This $700,000 five-year Project Grant award from the Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Rural Telemedicine Grants program (CFDA 93.211) aims to expand the integration of behavioral health services into primary care through telehealth in rural Virginia. The prime awardee, Bay Rivers Telehealth Alliance, will leverage sub-awards to implement several key initiatives: Deploying community health workers and licensed clinicians to provide counseling, assessments, and navigation...
This $2,930,360 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) will evaluate the real-world effectiveness of tele-buprenorphine, a telehealth-delivered treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD). The goal is to develop clinical guidance to optimize tele-buprenorphine care, including for high-risk and high-need populations. The project will use national data from the Veterans Health Administration and Medicaid...
This $600,000 Project Grant awarded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Community Health Centers (CFDA 93.224) program aims to expand behavioral health services and treatment for adolescents and young adults with substance use disorders in Oakland, California. The key goals of the grant are to: 1) Hire additional licensed clinical social workers to provide mental health care within the medical home setting, 2) Develop a curriculum and expand education for primary...
This $594,122 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) aims to develop and test workflows for delivering telehealth-based treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) in high-risk settings. The award will fund a collaboration between Boulder Care, Inc., Sano Health, and the National Survivors Union to provide smartphones and connectivity to people in jails/prisons, emergency departments, residential treatment...
This $512,256 Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse will support Health Outcomes Inc. doing business as Telesage to develop a Primary Care-SUD Intake System (P-SUD-IS). The P-SUD-IS aims to address underdiagnosis of substance use disorders (SUDs) by streamlining the SUD assessment process for primary care clinicians. Telesage will create a HIPAA-compliant, automated, cloud-based system to facilitate completion of biopsychosocial assessments for...
This Project Grant award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Injury Prevention and Control Research and State and Community Based Programs (CFDA 93.136) provides $1,749,422.00 to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), to evaluate the role of telehealth in buprenorphine treatment initiation and retention, overdose mortality, and access equity. The project involves a sub-award to New York University Grossman School of Medicine,...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) federal grant program, will evaluate the efficacy of a telehealth version of the Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS) intervention. The $708,556 award will support a study to compare the efficacy of in-person BASICS, telehealth BASICS, and a treatment-as-usual control intervention among 600 college students at two...
This federal Project Grant award of $5,376,360 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.243) aims to integrate collaborative primary and behavioral healthcare into primary care practices in underserved areas of Virginia. The key products and services to be delivered through this 5-year grant include: Expanding and enhancing Virginia's Adult...
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awarded a $969,000 Project Grant under the Congressional Directives program (CFDA 93.493) to the Virginia Hospital Research and Education Foundation. The grant will fund the development and implementation of hospital-based substance use intervention programs at three Virginia healthcare systems: Valley Health, Augusta Health, and Centra Health. The programs will utilize peer recovery specialists (PRS) to provide resources,...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $1,153,350 to Maryland Treatment Centers, Inc. (doing business as Mountain Manor Baltimore) to expand the Youth Opioid Recovery Support (YORS) intervention for medication-assisted treatment (MOUD) adherence among adolescents with opioid use disorder (OUD). The key products and services to be delivered through this award include: Testing the...
TELEHEALTH ENABLED ACCESS TO YOUTH SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT & RECOVERY - BAY RIVERS TELEHEALTH ALLIANCE TELEHEALTH ENABLED ACCESS TO YOUTH SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT & RECOVERY ABSTRACT BAY RIVERS TELEHEALTH ALLIANCE(BRTA), IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE MIDDLE PENINSULA NORTHERN NECK COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD(CSB) AND FIVE RURAL SCHOOLS SYSTEMS IN EASTERN VIRGINIA, WILL DELIVER EFFECTIVE AND COORDINATED FAMILY-CENTERED, TELEHEALTH-ENABLED SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES INCLUDING PREVENTION, EARLY INTERVENTION, TREATMENT, AND RECOVERY SUPPORT SERVICES TO ADOLESCENTS AND YOUTH IN TRANSITION WITH OR AT RISK FOR SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER(SUD) AND CO-OCCURRING DISORDERS(COD). BY ENHANCING AND EXPANDING THE SYSTEM OF CARE WITH COMPREHENSIVE EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICES, BUILDING TELEHEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE LINKING MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE REGION WITH INTEGRATED TRAUMA-INFORMED, OUTPATIENT SERVICES, AS WELL AS SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES AND CAREGIVERS, AND CASE MANAGEMENT TO LINK WITH WRAP-AROUND SERVICES TO MEET SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH, THE PROPOSED SYSTEM OF CARE WILL MEET THE COMPLEX NEEDS OF ADOLESCENTS WITH OR AT RISK OF DEVELOPING SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER AND MENTAL ILLNESS, AND THEIR FAMILIES/PRIMARY CAREGIVERS. THE GEOGRAPHIC CATCHMENT AREA FOR SERVICE DELIVERY COMPRISES SIX COUNTIES OF TWO CONTIGUOUS, RURAL REGIONS IN EASTERN VIRGINIA KNOWN AS THE NORTHERN NECK (LANCASTER, NORTHUMBERLAND, RICHMOND, AND WESTMORELAND COUNTIES) AND THE MIDDLE PENINSULA (ESSEX AND MIDDLESEX COUNTIES). EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICES TO BE USED TO DELIVER SERVICES INCLUDE THE ADOLESCENT COMMUNITY REINFORCEMENT APPROACH (A-CRA), COMMUNITY REINFORCEMENT AND FAMILY TRAINING (CRAFT), SEEKING SAFETY: AN EVIDENCE-BASED MODEL FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND TRAUMA/PTSD, CHANGE COMPANIES CURRICULUM, AND ECOSYSTEMIC STRUCTURAL FAMILY THERAPY (ESFT). BY INITIATING, EXPANDING AND FACILITATING BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR PREVENTION AND EARLY INTERVENTION IN THE SCHOOLS (GOALS 1 AND 2), IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT MORE YOUTH AND FAMILIES WILL BE IDENTIFIED AND EFFECTIVELY REFERRED FOR THE NEW CAPACITY DEVELOPED FOR SUD TREATMENT AND RECOVERY SUPPORT SERVICES BY THE MPNNCSB (GOAL 3). UTILIZING TELEHEALTH ENABLED SYSTEMS OF CARE TO CONNECT STUDENTS, FAMILIES AND CLINICIANS IN SCHOOL, AT HOME AND IN CLINICAL SETTINGS, WILL INCREASE ACCESS TO CARE BY REDUCING THE BARRIERS MANY FAMILIES FACE IN THIS REGION DUE TO TRAVEL DISTANCES, TIME CONSTRAINTS, LIMITED INCOME AND FAMILY RESPONSIBILITIES. IN ADDITION TO TRAINING STAFF AT THE SCHOOLS AND THE MPNNCSB, THE PROJECT ANTICIPATES SERVING THE FOLLOWING NUMBER OF UNDUPLICATED YOUTH. TOTAL NUMBER OF UNDUPLICATED INDIVIDUALS SERVED BY PROJECT: YEAR 1 - ENDING 8/31/22: 60; YEAR 2 - ENDING 8/31/23: 100; YEAR 3 - ENDING 8/31/24:120; YEAR 4 - ENDING 8/31/25:140; YEAR 5 - ENDING 8/31/26: 160; TOTAL - 580