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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
08/24/18 11:59 PM ET
Grants to USA tribes and tribal organizations to address the opioid epidemic impacting tribal communities. Applicants are advised to verify or create the required registrations well in advance of the deadline. This program is intended to address the opioid crisis by increasing access to culturally-appropriate and evidence-based treatment including medication-assisted treatment (MAT) using one of the three FDA-approved medications for the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD).
The intent is to reduce unmet treatment need and opioid overdose-related deaths through the provision of prevention, treatment and/or recovery activities for OUD.
The program supplements current activities focused on reducing the impact of opioids and will contribute to a comprehensive response to the opioid epidemic. Tribes will use the results of a current needs assessment if available to the tribe (or carry out a strategic planning process to conduct needs and capacity assessments) to identify gaps and resources from which to build prevention, treatment and/or community-based recovery support services. Grantees will be required to describe how they will expand access to treatment and recovery support services as well as advance substance misuse prevention in coordination with other federally-supported efforts. Grantees must use funding to supplement and not supplant existing opioid prevention, treatment, and/or recovery activities. Grantees are required to describe how they will improve retention in care, using a chronic care model or other innovative model that has been shown to improve retention in care.
This announcement addresses Healthy People 2020, Substance Abuse Topic Area HP 2020-SA.
Expectations:
SAMHSA, working with tribes, the Indian Health Service, and National Indian Health Board developed the first collaborative National Tribal Behavioral Health Agenda (TBHA). A component of the TBHA is the American Indian and Alaska Native Cultural Wisdom Declaration (CWD) which elevates the importance of tribal identities, culture, spiritual beliefs, and practices for improving well-being. This grant announcement supports the CWD and inclusion of traditional practices in the grant application. Tribal entities are also encouraged to incorporate TBHA foundational elements, priorities, and strategies as appropriate.
Grantees will develop and provide opioid misuse prevention, treatment, and recovery support services for the purposes of addressing the opioid abuse and overdose crisis within the tribes. This service array should be based on needs identified in the Tribe’s strategic plan. TOR grantees will be permitted to use up to ten percent of their grant award on administrative/infrastructure costs to administer the grant. Grantees will be required to report expenditures for all activities and ensure available resources within the tribe are leveraged for substance use prevention, treatment, and recovery support services to avoid duplication of efforts.
Additionally, the use of these funds requires that evidence-based treatments, practices and interventions for OUD be used by grantees and subgrantees. SAMHSA requires that Food Drug Administration-approved medication-assisted treatment (MAT) be provided to those diagnosed with OUD. FDA-approved MAT for OUD includes methadone, buprenorphine products, including single-entity buprenorphine products, buprenorphine/naloxone tablets, films, buccal preparations, injectable buprenorphine products, buprenorphine implants, and injectable extended-release naltrexone.
In addition to these treatment services, grantees will be required to employ effective prevention and recovery support services to ensure that individuals are receiving a comprehensive array of services across the spectrum of prevention, treatment, and recovery.
SAMHSA will monitor use of these funds to assure that they are being used to support evidence-based treatment and recovery supports and will not permit use of these funds for non-evidence-based approaches.
TOR is one of SAMHSA’s services grant programs. SAMHSA intends that its services programs result in the delivery of services as soon as possible after award. At the latest, award recipients are expected to provide services to the population(s) of focus by the fourth month after the grant has been awarded.
Key Personnel:
The key personnel for this program will be the Project Director. This position requires prior approval by SAMHSA after review of credentials of staff and job descriptions.
Your project must have this key personnel regardless of whether or not they receive a salary or compensation from the project. These staff members must make a substantial contribution to the execution of the project.
Required Activities:
You must use SAMHSA’s TOR grant funds primarily to support evidence-based prevention, treatment, and recovery support activities as described above. This includes the following required activities:
-Complete a comprehensive strategic plan, based on the most current epidemiological data for the tribe, to address the gaps in prevention, treatment, and recovery identified by the tribe. Plans must be completed within 60 days of award. Tribes may use existing plans if available.
-Implement workforce development activities to ensure that individuals working in tribal communities are well versed in strategies to prevent and treat opioid misuse.
-Develop effective prevention strategies which include but are not limited to: elder education, outreach and engagement of youth, strategic messaging, and community prevention activities. Develop strategies to purchase and disseminate naloxone and provide training on its use to first responders and other tribal members.
-Implement service delivery models that enable the full spectrum of treatment and recovery support services that facilitate positive treatment outcomes and long- term recovery. Models for evidence-based treatment include, but are not limited to, hub and spoke models in which patients with OUD are stabilized in a specialized treatment setting focused on the care and treatment of OUD and associated conditions such as mental illness, physical illness, including infectious diseases, and other substance use disorders and then transferred to community- based providers once stabilization has occurred. Other evidence-based models to treat OUD include treatment in federally and state-regulated Opioid Treatment Programs, addiction specialty care programs that either directly provide or support use of MAT for OUD in addition to psychosocial services such as drug counseling, psychoeducation, toxicology screening, individual, group, or family therapy, vocational/educational resources, and case management and recovery support services. Specialty programs such as emergency departments, urgent care centers, in some cases, pharmacies, and intensive outpatient, partial hospital, or outpatient substance use disorder treatment programs that also support appropriate MAT and recovery support services may also qualify as programs utilizing evidence-based practices. Inpatient/residential programs that provide intensive services to those meeting medical necessity criteria and which offer MAT may also be programs engaging in evidence-based practices if the care continuum includes a connection to MAT in the community once discharged from the inpatient/residential program. Primary care or other clinical practice settings where MAT is provided and linkages to psychosocial services and recovery services in support of patient needs related to the provision of comprehensive treatment of OUD may also qualify as evidence-based programs/practices.
