VHEOC Requests For Proposals
VHEOC is committed to working with our partners, Community Services Boards, and academic research members to bring positive, collaborative change and begin to effectively tackle the opioid crisis in Virginia.
We are here to help facilitate important projects and help communities across Virginia combat the opioid crisis in a variety of practical ways. Think big. Your proposals have the potential to bring significant positive change to communities and directly help improve peoples’ lives.
Review the RFPs below and follow the application process contained within the Proposal Template (PDF) to qualify for VHEOC funding opportunities. Make sure to include the RFP number within the application form.
Applications are date sensitive and must be submitted by specified deadline. The VHEOC model strives for a timely response to the RFPs. Most VHEOC RFP announcements allow for a three-week turnaround for proposal submissions. Likewise, decisions on submitted proposals will generally be communicated within one week to ten days.
Purpose: Create a presentation(s) aimed at educating members of the legal system on Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) for Opioid Use Disorders. The presentation(s) should be geared specifically toward Detention Facilities and their unique settings, including inmate safety issues unique to jails/prisons. The presentation(s) should also be geared toward Diversionary Courts, and their specific related legal issues, and include outcomes related recidivism and public safety. Presentation should include recent research and evidence-based practices and involve stakeholder input.
Purpose: Develop a leadership training curriculum/facilitator’s manual for use with opioid and other substance use clients in recovery group settings. By providing personal interactive group experiences to make participants better able to identify and recognize their inherent capacity for positive leadership, the goal is to improve self-esteem, communication skills, and the capacity for leadership.
Purpose: Development of effective, evidenced-based messaging, educational material, and information tailored to people with SUD and various community audiences in order to reduce stigma for SUDs. Materials may include PSAs, brochures, flyers, other educational materials, and/or images and messaging that can be repeatedly used on social media, website, on print materials, and curricula, tools, trainings, Powerpoints customized for various community audiences and venues (e.g. schools, parenting groups, churches, support groups, general community decision-makers, and LE/criminal justice).
Purpose: Assisting the Historic Triangle Drug Prevention Coalition with identifying all available sources of data to inform decision making and to measure the impact of prevention activities within our catchment area, which includes the counties of James City and York and the cities of Poquoson and Williamsburg. Upon completion of the research and analysis, develop a dashboard or database that can be used to monitor data. Data acquired will be shared with coalition members to assist in determining collaborative activities.
Purpose: By August 15, 2020, provide a report that illustrates behavioral health disparities with links between negative behavioral health outcomes (morbidity and mortality) and biology, genetics, health, access to health services, socioeconomic status, the physical and social environment, discrimination, racism, literacy levels (graduation rates and truancy), homelessness, legislative policies, etc.
Purpose: With the implementation of STEP VA, Same Day Access and engagement into outpatient treatment within 10 days, PWC CSB has experienced challenges and would like review of processes and procedures and recommended improvements.
Purpose: Developing standards of care and teaching modules for Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) providers and educational materials for community and stakeholders.
- Collection and analysis of regional data quarterly on the provision of MAT in Region 3 to determine the characteristics of who is providing MAT and who is receiving
- Examination of efficacy studies to date to identify both effective and non-effective practices
- Development of educational materials on the effectiveness of MAT relative to other OUD treatment practices
- Drafting of standards of care for MAT in engagement with key stakeholder groups
Purpose: Development of effective, evidenced-based messaging, educational material, and information tailored to people with SUD and various community audiences in order to reduce stigma for SUDs. Materials may include PSAs, brochures, flyers, other educational materials, and/or images and messaging that can be repeatedly used on social media, website, on print materials, and curricula, tools, trainings, Powerpoints customized for various community audiences and venues (e.g. schools, parenting groups, churches, support groups, general community decision-makers, and LE/criminal justice).
Purpose: Measure individual and community level impacts by;
- Evaluating the impact on the individual and their family from a treatment/recovery perspective;
- Determining the fiscal impact to local communities and the region based on reduced incarceration costs, reduced CSA costs, and increased employment among other factors;
- Provide forecast measures of impact of increased investment in Drug Courts;
- Provide guidance on national Drug Court best practices including, fiscal support arrangements, and
- Recommend process and service improvements to increase the efficacy of New River Valley Drug Courts.
Purpose: This funding opportunity announcement from the Region Ten Community Service Board (Charlottesville) is seeking assistance in research of evidence-based practices and analysis of available tools and products and the most cost efficient and effective use of such tools within the treatment setting in relation to point in time consumer drug testing.
Purpose: This funding opportunity announcement from the Mount Rogers Community Service Board is seeking assistance in developing and implementing a residential treatment model at the Appalachian Center for Hope, a Family Residential Substance Use Treatment facility.
Purpose: This funding opportunity announcement from the Mount Rogers Community Service Board is seeking assistance with a retrospective evaluation of a new 23-hour crisis care model compared to previous years, when no such model was present.
Purpose: Martinsville has had one of the nation’s highest rates of opioid prescriptions in the state.
The Engaging Martinsville coalition, with the support of VCU and VT conducted a SEED method of stakeholder engagement over 18 months to develop opioid response priorities with a primary outcome that the region needs inpatient detox as a key component in our service continuum. Community stakeholders require technical assistance support to begin the implementation process for this priority.
The Martinsville-area Piedmont Community Services Board is seeking assistance in supporting data updates, messaging, stakeholder engagement, and implementation planning for incorporating inpatient detox capacity into the region’s continuum of care.
Purpose: The Rappahannock Area Community Services Board is seeking assistance in preparing a SAMHSA FY 20 Grant for the Benefit of Homeless Individuals. The purpose of the grant is to support the development of local community infrastructure that integrates substance use disorder treatment, housing services, and other critical services for individuals experiencing homelessness.
For more information: Elise Wallace, Project Manager, is the central VHEOC point of contact and can be reached by telephone at: 434-243-2457 or email at: VHEOC@virginia.edu.