The Minnesota Department of Health is soliciting proposals from syringe services programs and community-based organizations to provide navigation services to people at risk of overdose.
Donor Name: Minnesota Department of Health (MDH)
State: Minnesota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/17/2023
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Navigators will meet people where they are at, identify and collaborate with community resources, enable connection to treatment, improve accessibility to recovery support services, provide access to harm reduction services, and to increase community-supported intervention points.
Funding Information
This Request for Proposal (RFP) will fund projects in two categories. Responders may only submit a proposal for one of the two categories. The categories and the anticipated funding and number of awards are as follows:
- Category A: Harm Reduction Navigators
- Estimated Amount to Grant $2,000,000
- Estimated Award Maximum $400,000
- Applicants must not submit a budget for over the estimated award maximum of $400,000.
- Category B: Community-Based Linkage to SUD Care Navigators
- Estimated Amount to Grant $2,000,000
- Estimated Award Maximum $400,000
- Applicants must not submit a budget for over the estimated award maximum of $400,000.
Grant Period
The budget narratives should provide a brief but sufficient explanation of how funds are proposed to be used over a 12-month period.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must have state or federal recognition as a formal organization or entity, such as a Federal Employer Identification Number. Organizations or groups that do not have state or federal recognition must apply with a fiscal agent. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations and tribal nations. Applicants must be located and conduct grant activities in the state of Minnesota, but fiscal agents may be located outside of Minnesota. Eligible applicants who wish to work together but have not formed a legal partnership must designate one organization as a fiscal agent. Applicants must allow participants to utilize FDA-approved medications for opioid use disorder Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) including methadone, buprenorphine products, including single-entity buprenorphine products, buprenorphine/Naloxone tablets, films, buccal preparations, long-acting injectable buprenorphine products, buprenorphine implants, and injectable extended-release naltrexone.
- Category A: Harm Reduction Navigators
- Eligible applicants are limited to nonprofit or tribal syringe services programs operating in Minnesota. For the purposes of this grant, only organizations who distribute no-cost syringes can apply.
- Category B: Community-Based Linkage to SUD Care Navigators
- Eligible applicants are limited to nonprofit community-based organizations. A community-based organization, for the purpose of this RFP is an organization aimed at making desired improvements to a community’s social health, well-being, and overall functioning. Communities may be geographically, psychosocially, culturally, and/or spiritually bounded. In addition, a community-based organization is one that is driven by the community, in all aspects of its existence. Examples of this may include:
- The majority of the governing body and staff consists of individuals bound by location, experience or culture
- The main operating offices are in the communities they intend to serve
- Priority issue areas are identified and defined by members of the community
- Solutions to address priority issues are developed with the community
- Program design, implementation, and evaluation components have the community intimately involved, in leadership positions
- Examples of eligible applicants include, but are not limited to:
- Recovery Community Organizations
- Tribal Nations and/or Tribal-led nonprofit organizations
- Culturally-specific nonprofit organizations.
- Eligible applicants are limited to nonprofit community-based organizations. A community-based organization, for the purpose of this RFP is an organization aimed at making desired improvements to a community’s social health, well-being, and overall functioning. Communities may be geographically, psychosocially, culturally, and/or spiritually bounded. In addition, a community-based organization is one that is driven by the community, in all aspects of its existence. Examples of this may include:
- Category A: Harm Reduction Navigators
For more information, visit MDH.
