Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS), in partnership with the Kansas Prevention Collaborative (KPC), announces the release of a Request for Application (RFA) for Substance Use Prevention Planning Grants (Cohort IX).
Donor Name: Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS)
State: Kansas
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/26/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The Kansas Prevention Collaborative Community Initiative (KPCCI) enriches community prevention efforts across the state through the implementation of sustainable, culturally competent, evidence-based, proven prevention strategies. KPCCI partners across Kansas collaborate to produce sustainable, prosocial changes at the individual, community, and systems levels. Local community prevention coalitions are key partners in this statewide initiative to prevent substance misuse and abuse. Kansan Prevention Collaborative (KPC) partners are dedicated to supporting citizens, agencies, and organizations in selecting, planning, and implementing evidence-based strategies for the prevention of behavioral health challenges to enact lasting change and build a better future for their communities. KPC partners provide training, technical assistance, prevention tools, and resources to community coalitions who are awarded prevention grants. In partnership with the Kansas Prevention Collaborative, Coalitions are doing the important work of prevention in their communities across Kansas.
Prevention Planning Grant Awardees (Grantees) will receive support from the KPC Partners.
- Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services: The KDADS Behavioral Health Prevention Team will provide support to Grantees regarding Agreement compliance and fiscal management.
- Wichita State University Community Engagement Institute- The WSU prevention team will provide coordination of communications, connections, and resources, including information about KPC trainings, workshops, and conferences, e.g., the annual state-wide KPC Conference held in October.
- DCCCA Prevention Services: DCCCA prevention specialists provide support and guidance through coalition trainings, technical assistance, and resources.
- Greenbush, the Education Service Center: The Greenbush prevention evaluation team provides support with data collection, analysis, and evaluation, as well as trainings about the use of data in prevention science.
- The University of Kansas Center of Community Health and Development: KU prevention specialists provide support with data collection, analysis, and evaluation through the use of the Community Toolbox.
SUD Prevention work in Kansas focuses on:
- Promotion and Primary prevention efforts prevent or reduce problem behavior and thus prevent or reduce the need for more costly treatment.
- Targeted substance use prevention focus areas include:
- reducing underage drinking, (under 18, as shown by surveying students in grades 6, 8, 10, and 12)
- reducing problem drinking, including binge drinking, in young adults (18 to 20)
- reducing marijuana use by youth and young adults.
- reducing young adult use of E-cigarettes/vaping and other tobacco products
- increasing awareness of Fentanyl
- reducing risk factors and increasing protective factors
- Reducing substance misuse, use, and abuse by mitigating or reducing shared risk factors, while increasing protective factors to healthy, prosocial development.
- Early intervention and primary prevention efforts positively impacting
- youth (under age 18),
- Young adults (aged 18 to 25)
- identified populations at increased risk, underserved populations.
- Identifying populations in communities experiencing Behavioral Health Disparities –
- Coalitions will use data to identify service gaps and disparities experienced by underserved and at-risk populations existing within their communities. At-risk populations are groups of people whose members are more likely to experience adverse health and socioeconomic conditions and be underserved or mis-served within the current system of care. People experiencing disparities in health care access and quality are at heightened risk for physical and mental illness, and behavioral problems, including substance use problems.
- Fully utilize the Strategic Prevention Framework as a primary tool
- Developed by SAMHSA and the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) is reliant on and encourages a team approach, is data-driven, and employs a dynamic and iterative five-step model.
Funding Information
These one-year planning grants will be $40,000.00 per awarded grantee for Fiscal Year 2025 with the 12 months starting July 1, 2024, ending June 30, 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
KDADS invites grant applications from existing community organizations to apply for this prevention planning grant. To be eligible to apply to receive Kansas prevention grant funding, the existing organization must have operated as an Existing Community Organization that is defined as an established coalition, task force, or other organization that has already formed and can prove the organization has existed for at least 6 months before the April 2024 release date of this RFA. Existing networking community coalitions or task forces encompassing multiple sector partnerships, mobilized at the local level to make their communities thrive by being safer, healthier, and drug-free are encouraged to apply. Such organizations may include serving a local community or multiple geographic areas and may partner with one or more school districts. Existing organizations desiring this grant award should possess or have the motivation to build capacity for a stable and effective organizational structure with clearly defined roles and responsibilities. Such established organizations may include, for example, local school districts, Kansas Board of Regents institutions of higher education, youth-serving or parent coalitions, community improvement or neighborhood involvement coalitions, law enforcement and criminal justice organizations, religious or fraternal organizations, volunteer civic service organizations, non-governmental social service organizations, independent living service organizations, housing support organizations, community healthcare centers and providers (including medical, mental healtand substance use treatment providers), tribal entities, and other established groups involved in or interested in addressing the prevention of substance misuse in their communities.
For more information, visit KDADS.
