Deadline: 13-Aug-21
The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), Executive Office of the President, is seeking applications from public nonprofit institutions/organizations (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals) to:
- Undertake research activities that would entail implementing and evaluating community-based efforts to fight the overdose epidemic; and
- Support and promote the partnership of law enforcement and public health agencies, whose collaboration is critical to reducing overdose and other harms of substance (mis)use.
Areas
The assistance provided under this award will support the NFE’s performance of the award and fulfillment of the following performance areas:
- Research and analyze:
- a range of existing community-based efforts to address overdoses and
- current evidence-based and proven strategies to reduce overdose deaths that incorporate approaches that advance equity;
- Using the evidence-based approaches previously identified, implement or enhance community-based new or ongoing programs that aim to reduce overdose, particularly in the regions of the United States with the highest rates of fatal and non-fatal overdoses (priority will be given to proposals that make funding available to at least eight communities via subawards);
- Once implemented, support the evaluation of these community-based efforts to assess their efficacy in reducing overdose and other harms of substance (mis)use, particularly in the regions of the United States with the highest rates of fatal and nonfatal overdoses;
- Support and promote collaboration between public safety and public health agencies to ensure that overdose reduction efforts are aligned and that communities benefit from a comprehensive and coordinated response; and
- Provide technical assistance to support implementation, evaluation, and reporting by prospective subaward recipients.
Funding Information
- Cooperative Agreement Amount: $3,000,000
- Projected Award Date: No later than September 2021
- Projected Project Period 12 months [September 2021 – August 2022]
Eligibility Criteria
- Public nonprofit institutions/organizations (Institutions of Higher Education (Public and/or Private)
- Hospitals (Private nonprofit Institutions/organizations)
- Applicants must have expert knowledge and extensive experience in conducting research and analysis.
- Applicants must have expert knowledge and experience developing or enhancing new or ongoing programs that aim to reduce overdose through strategic, evidence-based approaches.
- Applicants must partner with a regional High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) program, and applications must include a letter of support/commitment from the participating HIDTA and signed by the sponsoring HIDTA Director.
- In order to be eligible to receive funding under this award, recipients must be legally recognized as a public or private nonprofit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals).
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=335123