Thursday, November 21, 2024
11/21/2024
The WA SPF Rx project's primary population of focus are residents particularly youth and young adults, who have been identified as being at risk of misusing prescription drugs. This project is designed to address these risks by implementing a collaborative strategic plan that will include prevention campaign messaging, evidence-based prevention education, prescriber education, and increased utilization of the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP). The Health Care Authority (HCA) will build on nearly 30 years of experience implementing the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant (SABG), two State Incentive Grants, Partnerships for Success 2013 and 2018, State Targeted Response (STR), and State Opioid Response (SOR) grants by employing the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) to create community-level change through public education, prescriber education, and training. HCA plans to serve approximately 500,000 at risk individuals throughout the life of the project (100,000 per year) based on age group and high need community status; numbers served will be tracked through leveraged funding sources of federal block grant and discretionary grant funding. These efforts will be guided by the first strategy, to create and evaluate a coordinated strategic plan among state agency partners to prevent prescription drug and opioid use. The second strategy is to prevent prescription drug and opioid misuse, particularly among youth and young adults, by providing evidence-based prevention education activities in high-need communities. We aim to reduce the number of youth and young adults using prescription pain relievers to get high and using prescription drugs not prescribed to them. The third strategy includes promoting safe home storage and appropriate disposal of prescription medications to prevent misuse through expanding prevention campaign messaging with a particular focus on increasing awareness of prescription drug misuse issues in health care settings and to high-need communities. We aim to increase the number of adults that report safely and securely storing medication in the home and know how to properly return unused medication. The fourth strategy is to promote use of best practices among health care providers for prescribing opioids by expanding provider education through a detailed five-year training plan and increasing the utilization of the PDMP. We aim to reduce the number of opioid prescriptions prescribed to youth and young adults and education and train on the utilization of the PDMP.
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).