-Implement community recovery support services such as peer supports, recovery coaches, and recovery housing. Grantees must ensure that recovery housing supported under this grant is in an appropriate and legitimate facility. Individuals in recovery should have a meaningful role in developing the service array used in your program.
-Provide assistance to patients with treatment costs and develop other strategies to eliminate or reduce treatment costs for under- and uninsured patients.
-Provide treatment transition and coverage for patients reentering communities from criminal justice settings or other rehabilitative settings.
-Work with Tribal Epidemiology Centers to assess the impact of the grant.
Allowable Activities:
-Incorporate culturally appropriate and traditional practices into your program design and implementation.
-Support innovative telehealth strategies in rural and underserved areas to increase the capacity of communities to support OUD prevention, treatment, and recovery.
-Address barriers to receiving MAT by reducing the cost of treatment, developing innovative systems of care to expand access to treatment, engage and retain patients in treatment, address discrimination associated with accessing treatment, including discrimination that limits access to MAT, and support long- term recovery.
-Develop and implement tobacco cessation programs, activities, and/or strategies.
Other Expectations:
Applicants who currently receive opioid-related funding from other federal programs, must coordinate activities to eliminate duplication of services and programs.
Although people with behavioral health conditions represent about 25 percent of the U.S. adult population, these individuals account for nearly 40 percent of all cigarettes smoked and can experience serious health consequences. A growing body of research shows that quitting smoking can improve mental health and addiction recovery outcomes. Research shows that many smokers with behavioral health conditions want to quit, can quit, and benefit from proven smoking cessation treatments. SAMHSA strongly encourages all recipients to adopt a tobacco-free facility/grounds policy and to promote abstinence from all tobacco products (except in regard to accepted tribal traditions and practices).
Recipients must utilize third party and other revenue realized from the provision of services to the extent possible and use SAMHSA grant funds only for services to individuals who are not covered by public or commercial health insurance programs, individuals for whom coverage has been formally determined to be unaffordable, or for services that are not sufficiently covered by an individual’s health insurance plan. Recipients are also expected to facilitate the health insurance application and enrollment process for eligible uninsured clients. Recipients should also consider other systems from which a potential service recipient may be eligible for services (for example, the Veterans Health Administration or senior services), if appropriate for and desired by that individual to meet his/her needs. In addition, recipients are required to implement policies and procedures that ensure other sources of funding are utilized first when available for that individual.
SAMHSA encourages all recipients to address the behavioral health needs of returning service members and veterans and their families in designing and developing their programs and to consider prioritizing this population for services, where appropriate. SAMHSA will encourage its recipients to utilize and provide technical assistance for service members, veterans and their families. This includes efforts to engage their staff in cultural competency training courses and to collaborate with key organizations in their local communities that are focused on serving this population.
Using Evidence-Based Practices:
SAMHSA’s services grants are intended to fund services or practices that have a demonstrated evidence base and that are appropriate for the population(s) of focus. An evidence-based practice (EBP) refers to approaches to prevention, treatment, or recovery that are validated by some form of documented research evidence. Both researchers and practitioners recognize that EBPs are essential to improving the effectiveness of services in the behavioral health field. While SAMHSA realizes that EBPs have not been developed for all populations and/or service settings, application reviewers will closely examine proposed interventions for their evidence base and appropriateness for population to be served. If an EBP(s) exists for the types of problems or disorders being addressed, the expectation is that EBP(s) will be utilized and that grantees are competent in implementing them.
All grantees are required to use evidence-based MAT in patients diagnosed with OUD. Grantees will also utilize other EBPs in conjunction with the required EBP for this FOA (review Expectations and Required Activities for additional information on EBP for OUD.
Data Collection and Performance Measurement:
All SAMHSA recipients are required to collect and report certain data so that SAMHSA can meet its obligations under the Government Performance and Results (GPRA) Modernization Act of 2010. Grantees may use up to 15 percent of their grant award for Data Collection and Performance Assessment and Infrastructure Development. You must document your plan for data collection and reporting in Section E: Data Collection and Performance Measurement.
Grantees will be required to report a series of data elements that will enable SAMHSA to determine the impact of the program on opioid use, and opioid-related morbidity and mortality. Grantees will be required to report client-level data on elements including but not limited to: diagnosis, demographic characteristics, substance use, services received, employment status, criminal justice involvement, and housing. Additional data elements will also be required and will be provided upon award.
