Deadline: 1-May-23
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance 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 furthers the DOJ’s mission by providing 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, Objectives and Deliverables
- Goals
- The goal of this program is to promote the research, collection, analysis, and dissemination of overdose-related information to reduce fatal and nonfatal overdoses, promote public safety, and support prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery services, creating a network of regional drug data research centers that serves as a model for other regions in the United States.
- Objectives
- Expand the existing statewide drug data repository into a regional data center to produce and disseminate web-based, real-time, actionable multisector drug data.
- Enhance the capacity to utilize, as applicable, the open-source, regional drug data research center architecture developed by the University of Alabama.
- Facilitate electronic information sharing across multiple agencies across state lines that must include, but not be limited to, data on overdose deaths, drug-related EMS encounters, prescription drug monitoring program data, drug arrests, and drug-related emergency department visits. This effort should be complementary to, not duplicative of, other information sharing.
- Encourage the sharing of additional information from law enforcement, prosecutions, jail stays, corrections (institutional and community), public health, treatment provision, and/ or courts/pretrial services across states.
- Support collaboration among public health, behavioral health, criminal justice, and first responder agencies to use these data to inform strategies and coordinate efforts.
- 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.
- Deliverables
- Create a regional drug data research center that facilitates web-based, real-time, multisector data dissemination across multiple agencies across state lines.
- Document utilization of regional drug data for policy and strategy development.
- Develop or enhance the regional data center’s capacity to provide unsolicited reports to authorized individuals or entities.
- Pilot and provide feedback, including written documentation, on the regional data center’s architecture as well as the training and technical assistance resources developed by the University of Alabama, the FY 2022 DDRC award recipient.
- Work collaboratively with the University of Alabama and assist in building knowledge and capacity for the field in the area of regional drug data research centers.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Number of Awards: 2
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $1,980,000
- Period of Performance Start Date: 10/1/23
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $3,960,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Private institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
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