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Department of Public Health Bureau of Substance Addiction Services Competitive Opportunity for the Selection of a Participating Provider in the State Pilot Program for Treatment for Pregnant and Postpartum Women (PPW-PLT) Grant Notice of Intent W27017

GENERAL DESCRIPTION: The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH), Bureau of Substance Addiction Services (BSAS) is applying for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) State Pilot Program for Treatment for Pregnant and Postpartum Women (PPW-PLT) notice of funding opportunity TI-26-014. SAMHSA will award 5 grants nationally for up to $1,080,000 each for three years.

The purpose of this grant is to strengthen and expand the state system’s ability to provide integrated, evidence-based substance use disorder (SUD) and maternal mental health services for pregnant and postpartum women (PPW) and their families.

Grant funding would enable the Department of Public Health to support family-based services to improve maternal and infant health outcomes by addressing co-occurring substance use and mental health conditions through comprehensive screening, treatment, recovery supports, and workforce development in a non-residential setting. To accomplish this, MDPH intends to continue to work with an existing federal grant data collection partner, Advocates for Human Potential (AHP), in order to support DPH in complying with the required data collection and reporting activities associated with this grant. In this role, AHP will be responsible for supporting DPH and funded service providers in collecting and reporting required client-level data and reporting this data to SAMHSA.

The grant’s data collection and reporting requirements are as follows:

· Grantees must report client-level data in SAMHSA’s Performance Accountability and Reporting System.

· Data must be entered in SPARS no later than 30 days after collection and must be collected at the following points:

· 1. Intake to SAMHSA-funded services.

· 2. Six-months post-intake (reassessment) for active clients.

· 3. 12-months post-intake and annually thereafter for active clients.

· 4. Administrative closeout from SAMHSA-funded services.

The purpose of this notice is to publicize the MDPH/BSAS intent to submit a federal grant application naming the Advocates for Human Collection (AHP) as its data collection and reporting partner. MDPH/BSAS intends to contract with AHP because the organization is uniquely qualified to provide data collection and reporting support for the proposed project. AHP has over a decade of experience in supporting data collection and reporting support for SAMHSA-funded grants. To date in Massachusetts, AHP has partnered with BSAS and other SAMHSA grantees to support required data collection activities for over 20 federally funded SAMHSA grants requiring client level data collection and reporting.

AHP has successfully established systems and processes for supporting grantees to be able to collect and report data in a timely and compliant manner. Their experience supporting grantees and services providers on how to collect and report required data will ensure timely compliance with the data collection and reporting requirements associated with this grant. Leveraging their existing relationships, training and infrastructure, AHP supports grantees and subrecipients to collect and report required client-level data in compliance with federal reporting requirements. AHP brings deep experience with federal data collection and reporting and successfully worked with BSAS and other federal grantees to meet the required data collection and reporting expectations associated with SAMHSA grantees. Using this experience and past success, AHP will assist BSAS and its subrecipients with meeting the data collection and reporting requirements outline in the NOFO.

If you have equal qualifications to the organization mentioned above and would like to be considered for partnership on this grant, send qualifications along with any questions or comments with the subject line: SUBJ: State Pilot Program for Treatment for Pregnant and Postpartum Women (PPW-PLT)-W27017 in writing by 07/10/26 at 4:00 PM to Ryan Naismith at Ryan.H.Naismith@mass.gov