Transcript Funding Opportunities, Bureau of Justice Assistance

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
BACKGROUND
• New category of funding in the FY13 Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring
Program
• Official title is “Category 3: Data-Driven Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Reducing
Rx Abuse” grants
• Developed out of recognition that opiate abuse is a multi-faceted problem that
requires strong partnerships
SAMPLE FOCUS AREAS
• Enhance capacity of state and local organizations to analyze and use data from
diverse sources to monitor drug abuse trends and identify sources of diversion.
• Increase PDMP utilization to improve decision making and help communities
address challenges.
• Strengthen collaborations between law enforcement, prosecutors, treatment
professionals, the medical community, pharmacies, and regulatory boards to
establish a comprehensive response to opiate abuse.
• Identify high-risk scenarios with the greatest need for proactive education,
outreach, treatment, and enforcement strategies.
• Promote data-driven solutions that drive policy and practice within local and state
communities.
ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS
• States and units of local governments with an existing and operational PDMP.
• Eleven grantees, to date.
• Of the existing projects, four are statewide projects and seven are local or regional
projects.
PILOT SITES – FY13 ($2.4 MILLION)
Fairfield County, Ohio
Florida Department of Health
Jackson County, Oregon
Maryland Department of Health & Mental Hygiene
New York County, New York
Norfolk District Attorney’s Office, Massachusetts
PILOT SITES – FY14 ($2.1 MILLION)
Arizona Criminal Justice Commission
Executive Office of the Governor of Delaware
New York County, New York
Northwestern District Attorney’s Office, Massachusetts
University of Kentucky Research Foundation
Washington State Department of Health
SUPPORT FOR OVERDOSE PREVENTION
ACTIVITIES
• Established Overdose Fatality Review (OFR) teams at three pilot sites across the
state. The Maryland Alcohol & Drug Abuse Administration worked with the Office of
the Chief Medical Examiner and Vital Statistics Administration to develop an
overdose death data file for use by local OFR teams, as well as a data manual to
assist local teams in understanding the data provided. The local OFR teams meet
monthly to review medical examiner data as well as other data available at the
local level to identify overdose risk factors, identify missed opportunities for
prevention/intervention, and make recommendations for policies or programs to
prevent future deaths.
• Development of Substance Abuse Coalitions: Both the Northwestern District (MA)
Attorney’s Office and the Norfolk County (MA) District Attorney’s Offices have
supported the development of new substance abuse coalitions in communities that do
not currently have coalitions
EXPANDING THE USE OF PDMP DATA
• Prescriber Outreach: Two sites (Arizona and Jackson County, Oregon) have worked
to implement a system that allows prescribers to see their prescribing patterns
relative to other prescribers within their discipline.
• Data Integration and Analysis: A number of sites (Kentucky, Delaware, Washington,
and two sites in Massachusetts) are linking PDMP data with various public health
and criminal justice data sets to better identify patterns of prescribing and drug use
by county, demographic groups, and drug types. The New York City RxStat Program
has been on forefront of this work and has developed a technical assistance manual
which has been distributed widely at national conferences and made available on
the BJA website and through technical assistance providers. This manual provides a
clear roadmap that can be used by communities interested in replicating this model
to facilitate accurate and timely analysis of public health and public safety data
and target resources to provide the most efficient responses.
STRENGTHENING PROVIDER EDUCATION
• Provider Education: In addition to your summit, both the Northwestern District (MA)
Attorney’s Office and the Norfolk County (MA) District Attorney’s Offices as well as
Arizona have planned Prescription Drug Abuse Summits for pharmacists and health
care professionals.
INCREASING ACCESS TO TREATMENT
• Inmate Screening for Substance Abuse: Fairfield County, Ohio implemented
substance abuse screening of all inmates booked into the local jail in the hopes of
identifying and engaging at-risk individuals in treatment services prior to release
back into the community. Fairfield County is using the data collected from this
process, in conjunction with data from the state PDMP, treatment providers, the
courts and child protective services, to identify gaps in the existing system and “hot
spots” where interventions could have the most effective impact, and develop an
action plan to address these gaps.
• Access to Treatment: The Maryland Department of Health & Mental Hygiene
established rapid response teams to provide emergency referrals to patients left
without care as a result of a provider’s loss of license or arrest.
WHERE ARE WE HEADED?
• Introduced new funding this year ($700,000/year three year projects) to support
researcher/practitioner projects.
• The goal is to strengthen PDMP efforts to develop and test innovative strategies and
to implement evidence-based approaches that demonstrate the impact of
expanded use of PDMP data to support decision-making.
• Co-hosted a Researcher summit with Pew in May 2015.
BJA CONTACTS
• Chris Traver, Senior Policy Advisor
[email protected]
• Tara Kunkel, Visiting Fellow
[email protected]