SOR Support TA Survey Reminder - Due 8/21

We are writing to remind you to take this short short survey providing feedback on the OMNI SOR TA Team. The OMNI TA Team has provided technical support to agencies administering the GPRA for the SOR grant. You may have interacted with the OMNI TA Team through trainings, learning collaboratives, emails, one-on-one technical assistance, the SOR Support website, and much more. This survey is an opportunity to provide honest feedback regarding the utility, helpfulness, and opportunities for growth for this TA Team. Your responses are anonymous and we appreciate your honest feedback so the OMNI TA Team can continue to improve moving forward.

Please click here to complete the short, 10-minute survey: https://omniinstitute.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7ZIiR6nvllOiFHT

We encourage anyone from your agency that has interacted with our TA team to complete the survey, and we welcome more than one response per agency. Please complete the survey by the end of the day on Friday, August 21st.

As always, please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions! Thank you in advance – your input and feedback are greatly appreciated.

SOR Support TA Survey

We are writing to ask for your participation in a short survey providing feedback on the OMNI SOR TA Team. The OMNI TA Team has provided technical support to agencies administering the GPRA for the SOR grant. You may have interacted with the OMNI TA Team through trainings, learning collaboratives, emails, one-on-one technical assistance, the SOR Support website, and much more. This survey is an opportunity to provide honest feedback regarding the utility, helpfulness, and opportunities for growth for this TA Team. Your responses are anonymous and we appreciate your honest feedback so the OMNI TA Team can continue to improve moving forward.

Virginia Recovery Scholars Program

The Department of Behavioral Health and Development State Opioid Response Grant Team and Virginia Commonwealth University are excited to be able to offer the Recovery Scholars Program to students in recovery who are enrolled at Virginia Colleges and Universities. We believe that students in recovery often are among the strongest students on our campus and contribute tremendously to campus life.

Quarter 3 Treatment and Recovery Services Survey

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Happy July 1st!

With the end of quarter 3 of the SOR grant, we launched the Quarter 3 Treatment and Recovery Services Survey. This survey collects information on recovery and treatment services to assist OMNI in reporting agencies’ work to SAMHSA to meet grant requirements.

Agency point-of-contacts were emailed on July 1st, 2020 with instructions and survey links. If you did not receive this email and believe you should have, please contact SORSupport@omni.org.

The survey requests data from quarter 3 (April 1, 2020 – June 30, 2020).

Please reach out to us at SORSupport@omni.org with any questions!

Intake GPRA Update

We wanted to update you on a new change to the online version of the Intake GPRA. Like the Follow-Up & Discharge Survey, the Intake GPRA will now have ID Authentication. This is a feature requiring administrators to enter Client IDs before moving forward with the survey. This feature will ensure that there are no duplicate intake GPRAs for each intake survey entered.

COVID-19 Round-Table & TA Communications

We hope everyone is staying as healthy and happy as possible!

Below are updates regarding the recent COVID-19 Round-Table and TA communications:

COVID-19 Round-Table

OMNI recently held two Round-Tables (3/31 & 4/1) focused on COVID-19 and remote service provision. Please click here to view a document summarizing key-points and takeaways from the two Round-Tables.

Additionally, we have created a COVID-19 Resources page on this SOR Website. The page will be continually updated with resources and trainings. If you encounter any resources, trainings, websites, etc. that you think would be helpful to share with other CSBs and FQHCs, please send them to SORSupport@omni.org for dissemination.

TA Communications

In an effort to reduce unnecessary stress during this time, the TA team will be reducing communications. Temporarily, the TA Team will be suspending all non-essential communications, but will continue to respond to any TA requests/inquiries initiated by agencies. Your agency Dropbox folders will continue to be updated every Friday with follow-up tracking sheets, but we will not send emails regarding follow-up tracking reminders for the time being. If you would like  to continue to receive follow-up tracking communication, please email SORSupport@omni.org to request this.

