Thursday, April 10, 2025
4/10/2025
Strategic Prevention Framework - The Department of Behavioral Health and Development Resources of Virginia's (DBHDS) Office of Behavioral Health and Wellness is proposing to use the funding provided from the SAMHSA Strategic Prevention Framework - Partnerships for Success for States Grant (Short Title: SPF-PFS-States) to partner with 7 Community Service Board Partners (CSB) across Virginia to ensure additional support for their Community Coalitions within their localities. To provide these CSBs provide them equal amounts of funding to allow them to hire a dedicated staff member for their Community Coalition. The amount would be $150,049. Funds above the amount needed to hire a staff member will be used for the coalition's expansion and support of programs within their localities and regionally. Each CSB will develop implementation plans specific to their locality and identified target population(s). The goals for each plan will include the increased capacity of the coalition to address substance misuse and mental health wellness, specific to, but not limited to their identified target populations. CSBs will utilize the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) to determine their action plan for the grant period. Using the needs assessment data collected by OMNI, CSBs and the community coalition will identify substance misuse and mental health wellness areas of need. These may be current initiatives that they will build upon and expand to other communities within their catchment areas or newly identified areas of concern that can be addressed with these additional resources. Through capacity building, CSBs will hire and train new coalition leadership. They will also ensure the right partners are included as coalition members and identify the resources required to address the needs of the identified population. This may include the recruitment of additional partners through targeted efforts, paying special attention to include members of the target population. CSBs with coalitions in the beginning stage will need to spend additional time developing the infrastructure of the coalition - establishing by-laws, clearly defining roles and expectations, creating timelines, etc. Time will be spent on the development/revision of logic models to include the additional resources from this grant. Utilizing coalition staff and these additional resources, the CSB and coalition will implement evidence-based strategies in service of our statewide goals as well as those of the priority populations. Expansion of existing strategies and inclusion of additional initiatives targeting the identified populations will be based on the needs of those individuals. Implementation of these initiatives will occur through the grant cycle with the goal to increase awareness and increase the number of individuals served through both additional strategies and expansion of efforts to other areas of the CSB catchment area. In addition to project plans and logic models, CSBs and their coalition will develop evaluation plans. Evaluation plans will be used to monitor and assess progress. Evaluation planning documents, The Virginia Social Indicator Summary Dashboard (VASIS; vasis.org), the Young Adult Survey, and the Coalition Readiness & Effectiveness Assessment Tool will be used as evaluation instruments to determine the progress toward desired outcomes at the state level and for the priority population in each CSB. Frequent evaluation will allow each coalition the ability to make changes to their structure, membership, action plan/logic model, etc., they deem necessary to affect change in the identified populations.
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).