Combating Opioid Overdose through Community-Level Intervention | 2017 ONDCP COOCLI

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The grant opportunity titled "Combating Opioid Overdose through Community-Level Intervention" is a discretionary federal grant issued by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) within the Executive Office of the President. It is designed to fund a single organization to help communities respond more effectively to the opioid overdose crisis by combining practical, on-the-ground intervention work with rigorous research and evaluation. The underlying premise is that the overdose epidemic is not only a public health emergency but also a public safety challenge, and that communities are most likely to reduce deaths and other harms when local public health and law enforcement partners are working in a coordinated, data-informed way.

ONDCP is specifically seeking applications from public nonprofit entities, including public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, and other 501(c)(3) nonprofits (including hospitals). The government anticipates making one award for a 1-year project period beginning around September 2017, with a maximum award amount (ceiling) of $2,000,000. The opportunity is listed under CFDA 95.007, and its activity areas span health as well as law, justice, and legal services, reflecting the intentional cross-sector nature of the work.

The purpose of the funded project is twofold. First, the awardee (referred to as the non-federal entity, or NFE) is expected to implement and evaluate community-based efforts aimed at reducing opioid overdose, especially in parts of the United States experiencing some of the highest rates of fatal and non-fatal opioid-related overdoses. Second, the project must actively support and promote collaboration between law enforcement and public health agencies, since ONDCP views that partnership as essential to reducing overdose deaths and related harms. A key theme running throughout the announcement is the need to help coordinate what are often fragmented and decentralized state and local responses, so that communities can assess overdose patterns, deploy interventions, and learn what works more quickly and consistently.

The work supported under the grant is organized around several core performance areas. The first is research and analysis: the recipient must examine a range of existing community-level approaches currently being used to address the opioid epidemic, while also identifying evidence-based and proven strategies that can reduce opioid-related overdose deaths. The second performance area is implementation: using the evidence identified through the research phase, the recipient should implement new community-based programs or strengthen existing ones in the hardest-hit regions. The third is evaluation: once interventions are in place, the project must assess their effectiveness in reducing overdose and other harms associated with opioid misuse. The fourth is partnership-building and alignment: the awardee must support and promote sustained collaboration between public safety and public health agencies so overdose reduction efforts are integrated rather than duplicated or working at cross-purposes, with the end goal being a comprehensive community response.

The announcement also makes clear that the funded work is not meant to happen in isolation. ONDCP expects the recipient to align its efforts with related initiatives already underway at ONDCP and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Both agencies plan to work closely with the awardee, which signals that the project is intended to contribute to broader federal learning about which community-level strategies are most effective and how cross-agency coordination can be strengthened. In practical terms, this grant is aiming to produce actionable findings and real-world models communities can use, while also improving how local overdose data and response activities are coordinated across public health and law enforcement systems.

In short, this opportunity funds one organization to serve as a research-and-implementation engine focused on high-burden overdose regions, helping communities select evidence-based strategies, put them into practice, measure results, and institutionalize stronger collaboration between public health and law enforcement. The overall objective is to reduce fatal overdoses and other opioid-related harms by improving both the quality of community interventions and the coordination behind them.

• The Office of National Drug Control Policy in the health, law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Combating Opioid Overdose through Community-Level Intervention" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 95.007.
• This funding opportunity was created on Aug 30, 2017.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Sep 06, 2017. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $2,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.

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