The Allegheny County Department of Human Services (DHS), along with partners in the County’s Department of Health and Children’s Initiatives, is seeking Proposals from qualified Proposers to create or expand opioid use disorder (OUD) and other substance use disorder (SUD) interventions that are led, designed and operated by and within highly impacted communities.
Donor Name: Allegheny County Department of Human Services
State: Pennsylvania
County: Allegheny County (PA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/02/2023
Size of the Grant: $1.1 million
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
The Allegheny County Department of Human Services seeks Proposals from Proposers looking to initiate new programs that connect communities with informal OUD/SUD harm reduction information and services, or expand similar, established programs and services. Regardless of whether a Proposal is to initiate a new program or expand an established one, the work should be focused within and led by a community that has been disproportionately impacted.
Successful Proposers will have demonstrated how their intervention is led, designed and/oroperated by the community and how their intervention is focused within a community that has been disproportionately impacted by the opioid epidemic or by substance use disorders. While the intervention(s) can be focused on any community where disproportionate impact can be demonstrated.
DHS will prioritize Proposals from the following:
- Individuals and organizations working within communities that have been disproportionately affected by OUD/SUD and where the affected community is a leader, designer and/or operator of the intervention
- Organizations predominantly staffed by individuals in recovery
- Small organizations (as opposite to academic institutions and research agencies)
- Proposers proposing interventions that are predominantly led and/or staffed by Black individuals, reflecting experience, community feedback and research on how trusted messengers improve engagement and service delivery.
Funding Information
DHS will commit a minimum of $1.1 million of settlement funds to the services contracted through this RFP, with a target of awarding Agreements to multiple Successful Proposers. DHS expects to fund a mixture of small- and large-scale interventions. The agreements will be onetime, one-year agreements.
Eligibility Criteria
- Anyone, including but not limited to non-profit organizations, for-profit organizations, small businesses, and individuals, is eligible to submit a Proposal in response to this RFP. Proposers do not need to have an existing contract with Allegheny County to apply.
- Collaborative Proposals, in which two or more organizations partner together to submit one Proposal, are permitted.
For more information, visit ACDHS.