Please do not hesitate to continue reaching out to the TA Team at SORSupport@omni.org with any questions or concerns – we are more than happy to help – but we also recognize the need to reduce any undue burden on you and your staff at this time.

Quarter 2 Treatment and Recovery Services Surveys

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Happy April 1st!

With the end of quarter 2 of the SOR grant, we launched the Quarter 2 Treatment and Recovery Services Survey. This survey collects information on recovery and treatment services to assist OMNI in reporting agencies’ work to SAMHSA to meet grant requirements.

Agency point-of-contacts were emailed on April 1st, 2020 with instructions and the survey links. If you did not receive this email and believe you should have, please contact SORSupport@omni.org.

The survey requests data from quarter 2 (January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020).

Please reach out to us at SORSupport@omni.org with any questions!

SOR Treatment Bulletin: March 2020

Second Edition of OMNI's Treatment TA Bulletin: March 2020

Due to the spread of COVID-19, these past few weeks have brought on significant changes and challenges, and OMNI recognizes Virginia CSBs and FQHCs are at the center of many of these impacts. We want to acknowledge all of the wonderful work being done and sacrifices being made, and offer support to any CSB/FQHCs in need of individualized assistance. This Bulletin offers various resources and important updates.

Click here to read!

COVID-19 Resources

We wanted to share an upcoming webinar that may be helpful for your agencies in the upcoming months as you move toward telehealth:

Essential Tips for Using Videoconferencing to Deliver SUD Treatment and Recovery Services Webinar hosted by the Mountain Plains Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network (ATTC)

 We have also created this document with additional resources from the CDC, SAMHSA, and NAADAC around COVID-19. Feel free to send the SOR TA Team any other webinars or resources that would be useful to share with other agencies.

GPRA Question Change

We are announcing a change to the GPRA survey to align with a recent SAMHSA update. This change has been made to the intake, follow-up, and discharge surveys (both print and online versions). To succinctly summarize the change, we created a short video to help visually explain the question modification. Watch the video below or click here to download the video.

Here is a written summary of the GPRA Question Change:

Section A: Behavioral Health Diagnosis: Question 1a (FDA-approved medication in past 30 days) is now asked regardless of the previous answer for Question 1 (diagnosed with an opioid use disorder) in this section. Question 1a has also been changed slightly to ask if a client received FDA-approved medication for “an opioid use disorder”; this question previously asked only about “this opioid use disorder” (indicating the opioid use disorder had to have been diagnosed in the past 30 days). The same exact changes occurred to Question 2 and Question 2a, but regarding alcohol use disorder instread of opioid use disorder.

Two answer choices have also been added to Question 1a: “Client was diagnosed with an opioid use disorder, but did not receive an FDA-approved medication for an opioid use disorder” and “Client was not diagnosed with an opioid use disorder and did not receive FDA-approved medication for an opioid use disorder.” These options appear regardless of the previous answer for Question 1. The same exact change occurred to Question 2 and Question 2a, but regarding alcohol use disorder instread of opioid use disorder.

Please reach out to SORSupport@omni.org with any questions.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-2/subtitle-A/chapter-II/part-200#200.112 Per 2 C.F.R. § 200.112-1113 The Federal awarding agency must establish conflict of interest policies for Federal awards. The non-Federal entity must disclose in writing any potential conflict of interest to the Federal awarding agency or pass-through entity in accordance with applicable Federal awarding agency policy. Failure to adhere to these statues will result in immediate termination of funding.

Virginia’s State Opioid Response (SOR) grant is awarded at the discretion of DBHDS and SAMHSA. All recipients of SOR funding supports evidence-based prevention, treatment and recovery services to address opioid and stimulant misuse and use disorders, including for cocaine and methamphetamine. The SOR grant is not intended to be utilized as a long-term or permanent funding source. All SOR proposals must include a realistic plan for financial sustainability beyond the grant period.