Informational Webinar Community-based Prevention Services Grants December 1, 2015 Division of Behavioral Health & Recovery Office of Behavioral Health & Prevention
Agenda • Introductions • Overview of Legislative directive for Dedicated Marijuana Account (DMA) funds for DSHS • Overview of RFA for Community-based Prevention Services Grants • Questions/Answers 2
Implementing I-502 – DSHS (2E2SHB 2136) • Healthy Youth Survey (HYS) / Young Adult Survey (YAS) • State-wide Benefit Cost Evaluation • Prevention and Treatment services 3
Implementing I-502- DSHS Continued Prevention and Treatment services • Up to 15%: – For development, implementation, maintenance, and evaluation of programs and practices aimed at the prevention or reduction of maladaptive substance use, substance-use disorder, substance abuse or substance dependence among middle school and high school age students. • 85% of the funds must be directed to evidence-based or research-based programs and practices that produce objectively measurable result, and by September 1, 2020, are cost-beneficial. • 15% of the funds may be directed to proven and tested practices, emerging best practices or promising practices. 4
Prevention & Treatment Services • Treatment - Increase Youth Residential Services • Tribal Prevention and Treatment • Community-based prevention services: – CPWI Enhancement – CPWI Expansion – Community-based prevention services grants • EBP Training • OSPI Life Skills Training • DEL Home Visiting 5
Community – based Prevention Services Grants • Statewide process to provide services using the list of Youth Marijuana Use Prevention programs for eligible community-based organizations (CBO). – Single-site grants for up to $20,000 – Multi-site grants for up to $100,000 6
Community – based Prevention Services Grants • Request for Applications: Community-based prevention services to prevent and reduce youth substance use. • Estimated Contract Period : January 1, 2016 through June 30, 2016. Amendments extending the period of performance, if any, shall be at the sole discretion of DSHS. • Eligible applicants include community-based organizations and public agencies/organizations with youth and family-serving capacity. • Application Due Date: All proposals must arrive December 15, 2015 by 5:00 P.M. Pacific Standard Time • Submit Application To: PRItraining@dshs.wa.gov • Questions: Questions may be submitted to PRItraining@dshs.wa.gov An updated list of Questions and Answers will be posted weekly: www.theathenaforum.org/I502PreventionPlanImplementation • Application: Request for Applications instructions and related forms can be downloaded at www.theathenaforum.org/I502PreventionPlanImplementation 7
Purpose • The State of Washington, Department of Social and Health Services, Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery (DSHS/DBHR) intends to award up to twenty (20) contracts with community-based or public organizations to serve high-need communities in Washington State to provide quality and culturally competent replications of evidence-based, research-based and promising substance abuse prevention programs in accordance with RCW 69.50.530. 8
Scope of Work • Implement approved work plan, submitted in Project Narrative section of application. Work plan shall include identified program(s) from the Youth Substance Use/Misuse/Abuse Prevention Programs, Practices & Strategies list on Appendix A. – No less than 85% of the funding shall support programs that are either Evidence-based or Research-based from the provided list. – No more than 15% of funding shall support Promising Programs from the provided list. – Funds shall be used to support program costs including staff for program planning, training, implementation, reporting and evaluation. • Program(s) will be implemented for middle and high school aged youth and their families in an ongoing cycle in at least one community. Applications may include a proposal to serve more than one community and must demonstrate capacity to do so in Project Narrative section. 9
Scope of Work • Enter approved implementation work plan into designated prevention reporting system (Performance- Based Prevention System (PBPS)) within 30 days of executed contract. • Complete monthly program or strategy services reporting by the 15 th of the month following the month of services, including required pre/post-test data. • Participate in monthly learning community meetings. • Participate in monthly check-in phone calls with contract manager or designee. 10
Application Application should include the following order: 1. Application Face Page 2. Project Narrative 3. Program Action Plan 4. Program Budget 5. Contractor Intake Form 6. Letter of Support from local coalition (if applicable) 11
Application continued • CBO proposals shall include: – Collaboration with other efforts in defined area (CPWI, DFC, other youth serving organizations) – Specific community service area boundaries including location of services (priority for high-need communities) – Specific demographics of populations that will be the target of services – Budget narrative and justification for requested funding amount – Plan for addressing health disparities • Implement Evidence-based/Research-based/ Promising Programs within defined percentages. • Encouraged to partner with CPWI sites (not required). 12
Scoring Criteria a. Five (5) priority bonus points shall be given for applications with a focus to serve high-need community(ies) from the list provided in Appendix B. b. Five (5) priority bonus points shall be given to applicants that are community-based organizations. c. Three (3) priority bonus points shall be given for applications demonstrating collaboration with a community coalition. Two (2) additional priority bonus points shall be given for a letter of support from a local community coalition in the service area. d. Action Plan and Budget is complete and costs are allowable 0 - 4 points each for a total of eight (8) possible points. e. Provide a Project Narrative by completing the questions. f. Total points possible for this application are sixty-three (63). Up to forty- eight (48) points are available for Project Narrative, Action Plan and Budget plus fifteen (15) bonus points for items a-c noted above. 13
Application Forms • The application and related forms can be downloaded from: www.theathenaforum.org/I502PreventionPlanImplementation 14
Prevention & Treatment Training for Evidence-based, Research-based, & Promising Programs • Assess community facilitator training needs statewide. • Prevention EBP, RBP, Promising Program list roll-out and informational session November 2015. • Training on implementation and fidelity provided for prioritized programs and practices. 15
QUESTIONS? If you have any questions about the Community-based Prevention Services RFA, please submit them to PRItraining@dshs.wa.gov Questions & Answers will be posted weekly at www.theathenaforum.org/I502PreventionPlanImplementation 16
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