This federal Project Grant award, totaling $1,974,642.00, was provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HRSA) through the Rural Health Research Centers (CFDA 93.155) program. The grant supports a collaborative effort led by Westcare Kentucky, Inc., a non-profit organization, to provide comprehensive substance use disorder (SUD) and opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment and recovery services in the rural Appalachian regions of Pike and Letcher Counties in Kentucky. Key...
This $1,000,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and other Substances Use Program (CFDA 16.838) will enable Floyd County Fiscal Court and its partners to implement a comprehensive substance use prevention, diversion, and treatment program for youth under 18 in Floyd County, Kentucky. Key program activities include: 1) Developing and implementing court-based substance use diversion services and...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), totaling $444,826, is focused on adapting and testing an innovative, trauma-informed intervention to reduce overdose risk among women re-entering the community from prison. The key activities include: 1) Adapting the Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) approach by engaging stakeholders to align it with the unique needs of justice-involved women,...
This $3,750,000 Rural Communities Opioid Response Program-Impact (RCORP-IMPACT) award, funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (CFDA 93.155 Rural Health Research Centers), will establish the ATLAS Center in southeast Kentucky to enhance substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and recovery services. Key objectives include expanding access to medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) and evidence-based, trauma-informed counseling, increasing certified peer support specialist...
This $1,300,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) under the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program (CFDA 16.838) will support the Northern Kentucky Independent District Health Department (NKY Health) in implementing the Northern Kentucky Overdose Fatality Review (OFR) Initiative. The OFR Initiative aims to establish a multi-county committee across Boone, Campbell, Grant, and Kenton counties to enhance data-sharing,...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $196,236 to The Washington University to conduct research focused on disparities in the prescription and effectiveness of medications to treat opioid use disorder (OUD) during pregnancy. The key objectives of the 5-year project are to: 1) evaluate how race and racial segregation are associated with the use of buprenorphine and methadone as well...
This Project Grant award, totaling $1,953,293, was provided by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279). The funding supports research to optimize delivery of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) care for underserved rural people who inject drugs (PWID) in Kentucky. The study will deploy stepped-care adaptive interventions across three rural syringe service programs to identify optimal pathways for increasing PrEP initiation and...
This $3,750,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Rural Health Research Centers program (CFDA 93.155) will enable Centerstone of Indiana Inc., a non-profit organization, to expand access to substance use disorder (SUD) and opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment, recovery, and supportive services for 550 individuals across 7 rural counties in southern Indiana over a 4-year period from September...
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awarded a $111,660,942 Project Grant titled "Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance" (CFDA 93.243) to the Health Services Kentucky Cabinet For. The grant supports the implementation of the Kentucky Overdose Response Effort (KORE), which aims to expand access to evidence-based prevention, treatment, and recovery support services to address the opioid and stimulant...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) awarded a $3,067,394 Project Grant under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to The University of Kentucky Research Foundation. The grant, titled "Engaging People Who Use Drugs in Harm Reduction Service Delivery: An Intravention to Reduce Risk of HIV, HCV, Overdose, and Injection-Related Infections in Rural Appalachia," will test a peer-driven approach to address unmet harm reduction needs in two rural Kentucky...