The oklahoma strategic prevention framework partnership for success, SPF-PFS 3, program will prevent the onset and reduce the progression of opioids and youth cannabis use and related risk and…

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awarded the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services $2 million on September 30, 2026, under the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.492) to implement the Oklahoma Strategic Prevention Framework Partnership for Success (SPF-PFS 3).

The recipient will develop coalitions across high-burden and high-risk Oklahoma communities to prevent opioid and cannabis use onset and reduce progression among youth and adults. ODMHSAS will disseminate evidence-based prevention strategies across six sectors: communities, schools, families, workplaces, healthcare, and faith communities. The program targets rural Oklahoma communities with particular emphasis and will deliver public messaging to an estimated 1.25 million Oklahomans annually and 1.5 million over the project lifetime. ODMHSAS will strengthen the state's prevention system capacity through community coalition development, implement evidence-informed prevention services, develop Oklahoma's public behavioral health surveillance system to track substance use indicators, and replicate effective approaches in high-need rural areas. The assistance type is a Project Grant.

Work is performed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with a period of performance from September 30, 2026, through September 29, 2031.

The oklahoma strategic prevention framework partnership for success, SPF-PFS 3, program will prevent the onset and reduce the progression of opioids and youth cannabis use and related risk and protective factors among youth and adults. The oklahoma department of mental health and substance abuse services, odmhsas, will focus on building upon the capacity of the state's prevention system, with an emphasis on rural oklahoma communities to achieve sustained outcomes through the dissemination of evidence-based strategies in six influential sectors - communities, schools, families, workplaces, healthcare, and faith communities. The purpose of the oklahoma SPF-PFS program is to strengthen the capacity of high-need communities to successfully implement the strategic prevention framework, build prevention sustainable prevention communities and realize significant improvements in community and state-level substance abuse measures within five years. This will be achieved in four ways: 1. Support the development of coalitions in communities across the state that are high-burden/high-risk for opioid and/or cannabis use; 2. Increase community and state capacity to plan and implement and sustain evidence-informed prevention services, including the deployment of public messaging, serving an estimated 1,250,000 oklahomans per year and 1,500,000 over the lifetime of the project; 3. Further develop oklahoma's public behavioral health surveillance system to prevent and control substance use problems by increasing the number and utility of key indicators and; 4. Leverage the capacity of the state prevention system to begin replication of effective approaches in high-need and rural communities by program end. The SPF-PFS will support oklahoma's prevention system that is effective and substantial enough to achieve significant statewide reductions in opioid and cannabis risk factors, use, and impacts. The odmhsas, as the single state agency, is well-positioned and equipped to effectively coordinate the SPF-PFS and has demonstrated success in preventing and reducing substance use problems.