The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is seeking applications to create a regional drug data research center that promotes the collection, analysis, and dissemination of information critical in response to the overdose crisis and impacts of opioids, stimulants, and other substances.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Assistance
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/12/2022
Size of the Grant: $3,500,000
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
The Drug Data Research Center to Combat the Opioid Crisis (DDRC) will support an accredited institution of higher learning to expand an existing statewide drug data repository into a regional drug data research center (“regional data center”) that will promote the collection, analysis, research, and dissemination of information to help combat the surge in fatal and nonfatal overdoses from opioids, stimulants, and other substances. This regional data center will serve as both a model and technical advisor to translate this model to other regions in the United States. Core data required, but not limited to, from each participating state to expand to a regional data center will be: overdose deaths, prescription drug monitoring program data, drug-related emergency medical services (EMS) encounters, drug-related emergency department visits, and drug arrests.
DDRC’s goal is to support the expansion of an existing statewide drug data repository into a regional drug data research center that promotes the collection, analysis, research, and dissemination of overdose-related information to reduce fatal and nonfatal overdoses, promote public safety, and support prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery services, and serves as a model for other regions of the United States.
Objectives
- DDRC’s objectives are to:
- Expand an existing statewide drug data repository into a regional data center to produce and disseminat web-based, real-time, actionable multisector drug data.
- Develop a transportable and/or replicable, open-source, regional drug data architecture.
- Facilitate electronic information sharing across multiple agencies across state lines that must include, but not limited to, data on overdose deaths, drug-related EMS, prescription drug monitoring program data, drug arrests, and drug-related emergency department visits. This effort should be complementary but shall not be duplicative of other information sharing.
- Encourage the sharing of additional information from law enforcement, prosecutions, jail stays, corrections (institution and community corrections), public health, treatment provision, and/or courts/pretrial services across states.
- Support collaboration among public health, behavioral health, criminal justice, and first responder agencies.
- Expand research to enhance knowledge to more effectively address the overdose crisis, particularly in populations who have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by persistent poverty and inequality.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $3,500,000
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants are limited to: Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education Private institutions of higher education An applicant university must be fully accredited by one of the regional institutional accreditation agencies recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education (see also 34 U.S.C. 10251(a)(17)). Foreign governments, foreign organizations, and foreign colleges and universities are not eligible to apply.
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