The Health Resources and Services Administration www.hrsa.gov within HHS released a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) (HRSA-17-022) on June 15, 2017 titled “Rural Health Opioid Program” (RHOP) due July 21, 2017. Estimated total program funding for 3 years is $3,000,000.
The purpose of RHOP is to promote rural healthcare services outreach by expanding the delivery of opioid related healthcare services to rural communities. The goal is for rural communities to develop broad community consortiums to help individuals with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) in order to start treatment, implement care coordination, and organize patient care activities.
This program will bring together healthcare providers such as local health department, hospitals, primary care practices, and substance abuse treatment providers and other entities such as social service and faith-based organizations, law enforcement, and other community-based groups, to respond to the opioid epidemic in a rural community.
To be eligible to receive the funding, the applicant must be a rural public or rural non-profit private entity representing a consortium composed of members to include three or more healthcare providers. Also nonprofit or for-profit entities, state, public, or private entities are invited to apply for the funding.
For more information, go to www.grants.gov or email Michael Blodgett at mblodgett@hrsa.gov.