Thursday, April 18, 2024
4/18/2024
A collaborative involving several faith and community based service organizations, the Colorado Department of Corrections, the Colorado Department of Health and Environment, City/County of Denver, Denver Health, and The Children's Hospital has formed to address substance abuse, HIV / AIDS, and Hepatitis prevention activities in minority communities. The project will focus increased coordination, resource sharing, and systems change to improve service delivery. The collaboration will seek to increase coordination of services for African Americans, Latinos, and Native American communities, including those in reentry by promoting a unified approach from substance abuse, HIV / AIDS, and Hepatitis prevention systems that now often operate in isolation from each other. A steering committee will implement a comprehensive needs assessment in the first year of the project. Results of the strategic planning will be implemented during subsequent years using Prevention Case Management, Screening, Brief Intervention/Referral, and other model programs selected through a community forum and work group approach that includes individuals from the target communities in the decision making process. Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities, a case management approach for individuals in reentry with an increased risk for alcohol or other drug abuse, will be the primary focus of the effort with the minority population in reentry and will develop an approach that integrates Hepatitis and HIV screening and referral into its current substance abuse screening and referral services, providing the model for expansion to other service providers. At the same time the larger city and state systems will explore ways to coordinate substance abuse, HIV / AIDS, and Hepatitis prevention and treatment so that clients receiving services for anyone of the concerns will be consistently screened and tested for the other two concerns.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
