Grant Amount: Up to $500,000 a year for three years Additional Information: Please let Lynn Wong know if you are planning to apply for this opportunity.
Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts: Empowering Vulnerable Families and Communities to Prevent Opioid Use Disorder and Overdose
Application Due Date: September 20, 2021
FORE will provide grant support for specific projects that aim to improve, expand, and/or scale evidence-based family-, school-, and/or community-based prevention services for children and families, particularly for those at highest risk.This RFP targets projects which can develop, adapt, explore, and/or evaluate promising evidence-based models of family- and community-based prevention for OUD and overdose. By family-based interventions, we are particularly interested in taking a holistic approach to the needs of every family member, recognizing that some may be in OUD treatment and/or recovery, while others would benefit from preventive measures. By community based interventions, we are interested in approaches which meet children and families where they are, including within schools and “after school” activities, as well as health care settings. Currently, this opportunity will focus on projects in the following three areas which, based on discussions with experts in the field, are needed to improve prevention efforts in communities nationwide: