Deadline: 13-Jul-22
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) and Office on Women’s Health (OWH) are inviting applications that create a statewide pilot project to train substance use disorder (SUD) treatment providers on intimate partner violence (IPV) and address the intersection of IPV and SUD during the pregnancy and postpartum period.
The Violence Against Women and Substance Use Prevention Initiative will involve a collaboration between OWH and the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Family Violence Prevention and Services Program. ACF will provide technical advice to OWH but will not provide funding or make awards under this initiative.
OWH expects recipients of awards under this initiative to develop a statewide pilot project that includes partnerships with domestic and sexual violence organizations at the state and local level and that will:
- Incentivize SUD providers treating pregnant and postpartum women to be trained on IPV
- Train SUD treatment providers to address IPV with patients and train IPV staff on SUD
- Identify, utilize, and disseminate best practices
- Integrate IPV and SUD protocols into medical practice
- Integrate perinatal and postpartum programs into existing substance use programs
- Implement a process and outcomes evaluation
- Develop a disparity impact statement
Funding Information
- Estimated Federal Funds Available: $ 3,000,000
- Award Ceiling (Federal Funds including indirect costs): $ 750,000 per budget period
- Award Floor (Federal Funds including indirect costs): $ 500,000 per budget period
- Anticipated Start Date: September 15, 2022
- Anticipated Initial Budget Period Length: 12 months
Eligibility Criteria
Examples of eligible Organizations include:
- State Governments
- U.S. territories
- County Governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Independent school districts
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Public Housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments)
- Nonprofits having 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations, including small businesses.
For more information, visit Grants.gov
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=337434