Sunday, May 11, 2025
5/11/2025
Rapid Overdose Response Systems - a statewide data-driven approach to decreasing prescription drug misuse in Michigan. - Population served: Entire state of Michigan. Demographic profile: Based on 2021 U.S. Census Quick Fact data, our population of focus is 14.1% African American, 5.3% Latino, 3.4% Asian, 0.7% American Indian / Alaskan Native and 79.2% White. 50.7% are women. In terms of age, 21.5% are under 18 years of age, while 17.7% are over 65 years of age3. Of the 83 counties in Michigan, 82 have at least 25% or more of households categorized as “ALICE” – which is a United Way acronym standing for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed. According to the most recent United Way ALICE report, these are households that “earned above the Federal Poverty Limit, but not enough to afford household necessities”. Note that over half of Michigan counties (42) have at least 40% of households categorized as ALICE. Strategies include: deployment of a publicly available dashboard with a focus on actionable real-time PDM data; data-driven deployment of education and training on the harm associated with prescription drug misuse; data-driven deployment of a multi-media public awareness campaign designed to target messaging to those communities most at risk; and development of infrastructure (such as a statistical workgroup and a policy / infrastructure workgroup) designed to eliminate gaps. Goals / Objectives: Goal 1: Increase the capacity of the state of Michigan and private entities to identify and react to prescription drug hotspots across the state that may contribute to drug overdose morbidity and mortality. A) Objective: By the end of month 4 of this program, finalize a statistics specific workgroup focused on the development of a publicly accessible dashboard meant to inform prescription drug misuse hotspots and trends at the county level statewide. B) Objective: No later than the 30th month of this project, implement a publicly accessible dashboard highlighting prescription drug misuse hotspots and trends, broken down to the county level, statewide. Goal 2: Increase the capacity for deploying prescription drug misuse strategic-infrastructure statewide by establishing a multi-agency, multi-sector workgroup with a focus on informing policy development and infrastructure deploy-ment. A) Objective: By the end of month 4 of this program, a workgroup focused on policy and infrastructure deployment will have been finalized that, at a minimum, includes: state representation; a statistician; hospital/pharmacy representation; dental representation; department of aging representation; and other key stakeholders.. Goal 3: Increase the capacity for statewide prescription drug misuse education by implementing a statewide network of organizations willing to host community and prescriber education and training sessions. A) Objective: By the end of year 2 of this program, project staff will have obtained an email indicating intent for at least one (1) Naloxone and Drug Misuse educational session, hosted by a community organization, with host sites representing over 70% of Michigan counties. Goal 4: Increase statewide prescription drug misuse prevention measures by advancing opioid overdose reversal medication and drug misuse education across Michigan communities.. A) Objective: Starting with month 4 of this program, project staff will average 15 or more Naloxone and Drug Misuse educational sessions for Michigan communities per month, annually. B) Objective: By the end of year 2 of this program, project staff will have provided one (1) or more Naloxone and Drug Misuse educational sessions to over 50% of Michigan counties, where session advertising was county specific. Goal 5: Increase public health messaging specific to prescription drug misuse statewide by implementing a public awareness campaign with statewide reach. A) Objective: By August 31 of each fiscal year of the project, FAN advertising campaign staff will have deployed a public awareness campaign with statewide reach both in print and on-line.
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).