Friday, January 24, 2025
1/24/2025
Purpose. Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc. (CITC)’s Substance Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Aftercare (SAPTA) project—via the US Indian Health Service (IHS)’s Substance Abuse and Suicide Prevention Program (SASPP)—will ultimately reduce the prevalence of substance use among Alaska Native and American Indian (AN/AI) residents of Alaska’s Anchorage Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). Specifically, the project will improve the quality and accessibility of behavioral healthcare in the Anchorage MSA by increasing local providers’ capacities for planning, improving, sustaining, and coordinating a collaborative primary healthcare, behavioral healthcare, and wellness services system. Goals. (1) Train CITC’s Tribal partners in using SUD screening and assessment tools and in implementing trauma-informed approaches. (2) Educate community members on recognizing the signs of substance use and on preventing the spread of addictive and illicit substances. (3) Raise awareness of existing behavioral healthcare services and resources in local Tribal and non-Tribal communities. (4) Create community response plans for SUD prevention and treatment services in Tribal and non-Tribal settings and/or contexts. (5) Create policies and protocols for integrating, coordinating, and expanding access to SUD prevention and intervention services in Tribal and non-Tribal settings and/or contexts. (6) Create a comprehensive strategic impact plan for addressing SUD treatment and recovery needs. (7) Provide new evidence-based and culturally appropriate SUD treatment and recovery services to AN/AI adults who have SUDs. (8) Integrate existing SUD prevention, treatment, and recovery services into primary healthcare settings. (9) Implement trauma-informed approaches into existing and new SUD treatment and recovery services. (10) Build CITC’s referral and linkage capacity in relation to evidence-based and culturally appropriate SUD prevention, treatment, and recovery services. (11) Assist primary healthcare and social services providers with building their respective referral and linkage capacities in relation to evidence-based and culturally appropriate SUD prevention, treatment, and recovery services. (12) Provide new evidence-based, practice-based, and culturally appropriate SUD prevention and intervention services to AN/AI youths who have or are at risk of developing SUDs. (13) Provide new supportive services to AN/AI youths and their families who are impacted by substance use. (14) Promote and facilitate the development of a Tribal youth council, which will offer guidance and feedback on substance use prevention. (15) Create a project sustainability plan. (16) Create a community needs and assets assessment. Staff. The project will support five staff positions: an existing Senior Director (0.1 FTE), an existing Prevention Manager (0.25 FTE), two new Prevention Coordinators (1.0 FTE each), and an existing Data Coordinator (0.1 FTE). The Senior Director will also serve as the project director, and the Prevention Manager will also serve as the project coordinator. Data Management and Evaluation. The project’s data management will be conducted by the Data Coordinator and overseen by the Prevention Manager and the Senior Director. The primary data management tools will be CITC’s Recovery Services Case Management System (RSCMS)—a secure and custom-built management information system—Microsoft’s Excel and Word software, Momentive’s SurveyMonkey platform, the US Department of Health and Human Service’s GrantSolutions platform, and the US IHS’s Behavioral Health Reporting Portal (BHRP). The project’s evaluation will be conducted by the Senior Director and overseen by CITC’s chief operations officer and planning team. The primary evaluation tool will be CITC’s performance dashboard platform.
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).