Wednesday, April 24, 2024
4/24/2024
Through a collaborative partnership, the New Jersey Department of Health, Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DOH/DMHAS) and the New Jersey Department of Children and Families, Division of Children's System of Care (DCF/CSOC) will provide a statewide Strategic Plan Framework-Partnerships for Success (SPF-PFS) initiative entitled NJ SOAR (Substance Use Outreach, Advocacy and Resources) to address underage drinking, marijuana use, and prescription medication/opioid misuse for youth ages 9 to 20. Specifically, New Jersey's SPF-PFS seeks to 1) Decrease youth underage drinking, marijuana use and misuse of prescription drugs/opioids by youth ages 9 to 20 throughout NJ, 2) Increase knowledge on the effects o underage drinking, marijuana use, and misuse of prescription medications/opioids among youth, families and youth serving systems throughout NJ, and 3) Enhance the CSOC prevention infrastructure to ensure that statewide prevention efforts reach youth. Project goals are to strengthen and enhance the work of 21 county prevention coalitions, expand prevention data infrastructure and information systems capacity, and continue work in developing a unified statewide prevention planning and service delivery system that directly reaches youth-serving entities. DOH/DMHAS will focus its efforts on providing prevention education and services to young people who are involved with DCF/CSOC. The Departments and their respective Division (CSOC and DMHAS) will partner to implement prevention strategies that include outreach, education and training services to communities and families throughout the entire state of NJ. Youth and young adults will benefit from early outreach and preventions strategies, to prevent the onset and reduce the progression of substance use and its related problems. Concurrent with these services, the DMHAS-funded county coalitions will provide community-based prevention services throughout their counties, resulting in a cohesive, unified statewide prevention system. The NJ DMHAS/CSOC partnership is well positioned to add prevention services for youth and young adults to the already robust care continuum available throughout the state, as the SPF-PFS program will utilize successful prevention systems and structures put in place throughout the state's completed SPF-SIG grant and prior SPF-PFS grant. The New Jersey SPF-PFS initiative will address state-identified priorities through the work of 21 prevention coalitions that are using the Strategic Prevention Framework to identify and address priorities in their region. Coalitions utilize evidence-based environmental programs and strategies to achieve their goals and objectives. In that services are provided at the county and community level and because the New Jersey SPF-PFS initiative focuses its efforts on individuals and families throughout the lifespan, it has the potential to affect more than a million of New Jersey's citizens with its programming and messaging.
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).