This information will be gathered using SAMHSA’s Performance Accountability and Reporting System (SPARS); access will be provided upon award. Examples of the type of data collection tools required can be found here. Data will be collected via a face-to-face interview using this tool at four data collection points: intake to services, three months post intake, six months post intake, and at discharge. Recipients will be expected to do a GPRA interview on all clients in their specified unduplicated target number and are also expected to achieve a three-month follow-up rate of 80 percent and a six-month follow-up rate of 80 percent. GPRA training and technical assistance will be offered to recipients.
The collection of these data enables SAMHSA to report on key outcome measures relating to the grant program. Performance data will be reported to the public as part of SAMHSA’s Congressional Justification.
GrantWatch ID#: 183970
$50,000,000
Estimated Number of Awards: 302 Awards
The anticipated project start date is September 30, 2018. The length of the project period is up to 2 years.
Eligible Applicants:
The applicant must be a federally recognized American Indian or Alaska Native tribe or tribal organization. Tribes and tribal organizations may apply individually, as a consortia, or in partnership with an urban Indian organization. These entities are defined as follows:
-Indian Tribe, as defined at 25 U.S.C. § 1603(14) is any Indian tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community, including any Alaska Native village or group or regional or village corporation as defined in or established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (85 Stat. 688) [43 U.S.C.A. § 1601 et seq.], which is recognized as eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians.
-Tribal Organization, as defined at 25 U.S.C. § 1603(26) is the recognized governing body of any Indian tribe; any legally established organization of Indians which is controlled, sanctioned, or chartered by such governing body or which is democratically elected by the adult members of the Indian community to be served by such organization and which includes the maximum participation of Indians in all phases of its activities. Provided that in any case where a contract is let or grant made to an organization to perform services benefiting more than one Indian tribe, the approval of each such Indian tribe shall be a prerequisite to the letting or making of such contract or grant.
-Urban Indian Organization, as defined at 25 U.S.C. § 1603(29), operating pursuant to a contract or grant with the Indian Health Service is a nonprofit corporate body situated in an urban center, governed by an urban Indian controlled board of directors, and providing for the maximum participation of all interested Indian groups and individuals, which body is capable of legally cooperating with other public and private entities for the purpose of performing the activities described in [25 U.S.C § 1653(a)].
A consortia of tribes or tribal organizations are eligible to apply, but each participating entity must indicate its approval. A single tribe in the consortium must be the legal applicant, the recipient of the award, and the entity legally responsible for satisfying the grant requirements.
Funding Limitations/Restrictions:
All budgets will be reviewed in conjunction with program objectives and will be approved prior to award. Awards to support projects beyond the first budget year will be contingent upon Congressional appropriation, satisfactory progress in meeting the project’s objectives, and a determination that continued funding would be in the best interest of the Federal Government.
The funding restrictions for this project are as follows:
-No more than 10 percent of the total grant award may be used for administrative and infrastructure development costs.
-Up to 15 percent of the total grant award may be used for Data Collection and Performance Assessment and Infrastructure Development.
-Only U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) –approved products can be purchased with TOR grant funds.
-Funds may not be expended through the grant or a subaward by any agency which would deny any eligible client, patient or individual access to their program because of their use of FDA-approved medications for the treatment of substance use disorders (e.g., methadone, buprenorphine products including buprenorphine/naloxone combination formulations and buprenorphine monoproduct formulations, naltrexone products including extended-release and oral formulations or implantable buprenorphine.) Specifically, patients must be allowed to participate in methadone treatment rendered in accordance with current federal and state methadone dispensing regulations from an Opioid Treatment Program and ordered by a physician who has evaluated the client and determined that methadone is an appropriate medication treatment for the individual’s opioid use disorder. Similarly, medications available by prescription or office-based implantation must be permitted if it is appropriately authorized through prescription by a licensed prescriber or provider. In all cases, MAT must be permitted to be continued for as long as the prescriber or treatment provider determines that the medication is clinically beneficial. Grantees must assure that clients will not be compelled to no longer use MAT as part of the conditions of any programming if stopping is inconsistent with a licensed prescriber’s recommendation or valid prescription.
SAMHSA’s application procedures have changed. All applicants must register with NIH’s eRA Commons in order to submit an application. This process takes up to six weeks. If you believe you are interested in applying for this opportunity, you MUST start the registration process immediately. Do not wait to start this process. If your organization is not registered and you do not have an active eRA Commons PI account by the deadline, the application will not be accepted. No exceptions will be made.
SAMHSA applicants are required to obtain a valid DUNS Number, also known as the Unique Entity Identifier, and provide that number in the application.
Applicants also must register with the System for Award Management (SAM) and Grants.gov.
Applications are due by 11:59 PM (Eastern Time) on August 20, 2018.
View this opportunity on Grants.gov:
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=TI-18-016
Application Forms and Resources:
https://www.samhsa.gov/grants/applying/forms-resources
Applying for a New SAMHSA Grant:
https://www.samhsa.gov/grants/applying
Before starting your grant application, please review the funding source's website listed below for updates/changes/addendums/conferences/LOIs.
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