Thursday, November 21, 2024
11/21/2024
Ohio's State Opioid and Stimulant Response Grant (SOS) investments are demonstrating impressive empirically validated results in all GPRA client outcome areas. SOS 4.0 will continue to align state level efforts to flatten Ohio's death rate from opioid and drug poisoning, increase access to harm reduction, focus on peer recovery supports, expand evidence-based practices, and increase upstream strategies to 35,000 Ohio youth and adults that promote behavioral wellness. OhioMHAS first CURES/SOR investments introduced MAT, MOUD and OTPs into Ohio’s treatment landscape. The second round of SOR funding focused on developing an integrated system of care with the understanding that treating opioid use disorder is complex, requiring a multi-level systems approach with behavioral health care coordination. Following these foundational efforts, Ohio’s third round of SOS funding along with other community investments, allowed Ohio to implement a laser focused data driven approach to ensuring immediate access to life saving drug reversal medications and drug testing tools. Layered with implementing an Opioid Treatment Indicator - the "OARRS" reporting system, Ohio’s SOS 4.0 efforts will continue to apply targeted harm reduction efforts, increase access to evidence based treatments including MOUD, with a focus on youth and older adults, refine innovative drug poisoning awareness campaigns, and substantially increase peer services in all communities to improve access to a full range of recovery supports for Ohio’s highest risk, vulnerable, rural and urban communities. To inform Ohio’s 4.0 program goals, OhioMHAS conducted listening sessions with nearly 400 partners with unique individual, family, and system experiences across Ohio’s diverse communities in the grips of the opioid and drug crisis. This rich, real-time, qualitative data in conjunction with Ohio’s retrospective SOR GPRA and the SOR-TOR Program Instrument outcomes have elevated a set of core strategies that are working to flatten Ohio’s death rates from opioid and other drug poisoning. Topping the list demonstrating impressive results for Ohio’s SOS 4.0 plan is elevating Harm Reduction, Prevention and Early Intervention approaches. Ohio’s central SOS 4.0 goal in state agency and regional provider collaboration is to scale evidence-based prevention and harm reduction infrastructure efforts. Working in close partnership the Ohio Department of Health’s 180 Project DAWN (Deaths Avoided with Naloxone) programs, future SOS 4.0 resources will help maintain operations of nearly 800 distribution sites that have effectively reversed 30, 955 drug overdoses. Ohio will expand system collaborative efforts that launched data informed deployment of law enforcement drug interdiction efforts and increased "boots on the ground" trauma trained Critical Incident Teams (CIT) guided by a predictive algorithm at the zip code level to target real time first responder resources. Treatment and Recovery has been vastly improved through access to certified peer navigators, and the use of mobile apps, providing immediate in-person and online treatment and recovery supports. For many Ohioans engaging in services using personal devices, web-based technology has removed barriers to treatment and recovery communities. Trusted community organizations delivered effective peer outreach and targeted messaging such as “One Pill Can Kill Campaign” in minority and rural communities to raise awareness regarding the real dangers of illicit and prescription drug use. Analytics from these efforts will inform the next round of SOS 4.0 targeted messaging.
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).
