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NYS Partnership for Success 2022 - The NYS SPF-PFS 2022's goal is to reduce behavioral health disparities among our most vulnerable populations. This will be achieved by strengthening the state and local community's capacity to build and sustain culturally appropriate prevention services in high-risk underserved communities. These communities include Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC); Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Plus (LGBT+); and rural communities.

The intention is to increase access to quality prevention services within our most high-risk communities. This will be done using the data-driven Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) to develop and widely disseminate culturally responsive prevention strategies. These strategies will address underage and problem alcohol and cannabis use.

To identify areas of highest prevention need, OASAS will use state and local data. Based on their ability to reach vulnerable, high-risk, or underserved communities such as BIPOC, LGBT+, and rural communities, OASAS will fund six high-capacity community coalitions. These selected coalitions will receive targeted training and technical assistance to implement the SPF process. They will also adapt environmental change strategies, including media, policy, and compliance components, to reduce or delay underage alcohol/cannabis use and reduce adult problem alcohol/cannabis use.

Each coalition will build local resources to develop and evaluate culturally responsive messaging. The goal is to prevent the onset and reduce the progression of substance misuse and its related health problems. Additionally, these efforts will strengthen community and state-level prevention capacity to engage health disparate populations. The coalitions will use a mix of evidence-based programs, policies, and practices to focus on creating population change and sustainable prevention.

The measurable objectives outlined below are derived from outcomes associated with NYS OASAS's previous implementation of SAMHSA's State Incentive Grant 1999-2003, the NYS SPF-SIG 2009, and NYS PFS 2014. These initiatives funded environmental strategy coalition work:

1. Increase awareness within high-risk underserved communities (e.g. BIPOC, LGBT+, and rural) of the dangers of underage problem alcohol and cannabis use through culturally responsive prevention messaging.

2. Prevent the onset and reduce the progression of problem alcohol/cannabis use in high-risk underserved communities (e.g. BIPOC, LGBT+, and rural) by implementing environmental change strategies (ECS).

3. Increase capacity and infrastructure for collaborations to implement culturally responsive, data-driven prevention for high-risk underserved communities.

This initiative's needs, resources, and capacity assessments will serve as a foundation for OASAS's statewide Community Health Assessment (CHA) and a statewide Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) for substance use prevention. The CHA will identify key substance use and misuse prevention priorities, gaps in services, and behavioral health disparities. This will be done through a systematic, comprehensive data collection process, analysis, and dissemination. The CHIP will act as a state and local framework for long-term substance use/misuse prevention. The plan will identify priority communities and offer best practice guidelines to build capacity for effective responsive prevention strategies. These strategies will be gleaned from NYS PFS 2022.

Both the CHA and CHIP will be a data-driven approach to address the lasting health consequences associated with substance use and misuse, specifically in health disparate populations.

Research Foundation For Mental Hygiene

SAMHSA WAS GIVEN THE AUTHORITY TO ADDRESS PRIORITY SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT, PREVENTION AND MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS OF REGIONAL AND NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE THROUGH ASSISTANCE (GRANTS AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS) TO STATES, POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS OF STATES, INDIAN TRIBES AND TRIBAL ORGANIZATIONS, AND OTHER PUBLIC OR NONPROFIT PRIVATE ENTITIES. UNDER THESE SECTIONS, CSAT, CMHS AND CSAP SEEK TO EXPAND THE AVAILABILITY OF EFFECTIVE SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT AND RECOVERY SERVICES AVAILABLE TO AMERICANS TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF THOSE AFFECTED BY ALCOHOL AND DRUG ADDITIONS, AND TO REDUCE THE IMPACT OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE ON INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, COMMUNITIES AND SOCIETIES AND TO ADDRESS PRIORITY MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS OF REGIONAL AND NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE AND ASSIST CHILDREN IN DEALING WITH VIOLENCE AND TRAUMATIC EVENTS THROUGH BY FUNDING GRANT AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT PROJECTS. GRANTS AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS MAY BE FOR (1) KNOWLEDGE AND DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION PROJECTS FOR TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION AND THE CONDUCT OR SUPPORT OF EVALUATIONS OF SUCH PROJECTS, (2) TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, (3) TARGETED CAPACITY RESPONSE PROGRAMS (4) SYSTEMS CHANGE GRANTS INCLUDING STATEWIDE FAMILY NETWORK GRANTS AND CLIENT-ORIENTED AND CONSUMER RUN SELF-HELP ACTIVITIES AND (5) PROGRAMS TO FOSTER HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN, (6) COORDINATION AND INTEGRATION OF PRIMARY CARE SERVICES INTO PUBLICLY-FUNDED COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS AND OTHER COMMUNITY-BASED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SETTINGS

93.243 - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance

Division of Grants Management [HHS - SAMHSA]

Albany, New York 122033539 United States

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Strategic Prevention Framework-Partnerships for Success (SP-22-004)

Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 300% from $1,250,000 to $5,000,000.