Project Grant SP080098

The City of Lowell, MA Police Department (LPD) received a $1,295,265 Project Grant award under the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Other Substance Abuse Program (CFDA 16.838). The grant funding will allow the LPD to expand and enhance its existing Community Opioid Outreach Program (CO-OP) to better serve individuals with substance use disorder (SUD) in the city of Lowell. Key activities include adding a Recovery Housing...

The Huron County Prevention Coalition was awarded a $125,000 Project Grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the Drug-Free Communities Support Program Grants (DFC Support Program, CFDA 93.276). The Coalition will work to decrease alcohol and marijuana use among Huron County youth through collaboration, education, and youth empowerment initiatives. As the primary awardee, the Huron County Job and Family Services will implement prevention programs and services from...

The Franklin County Sheriff's Office in Massachusetts was awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant over 3 years from the Bureau of Justice Assistance's Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and other Substances Use Program (CFDA #16.838). The funding will support the expansion of the "CONNECT" team, which was established in 2021 to respond to fatal and non-fatal overdoses in the county's 30 rural communities. Key initiatives include: 1) implementing a mobile outreach program, self-referral...

The City of Springfield was awarded a $1,300,000 Project Grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) under the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program (CFDA 16.838). The grant will fund a two-pronged initiative to increase access to substance use treatment and services for homeless and justice-involved individuals in Springfield, Massachusetts. Specifically, the grant will establish: 1) a multidisciplinary homeless outreach team comprised of a behavioral health clinician...

The City of Lawrence, MA was awarded a $1,298,760 Project Grant under the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program (CFDA 16.838) from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance. The purpose of the 3-year grant, running from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, is to implement a comprehensive continuum of care for substance misuse prevention in Lawrence, with a focus on reducing disproportionate rates of opioid and stimulant misuse and overdoses among...

The CARE Coalition's STOP Project is a $119,508 federal grant award funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance (CFDA 93.243) program. The project aims to build capacity in Transylvania County, North Carolina to reduce the onset and progression of underage drinking among youth in grades 6-12 through a data-driven, community-based approach. Key objectives...

The City of Northampton, Massachusetts was awarded a $1,281,206 Project Grant from the Department of Justice's Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Other Substance Use Program (CFDA 16.838) to fund the DART (Drug Addiction Recovery Team) Enhanced Model. This 3-year initiative will provide deflection interventions at sequential intercepts zero and one across 20 communities in Western Massachusetts, including data collection and analysis to inform regional substance use disorder (SUD) efforts. Key...

The Hancock County Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services (ADAMHS) Board was awarded a $1 million Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and other Substances Use Program (COSSUP) to develop a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary collaborative approach to address and prevent illicit substance use and its adverse consequences in a predominantly rural county. The Criminal Justice...

The Town of East Bridgewater, MA has received a $1,599,999 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP, CFDA 16.838). This grant will enhance the existing Plymouth County Outreach (PCO) program, a police-directed post-overdose outreach model, in three key ways: 1) Expand the reentry strategy to provide recovery support services for pre-trial court populations, 2) Expand youth...

The Administrative Office of the Trial Court (AOTC) of Massachusetts received a $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement from the Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and other Substance Use Program (COSSUP) to implement the Chicopee and Holyoke Access to Treatment and Services (CHATS) project. The purpose of CHATS is to strengthen the ability of the Holyoke and Chicopee District Courts to serve court-involved individuals with opioid use disorder through timely and...