Wednesday, December 4, 2024
12/4/2024
The State of Arkansas' SPF-PFS project aims to enhance overall health and wellbeing through the implementation of recovery-oriented, trauma-informed, and equity-based programs, practices, and policies. To achieve program objectives, the project will employ various strategies and activities, including linking substance use patterns and their causes and consequences, addressing underage substance use and substance-use issues across all age groups, targeting community-level outcomes, developing regional and local prevention infrastructure, utilizing data-driven decision making to identify high-impact areas with varying levels of public funding, implementing evidence-based programs and strategies that drive systems change in norms, policies, and practices, fostering community partnerships, and prioritizing cultural responsiveness and sustainability. Communities that participate will benefit from financial support and technical assistance, enabling regional coalitions to assess local data, needs, and resources, build community-wide strategic prevention plans, strengthen prevention infrastructure, foster cross-community collaboration, and establish linkages across prevention disciplines. Additionally, they will develop a comprehensive prevention plan that includes identifying target groups requiring support, collecting baseline data, recognizing successful community practices, selecting evidence-based programs and strategies, implementing evaluation activities for program and infrastructure enhancements, enhancing their capacity to secure future prevention funds, and ultimately achieving positive outcomes in addressing substance use and related issues within the community. The goals of the program are as follows: Goal 1: Strengthen infrastructure of underserved communities with high substance misuse risks Goal 2: Increase the capacity of community-based organizations from underserved communities to implement and sustain prevention services Goal 3: Maximize positive health behaviors and substance use prevention outcomes throughout each region of the State To ensure comprehensive coverage and service provision across the entire state of Arkansas, the project will adopt a regional approach that entails selecting one subgrantee annually from each of the thirteen prevention regions within Arkansas. The 13 prevention regions will collaborate to form 5 sub-regions, and each of these sub-regions will include coalitions of prevention representatives from up to five other counties within their respective region. To increase capacity of these five sub-regions, the state’s existing Regional Prevention Providers will facilitate connections between existing coalitions to form a regional coalition and provide support in the strategic and sustainability planning. Each regional coalition will receive $150k in funding to support their prevention efforts. By adopting this approach, a total of 25 regional coalitions will be funded over the course of the project, guaranteeing coverage and service provision to all 75 counties in the state of Arkansas. This strategic implementation approach aims to maximize the reach and impact of the project's initiatives and ensure that prevention efforts are effectively distributed across the state's diverse regions and communities.
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).
