Saturday, April 20, 2024
4/20/2024
Minnesota Residential Treatment for Pregnant and Postpartum Women (PPW) and Substance Use Disorders Grant Application Abstract: The Minnesota (MN) Department of Human Services (DHS) and its Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division/Single State Authority (ADAD/SSA) proposes to expand and enhance women’s pregnant and postpartum substance use disorder (SUD) services across our continuum of care (prevention, treatment and recovery) for women, children and families who receive treatment for SUDs through our grant application titled; MN Pregnant and Postpartum Women (PPW). The MN PPW target population will be Pregnant and Postpartum Women that are low-income women, age 18 and over, who are pregnant or postpartum, and their minor children, age 17 and under, who have limited access to quality health services including traditionally underserved populations, especially racial and ethnic minority women. In Minnesota, these underserved and populations with the largest disparities include American Indian Women, African American Women and Women Receiving Treatment services in rural areas. Through MN census data, Drug Abuse and Normative Evaluation Systems (DAANES) data, MN has shared the rates and numbers of our populations impacted and the increasing need for expanded and enhanced services. Minnesota is proposing to fund (through a request for proposals (RFP)two additional grantees with this PPW funding, to continue our state targeted response dollar services where the target population and services fit the MN PPW requirements, and to create/strengthen/sustain expanded and/or new and/or enhanced programming within all of these new or existing services. The MN PPW grant will require that RFP funded sub-recipients are capable of meeting the cultural and gender specific needs of the populations to be served. Responders to our competitive RFP will be selected based on state level and local level data that shares the needs in Minnesota where substance use disorders and related harms are most prevalent. Each grant recipient selected will need to plan for and address within their response, the distinct needs of their program service area, identify populations served and the projected demographics for who are currently being served, including addressing the needs of American Indians, African Americans and Women in rural areas. Recipients will then design programming to implement specific strategies (per SAMHSA Evidence Based Practices (EBP) requirements), specific to those assessed needs and will serve 100 women and 200 children per grant year, or 500 women and 1000 children over the entire five year grant period. The MN PPW will support evidence-based parenting and treatment models, including trauma-specific services in a trauma-informed context. New and existing grants, through curricula and treatment program services, collaborations and required PPW evaluation will measure outcomes specific to the identified target populations in their response to our RFP and to identified MN populations with the highest disparities in our state.
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).
