Rural Communities Opioid Response (Planning)

Goal 1: Support a network of committed partners that can establish, implement, and sustain SUD and related behavioral health prevention, treatment, recovery, and other supportive services in rural areas.Goal 2: Create action plans to increase the number, types, and/or caseload capacity of SUD service access points in rural areas that respond to documented community contexts and needs.Goal 3: Strengthen the capacity of service providers and organizations so they can deliver high-quality, comprehensive care.Goal 4: Strengthen the capacity of service providers and organizations so they can deliver high-quality, comprehensive care.

?All domestic public and private entities, nonprofit and for-profit, are eligible to apply, assuming they meet RCORP requirements.

Lead Applicant Specifications: The lead applicant may be located in an urban or rural area, but all activities supported by this program must exclusively target populations residing in HRSA-designated rural counties or rural census tracts in urban counties and the consortium overall must be representative of rural.  If the lead applicant is an urban entity, at least two consortium members involved in the proposed project must be located in HRSA-designated rural counties or rural census tracts in urban counties. To ascertain whether a particular county or census tract is rural, please refer to http://datawarehouse.hrsa.gov/RuralAdvisor/. 

 

Lynlee Tanner Stapleton