objectives are to:
- Expand an existing statewide drug data repository into a regional data center to produce and disseminate web-based, real-time, actionable multisector drug data.
- Develop a transportable and/or replicable, open-source, regional drug data architecture.
- Facilitate electronic information sharing across multiple agencies across state lines that must include, but not limited to, data on overdose deaths, drug-related EMS, prescription drug monitoring program data, drug arrests, and drug-related emergency department visits. This effort should be complementary but shall not be duplicative of other information sharing.
- Encourage the sharing of additional information from law enforcement, prosecutions, jail stays, corrections (institution and community corrections), public health, treatment provision, and/or courts/pretrial services across states.
- Support collaboration among public health, behavioral health, criminal justice, and first responder agencies.
- Expand research to enhance knowledge to more effectively address the overdose crisis, particularly in populations who have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by persistent poverty and inequality.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $3,500,000
- Award Ceiling: $3,500,000
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants are limited to: Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education Private institutions of higher education An applicant university must be fully accredited by one of the regional institutional accreditation agencies recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education. Foreign governments, foreign organizations, and foreign colleges and universities are not eligible to apply.
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