Background
Through grants awarded to community-level prevention organizations, the Bureau of Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Services supports effective, aligned substance use prevention services that minimize problem behaviors and prevent a variety of public health problems. Each prevention grant the bureau currently administers is listed and described through the links below.
Current Grants
Purpose
The County Substance Use Prevention Grant, eligible only through the County Board of Supervisors, works to increase substance misuse education, prevention, referral or post-treatment services throughout Iowa’s counties. This grant is available each year and the project period is one-year in length.
Contact
Chandra Jennings at 515-204-3903
The Improving Tomorrow: Prevention Focused Mentoring (IT:PFM) grant provides support to 10 community and school-based youth mentoring programs selected through a Request for Proposal (RFP) process. These programs support mentee/mentor matches that meet year-round. Find a program near you.
All mentoring programs support the state's goal of primary prevention of use and abuse of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs (ATOD) as well as problem gambling.
Programs follow the Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring established by the National Mentoring Partnership and will maintain certification through the Iowa MENTOR.
Resources
Contact
Chandra Jennings at 515-204-3903
The Integrated Provider Network (IPN) Grant provides statewide, community-based, resiliency- and recovery-oriented system of care for substance use and problem gambling services (prevention, early intervention, treatment, and recovery support). Prevention services are provided through 19 service areas that serve all 99 counties in Iowa.
IPN prevention services are funded by the State General Fund appropriations for substance use and problem gambling services and the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant (SUPTR) through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
Contractors comply with the definition of prevention in IAC 641-155 Licensure Standards for Substance Use Disorder and Problem Gambling Treatment Program: “activities aimed at minimizing the use of potentially addictive substances, lowering risk in at-risk individuals, or minimizing potential adverse consequences of substance use or gambling.”
Prevention services are provided to Iowans across the lifespan using evidence-based programs appropriate to different persons and populations. Services are identified through the Strategic Prevention Framework and utilize the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention Strategies and Institute of Medicine classifications.
The following priorities are addressed through IPN prevention services:
- Alcohol
- Marijuana
- Methamphetamine
- Prescription Medications/Opioids
- Problem Gambling
- Suicide
- Tobacco
Resources
- A Guide to SAMHSA's Strategic Prevention Framework
- SAMHSA Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant
Contact
Katie Bee at 515-214-3699
Julie Hibben at 515-326-5703
Aaron Swanson at 515-802-2361
Emily Zalasky at 515-415-0060
The Overdose Data to Action in States (OD2A-S) Grant is a five-year cooperative agreement funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This grant focuses on the complex and changing nature of the drug overdose epidemic as well as highlights the need for an interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and cohesive public health approach to help reduce stigma and increase health equity. The grant’s surveillance and data collection systems help drive prevention efforts to reduce overdose morbidity and mortality from licit and illicit drugs. All OD2A-S strategies being implemented in Iowa are listed below:
Surveillance Strategies
- Enhance data infrastructure and promotion.
- Support data collection through the Drug Overdose Surveillance and Epidemiology (DOSE) system.
- Support data collection through the State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (SUDORS).
- Gather laboratory data from suspected overdoses in emergency departments (ED) to strengthen existing Drug Overdose Surveillance and Epidemiology (DOSE) system through partnership with State Hygienic Laboratory.
Prevention Strategies
- Implement prevention initiatives and services using culturally relevant information and an equitable framework.
- Support and promote Iowa’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program.
- Strengthen public safety partnerships, interventions and response to public health crises through data-driven and scientific approaches.
- Support efforts to reduce harms related to drug use.
Resources
Projects
- LEO Overdose Prevention Report 2024
- Stigma of Addiction - Iowa Baseline Results 2022 (PDF)
- Linkage to Outreach Referrals and Engagement (LORE) Pilot Project: Initial Report 2021-2022
Contact
Julie Hibben at 515-326-5703
Funded through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the purpose of this grant is to prevent the onset and reduce the progression of substance abuse and its related problems while strengthening prevention capacity and infrastructure at the community and state level. This is the second generation of Partnerships for Success grant funding received through the Bureau of Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Services. In Iowa, this five-year grant focuses on preventing alcohol involved deaths with older adults through utilization of the Strategic Prevention Framework.
Resources
Contact
Merry French at 515-201-8241
Funded through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the purpose of this grant is to address the priority issue of prescription drug misuse. This is the second generation of the Strategic Prevention Framework for Prescription Drugs (SPF Rx) grant funding received through the Bureau of Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Services. In Iowa, this five-year grant focuses on preventing the misuse of prescription drugs for ages 12-25 through utilization of the Strategic Prevention Framework.
Resources
- Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain
- SAMHSA Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit
Contact
Janet Nelson at 515-214-7950